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172294

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2015
	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: Disqualification
	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 (a) Liverpool and (b) England were subject to sanctions in the week commencing 22 December 2014; and how many of those people had benefits withheld for that period.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	219936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department publishes Official Statistics on Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) and Employment Support Allowance (ESA) sanction decisions and information on these statistics can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest set of Official Statistics was released on 12 November 2014 and covers all decisions made to 30 June 2014. A summary of this data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/jobseekers-allowance-and-employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-decisions-made-to-june-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/jobseekers-allowance-and-employment-and-support-allowance-sanctions-decisions-made-to-june-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics contain a wide set of geographical areas, sanction reason, sanctions appeals and outcomes and if required this information can be extracted using Stat-Xplore via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required from Stat-Xplore can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested is not yet available. The latest data available can be found at the links above.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 14/01/2015 14:06:07 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 37793 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

422364

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2015
	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	Universal Credit: Liverpool
	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 claimants in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) Liverpool have appealed against sanctions; what the average length of sanctions in those areas was in the last 12 months; and how many such appeals were successful.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	12456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 11863 asked on 14 October 2015</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 12398 question first answered 22/10/2015 09:59:48 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

422366

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2015
	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	Universal Credit: Liverpool
	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 claimants have been sanctioned in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) Liverpool since the implementation of that policy.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	12398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 11863 asked on 14 October 2015</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 12456 question first answered 22/10/2015 09:59:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

422371

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2015
	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	Universal Credit: Liverpool
	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 claimants there have been in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) Liverpool city region since that policy's implementation.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	12397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>The information requested can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 22/10/2015 09:56:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

422718

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	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	Disability: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to close the pay gap between disabled workers and other workers.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	12631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all disabled people have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. Work is an important part of this, which is why we committed to halving the disability employment gap in our manifesto – we want to ensure that many more disabled people who can and want to work have that opportunity.</p><p>Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people (and other groups) from discrimination at work, including unequal pay (in relation to the disabled person's gender) and less favourable treatment, which may require the employer to provide a reasonable adjustment.</p><p>The National Living Wage - which will ensure that all low wage workers, including those with disabilities, can take a greater share of the gains from growth - will come into force from 1 April 2016.</p><p>Disability Confident works with an increasing number of employers to promote the benefits of employing disabled people, encouraging good practice, challenging prejudicial attitudes, increasing understanding of disability, removing barriers, and helping to ensure that disabled people have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.</p><p>Access to Work provides support above and beyond employers’ reasonable adjustments. Every year, Access to Work supports tens of thousands of disabled workers to enter or retain employment and progress in their careers.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/10/2015 14:00:49 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

457629

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2016
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on legal costs related to the under-occupancy penalty.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	29705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government has incurred approximately £387,155 to date on legal costs associated with judicial review challenges to the under-occupancy penalty.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this figure includes VAT where this is payable (e.g. on Counsel’s fees) and disbursements but does not include costs attributable to the time spent by Government advisory lawyers, as time spent by such advisory lawyers is not recorded in a manner that allows it to be attributed to individual cases. This figure does not include all of Counsel’s fees incurred in relation to the Supreme Court hearing of MA &amp; Others/A and Rutherford v the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (29 February to 2 March) which have not yet been billed.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/03/2016 17:24:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

514834

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2016
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients in the (a) work-related activity group and (b) support group have claimed employment and support allowance or previously, incapacity benefit for (i) up to two, (ii) between two and five and (iii) for five years or more years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	34982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>The information available on the number of Employment and Support Allowance recipients, by duration, phase of claim and whether an IB Reassessment, is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/04/2016 10:34:05 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

514835

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2016
	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	Work Capability Assessment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments were carried out in each month of financial year 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	34983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>57,022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2015</p></td><td><p>55,928</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>64,054</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2015</p></td><td><p>63,734</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>51,898</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>64,334</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>69,929</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>77,411</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>73,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2016</p></td><td><p>78,967</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2016</p></td><td><p>83,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>74,779</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Atos IT MSRS DWP0050 WCA Clearance Report. Atos IT MSRS DWP0240 APM Datadump, CHDA National Clerical Output File</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/04/2016 11:13:40 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

515019

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	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	State Retirement Pensions
	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 people who will receive a lower state pension under the single-tier pension system.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	35166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the <em>Impact of the New State Pension (nSP) on an Individual’s Pension Entitlement – Longer Term Effects of nSP</em> published in January 2016. The link can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/491845/impact-of-new-state-pension-longer-term-reserach.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/491845/impact-of-new-state-pension-longer-term-reserach.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Figure 1 of the assessment shows the proportion of all pensioners from 2016 until 2060 at each time point with changed notional State Pension outcomes under the new State Pension.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/05/2016 12:01:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

599634

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2016
	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	Employment: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to safeguard the jobs of EU nationals living in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	48139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>Our country remains open for business. Employment is at a record high with a almost a million new businesses in our country since 2010 and we will always welcome those with the skills, the drive and the expertise to make our nation better still. The Prime Minister has been clear that she wants to protect the status of EU nationals already living here, and the only circumstances in which that wouldn’t be possible is if British citizens’ rights in European member states were not protected.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/10/2016 16:39:15 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram