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797587

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date	30/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to review the categories for registering a death of an unmarried partner to include partner and not simply disposing of the body.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	116550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The introduction of additional qualified informants will be progressed alongside wider Death Certification Reform under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 04/12/2017 17:44:16 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

797585

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the effectiveness of integration systems for refugees.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	116548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other; and in the New Year the Government will publish an integration strategy.</p><p>The Vulnerable Persons and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Schemes are being evaluated through a programme of quantitative data work and qualitative research with refugees and key delivery partners. A key focus of this work is examining integration progress according to a range of key measures and what can be done to improve this.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 07/12/2017 16:50:27 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

797586

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the 12-month grace period to protect individuals from a reduction in housing benefit when someone who lived with them passes away is being implemented effectively.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	116549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>A grace period exists in Housing Benefit to help protect those suffering a bereavement for a period of 12 months. This applies not only in respect of the claimant or their partner but to people linked to them, such as a family member who lives in the same household. This means that housing benefit entitlement is protected from any consequential decrease in their eligible rent for a year from the date of a death.</p><p> </p><p>It is however the responsibility of individual local authorities to assess individual benefit claims and apply the specific rules which is laid out in regulations and guidance.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/12/2017 14:59:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan