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1020732

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will remove the non-dependent deduction from universal credit housing costs for people aged over 21 who are students.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	199913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>A student aged 21, whose circumstances require that a housing costs contribution is applied and is not in an exemption category, will likely be receiving a student loan or grant for daily maintenance and so has funds to make a contribution toward their accommodation costs. It is right that the student, aged 21 or over makes a contribution toward these costs.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/12/2018 12:30:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1016357

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will amend universal credit regulations to allow for the housing cost element for renters to be calculated for a 53-week year in 2019-20; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	196906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit is calculated and paid on monthly cycles to reflect the fact that the vast majority of people receive their wages monthly. Many social landlords still expect their tenants to pay rent on a weekly basis, a practice based upon a time when both wages and benefits were paid weekly. The effect of this is that, roughly every six years, there will be 53 payment days in a twelve-month period with the result that, over the cycle, the average social sector tenant will receive approximately 35p a week less towards their rent. A key principle of Universal Credit is that it simplifies the benefit system for working age claimants and re-assessing housing costs to reflect the number of rent payments in any particular year would be complicated and lead to confusion. As such, the Department has no plans to amend these regulations.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/12/2018 11:17:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1013176

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the number and proportion is of universal credit claimants who had a deduction to repay housing arrears in the most recent month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	195130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has a duty to protect public funds and an obligation to ensure that, in accordance with social security legislation, any overpayment of benefit resulting from claimant error or fraud is recovered.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that there were 92,760 Universal Credit claimants who had a deduction from their Universal Credit as a recovery against a benefit overpayment within October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Housing costs are defined in two ways:</p><ol><li>Owner-occupier service charges and</li><li>Rent, including service charges</li></ol><p> </p><p>The information on (a) is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data is for eligible claims to UC Full Service that are due a payment in September 2018. Of these claims, 5% have a deduction from their standard allowance to repay rent arrears. This equates to 45,000 claims (rounded to the nearest 1,000).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 195129 195131 question first answered 28/11/2018 16:05:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1013177

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
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: Housing
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 universal credit claimants who had a deduction to repay housing arrears in the most recent month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	195131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has a duty to protect public funds and an obligation to ensure that, in accordance with social security legislation, any overpayment of benefit resulting from claimant error or fraud is recovered.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that there were 92,760 Universal Credit claimants who had a deduction from their Universal Credit as a recovery against a benefit overpayment within October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Housing costs are defined in two ways:</p><ol><li>Owner-occupier service charges and</li><li>Rent, including service charges</li></ol><p> </p><p>The information on (a) is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data is for eligible claims to UC Full Service that are due a payment in September 2018. Of these claims, 5% have a deduction from their standard allowance to repay rent arrears. This equates to 45,000 claims (rounded to the nearest 1,000).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 195129 195130 question first answered 28/11/2018 16:05:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1010334

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations she has received on the effect of the universal credit minimum income floor on the amount of housing element support self-employed claimants are entitled to compared with their housing benefit entitlement under the legacy benefit system.
tabling member constituency	Kensington
tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
uin	192952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Minimum Income Floor (MIF) is applied to the total maximum Universal Credit entitlement. Consequently, the issue of how it affects the housing element does not arise.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/11/2018 10:46:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1010386

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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: Housing
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 receiving the housing element of universal credit are women.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	192808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>We can provide an estimate based on households claiming Universal Credit by matching the Universal Credit household dataset (which contains information about the Housing Element), with the people on Universal Credit dataset (which contains information about gender). The table gives the estimated number of claimants receiving the Housing Element of Universal Credit in Great Britain, August 2018. The notes should be read in conjunction with the information provided in the table.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Estimated number of households in payment and receiving the Housing Element of Universal Credit, Great Britain, August 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>530,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Occupied by women (single or in a couple)</p></td><td><p>365,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Occupied by men (single or in a couple)</p></td><td><p>248,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong> Universal Credit household dataset <strong>and</strong> people on Universal Credit dataset</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>The figures are derived from unpublished information and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard.</li></ol><ol start="2"><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand. Individual figures may not add up to the total due to rounding.</li><li>A count date of the second Thursday of the month is used when calculating the statistics for the people and households on Universal Credit.</li><li>Further information on the background and methodology can be accessed here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739399/universal-credit-statistics-background-methodology.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/739399/universal-credit-statistics-background-methodology.pdf</a></li></ol> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/11/2018 15:31:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1010387

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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: Housing
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 receiving the housing element of universal credit are disabled.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	192809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 13:51:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1010389

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
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: Housing
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 receiving the housing element of universal credit are from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	192810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2018 13:59:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

994561

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason universal credit excludes a housing (a) benefit and (b) costs element for people living in temporary or hostel accommodation; and what assessment he has made of the effect of that policy on the standard of living of people in that accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	183855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Since April 2018, people who are living in temporary accommodation but claiming Universal Credit, have their housing costs met through Housing Benefit. It is a statutory duty for local authorities to provide temporary accommodation to certain groups of vulnerable people and this change ensures local authority funding for vital emergency housing services continues.</p><p> </p><p>For people living in hostels and other types of supported accommodation, following the consultations held on achieving a sustainable funding provision for this sector, we announced in August that we will maintain Housing Benefit for all supported housing groups including hostels. This decision reflects the needs of those vulnerable groups of people and the Government’s commitment to protect them.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of the effect of the above policies on the standard of living of people in that accommodation, no such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/11/2018 13:00:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982488

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to extend direct to landlord payments to all claimants of the housing element of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	176608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit incentivises work by making the journey from unemployment to employment as smooth as possible, without the hurdles that exist within the current system. Paying claimants their housing costs direct means their landlord sees no changes in rent payments when they move into work. Consequently the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will, in the majority of cases, pay eligible housing costs directly to the claimant as has been the case for Housing Benefit in the Private Rented Sector since 2008.</p><p> </p><p>Nonetheless, both the claimant and landlord are able to request an alternative payment arrangement (APA) to have rent paid direct to the landlord at any point in the claim should the need arise.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/10/2018 10:57:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith