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1123703

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2019
	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	Food Poverty: Children
	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 the Food Foundation's Children’s Future Food Inquiry report published on 24 April 2019, what steps the Government is taking to support children who live in food insecure households.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	248684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>This Government is committed to helping families into work, as the best route out of poverty. We are also supporting over 1 million children with free school meals, investing up to £26 million in school breakfast clubs, providing approximately 2.3 million children aged 4-6 with a portion of fresh fruit or vegetables each day at school, and, through the Healthy Start Programme, hundreds of thousands of low income families benefit from vouchers which can be redeemed against fruit, vegetables, milk and infant formula. In 2019/20, the government will be spending more than £95 billion a year on working-age benefits. The new set of food insecurity questions introduced into the existing Family Resources Survey from April will build a better understanding of household food needs, to help ensure we’re targeting support to those most in need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/05/2019 10:21:47 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

599621

	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	Social Mobility
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish its Life Changes Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	47998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government and we will be coming back to the House with a number of announcements over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 17/10/2016 15:05:32 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

601999

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2016
	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	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 estimate his Department has made of the number of children living in relative poverty in the UK (a) on the latest date for which figures are available and (b) a year before that date.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	48785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of children in relative low income in the UK are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series.</p><p>In 2014/15 on a Before Housing Cost basis (BHC); there were 2.5 million children in relative poverty in the UK. In the previous year (2013/14) there were 2.3 million children in relative poverty in the UK. This increase however is not statistically significant.</p><p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government and we will be coming back to the House with a number of announcements over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/10/2016 15:37:32 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

627467

	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	Child Poverty Unit: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff have worked in the Child Poverty Unit in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	51676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government.</p><p>The full information requested is not available; however, what is available has been provided in the table below. Please note, these numbers do not included centrally-managed Civil Service fast streamers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Child Poverty Unit: Full-time equivalent staff (on 31 March).</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>We do not hold complete records for this year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>23.37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>17.83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>13.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/11/2016 17:12:44 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

627468

	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to make an announcement on the timetable for the future roll-out of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	51677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The next stages of the delivery of Universal Credit were set out by the Work and Pensions Secretary in a Written Statement to Parliament on 20 July. The rollout schedule from May 2016 through to March 2017 can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539516/universal-credit-transition-rollout-schedule-phase-1-to-3-2016-to-2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539516/universal-credit-transition-rollout-schedule-phase-1-to-3-2016-to-2017.pdf</a></p><p>Further details of the sites rolling out from April 2017 will be announced later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/11/2016 16:34:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

631967

	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	Child Poverty Unit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual budget was of the Child Poverty Unit in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	52311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government</p><p> </p><p>In each of the last five years the Child Poverty Unit was jointly sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Education and HM Treasury. Staff from DWP and DfE were deployed to the unit. It is not possible to provide accurate total annual budget figures for the Child Poverty Unit because we cannot disaggregate the respective amounts from larger DWP and DfE budgets within which they are included.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/11/2016 17:00:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

642404

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2016
	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	Child Poverty Unit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made by the Child Poverty Unit; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	54256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government.</p><p>We know that work is the best route out of poverty and we are making progress. The number of children living in workless households is down by 557,000 since 2010 and the employment rate in the UK continues to run at a record high of 74.5%, with wages rising faster than inflation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 25/11/2016 12:23:50 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647297

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2016
	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	Child Poverty Unit
	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 Answer of 25 November 2016 to Question 54256, what steps the Child Poverty Unit is taking to reduce poverty among children living in working households.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	55237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>This Government is committed to action that tackles the root causes of poverty and disadvantage, not just the symptoms. There is clear evidence that work is the best route out of poverty. Working age adults in non-working families are almost four times more likely than those in work to be living on a low income. And the Child Poverty Transitions Report (Jun 2015) found that 74% of poor children in workless families that moved into full employment exited poverty.</p><p>This is why we are reforming the welfare and tax system to support people into work, ensure that work always pays, and to allow people to keep more of what they earn. For the first time ever we are supporting claimants who are in low paid work to increase their earnings and progress in their careers.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/12/2016 16:04:51 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647298

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2016
	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	Employment
	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 have moved into work from receiving out-of-work benefits in each of the last five years; and how many such people have moved into work with a salary above 60 per cent of median household income in each of those years by year.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	55249
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold sufficiently reliable data on claimant flows into work to answer this question. Benefit claimants are not required to report their destination to Jobcentre Plus when they stop claiming benefit. However, as we roll out Universal Credit, we expect to be able to use Real Time Information (RTI) to track claimant earnings.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/12/2016 17:17:05 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647299

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2016
	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	Employment
	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 have moved into work and earn above the national minimum wage from receiving out-of-work benefits in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	55250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold sufficiently reliable data on claimant flows into work to answer this question. Benefit claimants are not required to report their destination to Jobcentre Plus when they stop claiming benefit. However, as we roll out Universal Credit, we expect to be able to use Real Time Information (RTI) to track claimant earnings.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/12/2016 17:19:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis