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758866

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
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	Workplace Pensions: LGBT People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Department has made of the effect of the Walker v Innospec Limited case on pensions liabilities.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	9315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government is assessing what the full implications of the judgment will be. Once this is complete the effect on pensions liabilities overall can then be estimated. Individual pension schemes will also need to assess the implications of the judgment for their particular schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/09/2017 13:33:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

757510

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards his Department has introduced to ensure that when housing benefit is paid to tenants it is paid to the landlord.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	8536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>Payments of Housing Benefit can be made to either the landlord or the claimant. We recognise that in a minority of cases some claimants may not utilise their Housing Benefit for the purposes of paying their rent. To minimise this we have put safeguards in place to pay Housing Benefit directly to the landlord if the claimant is likely to have difficulty in managing their rent payments, or is unlikely to pay their rent or is in rent arrears equivalent to eight weeks.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/09/2017 13:16:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

642953

registered interest
date	23/11/2016
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 and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect of pausing planned reductions in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group rates on the rate of employment for disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	54543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes that the changes to Employment and Support Allowance should proceed as legislated for so that people have access to the best support to move closer to the labour market and, when they are ready, into work. New funding of £60m in 2017/18 rising to £100m a year in 2020/21 has been provided for additional practical employment support for new claimants who have limited capability for work from April 2017.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 01/12/2016 16:35:20 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

391036

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
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	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 factors were taken into account in setting the application fee for the Child Maintenance Service at £20.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	7793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Following the consultation <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/strengthening-families-promoting-parental-responsibility-the-future-of-child-maintenance" target="_blank">‘Strengthening families, promoting parental responsibility: the future of child maintenance’</a>, and debates in both Houses, the level of the application fee was reduced from £100 to £20. The fee is intended to strike the right balance of ensuring parents do not default into the statutory scheme, without placing an unreasonable financial burden on those who are unable to reach a family based arrangement. It also provides a nominal contribution to a system that is expensive to administer.</p><p> </p><p>Application fees do not apply to victims of domestic violence or to applicants aged 18 or under.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 22/07/2015 13:02:58 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

390868

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much child maintenance was not collected in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	7691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows the total amount of liability accrued each year and, by comparison, how much was received or adjusted and the difference at the end of the year. Liability accrued is compared with collections excluding and including amounts in respect of arrears and technical adjustments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>A new methodology was introduced in the December 2013 Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics which is only available for data from January 2012. Figures prior to this do not use a comparable methodology and are therefore not included.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year ending:</p></td><td><p>Liability Accrued in the Year (£m)<sup>(2,3)</sup></p></td><td><p>Regular Maintenance Collected in the year i.e. excluding amounts towards arrears and technical adjustments (£m) <sup>(2,4)</sup></p></td><td><p>Difference in regular maintenance (£m) at the end of the year<sup> (6) </sup></p></td><td><p>Total Credits in the year i.e. including amounts towards arrears and technical adjustments (£m)<sup>(2,5)</sup></p></td><td><p>Difference in credits (£m) at the end of the year<sup>(7)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>A</p></td><td><p>B</p></td><td><p>=A-B</p></td><td><p>C</p></td><td><p>=A-C</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-13</p></td><td><p>£915.7</p></td><td><p>£655.0</p></td><td><p>£260.7</p></td><td><p>£828.3</p></td><td><p>£87.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-14</p></td><td><p>£942.4</p></td><td><p>£688.0</p></td><td><p>£254.4</p></td><td><p>£849.0</p></td><td><p>£93.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-15</p></td><td><p>£840.7</p></td><td><p>£629.3</p></td><td><p>£211.4</p></td><td><p>£767.4</p></td><td><p>£73.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1)</p><p>a. Figures are against the 1993 and 2003 statutory maintenance services only, including cases managed off system.</p><p>b. Maintenance Direct cases are not included within this table. A Maintenance Direct case would not accrue liability on the CSA computer Systems, due to money being paid directly between parents.</p><p>2) Total Liabilities is the sum of the quarterly amounts of money charged as regular maintenance (excluding any technical adjustments).</p><p>3) Regular maintenance collected is the amount of money paid via the collection service excluding technical adjustments. This figure is derived by summing the quarterly figures together. It is possible that some of the maintenance not collected in one of the quarters might be collected in the next quarter as arrears; however this will not be included in the regular maintenance figures.</p><p>4) Total credits are the sum of the quarterly amounts of money paid, including technical adjustments and contributions towards arrears, via the collection service.</p><p>5) The difference in regular maintenance at the end of the year is the amount of liability not collected on time within each quarter.</p><p>6) The difference in credits at the end of the year is the amount of liability not collected. This is the total amount of liability accrued minus regular maintenance collected, technical adjustments and payments towards arrears.</p><p>7) Quarterly figures are published in the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 24/07/2015 13:26:56 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

390870

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	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 steps his Department is taking to ensure self-employed people claiming child maintenance declare their income in full.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	7694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>For the 2012 scheme, income data is sought directly from HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>Under the 1993 and 2003 schemes self-employed earners are asked to provide HMRC’s Tax Calculation Notice as evidence of their income. If this cannot be provided, income data can be requested directly from HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>Should any client believe issues of tax fraud exist, we will signpost them appropriately to HMRC or the Financial Investigation Unit, run by the Child Maintenance Group.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 24/07/2015 13:31:30 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

390871

registered interest
date	16/07/2015
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	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 steps his Department is taking to improve the collection of child maintenance; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	7695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>Children have better outcomes when parents work together following a separation. As part of the child maintenance reforms introduced in 2012, everyone wishing to make an application to the statutory scheme is required to contact the Child Maintenance Options Service, which will provide information on the full range of options available to separating parents including where to find support to make their own, effective family based arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>Those parents who choose to use the 2012 scheme will benefit from a faster and simpler way of working out maintenance, with information on earnings collected direct from HMRC, and a self-service portal to enable parents to track payments.</p><p> </p><p>In the event of non-compliance the Department has a wide range of effective powers to collect child maintenance, including taking deductions direct from earnings and bank accounts. Those who persistently fail to pay may be committed to prison.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published figures are continuing to increase and are, at present, showing 88% of cases on the 1993 and 2003 schemes and 88% of case groups on the 2012 scheme contributing towards their current maintenance liability, their highest position to date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/07/2015 10:57:24 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

226407

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	Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have entered employment following participation in the Work Programme in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Hendon constituency to date.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	227029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested for the number of people placed into employment from the Work Programme, is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The information we do have shows the number of Work Programme Job Outcomes, by various geographies and this can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/03/2015 14:23:31 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

226408

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	Employment: Disability
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 has taken to improve support for disabled people in work in response to the recommendations of the Sayce Review, published in June 2011.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	227030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government confirmed in March 2012 that it accepted the recommendations in the Sayce Review, to focus resources on tailored personalised support for individuals through services like Access to Work, rather than “one size fits all” institutions and programmes, so that we can significantly increase the number of disabled people that could be supported to access the labour market. The Sayce recommendations on Remploy have been implemented.</p><p> </p><p>The Written Statement on Access to Work published on 12th March sets out proposals to address two key recommendations of Liz Sayce with respect to developing online functionality and personal budgets.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/03/2015 15:26:30 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

226409

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	Work Programme
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 have been assisted by the Work Programme in (a) England, (b) London and (c) Hendon constituency to date.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	227033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested for Work Programme Referrals, Attachments and Job Outcomes, by various geographies, is published and available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 16/03/2015 12:16:24 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord