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1348389

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	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	Universal Credit: Maladministration
	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 17 June 2021 to Question 15239, whether her Department is on schedule to automate the process of proactively correcting universal credit payments at risk of being reduced when coinciding with the claimant receiving multiple wages during one assessment period by mid-summer 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	35698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>We are currently on schedule to deliver the automation which will allow us to identify and take action when claimants are impacted by two earnings in the one assessment period by Summer 2021.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/07/2021 14:21:33 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1218285

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2020
	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: Dunfermline and West Fife
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many advanced universal credit payments have been issued in Dunfermline and West Fife constituency since 1 March 2020; and what the cost was of those payments to the nearest thousand pounds.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	65137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Between 1 March 2020 and 16 June 2020 inclusive, 2,310 Universal Credit advance payments were issued to the Dunfermline and West Fife parliamentary constituency totalling a value of £1,013,000.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10 and values to the nearest £1000.</p><p>2. Figures include all types of advances, including advances paid after the first assessment period.</p><p>3. Figures provided to 16 June 2020 in line with published management information relating to Universal Credit advances.</p><p>4. If a claimant has applied for more than one advance, each one is counted separately in these figures.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/07/2020 17:14:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 33977 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1144811

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	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	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 assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the delivery of data via the Data Hub since the introduction of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	286784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Data Hub is a secure mechanism for sharing data with local authorities not only for Universal Credit purposes, but for wider data share requirements across central and local Government and has been effective in doing so.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has plans to iterate and enhance the current data shared in the future and are working with local authority colleagues to support this.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/09/2019 10:54:46 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1505117

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2022
	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	Cost of Living Payments: Dunfermline and West Fife
	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 Dunfermline and West Fife did not receive the first cost-of-living benefit instalment due to them receiving a nil award during the relevant universal credit assessment period.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	47570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>Between the 14 and 20 July, the department processed over 7.2m cost of living payments worth around £2.4 billion. In total, over eight million families will be eligible for this payment, with around one million eligible because they receive tax credits and no other eligible benefits. These families will receive their first instalment from HMRC in the autumn, and the second instalment in the winter. Further information is available at: 7.2 million Cost of Living payments made to low-income families - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>) and at: Cost of Living Payment - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit households can receive a nil award for various reasons. The majority of nil awards are due to household earnings. Other reasons that can cause or contribute to a nil award include; capital, other income, other benefits, sanctions and fraud penalties.</p><p> </p><p>There were 800 households containing 1,000 claimants in Dunfermline and West Fife who have not received the first Cost of Living Payment due to a nil award.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.</p><p>2. Great Britain level figures have been provided.</p><p>3. Nil awards have been defined as households that received a £0 Universal Credit payment and had no deductions for advance repayments, third party debts or government debts and had no money paid directly to their landlord by Universal Credit.</p><p>4. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>5. The methodology used is different to those used to derive the Official Statistics Household series and therefore, figures may not be comparable.</p><p>6. The methodology and data source may be slightly different to those used to derive entitlement to the Cost-of-Living Payment.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 29/09/2022 15:49:14 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

818697

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	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 on claimants of having their personal independence payments suspended while awaiting an appeal to the Upper Tribunal requested by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	121461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The payment of a tribunal’s award of Personal Independence Payment will only be suspended where the Secretary of State considers that a tribunal’s decision is wrong in law and that conclusion needs to be tested before the Upper Tribunal. Whilst it must be right not to implement the tribunal’s award during this period, if a claimant can show that this will cause them hardship then any suspension imposed can be lifted and payment made.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst no assessment has been made of this policy, this is a long-standing process which has ensured that benefit is paid only when provided for in law.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 15/01/2018 15:14:34 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1194493

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2020
	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: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will ensure that clients who have overpaid their child maintenance payments due to departmental error will have those monies refunded within four weeks of the error being discovered.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	45268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>Where overpayments of Child Maintenance occur, these are routinely adjusted from any future Child Maintenance payments due.</p><p> </p><p>Where an overpayment occurs due to incorrect allocation to a case, action to rectify this usually takes place within 48 hours.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/05/2020 17:09:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1194494

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2020
	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: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will investigate complaints of departmental errors made under the Child Maintenance Scheme; and if she will make a statement on the outcome of that investigation.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	45269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>All complaints received by Child Maintenance Service are investigated. Customers who remain dissatisfied can then escalate their complaint and request a fully independent investigation to be completed by the Independent Case Examiner then the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>Accuracy of Child Maintenance Service processes is also subject to scrutiny from Counter Fraud &amp; Compliance Directorate, Government Internal Audit Agency and National Audit office.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/05/2020 16:56:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1145871

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service complaints were made by paying parents in relation to income data not being used to calculate payments; and what proportion of those complaints were upheld in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	290827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 30/09/2019 15:08:41 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1145881

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many paying parents are in maintenance arrears through the Child Maintenance Service; and how much unpaid maintenance remains outstanding in Dunfermline and West Fife constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	290836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>At the end of June 2019, there were 260 Paying Parents with unpaid maintenance in the Dunfermline and West Fife constituency. The total amount of unpaid maintenance associated with these Paying Parents was £386,000.</p><p> </p><p>Please note the following points:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A Paying Parent may be paying towards multiple child maintenance arrangements;</li><li>These figures do not consider unpaid child maintenance that was arranged by the Child Support Agency;</li><li>Paying Parents with any amount of unpaid maintenance which was arranged by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) are considered as having arrears;</li><li>The count of Paying Parents has been rounded to the nearest 10, the value has been rounded to the nearest £1,000.</li></ul> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/10/2019 15:11:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1145882

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason Regulation 4(1) of the Child Support (Child Support Maintenance) Calculations Regulations 2012 provides that a relevant tax year for the calculation of child maintenance by a paying parent is any one of the six years immediately preceding the date of request and not the most recent year for which tax data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	290837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>To make an initial maintenance assessment, regulations provide that HM Revenue &amp; Customs share income information for the most recent complete tax year they hold within the previous six years. This process is repeated annually to ensure the assessment is based on the most recent data HMRC hold and in line with a paying parent’s circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>More recent income data can be used in specific circumstances where a paying parent’s income has changed in a way that breaks the 25% tolerance, requiring their calculation to move from historic to current income.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/10/2019 15:18:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman