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596102

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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	Local Housing Allowance: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the forthcoming change to limit housing benefit to the level of Local Housing Allowance on old age pensioners living in social housing properties with two or more bedrooms.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	47430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>This policy does not come into effect until April 2018. It will only apply to people who have taken out or renewed a tenancy on or after 1<sup>st</sup> April 2016; and their rent is higher than the appropriate Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rate. For general needs accommodation social rents are generally lower than the LHA rates.</p><p>We have increased funding for Discretionary Housing Payments by £70million, to help those who are vulnerable to mitigate the impact. In total we have provided DHP funding of £870 million over the next five years to help people adapt to the new reforms announced in the Autumn Statement and Summer Budget 2015.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/10/2016 12:19:31 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

636288

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2016
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working households in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the UK were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	52762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The requested figures are not available for UK. This response includes estimates for Great Britain.</p><p><strong>Table 1. Estimates for the number of In-Work Families in receipt of Housing Benefit for East-Midlands and Great Britain</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Millions</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>In-Work Families in receipt of Housing Benefit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>East Midlands</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Great Britain</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>0.1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Family Resources Survey 2012/13, 2013/14, and 2014/15</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>Estimates have been rounded to nearest 100,000</li></ol> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/11/2016 17:25:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

596093

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	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	Local Housing Allowance: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many old-age pensioners in Ashfield constituency who live in social housing properties containing two or more bedrooms and who receive housing benefit will be affected by plans to limit housing benefit to the level of the local housing allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	47435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p>For general needs accommodation in the social rented sector, the appropriate Local Housing Allowance rate will not come into effect in the social rented sector until April 2018; and then only where a new tenancy has been taken out or an existing tenancy has been renewed on or after 1 April 2016.</p><p>In the previous Parliament, we significantly increased funding for Discretionary Housing Payments to £470 million and we have already committed a further £870 million in the overall Discretionary Housing Payment funding over the next five years.</p><p>Full impact and equality assessments will be undertaken in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/10/2016 15:31:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

679805

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2017
	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	National Insurance: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many EU migrants registered for national insurance numbers in Ashfield between (a) July and December 2015, (b) January and June 2016 and (c) July and December 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	62134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The available information on the number of foreign nationals registered for National Insurance numbers by geography, including parliamentary constituency and world area is published quarterly and can be found at:<br></p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </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><p>The latest available information is up to September 2016.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/02/2017 15:19:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

636287

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2016
	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	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working households in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the UK were classed as being in poverty in the most recent year for which data is available and in each of the two previous years.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	52760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>Relative low income is used as a proxy for poverty.</p><p> </p><p>The number of working households in relative low income is not available for Ashfield. This is because survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p>The average number of working households classed as being in relative low income in the East Midlands is 100,000 for the latest 3 -year period 2012/13 - 2014/15. This was also 100,000 in 2011/12 - 2013/14 and 100,000 in 2010/11 - 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p>The average number of working households classed as being in relative low income in the United Kingdom is 1.7 million for the latest 3-year period 2012/13 - 2014/15. This was 1.5 million in 2011/12 - 2013/14 and 1.4 million in 2010/11 - 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p>It continues to be clear that work is the best route out of poverty. In 2014/15 - 8% of children in households where all adults were working were in relative low income, compared with 47% in workless households.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/11/2016 16:30:50 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

636292

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2016
	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	Social Security Benefits: Ashfield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households to be affected in Ashfield constituency by the introduction of the lower cap on the amount which working households are entitled to receive in benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	52845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>It is estimated that in the Ashfield constituency around 200 households could be affected by the lower benefit cap in 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Estimates assume no behavioural responses - any behavioural responses to the lower cap, such as claimants moving into employment, would cause the number of households affected to reduce</li><li>The number of capped households has been rounded to the nearest 100 households.</li><li>The methodology used to estimate the households affected by the cap is consistent with that described in the latest impact assessment published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/11/2016 16:44:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

659674

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2016
	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	Poverty: East Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in the East Midlands are living in poverty (a) before taking housing costs into account and (b) after housing costs have been deducted from their incomes.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	57931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Estimates are available from the published Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data tables. These are publicly available in file 3_population_timeseries_region.xls, table 3.18ts here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/532115/hbai-2014-2015-supporting-excel-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/532115/hbai-2014-2015-supporting-excel-files.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/12/2016 12:14:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero