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178221

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	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total advertising budget is for the campaign to promote the New Enterprise Allowance; and how much has been spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other advertising referring to that allowance in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	223663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>In the last 24 months, the Department spent £25,150 (excluding VAT) on marketing activities to support the New Enterprise Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>(a) Television – nil</p><p>(b) Newspaper – nil</p><p>(c) Online - £2,450</p><p>(d) Radio – nil</p><p>(e) Other – £22,700 (for posters, flyers and videos)</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 15:35:30 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

178223

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	Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total advertising budget is for the Your Future Your Pension campaign; and how much has been spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other advertising including the phrase Your Future Your Pension in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	223660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uses a variety of free and paid for channels to effectively communicate important reforms and how people are affected.</p><p> </p><p>The channels used are considered the most effective route to reach key audiences, whilst offering value for money. All advertising spend is scrutinised and agreed through the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>DWP launched an information campaign to help people understand what the State Pension changes mean for them. The multi-channel advertising campaign ‘Your Future, Your Pension’ is part of the Government’s drive to explain the State Pension reforms to both current and future pensioners.</p><p> </p><p>The advertising directs people to the information they need on GOV.UK and encourages relevant groups to request a statement through the Statement Service.</p><p> </p><p>No money was spent on promoting the phrase ‘Your Future, Your Pension’. The money spent on the marketing campaign that includes the phrase ‘your State Pension, your future’ is as follows:</p><p>Direct Mail – £6,177</p><p>Magazine advertorials – £61,982</p><p> </p><p>There is no specific budget for the use of either phrase within the campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 15:08:07 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

178228

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	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, what the total advertising budget is for the campaign to urge benefits claimants to report changes in their circumstances; and how much has been spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other advertising using the phrases, call us to update your claim before we call, you and, benefits are you doing the right thing in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	223661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Benefit fraud is a crime. Publicity is a vital tool to remind people they must routinely inform the Department if their circumstances change.</p><p> </p><p>In the last year the government recovered more than £1.3 billion in fraudulent payments. Communications plays a vital part in supporting operational activity in achieving this.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Expenditure on publicity/ advertising to prevent benefit fraud</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£51,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£555,920</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 16:46:12 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

517570

registered interest
date	04/05/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Dairy Products
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 dairy products procured for his Department was sourced from British producers in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	36515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Since 1998 the Department for Work and Pensions occupies space provided through a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) known as the PRIME Contract.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of this PFI Contract the Department leases fully serviced accommodation from our private sector partner Telereal Trillium. This Contract provides a variety of facility management services which include catering services.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of dairy products procured by Telereal Trillium for resale in staff restaurants and retail outlets sourced from British producers for the period January – March 2016 is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>DWP Dairy Jan-March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dairy Sub-Category</p></td><td><p>Total Spend</p></td><td><p>UK Sourced</p></td><td><p>British %</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Milk</p></td><td><p>£36,347.37</p></td><td><p>£36,347.37</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheese</p></td><td><p>£24,494.74</p></td><td><p>£15,181.69</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yoghurt</p></td><td><p>£5,406.24</p></td><td><p>£5,406.24</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Butter</p></td><td><p>£4,468.50</p></td><td><p>0.00</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cream</p></td><td><p>£1,318.58</p></td><td><p>£994.84</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Cheese 62% - A number of non–indigenous cheese lines are procured from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Butter 0% - Spend on butter is low and it is sourced from Ireland</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/05/2016 15:35:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

520944

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual budget is for food produced for his Department's offices; and what proportion of food produced for his Department was sourced from British producers in the last period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	37838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>Since 1998 the Department for Work and Pensions has outsourced the provision and maintenance for the majority of its estate to Telereal Trillium under a 20 year Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract that expires on 31 March 2018.</p><p>Under the terms of the contract, Telereal Trillium provides fully-serviced accommodation, including the provision of catering services. Telereal Trillium provide catering through their Service Partners, Compass Group. The Department pays an all-inclusive facility unit price for sites and we are unable to separate the costs for catering.</p><p>The amount of food sourced from British producers for DWP was 42% (Jan – Mar 2016). This figure does not include the considerable spend on non-indigenous products purchased for use in the DWP contract with large volumes of coffee as well as rice, pasta, tea, banana's, citrus, exotic fruits etc. Additionally as this period falls in winter some UK seasonal products are not available so have been procured from the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/06/2016 12:15:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

752147

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Children: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department has on the number and proportion of children living in poverty in Blaenau Gwent in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	5015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p>Latest 3-year estimates for Wales of the proportion of children in low income are available in Table 4.16ts in the file “4_children_timeseries_risk” from this link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 15:02:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

752145

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment: Blaenau Gwent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of constituents in Blaenau Gwent have had their personal independence payments overturned as a result of (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) an appeal hearing in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	5017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Table 1 below shows the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) initial decisions and Mandatory Reconsideration decisions where the award was changed by year since the introduction of PIP in the Parliamentary Constituency of Blaenau Gwent.</p><p> </p><p><em>Table 1 – Number of Initial decisions and Mandatory Reconsiderations decisions where the award changed by year of decision.</em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year of Initial Decision</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017 (to April)</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of Initial decisions for PIP (Exc. Withdrawn cases)</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>1,280</p></td><td><p>1,370</p></td><td><p>1,510</p></td><td><p>990</p></td><td><p>5,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year of Mandatory Reconsideration</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017 (to April)</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of Awards Changed at Mandatory Reconsideration</p></td><td><p>#</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>180</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Tribunal Statistics, including appeal outcomes are published by the Ministry of Justice and so we will not be able to provide consistent regional breakdown of these statistics for Blaenau Gwent.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 20/07/2017 15:46:29 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

752148

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Disability Living Allowance: Blaenau Gwent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of constituents in Blaenau Gwent who were categorised as lifelong recipients of disability living allowance were subsequently judged as ineligible for personal independence payments in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	5014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 20/07/2017 15:44:07 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

754948

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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	Jobcentres: Blaenau Gwent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many female unemployment benefit claimants between the ages of 55 and 64 have secured jobs through job centres in Blaenau Gwent during the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	6825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>Benefit claimants are not required to report their destination to Jobcentre Plus when they stop claiming benefit. However, as we roll out Universal Credit, we expect to be able to use Real Time Information (RTI) to track claimant outcomes.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/09/2017 11:20:05 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

781345

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
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: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of people receiving benefits due to expending their personal pension in the most recent period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	110541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Under the pension freedoms people with defined contribution pensions are able to draw capital or an income from their pensions from 55 years of age. If they do so, this will be taken into account in the assessment of their benefits entitlement. There are safeguards in place to deter people from deliberately spending their pension income in order to gain benefits.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/11/2017 14:43:39 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith