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752113

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	Jobcentres: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to introduce online booking for jobcentre appointments.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>In 2018 it is planned that claimants will be provided with the ability to book and manage their own appointments online through Universal Credit Full Service.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to introduce an online appointment booking system for claimants in receipt of benefits that are planned to migrate over to Universal Credit Full Service from July 2019 onwards.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 24/07/2017 12:48:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

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

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

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

751671

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Scotland
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 applying for employment and support allowance in Scotland had to wait more than six weeks to receive their benefit in the last three months.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	4794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available.</p><p> </p><p>The management information system used to report Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) clearance times only shows data on the average time or the number cleared within 5, 10, 16 or 21 days. The system cannot produce data on cases which had to wait more than 6 weeks to receive their benefit.</p><p> </p><p>However ESA claimants are paid an assessment rate of benefit based on a preliminary decision prior to going through the work capability assessment. This means that the majority of claimants receive a decision on their claim with the first 10 working days.</p><p> </p><p>From April 17 – June 17 85.2% of claimants have received a decision on their claim within 10 working days.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/07/2017 13:30:32 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

751689

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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	Self-employed: Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average weekly income was for self-employed people in real terms in (a) the UK and (b) Wales in each year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	4962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Table 1 (attached): estimated median weekly earnings from self-employment (£) and total weekly income from all sources (£) of all self-employed individuals in the United Kingdom and in Wales from 2002/03 to 2015/16. All monetary amounts are in 2015/16 prices.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/07/2017 16:20:29 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds attachment 1 file name Estimated median weekly earnings from self-employment.docx title Estimated median weekly earnings
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

751693

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Homelessness
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 reduction in the benefit cap in November 2016 on the level of homelessness since that date.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	4986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>I am replying to both questions as assessments of the effect of the benefit cap are the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The new, lower, tiered benefit cap was introduced from 7 November 2016. The change reduces the total amount a working-age household can receive in benefits to £20,000 for couples and lone parents (£13,400 for single adults with no children) in Great Britain outside Greater London. Within Greater London the level is £23,000 for couples and lone parents (£15,410 for single adults with no children).</p><p>Evidence from the 2014 evaluation of the cap showed very little, if any, impact on homelessness as a direct result of the cap. In the cases of a small numbers of capped households who had been evicted, the Local Authorities noted that they had other reasons for rent arrears and they also failed to engage with relevant services, they were considered intentionally homeless.</p><p> </p><p>The lower cap is still the equivalent of gross family earnings of £25k, and £29k in London. There are a number of exemptions, for example, for people receiving disability payments or people who work and qualify for Working Tax Credits. Discretionary Housing Payments can be made by local authorities to help people adjust to the benefit cap and those payments can be made to prevent people becoming homeless.</p><p> </p><p>To help Local Authorities protect the most vulnerable and to support households adjusting to the reforms, the Government has provided around £900 million funding for the Discretionary Housing Payments scheme since 2011.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 4987 question first answered 18/07/2017 14:29:25 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

751843

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of jobcentre and Jobcentre Plus closures on levels of employment.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	4821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>As a large employer we understand the potential impact that any closure or relocation of an office may have. This is why we carefully considered the wider impacts on local communities in reviewing our estate. The sites we intend to keep were identified as part of our longer-term strategy.</p><p>The increased use of digital services means that many offices are underutilised; meaning that we are spending money on rent for space that is unused rather than on services and support. Our plans seek to redress that. The department is committed to retaining an accessible jobcentre network and continuing to serve customers in all areas. We are recruiting and expect to have more work coaches in March 2018 compared to today.</p><p>We will work to minimise the need for redundancy wherever we can, and seek to redeploy colleagues into new roles, but before any final decisions about redundancies are made, there will be full consultation with affected colleagues and trade unions.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/07/2017 09:19:23 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

751844

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has commissioned research into the effect of the roll-out of universal credit on levels of household debt.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	4820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>DWP are currently undertaking work, in conjunction with a housing association, to investigate the reality of rent arrears in Universal Credit. It aims to understand the true level of rent arrears for their tenants, what is causing them and any impacts Universal Credit may be having.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/07/2017 09:17:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

751845

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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	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 (a) individuals and (b) households have received Universal Credit and then reverted back to legacy benefits or tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	4792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not currently available</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/07/2017 09:18:04 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden