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731090

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Funeral Payments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to match the ten-day target for the administration of Social Fund Funeral Payments pledged by the Scottish Government; and, if not, what plans they have to enable bereaved families to bury their relatives in the absence of any estate from which to draw funds to cover funeral costs.
tabling member printed	Baroness Meacher
uin	HL98
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to change its clearance standard of 15 working days for Funeral Expenses Payments. The Department provides Funeral Expenses Payments to people who are arranging a funeral and who are in receipt of a qualifying income-related benefit. They make a significant contribution towards the cost of arranging a funeral, and are paid as swiftly as possible when all the necessary evidence has been provided. In most cases, payments are made directly to the funeral director who arranged the funeral.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 28/06/2017 11:11:11 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	3810 label Biography information for Baroness Meacher

731127

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have been sanctioned; and for what reasons those claimants were sanctioned in Maidenhead constituency in each month since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support and Universal Credit sanction decisions, by parliamentary constituency, is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/06/2017 16:26:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

731128

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have been sanctioned; and for what reasons those claimants were sanctioned in Glasgow East constituency in each month since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support and Universal Credit sanction decisions, by parliamentary constituency, is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/06/2017 16:30:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

731130

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) on which dates and (b) by which means his Department has taken steps to raise awareness by way of publicity about changes to the UK state pension age for women born in the 1950s.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>Between April 2009 and March 2011, the Department mailed women born between 6th April 1950 and 5th April 1953, informing them of their State Pension age under the 1995 Pensions Act. This involved sending 1.16 million letters to the affected women.</p><p>Following the 2011 changes, DWP wrote to individuals directly affected to inform them of the change to their State Pension age. This applied to women born between 6th April 1953 and 5th April 1960. These letters were sent between January 2012 and November 2013. This involved sending 5.77 million letters to the affected men and women.</p><p>In addition to writing directly to those affected, the Government provided a range of information in order for all individuals to be able to find out their State Pension age and conditions of their benefits. For example, following the Pensions Act 1995, State Pension estimates, issued to individuals on request, made the changes clear. Since 2000, the Department has issued 14 million State Pension estimates on request. Between 2003 and 2006, the Department issued about 16 million automatic pension forecasts, which were accompanied by a leaflet about State Pension age including equalisation. DWP also ran a pensions education campaign in 2004, which included informing people of the future equalisation of State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/06/2017 16:22:51 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

731131

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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: Glasgow East
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 in Glasgow East constituency have transitioned from disability living allowance to personal independence payments in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>The latest available parliamentary constituency data on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claims in payment and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances split by Clearance type for DLA reassessment claims can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 110 question first answered 26/06/2017 13:33:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

731132

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Carer's Allowance: Glasgow East
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 are in receipt of carer's allowance in Glasgow East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of individuals in receipt of Carer’s Allowance by parliamentary constituency is published and available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 26/06/2017 13:36:13 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

731133

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Disability Living Allowance: Glasgow East
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 are in receipt of disability living allowance payments in Glasgow East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>The latest available parliamentary constituency data on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claims in payment and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances split by Clearance type for DLA reassessment claims can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 108 question first answered 26/06/2017 13:33:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

731144

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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: Poverty
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 live in poverty in Glasgow East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	97
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/06/2017 15:13:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

731182

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of matching basic benefit levels to the Minimum Income Standards calculated annually by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The potential merits of matching basic benefit levels to the JRF’s Minimum Income Standard have not been assessed.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/06/2017 16:33:26 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

731231

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Parents: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the then Prime Minister's speech on Life Chances on 11 January 2016, when the Government expects to implement the significant expansion in parenting programmes.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2017 answer text <p>In April 2017 we published the Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families paper which outlined the actions we plan to take in supporting the most vulnerable families.</p><p>This included the launch of an innovative new programme to address parental conflict as this is a critical influence on the quality of parenting. Children exposed to frequent, intense and poorly resolved conflict between parents are at greater risk of poor social, emotional and cognitive outcomes. The new programme will support the use of evidence-based interventions to reduce parental conflict, delivered by specialist organisations at a local level. This will transform lives by supporting parents, whether they are together or separated.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/06/2017 14:14:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead