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228668

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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 six months' notice warning letters of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each month since December 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	228425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of six months’ notice warning letters of case closure, that have been issued since December 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Notifications Issued in Month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>59,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>50,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figures are made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:06:11 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225940

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2015
	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 much child maintenance arrears (a) is designated technically uncollectable and (b) his Department has already written-off as uncollectable since the write-off powers were introduced in November 2012; and what the reasons are for any difference between the two such figures.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>(a) Information on uncollectable arrears can be found on page 41 of the latest Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/404296/csa-qtr-summ-stats-dec-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/404296/csa-qtr-summ-stats-dec-2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>(b) Under the Write Off and Part Payment Powers introduced on 10 December 2012 the Department has written off £1.2 million in the financial year 2012/13 and £16.0 million in the financial year 2013/14 giving a total written off of £17.2 million.</p><p> </p><p>The two figures are not directly comparable. The data is based on different sources, uncollectable arrears is based on the entire caseload whereas the amount written off relates to specific cases where agreement to write off has been reached.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/03/2015 14:08:17 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

224916

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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	Housing Benefit: Greater London
	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 London claimed (a) £250 per week for a one bedroom, (b) £290 per week for a two bedroom property, (c) £340 per week for a three bedroom property and (d) £400 per week for a four bedroom property in housing benefit in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested in respect of all housing benefit claimants is not available. The Department does collect some information on the number of entitled bedrooms in respect of the Local Housing Allowance only. We are therefore unable to answer these questions which relate to all housing benefit claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The information available is for local housing allowance (LHA) cases by the number of entitled bedrooms and weekly award amount bands.</p><p> </p><p>This information is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226222 question first answered 06/03/2015 10:17:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223069

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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 proportion of the child maintenance arrears owed in respect of Child Support Agency cases where a child could still benefit is owed by a parent who is self-employed or a director of a private company.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As at December 2014, 12.4%<sup>1</sup> of the amount of arrears where there is a qualifying child remaining on the case is owed by non resident parents who are self-employed.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the job title of non-resident parents is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>1. Data sourced from CSCS and CS2 computer systems. Employment status is not available for cases managed off system.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/03/2015 13:07:29 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223070

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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 proportion of Child Support Agency cases with a child who could benefit are known to concern a non-resident parent who is self-employed or a director of a private company.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As at December 2014, of the live cases where there is a qualifying child remaining on the case, 8.5%<sup>1</sup> are in relation to a non resident parent who is self-employed.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the job title of non-resident parents is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>1. Data sourced from CSCS and CS2 computer systems. Employment status is not available for cases managed off system.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/03/2015 13:12:19 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223072

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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 much of the Child Support Agency arrears owed in respect of a child who could still benefit are regarded as (a) temporarily and (b) permanently collectable.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As at December 2014, the amount of arrears where there is a qualifying child remaining on the case that is (a) temporarily<sup>1</sup> and (b) permanently<sup>2</sup> uncollectable is £4.8 million and £10.3 million respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. We have interpreted temporarily uncollectable as arrears on cases where the case is under surveillance, we are unable to trace the NRP, the NRP is abroad or the debt is suspended.</p><p>2. We have interpreted permanently uncollectable as arrears on cases where the non-resident parent or parent with care is deceased, where the arrears are deferred or where the arrears are classed as Interim Maintenance Assessment Gap (money that cannot be collected due to it not being covered by legislation).</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/03/2015 13:31:42 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223073

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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 (a) number and (b) proportion of Child Support Agency cases are known to concern a non-resident parent who is (i) self-employed and (ii) a director of a private company.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As at December 2014, there were 102,300<sup>1</sup> (7.5%) live cases where the non resident parent was self-employed.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the job title of non-resident parents is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>1. Data sourced from CSCS and CS2 computer systems. Employment status is not available for cases managed off system.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/03/2015 13:01:59 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223074

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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, in what proportion of Child Support Agency arrears cases where there is a child who could still benefit are there arrears which have been (a) temporarily and (b) permanently suspended.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As of December 2014 approximately 36%<sup>1</sup> of cases with arrears where there is a qualifying child remaining on the case contained an amount of suspended arrears.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding arrears that have been temporarily or permanently suspended is not readily available and has not previously been published as official statistics. We will consider whether it is feasible to produce the statistics requested within the disproportionate cost limit, and if so, will issue them in an official statistics release in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Management information on suspended debt is not available for off system cases, therefore the proportion of suspended arrears has been calculated using CS2 and CSCS cases only.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/03/2015 13:36:36 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228665

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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 Support Agency cases are being dealt with by the legal enforcement section of that Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	228464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As of the end of November 2014 17,100 cases were being dealt with by the legal enforcement section of the Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:14:23 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

178226

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	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	Housing Benefit: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of housing benefit are 18 to 21 years old; and how much his Department spent in each of the last three years on housing benefit for 18 to 21 year olds.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	223553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>At August 2014, the latest period for which data is available, there were 115,935 Housing Benefit claimants aged 18 to 21.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure information is in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Housing Benefit expenditure for 18 to 21 year olds, £millions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nominal terms</p></td><td><p>Real terms, 2014/15 prices</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>776</p></td><td><p>818</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>778</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>685</p></td><td><p>698</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract and Local Authority subsidy returns.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Benefit expenditure is available for financial years only.</p><p>2. Figures at 2014/15 prices are deflated using GDP deflators published following the 2014 Autumn Statement at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/383988/GDP_Deflators_Autumn_Statement_December_2014_update.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/383988/GDP_Deflators_Autumn_Statement_December_2014_update.xls</a></p><p>3. Information on the number of Housing Benefit claimants is published on Stat-Xplore at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 10/02/2015 14:03:09 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

173254

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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	Innovation Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has issued guidance on the evaluation of Innovation Fund projects to support separated families.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	220471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>DWP officials work closely with all Innovation Fund projects as they deliver their services for separated families and collect relevant data for use in evaluation. The methodology of the formal evaluation will be agreed between DWP and the external evaluator with support from suppliers.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/01/2015 11:46:21 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

173248

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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 people have appealed against child maintenance decisions since the introduction of the mandatory reconsideration period.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	220436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>For cases managed by the Child Support Agency (1993/2003 Schemes) figures on the number of people who have appealed against child maintenance decisions since the introduction of mandatory reconsideration is published in table 18 (page 46) of the latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-september-2014" target="_blank">Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics</a>, which contains data up to September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data become available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/01/2015 14:11:10 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223092

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the caseload onflow onto local housing authority housing benefit was in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I have interpreted the question to relate to a time series of the Housing Benefit (HB) local housing allowance (LHA) caseloads.</p><p> </p><p>This information is available and published at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 26/02/2015 12:56:53 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

173259

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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 the £2,000 tax free childcare allowance is available to those on universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	220463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In 2013 Budget, the Government announced a new childcare scheme called Tax-Free Childcare to provide further support for working families who do not receive Universal Credit. Tax-Free Childcare will offer working families, where neither parent is an additional rate tax payer, 20% support towards qualifying childcare costs – the equivalent of basic tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>Childcare support is offered to parents on Universal Credit as part of a welfare system designed to make sure that work pays for those who need the most support. Childcare costs are taken into account in calculating working parents’ Universal Credit awards, and it is therefore right that a parent in receipt of Universal Credit cannot receive support under this scheme at the same time. The new Tax-Free Childcare scheme will support families as they increase their income and, for the first time, families can be sure that support for childcare costs will be available as they move off benefits altogether.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst parents can only receive support from one scheme at any time, where families are eligible for both they will have the freedom to choose the scheme which best meets their needs and will be able to move freely between schemes when they experience a relevant change in circumstances. Draft guidance for parents on Tax-Free Childcare has already been published online for consultation.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/01/2015 12:10:13 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225275

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	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 parents with care who have child maintenance arrears but who are not receiving ongoing maintenance through the Child Support Agency have been contacted by his Department since the Child Support Management of Payments and Arrears (Amendment) Regulations 2012 came into effect to be asked whether they wish the Agency to continue pursuing those arrears.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on the number of cases that have been contacted by the Department regarding the pursuit of arrears is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:28:12 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

173255

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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 people who in the past (a) had nil assessments and (b) were in the first tranche of old case closures would be eligible for payments under the current child maintenance system.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	220472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Nil assessed cases make up the first segment of Child Support Agency case closures. It is estimated that around 50,000 of these nil assessed CSA cases will be eligible for payments should a new application be made to the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/01/2015 11:58:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225269

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	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, whether his Department has undertaken a review of the results of the controlled approach to implementation of the power contained in the Child Support Management of Payments and Arrears (Amendment) Regulations 2012 allowing part payment of child maintenance arrears in full and final satisfaction of a debt where both parents consent; and if he will assess the merits of his Department adopting a pro-active rather than reactive approach to use of that power in suitable cases.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department continues to consider the merits of adopting a proactive approach to part payment of child maintenance arrears. However the immediate priority is to ensure the smooth running of the 2012 child maintenance scheme so that children benefit from regular ongoing maintenance payments and we will continue to do all we can to collect historic Child Support Agency arrears.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:24:45 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

174263

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2015
	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, with reference to paragraph 5.3 of the Government response to the 17th Report of the Public Accounts Committee, Cm 8988, what steps his Department is taking to alert Segment 1 (nil assessed) Child Support Agency clients to the fact that an estimated third of them would qualify for more child maintenance if they applied to the new statutory child maintenance scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	221089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The approach to communicating with clients as they go through the case closure process is to encourage them to make a new child maintenance arrangement. Our view is that in most cases it is best for clients if they can make their own arrangements outside the statutory scheme. To support this, we contact affected clients three times; twice before and once at the point their CSA arrangement ends. All of these letters encourage clients to seek support from Child Maintenance Options and discuss the right arrangement for them.</p><p> </p><p>We did not customise communications for nil assessed clients because we are unable to identify which clients would have a positive assessment until they apply.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 15:15:15 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

178611

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	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, when he expects that the new Data Warehouse intended to facilitate strategic management information reporting on the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme (CMS) will come fully into operation; and for what reason the planned implementation date of 2014 anticipated in his Department's strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 CMS was not added to.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	223811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The data warehouse capability intended to facilitate strategic management information reporting on the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme (CMS) is being developed and implemented in stages.</p><p> </p><p>The first 2 stages of CMS 2012 management information using the data warehouse, covering information about 2012 Scheme Client Funds and Client Compliance, have been delivered.</p><p> </p><p>A third stage of delivery, using a strategic reporting capability, covering workflow management, is planned for delivery later in 2015. Delivery of this stage is also intended to inform proposals to develop further stages including their timing.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/02/2015 12:08:42 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

224786

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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	Housing Benefit
	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 2013-14 received local housing allowance at a rate of (a) £250 per week for a 1-bedroom property or shared accommodation, (b) £290 per week for a 2-bedroom property, (c) £340 per week for a 3-bedroom property and (d) £400 per week for a property with four or more bedrooms.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information available is for local housing allowance (LHA) cases by the number of entitled bedrooms and weekly award amount bands.</p><p> </p><p>This information is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/03/2015 10:10:45 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225274

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	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, when his Department next plans to release statistics on the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The next release of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics on the 2012 Scheme is announced on the GOV.UK website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/child-maintenance-service-2012-experimental-statistics-february-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/child-maintenance-service-2012-experimental-statistics-february-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:33:47 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228666

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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 calls the Child Maintenance Options Service has received in each month from September 2014 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	228465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of inbound calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service from September 2014 to the end of February 2015 is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-14</p></td><td><p>31,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-14</p></td><td><p>30,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>27,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-14</p></td><td><p>20,970</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-15</p></td><td><p>33,010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>31,020</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>- Data Sourced from CMO Monthly MI Service Pack</p><p>- Data rounded to nearest 10</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:19:54 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

170788

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2014
	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 calls there were to the Child Maintenance Options Service from September 2014 to the end of November 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	218968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of inbound calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service from September 2014 to the end of November 2014 is shown in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-14</p></td><td><p>31,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-14</p></td><td><p>30,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>27,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>- Data Sourced from CMO Monthly MI Service Pack</p><p>- Data rounded to nearest 5</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 05/01/2015 10:37:39 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

174262

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2015
	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 six months' notice warning letters of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each month since 30 June 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	221086
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The table attached below shows the monthly distribution of first contact notice of closure letters, issued to parents six months prior to case closure. It also shows the cumulative totals that have been sent in each month since 30 June 2014, when the case closure process started with a low volume pathfinder approach before ramping to full volumes from September 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Notifications Issued in Month</p></td><td><p>Cumulative Number of Notifications Issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>3,890</p></td><td><p>3,890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>19,092</p></td><td><p>22,982</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>45,903</p></td><td><p>68,885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>55,193</p></td><td><p>124,078</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>67,978</p></td><td><p>192,056</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>50,508</p></td><td><p>242,564</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 14:33:51 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228670

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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 reminder letters giving one month's warning of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	228462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows the number of reminder letters that have been issued giving one months warning of case closure. The case closure process started on the 30 June 2014, with reminder letters being issued from December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Notifications Issued in Month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>5,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>13,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>37,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figures are made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:00:13 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223071

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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, in how many and what proportion of Child Support Agency arrears cases where there is a child who could still benefit was a contribution made to arrears in the last (a) quarter, (b) year and (c) two years.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows the numbers and proportions of arrears cases where a qualifying child is remaining on the case, where a contribution towards arrears has been made within the last two years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Last paid:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Latest quarter (Dec 14)</strong></p></td><td><p>183,200</p></td><td><p>25.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Latest year</strong></p></td><td><p>345,200</p></td><td><p>47.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Latest 2 years</strong></p></td><td><p>410,700</p></td><td><p>56.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/03/2015 13:15:48 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

168723

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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	Furniture
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many desks are in his Department's main building; how many such desks are (a) owned and (b) leased by his Department; and what the cost is per desk of leasing.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	217707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>There are 2125 desks in the Department’s main building.</p><p> </p><p>(a) The Department does not own any of these desks.</p><p> </p><p>(b) Since 1998 the Department for Work and Pensions occupies the majority of its accommodation under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) known as the PRIME Contract.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of this PFI, the Department leases back fully serviced accommodation from its private sector partner Telereal Trillium. We pay an all-inclusive unitary price, known as the Facility Price (FP), for all our furniture (including desks), fixtures, equipment and FM services.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to break FP down into individual items.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 11/12/2014 16:50:06 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

174261

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2015
	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 letters giving one month's notice of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency clients.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	221087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Up to and including 11 January 2015, 7,521 reminder letters have been sent to clients, giving one month’s notice of case closure.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 14:42:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228664

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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 Support Agency (CSA) cases have been closed as part of the phased three-year CSA case closure programme.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	228463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Up to and including 28<sup>th</sup> February 2015, 5,100 cases have been closed as part of the phased three-year CSA case closure programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figure is made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:11:15 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

173257

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2014 to Question 906491, when he will publish data on how many victims of domestic violence are using the exemption to the child maintenance application fee.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	220461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data become available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/01/2015 11:36:22 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

173258

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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 the average cost per case is under the new child maintenance system.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	220462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data become available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/01/2015 11:41:56 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

174264

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2015
	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, with reference to the 390 child maintenance service cases noted in Figure 5 of the Report by the National Audit Office on Child Maintenance 2012 Scheme: Early Progress, HC 173, published on 20 June 2014, what legal enforcement action has been taken in those cases; and in how many of those cases child maintenance arrears have been paid in (a) full and (b) part as a result of that action.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	221088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data become available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/01/2015 15:01:40 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225273

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	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 his Department has made of the likely proportion of parents with care with child maintenance arrears whose CSA cases will be closed as part of the scheduled case closure process who will opt to have their child maintenance arrears (a) written off as part of the shutdown and (b) transferred to the child maintenance service for future collection.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We cannot predict how many parents with care will agree to have their child maintenance arrears written off during the case closure process; however all will be given the opportunity to do so. No estimates have been published for the amount of Child Support Agency arrears that will be (a) written off in full, (b) written off in part, (c) re-valued to take account of a previous interim maintenance assessment, or (d) transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226432 question first answered 10/03/2015 12:21:53 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

223082

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2015 to Question 223811, whether the next release of experimental statistics on the 2012 child maintenance scheme will include data on (a) the extent to which cases are fully, partially or nil compliant and (b) the amount of child maintenance arrears currently outstanding on Child Maintenance Service cases.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	224962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We intend to include data on the proportion of 2012 cases contributing in the next release of experimental statistics on the 2012 child maintenance scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data become available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/03/2015 13:25:15 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

224917

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims there were for housing benefit of (a) £250 per week for a one bedroom property or shared accommodation, (b) £290 per week for a two bedroom property, (c) £340 per week for a three bedroom property and (d) £400 per week for a property with four or more bedrooms.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested in respect of all housing benefit claimants is not available. The Department does collect some information on the number of entitled bedrooms in respect of the Local Housing Allowance only. We are therefore unable to answer these questions which relate to all housing benefit claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The information available is for local housing allowance (LHA) cases by the number of entitled bedrooms and weekly award amount bands.</p><p> </p><p>This information is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226221 question first answered 06/03/2015 10:17:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

169922

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	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	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 staff are employed in his Department's headquarter buildings.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	218319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>DWP employs 90,577 people, and as of 30 November 2014 there were 7579 staff based across 8 headquarter sites.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 17/12/2014 14:57:35 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

175164

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	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, with reference to the statement in his Department's strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 scheme administered by the Child Maintenence Service (CMS) that the strategic management information reporting capability of a new Data Warehouse would be available from 2014, what the latest timetable is for the managed process of the release of fully assured statistics on the performance of the CMS.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	221675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Development of a data warehouse capability is being implemented in stages, the first stage of this for CMS 2012 management information is expected for delivery later in 2015 with subsequent stages thereafter. In the meantime management information developed from relevant interim statistics have been released as Experimental Official Statistics and these will continue to be built on and assured.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 26/01/2015 15:10:01 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225268

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	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 his Department has made of the amount of Child Support Agency arrears owing in cases with a current liability that will be (a) written off in full, (b) written off in part, (c) re-valued to take account of a previous interim maintenance assessment and (d) transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection as a result of the 2015 to 2018 phased closure of such cases.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	226432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>We cannot predict how many parents with care will agree to have their child maintenance arrears written off during the case closure process; however all will be given the opportunity to do so. No estimates have been published for the amount of Child Support Agency arrears that will be (a) written off in full, (b) written off in part, (c) re-valued to take account of a previous interim maintenance assessment, or (d) transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226386 question first answered 10/03/2015 12:21:53 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman