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223703

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2015
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of universal credit claimants likely to face hardship as a result of the seven-day waiting period before new claimants are paid.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	225409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not available. If a claimant is in urgent financial need they will be able to claim a UC New Claim Advance.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/03/2015 17:23:35 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 47460 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

223705

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2015
	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	Unemployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how many working-age households are better off out of work than in work in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	225408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit ensures that people are better off in work – and makes it pay for people to increase their earnings through more or better paid work. We will, for the first time, be supporting people in low-paid work to take active steps to increase their earnings.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit substantially improves the incentives to work. Up to 300,000 more people are likely to be in work as a result of Universal Credit, through improved financial incentives, increased simplicity of the system and increased conditionality.</p><p> </p><p>The number of workless households has fallen by nearly 700,000 since 2010, to its lowest level on record and the number of people in in-work poverty fell 300,000 on the year, 2012/13 compared to 2011/12.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 02/03/2015 18:07:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

223708

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether contractual terms for the provision of benefit assessments have transferred directly from Atos to Maximus; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	225360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There has been no transfer of contractual terms. A new contract with MAXIMUS Health and Human Services Ltd was awarded following a negotiated procurement route which offered an opportunity to clarify and probe bidders’ proposals during an extensive period of negotiation.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 02/03/2015 17:35:40 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

224061

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2015
	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	Universal Credit
	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 making an application for universal credit are not registered on the real-time information system.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	225640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>All Universal Credit claims - whether relating to the employed, self-employed or unemployed - which are successfully made are then registered on HMRC systems. Any PAYE reported in real time by employers in respect of these is then passed to Universal Credit systems. The majority of employed Universal Credit claimants will have their earnings reported via PAYE, and over 99% of all such employments are now being reported in real-time. For the minority whose earnings are not reported through PAYE (for example the self-employed) we have developed processes to ensure they can self-report their earnings.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/03/2015 17:16:20 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225283

	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2015 to the hon. Member for East Ham to Question 222906, if he plans for the number of universal credit claimants in May 2015 to be between 50,000 and 150,000.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	226399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time. The latest forecast agreed with OBR rounds to 0.1 million cases, as set out in <em>Universal Credit at Work</em> published in October 2014.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 09/03/2015 17:32:16 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225293

	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	MAXIMUS Health and Human Services
	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 2 March 2015 to Question 225360, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract with Maximus Health and Human Services Ltd.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	226345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As part of the Government’s transparency agenda, a redacted version of Maximus Health and Human Services Ltd Contract with the Department for Work and Pensions to deliver Health and Disability Assessments was published on the Contracts Finder website, on 24 November 2014. This can be accessed at: <a href="https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&amp;lang=en&amp;NoticeId=1644334" target="_blank">https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&amp;lang=en&amp;NoticeId=1644334</a></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 11/03/2015 17:18:10 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225301

	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	Jobcentres: Telephones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many telephones he expects to be available to claimants in Jobcentre Plus in each of the next five years; and what is the average number of telephones in each Jobcentre Plus.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	226274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As part of our Jobcentre modernisation programme we have replaced all Customer Access Phones with computers. Over 80 per cent of new Jobseeker’s Allowance claims are taken online and job search is predominantly internet based. Vulnerable claimants who require access to a phone in connection with their benefit or job search will still be given access to a telephone in a Jobcentre.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/03/2015 17:07:09 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225683

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	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	Employment Schemes: 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 much expenditure has been allocated to the Youth Contract to date.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	226635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Youth Contract was allocated £1bn.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 11/03/2015 17:09:02 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

226089

	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	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 people are currently awaiting work capability assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	226805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The latest available data, February 2015, shows that there were 477,985 people awaiting their Work Capability Assessment. This compares with 766,368 people waiting for an assessment in February 2014, a reduction of 37%.</p><p> </p><p>These figures do not include cases yet to be referred to the Health Assessment Advisory Service or cases referred where the claimant has yet to return the claimant questionnaire.</p><p> </p><p>Centre for Health and Disability Assessments plan on recruiting and retaining more high quality healthcare professionals which will lead to people being assessed quickly and further reduce waiting times.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 12/03/2015 11:54:29 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

226784

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	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	Incapacity 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 (a) original forecast of expenditure savings and (b) actual expenditure savings were from the reassessment of incapacity benefit claims since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	227145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The original estimate of the economic impact of the reassessment of Incapacity Benefit claims from 2010 was a net saving of £1,000 million (net present value, 2009/10 prices) over the years 2009/10 to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>This figure was published by the previous Government on 29 March 2010 in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations 2010 (2010 No. 875), published at this address: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/875/pdfs/uksiem_20100875_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/875/pdfs/uksiem_20100875_en.pdf</a>.)</p><p> </p><p>Actual savings from Incapacity Benefit reassessment are not available. Isolating the impact of any single policy change becomes increasingly uncertain as new policy beds into the benefits system, and becomes the norm.</p><p> </p><p>As Chris Grayling, when Minister for Employment, said to the Work and Pensions Select Committee, Incapacity Benefit reassessment is not a savings measure – it is not a financially based exercise, although clearly if we succeed it will save money – but is about identifying the people who have the potential to return to work, and helping them to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 18/03/2015 12:35:36 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 50580 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead