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707709

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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	Widowed Parent's Allowance: Wakefield
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 in (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area were in receipt of the widowed parent's allowance in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	66518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Widowed parents allowance statistics are not collated on an annualised basis, however 70 claimants were in receipt of widowed parent's allowance in the Parliamentary constituency of Wakefield and 230 claimants were in receipt of widowed parent's allowance in Wakefield Local Authority for the period ending May 2016, which is the latest quarter for which there is statistical information.</p><p> </p><p>The Official Statistics for this period are available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For further quarterly time series statistics please refer to the resources below.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is published and available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Please note that the tabulation tool was last updated in November 2016 and will no longer be available for use after 31 March 2017. Users were informed of this in June 2016 via a statistical notice, available at the following link where you can also read more about our plans to move our statistics onto the Stat-Xplore online tool:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice</a></p><p> </p><p>For February 2017 data, we have published additional supporting tables for each benefit apart from Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit. The supporting tables include local authority and parliamentary constituency breakdowns as well as information on key out-of-work benefits. This information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:09:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

707710

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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 Payment: Wakefield
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 in (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area were in receipt of the bereavement payment in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	66519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>There are no Official Statistics on receipt of bereavement payment but the Department’s best estimate from Management Information is that 70 claimants received a bereavement payment in the Parliamentary constituency of Wakefield and 230 claimants received a bereavement payment in Wakefield Local Authority for the 12 months to May 2016. Historic information is not available on bereavement payment.</p><p> </p><p>Please note these are one off payments and therefore do not correspond to latest caseload statistics at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:18:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

707711

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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 Allowance: Wakefield
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 in (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) Wakefield Metropolitan District Council area were in receipt of the bereavement allowance in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	66517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Bereavement allowance statistics are not collated on an annualised basis, however 50 claimants were in receipt of bereavement allowance in the Parliamentary constituency of Wakefield and 160 claimants were in receipt of bereavement allowance in Wakefield Local Authority for the period ending May 2016, which is the latest quarter for which there is statistical information.</p><p> </p><p>The Official Statistics for this period are available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccparlc/cat/a_carate_r_ccparlc_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/ccla/cat/a_carate_r_ccla_c_cat_may16.html</a></p><p> </p><p>For further quarterly time series statistics please refer to the resources below.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is published and available at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Please note that the tabulation tool was last updated in November 2016 and will no longer be available for use after 31 March 2017. Users were informed of this in June 2016 via a statistical notice, available at the following link where you can also read more about our plans to move our statistics onto the Stat-Xplore online tool:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tabulation-tool-questionnaire-statistical-notice</a></p><p> </p><p>For February 2017 data, we have published additional supporting tables for each benefit apart from Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit. The supporting tables include local authority and parliamentary constituency breakdowns as well as information on key out-of-work benefits. This information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-statistical-summaries-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:06:35 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

707714

registered interest
date	03/03/2017
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	Refuges: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposed supported housing funding model on the (a) level of funding to and (b) viability of women's refuges.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	66447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>In his Ministerial Statement to the House of Commons on 15th September 2016 the Secretary of State confirmed that from 2019/20 we will bring in a new funding model that will ensure that the supported housing sector continues to be funded at current levels, taking into account the effect of Government policy on social rents.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident that this model will meet the needs of the sector but we recognise that there will be some particular challenges that may remain for very short term accommodation such as that which can be offered by women’s refuges. We are continuing to work with the sector to develop an appropriate funding mechanism for providers of short term accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>A DWP/DCLG twelve week consultation on supported housing ended on 13 February. We are analysing the responses and we and DCLG aim to jointly publish a Green Paper in the Spring.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/03/2017 12:00:01 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

707334

registered interest
date	02/03/2017
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: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made since May 2015 in reducing the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	66294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to its ambition to halve the disability employment gap and enable disabled people and people with long-term health conditions to access all the benefits that work can bring.</p><p> </p><p>The latest data shows that since 2015, almost 300,000 more working age disabled people are in employment and the disability employment rate has increased by almost 3 percentage points, now standing at 50 per cent. Over the same time we have seen improvements in the disability employment gap which now stands at around 31 percentage points, down from just below 34 percentage points in the same period in 2015. But we know that there is much more that needs to be done, so that everyone who can work is given the right support and opportunities to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Improving Lives, the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper published on 31<sup>st</sup> October 2016 sets out the short-term action we intend to take to bring about change. It also asked questions on ideas for longer-term reform over this Parliament and beyond through a formal national consultation, so that our systems, sectors and social attitudes all work together to help achieve the ambition of halving the disability employment gap. The consultation closed on 17<sup>th</sup> February 2017. We are grateful to the many individuals and organizations who have submitted responses. We will now consider these carefully as we plan next steps on this important agenda.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 07/03/2017 13:13:41 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

707337

registered interest
date	02/03/2017
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	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 the latest annual percentage change was in the claimant court in areas operating universal credit (a) full service and (b) live service; and what reasons he ascribes to the difference in the change in the claimant count between full service and live service areas.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	66330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2017 answer text <p>The latest claimant count data is for January 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The cumulative claimant count figure for the offices operating Full Service increased by 25.5% in the 12 months to January 2017. The remaining offices operating Live Service saw an overall fall of 1.5% in the count over the same period.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit will tend to increase the claimant count because it extends our support to find work to claimants who have never received this support before. For example, people who, in the past, only claimed Child Tax Credit or Housing Benefit (and not Jobseekers Allowance) and now will claim Universal Credit, will be helped to prepare for and look for work. So will partners of Universal Credit claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The roll out of this support is more advanced in Full Service areas, and as we bring these people onto Universal Credit, it is to be expected that the claimant count will be higher than it would otherwise have been.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 07/03/2017 13:22:03 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

692686

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Christmas Bonus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many pensioners received the £10 Christmas Bonus in 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL5499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>12,467,000 pensioners in Great Britain received the Christmas bonus in 2015/16, the latest year for which figures are currently available.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 01/03/2017 17:23:15 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

692687

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Christmas Bonus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the purpose of the £10 Christmas Bonus; and what assessment they have made of the extent to which that purpose is being achieved.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL5500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Christmas Bonus was introduced as a simple one-off tax-free lump sum payment, paid to pensioners and working age people in receipt of certain qualifying benefits. Recipients include some of the most vulnerable members of society. The Government remains committed to helping both pensioners and others who receive these payments.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 01/03/2017 16:38:57 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

692688

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Christmas Bonus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what the £10 Christmas Bonus scheme costs to administer.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL5501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>Both Pensioners and working age people in receipt of certain benefits receive the Christmas Bonus. Christmas Bonus payments are usually automatically generated based on receipt of a qualifying benefit. The cost of doing this is not separately identifiable from the administrative costs of the qualifying benefits.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 01/03/2017 17:22:02 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

692689

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Christmas Bonus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the need of pensioners who are taxpayers for the £10 Christmas Bonus.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL5502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Christmas Bonus is paid to both pensioners and working age people who are in receipt of certain qualifying benefits, it is not just an old age benefit. Recipients include some of the most vulnerable members of society. In most cases the bonus is paid automatically with whichever qualifying benefit an individual receives, which ensures administration costs are kept to a minimum. The Government remains committed to helping both pensioners and others who receive these payments.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 01/03/2017 17:23:06 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe