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823613

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of amount to be loaned to homeowners in the first year following the conversion of the Support for Mortgage Interest benefit to a loan.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>Based on the assumptions in the 2017 Impact Assessment available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2017/117/pdfs/ukia_20170117_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2017/117/pdfs/ukia_20170117_en.pdf</a></p><p>the Department estimates that £156m will be loaned to homeowners in 2018/19, which is the first year following conversion of the Support for Mortgage Interest benefit to a loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/01/2018 15:29:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823568

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Universal Credit
	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 8 January 2019 to Question 121059, on universal credit, what data and research the Government would require before it would judge an automated system to be approved.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Gentleman to the answers of 8 January 2018 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-21/121059/" target="_blank">121059</a> and 21 December <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-18/119929/" target="_blank">119929</a>.</p><p>Our design priorities are constantly being evaluated and updated. This means the Department has not yet set a date for implementation of the automated system.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 123034 123035 question first answered 24/01/2018 10:46:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823569

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Universal Credit
	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 8 January 2018 to Question 121059, whether the Government is conducting data collection and research on the use of an automated system for universal credit claimants.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Gentleman to the answers of 8 January 2018 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-21/121059/" target="_blank">121059</a> and 21 December <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-18/119929/" target="_blank">119929</a>.</p><p>Our design priorities are constantly being evaluated and updated. This means the Department has not yet set a date for implementation of the automated system.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 123033 123035 question first answered 24/01/2018 10:46:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823571

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her policy to implement an automated system for universal credit claimants to reset their login details; and what the timetable is for setting up such a system.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Gentleman to the answers of 8 January 2018 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-21/121059/" target="_blank">121059</a> and 21 December <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-18/119929/" target="_blank">119929</a>.</p><p>Our design priorities are constantly being evaluated and updated. This means the Department has not yet set a date for implementation of the automated system.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 123033 123034 question first answered 24/01/2018 10:46:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823582

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the transfer from disability living allowance to personal independence payments is made effectively; and what representations she has received on claimants whose payments have changed significantly despite there being no change in their circumstances.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The claiming process for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), including the arrangements to invite existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claimants to claim PIP, was co-produced with the assistance of disabled people, carers and their representative support organisations to ensure it works effectively. Up to the end of October 2017 nearly 1,177,000 DLA to PIP claims had been registered, of which nearly 1,100,000 claims had been cleared. To ensure continuity of payment, DLA claimants continue to get paid while their PIP claim is being assessed.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State and Ministers receive a wide range of representations about PIP from individuals, organisations and Parliamentarians. However, as PIP is a different benefit to DLA, with different assessment criteria, someone moving from DLA to PIP will not automatically be entitled to PIP, or guaranteed the same level of award. PIP is intended to focus support on those who need it most and 38 per cent of those previously in receipt of DLA are currently receiving the highest possible rate of benefit compared with only 15 per cent on DLA of working age at May 2013.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/01/2018 11:33:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823573

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of paying parents involved in pay arrangements though the child maintence service who are listed as self-employed or as company directors.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on the number of paying parents who are acting as company directors.</p><p> </p><p>The Child Maintenance Service is currently in the process of assuring employment data and therefore this will be available at a future date when it would be released in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/01/2018 15:28:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823584

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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 proportion of PIP cases taken to tribunal following a failed mandatory reconsideration are successful in changing the original decision.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The percentage of PIP and ESA appeals cleared at a tribunal hearing where the appeal decision was in favour of the claimant can be found in Table SSCS.3 of the quarterly bulletin “Tribunals and gender recognition certificate statistics quarterly – July to September 2017”.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>These figures include all Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) decisions subsequently appealed - not just ‘failed’ MRs where the original decision has been maintained, but also MRs where the award was changed but which were still disputed.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123049 question first answered 24/01/2018 17:33:37 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823586

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of ESA cases taken to tribunal following a failed mandatory reconsideration are successful in changing the original decision.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The percentage of PIP and ESA appeals cleared at a tribunal hearing where the appeal decision was in favour of the claimant can be found in Table SSCS.3 of the quarterly bulletin “Tribunals and gender recognition certificate statistics quarterly – July to September 2017”.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>These figures include all Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) decisions subsequently appealed - not just ‘failed’ MRs where the original decision has been maintained, but also MRs where the award was changed but which were still disputed.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123047 question first answered 24/01/2018 17:33:37 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823607

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the relationship between the availability of bank branches and the numbers of loans issued to small and medium sized enterprises.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury has no made no such assessments. The decision to open and close branches remains a commercial judgement for banks. However, the impact of closures on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The industry’s Access to Banking Standard, launched in May 2017, commits banks to ensure personal and business customers are better informed about branch closures and the reasons for them closing, along with the options they have locally to continue to access banking services, including specialist assistance for customers who need more help. The Access to Banking Standard is monitored and enforced by the independent Lending Standards Board.</p><p> </p><p>99% of personal and 95% of banks’ business customers are now able to withdraw cash, deposit cash and cheques, and make balance enquiries at a Post Office counter via its network of 11,600 branches. At Autumn Budget 2017, my predecessor wrote to the Post Office and UK Finance to ask them to raise public awareness of the banking services available at the Post Office for individuals and SMEs. I look forward to receiving their proposals later this month.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, the Government remains committed to supporting SMEs’ access to the finance they need to grow and expand, and has: established the British Business Bank to make finance markets work better for small businesses; supported challenger banks; introduced a bespoke regime for peer-to-peer lending; and made structural interventions such as the Bank Referral Scheme and the SME credit data sharing scheme.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 123070 question first answered 24/01/2018 13:38:00 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823609

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Productivity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the relationship between the productivity of small and medium sized enterprises and access to physical banking services.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>The Treasury has no made no such assessments. The decision to open and close branches remains a commercial judgement for banks. However, the impact of closures on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The industry’s Access to Banking Standard, launched in May 2017, commits banks to ensure personal and business customers are better informed about branch closures and the reasons for them closing, along with the options they have locally to continue to access banking services, including specialist assistance for customers who need more help. The Access to Banking Standard is monitored and enforced by the independent Lending Standards Board.</p><p> </p><p>99% of personal and 95% of banks’ business customers are now able to withdraw cash, deposit cash and cheques, and make balance enquiries at a Post Office counter via its network of 11,600 branches. At Autumn Budget 2017, my predecessor wrote to the Post Office and UK Finance to ask them to raise public awareness of the banking services available at the Post Office for individuals and SMEs. I look forward to receiving their proposals later this month.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, the Government remains committed to supporting SMEs’ access to the finance they need to grow and expand, and has: established the British Business Bank to make finance markets work better for small businesses; supported challenger banks; introduced a bespoke regime for peer-to-peer lending; and made structural interventions such as the Bank Referral Scheme and the SME credit data sharing scheme.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 123068 question first answered 24/01/2018 13:38:00 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823596

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Carillion: Insolvency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what representations he has received on the effect of the Carrillion entering liquidation on the non-construction services it provides in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>My Department is monitoring the position with regard to Carillion’s non-construction service contracts in Scotland and is in close touch with other UK Government departments and the Scottish Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 22/01/2018 10:39:57 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823587

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Carillion: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps he is taking to ensure that major public sector construction projects in Scotland held by Carillion will still proceed as planned.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government has instructed the Official Receiver to maintain public services across the UK. Those public services which are provided in Scotland by Carillion through contracts with devolved bodies are for the relevant devolved bodies to oversee. The UK and Scottish Governments are in close contact at all levels, and are working together constructively.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 25/01/2018 12:49:13 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823599

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Parliamentary cases received a response within the 20-working day service standard from the UK Visas and Immigration office at Festival Court in Glasgow in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Statistics on UKVI performance in answering written MP written enquiries within 20 working day target are published at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a><br>Final quarter statistics for 2017 are due to be published in February 2018.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 07:26:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

823603

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Married People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the proportion of spousal visa applications which failed because the sponsoring spouse is unable to meet the salary and savings thresholds in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not available in published statistics.</p><p>Information on the total number of entry clearance visa applications and resolved (i.e. grants, refusals, withdrawn and lapsed) cases, and the proportion of resolved cases that are either granted or refused, in the ‘Family: Partner’ category is published quarterly.</p><p>The most recent information can be found in the Home Office publication ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2017’, Visas data tables volume 1, table vi_01_q, available from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/01/2018 07:34:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen