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661814

registered interest
date	19/12/2016
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	Food Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of recent trends in the level of food poverty in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	58293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government measures poverty using information from the Household Below Average Income Survey. The survey from 2014/15 shows that:</p><ul><li>Average incomes have grown in 2015 (2014/15) at their fastest rate since 2002 (2001/02).</li><li>Since 2010 (2009/10) there are:</li></ul><p> </p><p>o 100,000 fewer children in relative poverty;</p><p>o 200,000 fewer children in absolute poverty.</p><p> </p><p>The latest survey can be accessed from the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201415" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201415</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/01/2017 12:46:45 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 28989 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

657998

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
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 his Department has made of the financial effect on recipients of working age benefits of the benefits freeze; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	57364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I previously provided on 6 December 2016 - <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-12-01/55848/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-12-01/55848/</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/12/2016 13:43:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

657283

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2016 to Question 55249, by what date the Government anticipates that the Real Time Information function of universal credit will make it possible to track claimant earnings.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	57078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>Since the start of Universal Credit the Real Time Information (RTI) system has been helping to ensure that we get Universal Credit claims right by providing us with accurate and timely details of earnings payments from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.</p><p> </p><p>The system is working well with over 99% of individual employment records now being reported in real time. We expect the number of working claimants with earnings reported via RTI to increase as Universal Credit continues to roll out and claimant numbers increase accordingly.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/12/2016 15:58:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

657297

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
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	Child Poverty Unit: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff currently work in the Child Poverty Unit.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	57065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government. The Department for Work and Pensions is leading work across Government to bring forward a social justice green paper in the New Year which will identify and address the root causes of poverty, building upon the two statutory indicators set out in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Child Poverty Unit’s main function was to support Ministers in exercising their duties in relation to the income-related targets set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 and the associated child poverty strategy. Following the repeal of those targets, responsibility for child poverty policy and analysis transferred to the Department for Work and Pensions. The Social Mobility Commission Secretariat continues to be based in the Department for Education and the Secretary of State for Education is the lead Minister for the Commission.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 16/12/2016 10:32:38 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 26796 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

655720

registered interest
date	09/12/2016
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: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on evaluation studies in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	56915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/12/2016 15:00:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

655723

registered interest
date	09/12/2016
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	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2016 to Question 56075, on pre-school education, how much funding his Department provided to the Early Years Intervention Foundation in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	56896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department provides funding to the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) as one contributor to a joint contract and is not the contract holder. For the financial year 2016/17 the Department provided £300 000 of funding to support the EIF’s work to build on and disseminate the evidence base on the effectiveness of early years intervention. The Department contributed £1.5m to the contract covering the financial years 2013/14 to 2015/16. An additional £100 000 in 2015/16 covered the costs of the evidence review ‘What works to enhance interparental relationships and improve children's outcomes’ which was published in March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/12/2016 15:07:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

652400

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what studies his Department is sponsoring to develop the evidence base on the effectiveness of early years intervention.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	56075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>Although the Department is not currently directly sponsoring any studies to develop the evidence base on the effectiveness of early years intervention, it contributes funding to the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) What Works centre, which continues to develop this evidence base. In the financial year 2015-16 DWP funded the EIF to complete the evidence review ‘What works to enhance interparental relationships and improve children's outcomes’, which was published on 22 March 2016. This is informing the development of our new programme to tackle parental conflict.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/12/2016 13:53:50 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

652406

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
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 Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish the delayed Life Chances Strategy or a replacement in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	56144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty and disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government. We intend to bring forward a social justice green paper in the new year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 08/12/2016 11:41:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

649540

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Child Poverty Unit: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 7 November 2016 to Question 51676, on Child Poverty Unit: staff, if he will give a breakdown of the staff numbers provided by civil service pay grade in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/12/2016 16:46:43 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

649541

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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, if he will estimate the effect of the forecasts in the Office for Budget Responsibility's Economic and Fiscal Outlook, November 2016, on his Department's estimates of the financial effect on recipients of working age benefits of the freeze on those benefits.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 has frozen the majority of working-age benefits for four tax years, from 2016-17 to 2019-20. These benefit rates will therefore remain the same.</p><p> </p><p>These reforms to working-age benefits are part of the Government’s commitment to incentivise work for those who can in a high-wage, low-tax economy. This includes increasing the National Living Wage to £9 an hour by 2020, cutting income tax for over 30 million people and the roll-out of UC. These reforms are working, with employment at historic high levels.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed to supporting those who cannot work, and those with additional needs. Our triple lock guarantee has meant that the basic State Pension is now over £1,100 a year higher than in 2010. Benefits for the additional costs of disability, and for carers, are exempt from the benefit freeze and will continue to be up-rated in line with the rise in prices.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/12/2016 14:14:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis