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390867

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2015
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will extend the special rules for attendance allowance to include those suffering from significant brain injuries.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	7696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Entitlement to Attendance Allowance is not based on the diagnosis of a specific health condition, but is awarded to people based on the care, or supervision, needs arising from their severe disability. Special rules arrangements apply to Attendance Allowance claimants who are not expected to live longer than another six months, and mean that payment is made immediately rather the claimant having to satisfy the usual six month qualifying period. There is no specification of which health conditions should be processed under the special rules arrangements, and those suffering from significant brain injuries and not expected to live longer than another six months would be included under them. Claims for Attendance Allowance under the special rules arrangements should be supported by a relevant healthcare professional, usually on form DS1500.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/07/2015 17:15:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

723221

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2017
	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	Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what current measurements his Department uses to determine (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	71592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>DWP’s Households Below Average Income (HBAI) publication provides annual estimates on the number and percentage of people living in low-income households. HBAI is the foremost source for data and information about household income in the UK. The statistics are based on data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) whose focus is capturing information on incomes.</p><p>The latest release of the HBAI publication is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201516</a></p><p> </p><p>Absolute low income measures the number and proportion of individuals who have an equivalised household income below 60% of the median in 2010/11, adjusted for inflation.</p><p> </p><p>Relative low income measures the number and proportion of individuals who have an equivalised household income below 60% of the median.</p><p>Household income is measured as the total weekly household income from all sources, after tax, national insurance and other deductions. An adjustment called equivalisation is made to income to make it comparable across households of different size and composition.</p><p>The median equivalised household income divides the population of individuals, when ranked by equivalised household income, into two equal-sized groups, and unlike the mean is not affected by extreme values.</p><p> </p><p>Relative and absolute low income statistics are often utilised as measures of income poverty. We recognise the need to understand the complex issues that some families face and to develop a new approach to tackling poverty and engrained disadvantage. Because the root causes are not financial, our approach goes beyond the safety net our welfare system provides</p><p> </p><p>New analysis carried out by my Department shows that children living in families where no one works are significantly more disadvantaged, and achieve poorer outcomes than other children including those living in lower-income working families. This is why <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, focuses on tackling the complex barriers faced by many disadvantaged families and provides a framework for a continuing focus on improving their children’s outcomes, now and in the future.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/04/2017 09:14:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

723058

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2017
	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	Low 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 he is taking to improve the life chances of families in low-paid work.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	71491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>The best route out of poverty is through work and this government has made substantial progress: both the employment rate at 74.6% and the percentage of children living in working households at 58.3% are at a record high. The Prime Minister has been clear that she is committed to building a country that works for everyone – not just the privileged few.</p><p>That is why this Government has made great efforts to help people into work, reforming the welfare system to make work pay and introducing Universal Credit to strengthen incentives for parents to move into and progress in work. Evidence shows that under Universal Credit claimants move into work significantly faster and stay in work longer than under the old system.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Universal Credit now provides for 85% of childcare costs giving parents the opportunity to work and earn more, so they can support their families and improve outcomes for their children. We have also announced a 2% reduction in the Universal Credit single taper meaning more support for hardworking families. Around 3 million families across the country will benefit from this change and a couple with two children earning £30,000 a year could benefit by £425 a year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/04/2017 15:32:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

722577

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2017
	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	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, with reference to his Department's impact assessment of 25 August 2016 on the lower benefit cap, if he will publish the refined estimates of the operational costs of implementing that cap and of providing support to capped claimants.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	71255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not plan to publish estimates of the operational costs of implementing the benefit cap policy, nor the costs of providing support to capped claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The benefit cap was lowered on the 7th November from £26,000 to £20,000, except in London where it was lowered to £23,000 (a lower cap applies to single adult households).</p><p> </p><p>To help ensure Local Authorities are able to protect the most vulnerable Housing Benefit claimants and to support households adjusting to our welfare reforms, the Government will provide over £800m funding for Discretionary Housing Payments over the next 5 years from 2016/17. Information about this and other measures to ease the transition for families affected by this policy change is included in the latest impact assessment at the link below.</p><p> </p><p><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></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2017 13:15:35 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

715176

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	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	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, with reference to his Department's impact assessment of 25 August 2016 on the lower benefit cap, if he will publish the referred estimates of the operational costs of implementing that cap and of providing support to capped claimants.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	69691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>The benefit cap was lowered on the 7th November from £26,000 to £20,000, except in London where it was lowered to £23,000 (a lower cap applies to single adult households).</p><p> </p><p>To help ensure Local Authorities are able to protect the most vulnerable Housing Benefit claimants and to support households adjusting to our welfare reforms, the Government will provide over £800m funding for Discretionary Housing Payments over the next 5 years from 2016/17. Information about this and other measures to ease the transition for families affected by this policy change is included in the latest impact assessment at the link below.</p><p> </p><p><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></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/04/2017 14:11:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

714678

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2017
	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	Children: Poverty
	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 make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting city mayors in establishing localised child poverty targets.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	69473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, published on 4 April, forms part of the Government’s ambitious agenda for social reform and sets out a framework for continued action to drive improved outcomes for disadvantaged families and children. As part of this, we are making available the latest analysis and an evidence base to enable local authorities, local partners and others to understand, and act on, the complex factors of disadvantage in their local area. This will include local-level data on the factors of disadvantage that will be available through a local government data tool.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/04/2017 11:57:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

714229

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	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	Children: Poverty
	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 implications for his policies of the data in the latest Household Below Average Income survey on levels of child poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	69357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has made clear that this Government is committed to building a country that works for everyone – not just the privileged few. Improving outcomes for disadvantaged children and families is a priority for this government. To do this we must tackle the root causes of poverty and disadvantage and we will make some announcements shortly.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/03/2017 15:09:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

714230

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	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	Social Services: Public Consultation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to respond to the forthcoming Social Justice Green Paper through a consultation.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	69356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this Government. Some announcements on our approach will be made shortly.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/03/2017 15:06:44 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

714249

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect of universal credit on the number of children in households with less than 60 per cent of median income when roll-out is completed, excluding potential dynamic effects on employment and earnings.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	69316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has set out clearly that she is committed to building a country that works for everyone – not just the privileged few. Tackling child poverty and disadvantage is a priority for this government.</p><p> </p><p>We know that work is the best route out of poverty, and Universal Credit is designed to strengthen incentives for parents to move into and progress in work. Ignoring the impact that Universal Credit has on incentivising work and raising the incomes of families is inappropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The impact of Universal Credit cannot be considered in isolation– it is a key component of a broader strategy to move Britain to a higher wage, lower welfare, lower tax society.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/03/2017 15:03:52 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

692071

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2017
	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	Children: Poverty
	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 publish a Child Poverty Strategy (a) every three years and (b) in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	64519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>We will set out our approach to tackling child poverty and disadvantage in our green paper on social justice which will be published in due course. The statutory requirement to publish a Child Poverty Strategy as set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 has been repealed.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/02/2017 16:12:32 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis