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790204

registered interest
date	15/11/2017
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, what plans his Department has to train staff about whether potentially vulnerable claimants should be placed in the all work requirements group.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	113360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Conditionality, i.e. allocation to the all work related requirements group, is driven by claimant circumstances as specified in legislation - whilst identification and appropriate handling for vulnerable claimants should be a part of interactions with all claimants, regardless of conditionality.</p><p> </p><p>All Work Coaches complete learning designed specifically for their role to support customers, whatever their needs. This learning combines the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to coach claimants effectively so that they are able to identify for themselves what they need to do to find work and how best to do it. Work Coaches are expected to identify and support vulnerable claimants, recognise and consider the impact of complex circumstances and adjust the requirements expected from claimants.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/11/2017 16:35:29 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

789186

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Food Banks: Cheshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people referred to foodbanks by Jobcentre Plus in the Halton and Cheshire West and Chester local authority areas in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	113017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Jobcentre Plus does not make direct referrals to food banks but has offered a signposting service since 2011 to those who have expressed an interest in using a foodbank. No data is held on the number using the signposting service in the Halton and Cheshire West and Chester local authority area.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/11/2017 16:43:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

789191

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Unemployment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support job coaches are able to offer jobseekers with health conditions and disabilities in the event that those jobcentres are unable to access the Work and Health programme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	113000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Work Coaches work closely with jobseekers to help them move towards employment and can offer a wide range of support tailored to the specific needs of customers, including those with health conditions and disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>There is a wide range of local and national contracted and non-contracted provision and support available to customers, and their Work Coach will refer them to the most appropriate support available locally.</p><p> </p><p>In areas where the Work and Health Programme has not yet rolled out, contracts for other provision have been extended to ensure we can continue to meet the on-going needs of customers.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/11/2017 16:40:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

789195

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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: Interserve
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 made of the financial sustainability of the company, Interserve, prior to awarding that company the contract for cleaning, messengerial and other support functions for his Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>I can confirm all companies bidding for departmental work under CCS frameworks are subject to a full and rigorous review of their financial capability. A financial assessment of Interserve was completed prior to awarding the DWP FM Contract.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/11/2017 16:46:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

789196

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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: Interserve
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 made of the suitability of Interserve as a fit and proper company before the award of the contract for cleaning, messengerial and other support functions; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	112853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>I can confirm an evaluation of Interserve’s capability and capacity to deliver DWP’s FM requirements was completed before the award of contract - and can further confirm the mobilisation of the Facilities Management contract is proceeding to plan.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/11/2017 16:40:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

789309

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who identify as disabled are currently in receipt of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	113070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>To provide the requested information would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>However, as part of the experimental official statistics, information is available on the number of households on Universal Credit which were entitled to additional support following a finding of limited capability for work. Around 12,000 households that received a payment of Universal Credit in June 2017 were entitled to this additional support – 3% of all households in payment. Further information on these statistics can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p><p>In response to requests for information on Universal Credit we have consulted users on the expansion of Universal Credit statistics. We are currently reviewing the responses and if numbers of disabled people on UC prove to be a high priority for our users we will consider publishing them regularly, subject to sufficient quality assurance.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/11/2017 18:01:10 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

789313

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment
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 personal independence payment claimants are refused that entitlement upon making a claim.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	113066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants who have been disallowed an award since the introduction of PIP in April 2013 can be found on page 3 in our annual publication “Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2017” located at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2017</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/11/2017 17:42:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

789317

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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, how many families currently receiving benefits have three children or more in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency, (b) the North West and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	113052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Data for Liverpool, Walton constituency are not available.</p><p><strong>Table 1. Families currently in receipt of one or more benefit</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Families in millions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>NorthWest</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Families with 3 or more children</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>Source: Family Resources Survey 2015/16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li>The figures in Table 1 are estimates derived from the Family Resources Survey. The Family Resources Survey is designed to provide robust information at former Government Office Region level. Therefore data for Liverpool, Walton constituency are not available. Estimates are rounded to the nearest 100,000.</li><li>The Family Resources Survey is a nationally representative sample of UK households. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-201516" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-resources-survey-financial-year-201516</a></li><li>The figures from the Family Resources Survey are based on a sample of households which have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors which align the Family Resources Survey to former Government Office Region populations by age and sex. Estimates based on survey data are subject to uncertainty due to sampling error and remaining non-response error.</li><li>Figures presented here are for 2015/16 – this is the most recent year that data are currently available.</li><li>Relative to administrative records, the FRS under-reports benefit receipt – see Methodology Table M.6 in the Family Resources Survey publication.</li><li>In this analysis a family is defined as ‘a single adult or couple living as married and any dependent children’. A dependent child is aged 16 or under, or is 16 to 19 years old, unmarried and in full-time non-advanced education.</li><li>The following benefits have been including in this analysis; Disability Living Allowance, Child Benefit, Pension Credit, State Pension, Widow's Pension/Bereavement Allowance/Widowed Mothers Allowance, Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, War Widow's/Widower's Pension, Severe Disability Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Carer's Allowance, Jobseeker's Allowance, Industrial Injury Disablement Benefit, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Income Support, Maternity Allowance, Government Training Allowances, Guardians Allowance, Widow's Payment, Winter Fuel Payments, Extended Housing Benefit, Housing Benefit, Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit.</li><li>Note the inclusion of Child Benefit. <strong>The vast majority of families with three or more children are in receipt of Child Benefit. Therefore these figures are very close to population figures for the number of families with 3 or more children. </strong></li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/11/2017 17:26:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

789319

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of disabled people who will be entitled to transitional protection through managed migration from legacy benefits to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	113072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/11/2017 17:59:56 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

788666

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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: EU Grants and Loans
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 HM Treasury on funding for existing EU structural and investment projects; and if all such projects meet the criteria of providing strong value for money and are in line with domestic strategic priorities.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	112568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department is in regular contact with HM Treasury regarding funding for EU Structural and Investment Funds projects. All EU Structural and Investment Funds projects,signed to date, deliver value for money, are in line with domestic strategic priorities and will be guaranteed by the Government after the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/11/2017 16:29:51 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green