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714690

	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	Work Capability Assessment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many assessments Maximus completed within the first year of that company's employment and support allowance contract.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	69499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>In Year 1 (1 March 2015 – 29 February 2016) of their contract, Centre for Health Disability Assessments (CHDA) delivered a total of 792,302 Work Capability Assessments and 111,720 other assessments. For Year 2, the number of assessments completed overall by CHDA increased to 945,343 and 108,943 respectively. CHDA is a MAXIMUS Company.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 05/04/2017 14:32:05 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

714691

	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	Work Capability Assessment
	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 introduce the mandatory recording of capability assessments for employment and support allowance and personal independence payments.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	69482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce the mandatory recordings of assessments for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payments (PIP).</p><p> </p><p>Whilst there is no legal need to record assessments, claimants can request in advance that their ESA assessment is recorded. This is explained to claimants in the letter inviting them to their face-to-face assessment.</p><p> </p><p>On 13 March a small-scale pilot started to test whether there are any benefits to audio recording PIP face-to-face assessments. Once the results of this pilot have been processed and evaluated, we will be able to make further decisions on whether DWP will consider recording PIP assessments in the future.</p><p> </p><p>However, assessment recording will always be entirely voluntary and subject to claimant consent.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 05/04/2017 15:14:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

457716

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the amount currently owed to HM Revenue and Customs in tax credit overpayments and (b) the potential effect of the reduction in the income rise disregard on the amount so owed in each of the next three years.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	29788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The amount of tax credit debt owed to HMRC as at 31 March 2015, the latest available figure, is published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2014-15. The Annual Report and Accounts for 2015-16 are due to be published in June this year.</p><p> </p><p>The impact on new debt from the reduction in the disregard is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/03/2016 15:15:26 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

457717

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Easington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of tax credit claimants with a disability in Easington constituency who will be affected by the reduction of the income rise disregard for tax credits to £2,500.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	29789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held and statistically reliable projections at constituency level could only be provided at disproportionate cost. From April 2016, the income rise disregard – the amount by which a tax credit claimant’s income can increase within a year before their tax credit award is adjusted – will be reduced from £5,000 to £2,500.</p><p> </p><p>The only people who will be affected by this will be those who see an increase in their in-year income by more than £2,500. There will be no net cash losers because their income will have increased.</p><p> </p><p>In the subsequent tax year, a claimant’s tax credits award will be calculated in the usual way, using their full annual income for the previous year to determine their tax credit entitlement. This means that after the change in the tax year, whether the claimant’s increase in income was above or below the disregard level, their tax credit award for the following year will be adjusted to what it would have been had no disregard existed</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 29790 29791 question first answered 11/03/2016 12:33:42 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

457718

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Easington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women in Easington constituency who will be affected by the reduction of the income rise disregard for tax credits to £2,500.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	29790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held and statistically reliable projections at constituency level could only be provided at disproportionate cost. From April 2016, the income rise disregard – the amount by which a tax credit claimant’s income can increase within a year before their tax credit award is adjusted – will be reduced from £5,000 to £2,500.</p><p> </p><p>The only people who will be affected by this will be those who see an increase in their in-year income by more than £2,500. There will be no net cash losers because their income will have increased.</p><p> </p><p>In the subsequent tax year, a claimant’s tax credits award will be calculated in the usual way, using their full annual income for the previous year to determine their tax credit entitlement. This means that after the change in the tax year, whether the claimant’s increase in income was above or below the disregard level, their tax credit award for the following year will be adjusted to what it would have been had no disregard existed</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 29789 29791 question first answered 11/03/2016 12:33:42 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

457719

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Easington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in Easington constituency who will be affected by the reduction of the income rise disregard for tax credits to £2,500.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	29791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held and statistically reliable projections at constituency level could only be provided at disproportionate cost. From April 2016, the income rise disregard – the amount by which a tax credit claimant’s income can increase within a year before their tax credit award is adjusted – will be reduced from £5,000 to £2,500.</p><p> </p><p>The only people who will be affected by this will be those who see an increase in their in-year income by more than £2,500. There will be no net cash losers because their income will have increased.</p><p> </p><p>In the subsequent tax year, a claimant’s tax credits award will be calculated in the usual way, using their full annual income for the previous year to determine their tax credit entitlement. This means that after the change in the tax year, whether the claimant’s increase in income was above or below the disregard level, their tax credit award for the following year will be adjusted to what it would have been had no disregard existed</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 29789 29790 question first answered 11/03/2016 12:33:42 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

422879

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	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 effect of changes to tax credits on family incomes.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	12916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government provided an overall assessment of the impact of Summer Budget policies in <em>Impact on households: Distributional analysis to accompany Summer Budget 2015</em> available here:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443229/PU1822_Distributional_Analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443229/PU1822_Distributional_Analysis.pdf</a></p><br /><p>The government provided an additional impact assessment on request of the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. This can be found on the Committee’s web site at</p><p>http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/Secondary-Legislation-Scrutiny-Committee/DraftTaxCreditsRegs2015-ImpactAssessment.pdf</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/10/2015 16:04:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

707335

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2017
	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	Walkers Foods: Peterlee
	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 take steps to provide financial aid to employees requiring support to up-skill and retrain in the event of the closure of the Walkers crisps factory in Peterlee.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	66311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2017 answer text <p>In the event of the closure of a large employer the Department for Work &amp; Pensions provide redundancy support through its ‘Rapid Response Service’.</p><p> </p><p>This support can include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A skills analysis to help identify transferable skills and training needs relevant to the local labour market;</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Job-focused training to help individuals develop vocational skills needed within the local labour market;</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>An action fund to overcome individual short-term barriers to taking up a specific job offer, e.g. travel to work expenses;</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Advice on claiming benefits, self-employment and tax credits.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/03/2017 14:45:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

424347

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps the Government is taking to improve services for victims and witnesses of crime.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	13700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is undertaking a wide range of measures to improve services for victims and witnesses of crime.</p><br /><p>We recently published a revised Victims' Code which will come into force on 16 November. As a result, victims of all criminal offences, and not just victims of more serious offences, will be entitled to support; and victims will be entitled to support from a wider range of organisations.</p><br /><p>Significant work is being undertaken by the Ministry of Justice to improve the experience of victims and witnesses when they engage with the criminal justice system, which includes strengthening the protection available when going to court. We have already doubled the number of Registered Intermediaries available to offer support to vulnerable witnesses and are giving vulnerable victims and witnesses greater opportunity to give evidence away from court using new live-link facilities. This is on top of a range of existing special measures to help reduce the anxiety of attending court, including giving evidence from behind a screen in the courtroom or the use of live-link from another room in court to the courtroom.</p><br /><p>Police and Crime Commissioners are responsible for commissioning the majority of emotional, practical and specialist support services for victims of crime, based on their assessment of local needs, and receive funding from the Ministry of Justice to do so. In addition, the Ministry of Justice funds services to support those bereaved by murder and manslaughter, female and male victims of rape, victims of road traffic crime and victims of terrorism, and support for victims and witnesses attending criminal courts. To help victims find the services they need, the Ministry of Justice has recently launched the Victims’ Information Service, which includes a website directory of services and a free telephone helpline which can provide immediate assistance and support.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 05/11/2015 09:34:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

714697

	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	Universal Credit: Part-time Employment
	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 effect of conditionality within universal credit in cases where part-time employees use holiday entitlement from work.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	69545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>For the first time, Universal Credit (UC) allows us to support people who are in work and on low incomes to progress. We are currently running a large scale Randomised Control Trial (RCT) to test whether conditionality can be used effectively to support people to progress. This will contribute to the evidence base about what works, which will inform the design of our future in-work service.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has made no assessment of the effect of conditionality within Universal Credit where part-time employees use holiday entitlement from work.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 05/04/2017 14:37:00 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris