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810646

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	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	Bereavement Benefits: Cohabitation
	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 make it his policy to allow surviving members of cohabiting couples to access bereavement benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	120991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Bereavement Benefits are contributory benefits and it is a founding principle of the contributory benefits system that rights derived from another person’s contributions should be based on the concept of legal marriage or civil partnership. Moreover, proving that cohabitation existed could be a complex process likely to cause distress at a time of bereavement.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/01/2018 12:43:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

757023

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Funeral Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to review the eligibility criteria for funeral expenses payments.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	8434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>My Department has recently conducted a consultation on proposed reforms to the Funeral Expenses Payments scheme. The consultation focused on clarifying issues around eligibility and making the process for claiming Funeral Expenses Payments simpler. We are currently analysing the responses to the consultation and will publish the Government response later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 12:16:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

747702

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the amount of manual processing on paper that it carries out and to make such processing digital.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	2604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>In DWP, digital tools are being deployed across the organisation that are supporting new ways of working including the reduction and reliance on printing and associated costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have the following spend data for Office copier paper:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17* to March 2017 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£2,543,643</p></td><td><p>£2,173,328</p></td><td><p>£1,670,000</p></td><td><p>£1,400,000</p></td><td><p>£1,011,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/07/2017 15:40:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

732652

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	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	Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will end the freeze on working-age benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	1181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 has frozen the majority of working-age benefits for four tax years, from 2016-17 to 2019-20. These benefit rates will therefore remain the same.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/06/2017 16:04:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day