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627261

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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
	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 net annual savings to the Exchequer of the extension of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>Since the introduction of the benefit cap from April 2013 the annual reduction to Housing benefit due to the cap was £60 million in 2013/14, £80 million in 2014/15 and £65 million in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Estimates are rounded to the nearest £5 million per year</li><li>Estimates are based on the monthly capped caseload and average amount capped available from Stat Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></li><li>This estimate represents the savings from the reduction to Housing Benefit due to the benefit cap. It excludes any impacts and wider benefits of the behavioural changes in response to the cap such as moving into work and also excludes any DEL costs related to the introduction of the policy.</li></ol><p> </p><p>A detailed explanation of the estimated net annual savings to the Exchequer from the new, lower benefit cap of £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London can be found in the latest Impact Assessment, published 25<sup>th</sup> August 2016:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548741/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap.pdf%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548741/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 51683 question first answered 10/11/2016 14:34:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

627264

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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
	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 net annual savings to the Exchequer since the introduction of the benefit cap in 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>Since the introduction of the benefit cap from April 2013 the annual reduction to Housing benefit due to the cap was £60 million in 2013/14, £80 million in 2014/15 and £65 million in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Estimates are rounded to the nearest £5 million per year</li><li>Estimates are based on the monthly capped caseload and average amount capped available from Stat Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></li><li>This estimate represents the savings from the reduction to Housing Benefit due to the benefit cap. It excludes any impacts and wider benefits of the behavioural changes in response to the cap such as moving into work and also excludes any DEL costs related to the introduction of the policy.</li></ol><p> </p><p>A detailed explanation of the estimated net annual savings to the Exchequer from the new, lower benefit cap of £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London can be found in the latest Impact Assessment, published 25<sup>th</sup> August 2016:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548741/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap.pdf%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548741/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 51691 question first answered 10/11/2016 14:34:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

627281

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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	Discretionary Housing Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to increase funding to local authorities for discretionary housing payments to households affected by the extension of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>The estimated number of households affected by the new, lower benefit cap is published in the latest impact assessment: <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>. This includes a regional breakdown of the total numbers.</p><p> </p><p>To take account of the welfare reform measures announced at Summer Budget and Autumn Statement 2015, we have committed £870 million in overall Discretionary Housing Payments over the next five years. As part of this, the £150 million allocated for Discretionary Housing Payments in 2016/17 rises to £185 million in 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 51689 question first answered 10/11/2016 14:42:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

627474

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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
	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 potential effect of the extension of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London on the number of (a) people and (b) children living in households in (i) relative poverty and (ii) absolute poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>There is no current estimate available. Previous estimates used an out-of-date methodology and do not reflect the latest estimate of households affected by the lower cap.</p><p> </p><p>We know that work is the best route out of poverty. 74% of poor children in workless families that moved into full employment exited poverty. We have made real progress - the number of children living in workless households is at a record low, down by more than 80,000 in the past year and well over half-a-million since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The existing benefit cap, at £26,000, has been shown to be successful with more households looking for, and finding work. The new, lower, tiered cap aims to build on this success by strengthening the work incentive for households.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities can make discretionary housing payments to help vulnerable people adjust to the changes.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/11/2016 17:33:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

627476

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	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	Discretionary Housing Payments
	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 potential effect of the extension of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year in London and £20,000 per year outside London on the number of households applying for discretionary housing payments.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>The estimated number of households affected by the new, lower benefit cap is published in the latest impact assessment: <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>. This includes a regional breakdown of the total numbers.</p><p> </p><p>To take account of the welfare reform measures announced at Summer Budget and Autumn Statement 2015, we have committed £870 million in overall Discretionary Housing Payments over the next five years. As part of this, the £150 million allocated for Discretionary Housing Payments in 2016/17 rises to £185 million in 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 51690 question first answered 10/11/2016 14:42:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

631983

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2016
	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
	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 potential effect of reducing the benefit cap to £23,000 in London and £20,000 elsewhere on the (a) health and wellbeing and (b) mental health of people affected by that reduction.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	52330
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The new cap levels better reflect the circumstances of many hard working families in the country. Around 4 out of 10 households earn less than £20,000 and in Greater London around 4 out of 10 households earn less than £23,000.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that encouraging households to move into work through the new benefit cap will help to increase the household’s income and help to improve their wellbeing:</p><p> </p><p>Research shows that for people without work, re-employment leads to improvement in health and wellbeing, whereas further unemployment leads to deterioration. Research also shows that it is not in the best interests of children to live in workless households. For example, children in households where neither parent is in work are much more likely to have challenging behaviour at age 5 than children in households where both parents are in paid employment.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 52331 question first answered 18/11/2016 13:49:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

631984

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2016
	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
	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 potential effect of reducing the benefit cap to £23,000 in London and £20,000 elsewhere on the (a) health and wellbeing and (b) mental health of children living in households affected by that reduction.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	52331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The new cap levels better reflect the circumstances of many hard working families in the country. Around 4 out of 10 households earn less than £20,000 and in Greater London around 4 out of 10 households earn less than £23,000.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that encouraging households to move into work through the new benefit cap will help to increase the household’s income and help to improve their wellbeing:</p><p> </p><p>Research shows that for people without work, re-employment leads to improvement in health and wellbeing, whereas further unemployment leads to deterioration. Research also shows that it is not in the best interests of children to live in workless households. For example, children in households where neither parent is in work are much more likely to have challenging behaviour at age 5 than children in households where both parents are in paid employment.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 52330 question first answered 18/11/2016 13:49:53 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

631986

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2016
	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
	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 potential effect of reducing the benefit cap to £23,000 in London and £20,000 elsewhere on helping unemployed people into work.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	52332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>Evaluation evidence of the original benefit cap showed that capped households were 41% more likely to enter work than similar non-capped households. Looking at London alone, capped households were 70% more likely to enter work than similar non-capped London households. The new tiered benefit cap strengthens work incentives and ensures that the work incentive effects are better felt across the country.</p><p>To help individuals into employment, a range of employment support and advice is available from Jobcentres, including for claimants who do not have any conditionality requirements. This includes additional work coach time for those claimants not already fully supported in their work search. Households who may be affected by the new benefit cap were informed of the support on offer in advance to help them move into work.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/11/2016 17:02:21 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

631991

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2016
	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: 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 his Department has made of the potential effect of extending the shared accommodation rate to social rented housing on the ability of single people under the age of 35 to move on from supported accommodation into general needs social rented housing given the Government's decision to exempt single under 35 year olds from the shared accommodation rate while living in supported accommodation only.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	52327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2016 answer text <p>Full impact and equality impact assessments will be undertaken in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It should however be noted that a number of exemptions to the shared accommodation rate already exist for the under 35s in the private rented sector and, as a minimum, they will be brought forward in relation to general needs housing in the Social Rented Sector. The exemptions are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Those with children or non-dependents;</li><li>Care leavers until the age of 22;</li><li>Certain homeless people;</li><li>People over 25 leaving prison where their housing has been arranged under the Multi Agency Public Protection (MAPPA)</li><li>Those requiring overnight care or for HB are in receipt of the severe disability premium; or receive the middle or higher rate of disability living allowance or the daily living component of a personal independent payment (or the armed forces independence payment and no one receives carers allowance in respect of them). Therefore only those that fall out of these exemptions i.e. young people who are able to work and around a third of ESA/LCW/LCWRA who are not on Severe Disability Premium/PIP daily living component will be impacted.</li></ul> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 52328 question first answered 16/11/2016 16:09:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

631992

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2016
	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: 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 his Department has made of the potential effect of extending the shared accommodation rate to social rented housing on levels of homelessness among people under 35, in light of the Government's decision to exempt single under 35 year olds from the shared accommodation rate in supported accommodation but not in general needs social rented housing.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	52328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2016 answer text <p>Full impact and equality impact assessments will be undertaken in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It should however be noted that a number of exemptions to the shared accommodation rate already exist for the under 35s in the private rented sector and, as a minimum, they will be brought forward in relation to general needs housing in the Social Rented Sector. The exemptions are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Those with children or non-dependents;</li><li>Care leavers until the age of 22;</li><li>Certain homeless people;</li><li>People over 25 leaving prison where their housing has been arranged under the Multi Agency Public Protection (MAPPA)</li><li>Those requiring overnight care or for HB are in receipt of the severe disability premium; or receive the middle or higher rate of disability living allowance or the daily living component of a personal independent payment (or the armed forces independence payment and no one receives carers allowance in respect of them). Therefore only those that fall out of these exemptions i.e. young people who are able to work and around a third of ESA/LCW/LCWRA who are not on Severe Disability Premium/PIP daily living component will be impacted.</li></ul> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 52327 question first answered 16/11/2016 16:09:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy