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752103

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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	Lone Parents: 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 families in Scotland are lone parent families with one or more children under the age of two and subject to the benefit cap.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	5068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:35:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

752104

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	Social Security Benefits
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 benefit cap on food insecurity.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	5069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold any data on the effect of the benefit cap on food insecurity.</p><p> </p><p>The lower cap is still the equivalent of gross family earnings of £25k, and £29k in London. Where claimants need further financial support, Local Authorities can provide additional support through the use of Discretionary Housing Payments.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:37:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

752105

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	Department for Work and Pensions: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money his Department has spent on legal fees in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	5070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/07/2017 16:19:28 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

752106

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	Social Security Benefits: Public Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of benefit claimants subject to the household benefit cap who are public sector workers subject to the one per cent pay cap.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	5071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold any data on the number of public sector workers subject to the benefit cap. Households are exempt if entitled to Working Tax Credit, (essentially, lone parents working 16 hours per week and couples working 24 hours per week between them where one partner works at least 16 hours per week) or in Universal Credit if earning £520 per month.</p><p> </p><p>Households can be exempt from the cap if they are claiming WTC and the most recent official statistics show that</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>134,000</strong> households in Great Britain have been capped since April 2013</li><li><strong>68,000</strong> households are no longer subject to cap and<strong> 29,000 of these (43%) </strong>are exempt due to working tax credit indicating they <strong>have found work.</strong></li></ul> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:28:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss