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487112

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2016
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the top five reasons were for imposing sanctions on jobseeker's allowance claimants in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	32501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The available information for the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance sanction decisions, by referral reason, is published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></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/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/04/2016 12:36:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

487127

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance sanctions imposed by his Department in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	32546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not make an estimate of the value of benefit withdrawn as a result of benefit sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/04/2016 10:51:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

637220

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: 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 cost to the public purse has been of Government legal action in respect of the case brought by the Rutherford family on the spare room subsidy.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	53044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The case brought by the Rutherford family was heard with six other cases, therefore separate figures for individual cases are not available. The legal costs (to 9 November 2016) of the Supreme Court proceedings for Rutherford and the other joined cases are £206,841.65.</p><p>The total legal costs of the High Court proceedings for Rutherford and the Court of Appeal proceedings for “A” and Rutherford are £91,772.28.</p><p>These figures include VAT where payable (for example on Counsel’s fees) and disbursements but does not include costs attributable to time spent by Government advisory lawyers, as time spent by such advisory lawyers is not recorded in a manner that allows it to be attributable to individual cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/11/2016 10:02:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

89890

	registered interest
	date	26/08/2014
	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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	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 bring forward legislative proposals to amend the operation of the under-occupancy penalty so that it applies only when suitable alternative accommodation is readily available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	905118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The removal of the spare room subsidy remains government policy. There are no plans to amend this.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/09/2014 16:35:20 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

923423

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	UNUM
	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 any commercial relationship with Unum Provident.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	153210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>DWP does not have a national commercial relationship with Unum Provident, however at a local level through the Low Value Procurement process there may be local contracts. To identify these would require a search of local provision and could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/06/2018 14:39:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

946793

	registered interest
	date	23/07/2018
	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	UNUM
	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 18 June 2018 to Question 153210 on UNUM, which organisations are authorised to award local contracts under the low value procurement process.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	167163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Low Value Provision (LVP) requires that all providers who wish to be considered for providing LVP training must be registered on a central database within ‘Basware’. When providers register on ‘Basware’, they state the training they can deliver and the locations in which they can deliver.</p><p>A list of fully registered, part registered and those providers whose registration has expired is held centrally and updated each week. There are currently over 9000 providers on the list. UNUM Provident are not currently listed as a local provider. To identify all organisations could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/09/2018 13:53:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

225031

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what discussions he has had with the First Minister on promoting exports by Welsh businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	907777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>Welsh exports have increased by almost a third since the beginning of 2010, a clear demonstration of the success of this Government’s long-term economic plan to rebalance the Welsh economy.</p><p>I welcome the Welsh Government’s move to work more collaboratively with the UK Government on exports, and the First Minister’s recognition of the vital and important role the UKTI plays.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Preseli Pembrokeshire answering member printed Stephen Crabb question first answered 04/03/2015 15:11:56 answering member 1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

692652

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Cardiff Airport: Railway Stations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with Ministers of the Welsh Government on the building of a train station at Cardiff Airport.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	64911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>I have had a range of discussions with the Welsh Government around supporting Cardiff Airport in which access forms part of those discussions.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 24/02/2017 14:57:19 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

862224

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Film: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will set out all films that benefited from UK film tax relief in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	132643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>This information cannot be released because of HMRC’s duty of taxpayer confidentiality.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/03/2018 14:08:27 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

919310

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Arts: National Insurance Contributions
	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 the proposed abolition of Class 2 National Insurance Contributions on creators earning less than £6,205 per year.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	151097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>On November 2<sup>nd</sup> 2017, the Government announced a one year delay to the abolition of Class 2 National Insurance contributions (NICs) to allow time to engage with interested parties and Parliamentarians with concerns relating to the impact on self-employed individuals with low profits. The Government is considering these concerns, including those you have raised, and will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/06/2018 08:36:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan