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1166914

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	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	Maternity 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 list (a) all of the sites where maternity allowance has been administered and (b) the period of time they were administered at those sites.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	6241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Known sites for processing MA and the period that MA was processed at them is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Chesterfield – February 2016 to February 2019</p><p>Wrexham – 2005 (exact date unknown) to August 2019</p><p>Birkenhead – From April 2018</p><p>Walsall – From July 2019</p><p>St Helens – From August 2019</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/11/2019 18:37:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1166913

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2019
	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	Maternity Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where maternity allowance was administered prior to April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	6240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Prior to April 2018 Maternity Allowance was processed at Wrexham Benefit Centre and Chesterfield Benefit Centre.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/11/2019 18:32:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1156380

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2019
	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	Maternity Allowance
	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 24 October to Question 2694 on Maternity Allowance, on what date her Department's messaging changed; and what the estimated number of days was in relation to that change.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	5404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>From 15 October 19 all Enquiry Line greeting messages, Gov.uk and SMS messages were aligned to notify customers that the working day turn around for MA claims was 70 days. This estimate reflected potential concerns that processing times could increase still further – which did not ultimately prove to be the case. In light of this we are reviewing our messaging to ensure our actual processing times are correctly reflected.</p><p>SMS texts only go to those customers that provide mobile contact numbers and are automated from the mail opening unit on receipt of the claim form.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 31/10/2019 17:41:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 2850 answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1156245

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	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	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 recent assessment she has made of the potential effect of delays at the ENGIE Document Scanning facility at Kidderminster on benefit claimants.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>The Mail Opening Unit at Kidderminster meets it’s contracted performance requirements and there are no delays. There are full business continuity measures in place and these are regularly reviewed by the relevant officials.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/10/2019 16:41:48 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1151865

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	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	Maternity Allowance: Merseyside and Walsall
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for how long maternity allowance has been administered at (a) Birkenhead, (b) Walsall and (c) St Helens.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Maternity Allowance has been processed at Birkenhead since April 2018. Walsall started processing MA in July 2019 and St Helen’s started processing MA from August 2019.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/10/2019 13:56:33 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1151864

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	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	Social Security Benefits: St Helens
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of staffing levels for each of the benefits administered in St Helens; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of those levels.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department has a resource managing process to effectively forecast current and future staffing requirements. This is regularly reviewed to ensure we can balance supply and demand to meet business objectives.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/10/2019 14:11:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1151598

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	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: 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 staff have been assigned to the dedicated team investigating universal credit advance payment loan fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	3564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>We have 145 staff in the dedicated team. We also have a number of investigators who, as part of their caseload, will be investigating Universal Credit advances fraud cases, but are not part of the dedicated team.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to investigating cases, we are proactively addressing this issue with messaging on social media to raise awareness and remind people of the importance of safeguarding their identity, and by continuing to work with Social Media sites to shut down posts which promote this fraud. We have shut down 164 sites so far.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/10/2019 14:34:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1150897

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Pilot Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what departmental pilot projects are active in (a) Birkenhead and (b) Wirral.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	2691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>In terms of Jobcentre Plus, there are currently no departmental projects that (a) Birkenhead or (b) Wirral are involved with.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/10/2019 17:28:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1151129

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	Social Security Benefits: Wolverhampton
	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 make an assessment of the effect of delays at Wolverhampton Mail Handling site on the processing of applications for benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	2696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Royal Mail Group has confirmed that there are no delays in Wolverhampton Mail Handling site. All DWP post that is received at Wolverhampton Mail Handling site is actioned, cleared and sent to the DWP Mail Opening Unit on the same day of receipt and there are currently no backlogs.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/10/2019 13:50:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1151046

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	Maternity Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the estimated number of working days required to process a claim for maternity allowance has changed in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	2694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>There have been two changes to DWP messaging to indicate the estimated number of days to process a Maternity Allowance claim; both this year.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/10/2019 16:58:28 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead