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820706

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	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 universal credit applicants have applied for payments to be paid to (a) the household and (b) split between adults in the same household to date.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	122124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>We do not record statistics on the number of applications for split payments.</p><p> </p><p>However, in June 2017, 370,000 households were receiving a payment for Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 16/01/2018 17:53:43 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

834629

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January to Question 124104, on Universal Credit, and with reference to the note below paragraph B1026 of her Department's Advice for decision making: staff guide, whether the operational guidance on the splitting of universal credit payments between the couple contains further advice to decision makers.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	126077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The operational guidance does not give Decision Makers any additional guidance on split payments in Universal Credit that is not contained within the Decision Makers’ guidance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/02/2018 11:54:38 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

862250

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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 couples receiving universal credit (a) with dependent children and (b) with no children have (i) one partner in work and (ii) both partners in work.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	132669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The available information on the number of couples, (a) with dependent children who are in receipt of the childcare element of Universal Credit, and (b) with no children, is published and can be accessed at: <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://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/03/2018 13:11:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

862251

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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 couples receiving universal credit have a child under the age of three in their household.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	132670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of children aged 0-4 years in out-of-work Universal Credit households on 31 May 2016, can be found in the Children in Out-of-work Benefit Household official statistics published in November 2017 available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-out-of-work-benefit-households-31-may-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-out-of-work-benefit-households-31-may-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/03/2018 12:34:19 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

862252

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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 couples receiving universal credit have nominated one partner as being responsible for a child; and how many of those so nominated are (a) female and (b) male.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	132671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/03/2018 12:37:26 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

828144

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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, what written guidance is available to decision-makers to determine applications on universal credit payments being split between members of the same household.
	tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
	uin	124104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s guidance for Universal Credit decision makers is contained in “Advice for Decision Making” (“ADM”). Chapter B1 of the ADM, “Payment of UC, PIP, ESA and JSA”, includes guidance on payments to joint claimants including splitting payments between a couple. The relevant guidance is at paragraphs B1024 to B1026. The ADM is also available on <a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-for-decision-making-staff-guide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-for-decision-making-staff-guide</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 29/01/2018 12:00:36 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford