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	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	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: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in England have been affected by the (a) household benefit cap and (b) under-occupancy penalty in each of the last four years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	106523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The information regarding the number of children in England who are (a) affected by the household benefit cap and (b) the removal of the spare room subsidy is published and available at:<a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 16/10/2017 12:01:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

781460

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2017
	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: Children
	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 children's benefits change in line with the cost of living.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	110653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling the root causes of child poverty and disadvantage. We know that children living in workless households have significantly poorer outcomes than those in working families.</p><p>We are incentivising work for those who can and providing support to working families. Since April 2016, the Universal Credit childcare element covers up to 85% of eligible childcare costs, compared with 70% in Working Tax Credit. We introduced 15 hours of free childcare for working families with children aged 3 and 4 and have now doubled this to 30 hours a week in England, worth up to £5,000 per child. The number of children living in workless households is now at its lowest level since comparable records began.</p><p> </p><p>Where families face additional costs and barriers to work because of disability and caring responsibilities, we have increased premiums for disabled children in line with inflation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2017 12:32:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

752810

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the benefit cap on the health and well-being of children.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	5296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold any data on the effect of the benefit cap on the health and well-being of children.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government believes that encouraging households to move into work through the benefit cap will help to increase the household’s income and help to improve their wellbeing:</p><p> </p><p>Research shows that for adults without work, re-employment leads to improvement in health and wellbeing, whereas further unemployment leads to deterioration. Research also shows that it is not in the best interests of children to live in workless households. For example, children in households where neither parent is in work are much more likely to have challenging behaviour at age 5 than children in households where both parents are in paid employment.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/07/2017 08:00:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss