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1713867

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date	25/04/2024
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: Carers
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 Universal Credit payments to couples with children are paid into the main caregiver’s account.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	23786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/04/2024 11:19:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1472893

registered interest
date	23/06/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Minority Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent progress she has made on providing support to persecuted minority communities in Afghanistan.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	23786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK announced £286 million of aid for Afghanistan this financial year. Our humanitarian aid is distributed based on needs and targeted to reach the most vulnerable. Through our Conflict Stability and Security Fund programming, we are also supporting projects that seek to enhance Afghan capacity to reduce local-level tensions, and monitor and reduce human rights abuses against at-risk groups.</p><p>We continue to raise human rights, including rights of religious and ethnic minorities, in our meetings with the Taliban, including in visits of senior officials to Kabul in October 2021 and February 2022 and other meetings with Taliban leaders. We call on them to respect international law and uphold the human rights of all Afghans, including ethnic and religious minorities.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 28/06/2022 16:20:58 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

447062

registered interest
date	22/01/2016
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	Universal Credit: Employment Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether universal credit claimants working 35 hours per week and being paid at the level of the national minimum wage will be entitled to request support from his Department's in-work progression pilot.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	23786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Subject to certain exclusions (including people who are unable to work or earn more due to caring or because of health conditions or disabilities; who are recent victims of domestic violence; who provide medical evidence of unfitness for work pending a work capability assessment; prisoners; claimants absent from GB for medical treatment; claimants who are recently bereaved; and claimants undergoing treatment for drug or alcohol addiction), claimants would be eligible for selection into the In-work Progression Randomised Control Trial if they have monthly employed earnings above the Administrative Earnings Threshold (£338 per month for a single person or £541 per month for a couple in 2015/16); and have earnings below the Conditionality Earnings Threshold, which is individually set but up to a maximum of the equivalent of 35 hours work at the national minimum wage.</p><p>In order to maintain the integrity of the randomised control trial, individuals who are ineligible for selection are not able to participate in the trial.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/01/2016 10:43:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead