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1168987

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2020
	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, if she will make the assessment period for universal credit coterminous with HMRC deadlines.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Entitlement to Universal Credit is calculated and paid monthly in arrears, in a single payment.</p><p> </p><p>Assessment periods allow Universal Credit awards to be adjusted on a monthly basis, to reflect as closely as possible the actual circumstances of a household during that period. This helps to ensure that if a claimant’s income changes, they do not have to wait several months for a corresponding change in their Universal Credit award.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 13/01/2020 15:10:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1248925

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2020
	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	Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments
	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 effect on tax credit claimants of the closure of the interface with HMRC on tax credit debt.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	111573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>As part of our initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic we suspended recovery of all overpayment deductions as well as pausing notification of any new overpayments. The transfer of Tax Credit debts from HMRC to DWP was temporarily suspended as part of this approach.</p><p>Recovery of existing Tax Credit overpayments from Universal Credit has now resumed, along with the transfer of new Tax Credit debt to DWP.</p><p>There have been several discussions with HMRC, who own the Tax Credit Debt, to ensure that both the action of stopping tax credit collection and restarting has taken into account the customer perspective.</p><p>We want to ensure that repayment of all debt owed to the Department is sustainable and takes into account the customer’s ability to pay. Claimants are encouraged to contact DWP if they are unable to afford the rate of recovery. The recovery rate of Tax Credit overpayments can be reduced where a claimant is experiencing financial hardship.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/11/2020 17:48:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1249454

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2020
	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: Coronavirus
	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 effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the interface on tax credit debt and deductions from universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	113148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>As part of our initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic we suspended recovery of all overpayment deductions, as well as pausing notification of any new overpayments. The transfer of Tax Credit debts from HMRC to DWP was temporarily suspended as part of this approach.</p><p> </p><p>Recovery of existing Tax Credit overpayments from Universal Credit has now resumed, along with the transfer of new Tax Credit debt to DWP.</p><p> </p><p>Our stance remains that we want to ensure that repayment of all debt owed to the Department is sustainable and takes into account the customer’s ability to pay. Claimants are encouraged to contact DWP if they are unable to afford the rate of recovery; the recovery rate of Tax Credit overpayments can be reduced where a claimant is experiencing financial hardship.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst we have no current plans to pause the recovery of Tax Credit overpayments from Universal Credit, we have been clear that we will keep our Covid measures under review.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/11/2020 13:29:19 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1249632

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2020
	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 payments are subject to deductions for tax credit debt.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	113149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>From 3rd April 2020, deductions for benefit overpayments were temporarily suspended for three months. These began to be reinstated from the beginning of July, taking a phased approach.</p><p> </p><p>Most recent figures show, for Universal Credit claims due a payment during August 2020, 2% (102,000 claims) had a deduction for Tax Credit Overpayments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 113150 question first answered 12/11/2020 16:43:14 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1249633

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2020
	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 deductions have been made for tax credit repayments since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	113150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>From 3rd April 2020, deductions for benefit overpayments were temporarily suspended for three months. These began to be reinstated from the beginning of July, taking a phased approach.</p><p> </p><p>Most recent figures show, for Universal Credit claims due a payment during August 2020, 2% (102,000 claims) had a deduction for Tax Credit Overpayments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 113149 question first answered 12/11/2020 16:43:14 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1381053

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Coronavirus Catch-up Premium: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much of the Covid education recovery funding is dedicated to mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	79417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>We are investing nearly £5 billion to support recovery for children and young people who need it most. This includes the recovery premium for this academic year worth over £300 million, weighted so that schools with more disadvantaged pupils receive more funding. Schools can use this funding to deliver evidence based approaches to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of their pupils.</p><p>Schools already support the mental wellbeing of their pupils as part of their curriculum provision and pastoral support, which is paid for from schools’ core funding. The autumn 2021 Spending Review delivers an additional £4.7 billion for the core schools’ budget by the 2024/25 financial year, compared to previous plans. This settlement includes an additional £1.6 billion for schools and high needs in the 2022/23 financial year, on top of the funding we previously announced. It also includes an additional £1 billion for a Recovery Premium over the next two academic years (2022/23 and 2023/24). Schools will have flexibility to target funding towards those pupils who need it most, and we will publish further detail around rates, allocations, and conditions of grant in due course.</p><p>In May 2021, we also announced £17 million to build on existing mental health support in schools and colleges. This included £9.5 million to offer senior mental health lead training to around a third of all state schools and colleges in the 2021/22 financial year. This helped to implement effective holistic approaches to mental health and wellbeing, and £7 million to Wellbeing for Education Recovery which enabled local authorities to continue supporting schools and colleges to meet ongoing mental wellbeing needs.</p><p>This is in addition to the £79 million announced by the Department of Health and Social Care in March 2021 to significantly expand children’s mental health services. This will partly be spent on speeding up and expanding the provision of Mental Health Support Teams in schools and colleges, meaning nearly three million children in England will access school or college-based support by April 2023.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/11/2021 15:34:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1401306

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding was received from the £7 million Wellbeing for education recovery grant by (a) Sheffield, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) Yorkshire in 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	100613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>In May 2021, the government provided £7 million in Wellbeing for Education Recovery grants to Local Authorities, to further help education staff in local schools and colleges to promote and support the wellbeing and mental health of pupils and students during recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. This built on the £8 million support provided in the 2020-21 financial year under the Wellbeing for Education Return scheme.</p><p>A grant determination letter for 2021-22 was published on 10 June 2021, confirming a grant of £53,107 was provided to Sheffield, in addition to £61,556 provided in 2020-21: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter</a>. As the funding was distributed to upper tier Local Authorities, funding received by South Yorkshire and Yorkshire cannot be provided.</p><p>The grant determination letters for 2021-22 and 2020-21 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-for-education-return-grant-s31-grant-determination-letter</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 13/01/2022 10:10:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1168973

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Courts: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on his Department's review of domestic abuse and the family courts.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>On 21 May 2019 we announced a public call for evidence led by a panel of experts to gather evidence on how the family courts protect children and parents in cases of domestic abuse and other serious offences.</p><p> </p><p>The panel completed the call for evidence in September 2019, and published a Progress Update in October outlining the work completed and next steps.</p><p> </p><p>The panel has been meeting regularly to discuss the wealth of evidence collected from 1,200 individuals and organisations, and are in the process of drafting their report. This will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 13/01/2020 14:14:49 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1168974

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Courts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent discussions he has had with the President of the Family Division in relation to transparency in the family courts.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>Ministers at the Ministry of Justice hold regular discussions with the President of the Family Division on a range of issues. The Government fully recognises that family proceedings should be as transparent as possible, and welcomes the progress that has been made towards greater openness together with the review on transparency that the President of the Family Division is currently undertaking. Accredited media have been allowed access to certain hearings in the family courts since 2009, and in 2014 the previous President of the Family Division issued guidance leading to the increased publication of judgments. A pilot allowing legal bloggers to report on family proceedings has been running since 2018, and the current President of the Family Division published new guidance on anonymising judgments for publication in 2018 and reporting in the family courts in 2019.</p><p>Greater transparency must be weighed against the need to safeguard children and their family’s privacy given the extremely sensitive information about them that the family courts often need to consider. The Government will continue to work with the senior judiciary to ensure that the right balance is struck between transparency and privacy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 14/01/2020 16:49:56 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1400313

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Codes of Practice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many items of guidance have been issued by his Department to Train Operating Companies in each of the last 36 months.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	99000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Department for Transport officials communicate with Train Operating Companies on a daily basis, including providing guidance on a range of issues.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 11/01/2022 11:51:17 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh