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172933

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2015
	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
	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 conducted an impact assessment of proposed changes to the widowed parent's allowance; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	220244
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Bereavement benefits including Widowed Parent’s Allowance will be replaced by Bereavement Support Payment from April 2017. Those already in receipt of the existing benefit will not be affected by the change.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>An impact assessment was published in April 2014: “Replacement of existing Bereavement Benefits for New Claims from April 2017 – Bereavement Benefits for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century (in Great Britain)”</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311318/pensions-act-ia-annex-d-bereavement-support-payment.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311318/pensions-act-ia-annex-d-bereavement-support-payment.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/01/2015 14:01:49 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

225713

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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
	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 effects on divorced partners of their exclusion from widowed parents' allowance; and what consultation his Department has undertaken on the potential financial effect on children of that policy.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	John Pugh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	907922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This is a long-standing position in bereavement benefits. It will continue under the new Bereavement Support Payment, the provisions of which were debated by this House during the passage of the Pensions Act 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Those who are divorced have access to income-related benefits in the same way as other lone parents .</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/03/2015 17:19:44 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

106463

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of claimants of the widowed parent's allowance claimed that allowance for less than one year in each year from 2001 to 2014.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	213371
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Widowed Parents’ Allowance (WPA) is one of DWP bereavement benefits and provides financial support to bereaved parents eligible to Child Benefit on behalf of their child. Questions can be answered from analysing data the Department publishes every quarter via the Tabulation Tool – see link: <a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/tabtool_bb.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/tabtool_bb.html</a></p><p> </p><p>For example, in February 2014, about 15% of WPA claimants have been claiming for less than a year and half of them between two and five years; claimants receive on average about £108 per week.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 213372 213373 question first answered 11/11/2014 14:48:05 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

106464

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	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
	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 number of years is which claimants of the widowed parent's allowance have received payments for.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	213372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Widowed Parents’ Allowance (WPA) is one of DWP bereavement benefits and provides financial support to bereaved parents eligible to Child Benefit on behalf of their child. Questions can be answered from analysing data the Department publishes every quarter via the Tabulation Tool – see link: <a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/tabtool_bb.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/tabtool_bb.html</a></p><p> </p><p>For example, in February 2014, about 15% of WPA claimants have been claiming for less than a year and half of them between two and five years; claimants receive on average about £108 per week.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 213371 213373 question first answered 11/11/2014 14:48:05 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

106465

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	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
	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 amount received by claimants of the widowed parent's allowance was in each year from 2001 to 2014.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	213373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Widowed Parents’ Allowance (WPA) is one of DWP bereavement benefits and provides financial support to bereaved parents eligible to Child Benefit on behalf of their child. Questions can be answered from analysing data the Department publishes every quarter via the Tabulation Tool – see link: <a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/tabtool_bb.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/bb/tabtool_bb.html</a></p><p> </p><p>For example, in February 2014, about 15% of WPA claimants have been claiming for less than a year and half of them between two and five years; claimants receive on average about £108 per week.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 213371 213372 question first answered 11/11/2014 14:48:06 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

226418

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2015
	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
	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 on claimants of widowed parent's allowance of the replacement of that allowance by bereavement support payments from April 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	227081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Bereavement support payments will be introduced from April 2017 for new claimants only. Existing claimants of widowed parent's allowance will remain on that benefit.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/03/2015 12:25:05 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

65377

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants (a) received an overpayment of widowed parent's allowance and (b) were prosecuted for benefit fraud in respect of that allowance in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below represents the number of claimants in receipt of Widowed Parent's Allowance who received an overpayment and DWP recorded a prosecution outcome.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Claimants in receipt of Widowed Parents Allowance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fiscal Year</p></td><td><p>Number of claimants who received an overpayment</p></td><td><p>Number of cases with a Prosecution Outcome</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 – 2010</p></td><td><p>1.42K</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 – 2011</p></td><td><p>1.48K</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 – 2012</p></td><td><p>2.01K</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 – 2013</p></td><td><p>2.59K</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 – 2014</p></td><td><p>2.61K</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 07/07/2014 15:54:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty