@prefix rdf: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix api: . @prefix parl: . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "29" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:hansardHeading "Universal Credit: Separation" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to ensure that there is a fair division when recovering advance payments when a couple separate." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Hemsworth" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Jon Trickett" ; parl:uin "188013" ; dcterms:date "2018-11-05"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The Department for Business and Trade is reforming its approach to external engagement to meet the needs of industry and match the priorities of the new Department. A new approach will be set out in due course, but in the meantime the Department continues to engage with a full range of interested parties on key issues.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Mid Worcestershire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Nigel Huddleston" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2023-06-12"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2023-06-12T14:33:41.467Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

When a couple separates and still require the support of Universal Credit they will claim separately and as such the two claimants will be treated as entirely separate claims and will have their entitlements and therefore award amounts treated accordingly.

If an advance has been awarded to a couple and the couple subsequently separate, they will be equally liable to repay the advance.

When a couple separates, and an advance has not been recovered from the associated benefit claim because the claim ends or there was no entitlement to that benefit, the outstanding balance is treated as if it were an overpayment. This would then be recoverable (as per Section 71 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992) at the standard overpayment rate.

After separation, if a couple have an overpayment for which they are both equally liable, the debt is apportioned equally. Once this apportionment has been done we will not reverse the split liability decision. Any debt for which only one member of a couple is liable will follow that person on separation.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Reading West" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Alok Sharma" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2018-11-16"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "188014" , "188012" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2018-11-16T14:20:06.63Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Jon Trickett" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Ruth Cadbury" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Nigel Huddleston" . skos:prefLabel "House of Commons" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "214" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Business and Trade" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Business and Trade" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Business and Trade" ; parl:hansardHeading "Strategic Trade Advisory Group and Trade Advisory Groups" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2022 to Question 110733 on Strategic Trade Advisory Group and Trade Advisory Groups, whether it remains her Department's policy to implement wider reforms in relation to the role of Trade Advisory Groups; and if she will make a statement." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Brentford and Isleworth" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Ruth Cadbury" ; parl:uin "188013" ; dcterms:date "2023-06-06"^^xsd:dateTime . a api:Page ; "10"^^xsd:long ; "1"^^xsd:long ; "2"^^xsd:long ; dcterms:isPartOf ; api:definition ; api:extendedMetadataVersion ; api:items ( ) ; api:page "0"^^xsd:long ; . a api:ListEndpoint ; dcterms:hasPart ; api:definition .