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752095

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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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Child Maintenance Service on the methods that it uses to ensure that payments are made.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	5051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service introduced collection and enforcement fees to encourage parents to make a collaborative arrangement and incentivise compliance.</p><p> </p><p>If a paying parent fails to pay on time or in full, we aim to take immediate action to re-establish compliance. If necessary we can deduct on-going maintenance and arrears directly from earnings or from solely held bank accounts.</p><p> </p><p>We also have a range of other strong civil enforcement powers including seizing property, removal of driving licences and commitment to prison.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:30:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

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

751794

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	West Cumberland Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequacy funding for the final stage of construction of the West Cumberland Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Trudy Harrison
uin	4831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The West, North and East Cumbria Sustainability and Transformation Project has made an application for funding for the West Cumberland scheme from the additional £325 million capital funding announced in the spring budget earlier this year. An announcement on the successful applications will be made shortly.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 19/07/2017 09:03:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison

750668

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new universal credit claims were processed and paid within six weeks in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	4292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>We are intending to publish further data on payment timeliness in due course, but our latest internal data, for week ending 19 June, suggests some 80% of cases were paid in full at the end of the first assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>For the 20% of cases who were not paid in full we estimate around a third have not signed up to their claimant commitment so cannot be paid until they have. The other two thirds have an outstanding verification issue, such as providing bank statements, evidence of childcare costs, or proof of rent. Many of these claimants receive a part-payment where elements of the claim have been verified.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/07/2017 09:21:59 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead