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1167793

registered interest
date	01/11/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2019 to Question 5404, what the working day turn around for maternity allowance claims was before 15 October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	8582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The working day turnaround for Maternity Allowance claims averaged 55 working days up to the end of September 2019 and increased to 60 days by 15 October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 05/11/2019 16:43:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1167617

registered interest
date	31/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prostitution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the University of Bristol’s October 2019 report entitled The nature and prevalence of prostitution and sex work in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	8203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The research contained in the report highlights the enormous complexity of sex work and prostitution today, and we will carefully consider the implications from this new evidence for policy in the Home Office and across Government.</p><p>Our priority remains tackling the harm that can be associated with prostitution and sex work, and to target those who exploit vulnerable people. These priorities will be our starting point for considering the research.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/11/2019 15:46:29 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166687

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many alternative payment arrangements have been agreed with universal credit claimants in each year since the introduction of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2019 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of Households on Universal Credit that make use of a Managed Payment to Landlord, More Frequent Payment and Split Payments under Alternative Payment Arrangements is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/11/2019 10:44:20 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166688

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many alternative payment arrangement requests for universal credit were rejected in the most recent 12 month period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/11/2019 10:41:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166715

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payment (a) lapsed and (b) were withdrawn due to the death of the applicant in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the Rt hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.</p><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2019 17:54:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166716

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for universal credit (a) lapsed and (b) were withdrawn due to the death of the applicant in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the Rt hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2019 17:37:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166717

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for employment and support allowance (a) lapsed and (b) were withdrawn due to the death of the applicant in the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The dataset used to provide Employment and Support Allowance statistics does not contain the relevant information needed to measure this. To provide a reply would require us to link together several additional complex datasets and quality assure the results. Although theoretically possible, it is estimated that this would take in excess of 4 working days and would therefore incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/11/2019 13:54:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166913

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where maternity allowance was administered prior to April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Prior to April 2018 Maternity Allowance was processed at Wrexham Benefit Centre and Chesterfield Benefit Centre.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/11/2019 18:32:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166914

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list (a) all of the sites where maternity allowance has been administered and (b) the period of time they were administered at those sites.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	6241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Known sites for processing MA and the period that MA was processed at them is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Chesterfield – February 2016 to February 2019</p><p>Wrexham – 2005 (exact date unknown) to August 2019</p><p>Birkenhead – From April 2018</p><p>Walsall – From July 2019</p><p>St Helens – From August 2019</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/11/2019 18:37:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1151599

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the increase in universal credit advance payment loan fraud cases.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	3565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to the prevention, detection and investigation of all types of benefit fraud. Since 18 September 2019, claimants are required to attend an interview at a Jobcentre to verify their identity before claiming a Universal Credit new claim advance. This change is helping protect claimants from identity fraud and becoming victims of third party scams.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will review each case where a claim to Universal Credit was prompted by fraudulent activity. If there is clear evidence that the claimant had no involvement in the fraud, and where the claimant wishes us to do so, we will consider re-instating DWP legacy benefits.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 3562 3566 question first answered 28/10/2019 17:26:27 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead