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62173

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on the freezing of state pensions for those living overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	200894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The UK state pension is payable worldwide. However, where a recipient is not ordinarily resident in the UK, eligibility for annual up-rates is generally restricted to people living in a country which is a member of the European Economic Area, including by extension Switzerland, or in a country with which the UK has a bilateral social security agreement that provides for up-rating of the UK state pension. A list of these countries can be found at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pensions-annual-increases-if-you-live-abroad" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pensions-annual-increases-if-you-live-abroad</a></p><p><br> Restricting the availability of annual up-rates to the UK state pensions in this manner has been the long standing policy of successive Governments. This Government has no plans to change it.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/06/2014 14:52:32 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1287191

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2021
	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: Terminal illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to (a) publish and (b) implement the recommendations from the Department’s review of the benefits system for terminally ill people and the Special Rules for Terminal Illness scheme announced in July 2019.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	154918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department is committed to delivering an improved benefit system for claimants that are nearing the end of their lives and is working across Government to bring forward proposals following the evaluation. I remain committed to implementing the key areas identified in the evaluation; a consensus to change the six-month rule; improving ​consistency with other services used by people nearing the end of their lives; and raising awareness of the support that is available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/03/2021 16:39:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

227957

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people who have committed benefit fraud whose cases were not prosecuted in court (a) have repaid, (b) are repaying, (c) are in arrears with repayments of and (d) have been subsequently prosecuted for breaching their agreement to repay those benefits and any financial penalties in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	227946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not readily accessible within the time available.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 24/03/2015 17:55:06 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

458623

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2016
	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: Fraud
	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 with a criminal conviction for benefit fraud were given a (a) custodial and (b) non-custodial sentence for that fraud in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	30344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested to answer the 3 questions is shown below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(30342 &amp; 30344)</p><p>In response to cases prosecuted in court and the number of people convicted for benefit fraud (a) and (b) the statistics for England and Wales can be found using this link:–</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>(Select and open “Outcomes by offence tables” under fraud offences you will find:</p><p> </p><p>53.3 Benefit fraud offences - triable either way)</p><p> </p><p>The statistics for Scotland can be found using this link:-</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/6001" target="_blank">http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/6001</a></p><p> </p><p>(Table 4a provides statistics on all convictions broken down by crime type; this includes a specific category for fraud).</p><p> </p><p>(30342) How many cases of benefit fraud were identified in each of the last three years.</p><p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(30343) Whilst the department does have some information, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 30342 30343 question first answered 16/03/2016 15:44:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

458624

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2016
	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: Fraud
	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 received a criminal conviction for defrauding (a) £0 to £1,000, (b) £1,101 to £5,000, (c) £5,001 to £10,000 and (d) over £10,000 in benefits in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	30343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested to answer the 3 questions is shown below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(30342 &amp; 30344)</p><p>In response to cases prosecuted in court and the number of people convicted for benefit fraud (a) and (b) the statistics for England and Wales can be found using this link:–</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>(Select and open “Outcomes by offence tables” under fraud offences you will find:</p><p> </p><p>53.3 Benefit fraud offences - triable either way)</p><p> </p><p>The statistics for Scotland can be found using this link:-</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/6001" target="_blank">http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/6001</a></p><p> </p><p>(Table 4a provides statistics on all convictions broken down by crime type; this includes a specific category for fraud).</p><p> </p><p>(30342) How many cases of benefit fraud were identified in each of the last three years.</p><p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(30343) Whilst the department does have some information, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 30342 30344 question first answered 16/03/2016 15:44:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

458626

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2016
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people found to be committing benefit fraud and not prosecuted in court in each of the last two years (a) have repaid monies due in full, (b) are actively making repayments, (c) are in arrears with their repayments and (d) have since been prosecuted for breaching their agreement to pay.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	30341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>Information in the form requested for questions a, b and c is not readily available and could only be compiled at disproportionate cost.</p><p>In answer to question d, the Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/03/2016 16:50:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

458627

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2016
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of benefit fraud were identified in each of the last three years; and what proportion of such cases were prosecuted in court.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	30342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested to answer the 3 questions is shown below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(30342 &amp; 30344)</p><p>In response to cases prosecuted in court and the number of people convicted for benefit fraud (a) and (b) the statistics for England and Wales can be found using this link:–</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>(Select and open “Outcomes by offence tables” under fraud offences you will find:</p><p> </p><p>53.3 Benefit fraud offences - triable either way)</p><p> </p><p>The statistics for Scotland can be found using this link:-</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/6001" target="_blank">http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/6001</a></p><p> </p><p>(Table 4a provides statistics on all convictions broken down by crime type; this includes a specific category for fraud).</p><p> </p><p>(30342) How many cases of benefit fraud were identified in each of the last three years.</p><p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(30343) Whilst the department does have some information, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 30343 30344 question first answered 16/03/2016 15:44:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

514563

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	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: Fraud
	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 Answers of 8 March 2016 to Questions 30341 and 30342 and with reference to the Answers of 5 December 2013 to Question 179450 and 21 January 2014 to Question 182897, when his Department (a) decided to stop collecting the required information and (b) began to collect information in such a way that it can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	34945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The information requested can only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>For questions <strong>179450</strong> and <strong>182897</strong> volumes of prosecutions and number of errors identified were provided, however these were not all fraud cases, including cases where the error was not deliberate. This did not explicitly answer the enquiry, however was given to provide helpful context. It is not possible to separate cases into those which are a mistake and those where fraud has been accepted without individual case by case analysis.</p><p> </p><p>Again, we cannot directly answer <strong>30341</strong> and <strong>30342 </strong>but have provided the below extra information to assist;</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Fraud Investigations (1)</strong></p></td><td><p>125,140</p></td><td><p>116,480</p></td><td><p>171,730</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>of which total positive outcomes (2)</strong></p></td><td><p>20,800</p></td><td><p>20,050</p></td><td><p>24,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>of which total fraud cases (3)</strong></p></td><td><p>15,350</p></td><td><p>12,870</p></td><td><p>13,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>over which total prosecuted (4)</strong></p></td><td><p>11,390</p></td><td><p>8,490</p></td><td><p>7,150</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>(1) Total cases investigated by Local Service or complex criminal Investigations.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>(2) Total cases where an error has been identified and corrected.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(3) Prosecutions + admin Penalties + cautions: cases where fraud has been proven or accepted.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(4) Cases accepted by CPS for prosecution.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/04/2016 07:40:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

425184

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	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 assessment he has made of the effect of the benefit cap on the number of workless households.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	901942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon.Member to the answer I gave today to Oral Question UIN 901933</p><br /><p>The benefit cap is having a long term positive impact on people’s lives, and encouraging them to find work.</p><p>Over 60,000 households have been capped since April 2013. As of May 2015, over 40,000 households were no longer subject to the benefit cap. Of those, 16,300 households moved into work.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/11/2015 17:09:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

521334

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	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	Sign Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will bring forward legislative proposals to apply provisions equivalent to those of the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 to England.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	38138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to apply provisions equivalent to those of the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 to England.</p><p> </p><p>Last year the Minister for Disabled People published a written statement announcing that DWP would lead a Market Review of British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting provision, which would engage with Deaf people and stakeholder groups to examine opportunities that could strengthen and improve the market in the long term.</p><p> </p><p>The Call for Evidence for this review opened in January 2016 and closed in March 2016. We received hundreds of comprehensive submissions of evidence, which we are currently analysing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/06/2016 10:04:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller