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1249763

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the benefit cap on tenants in the private rented sector.
tabling member printed	Baroness Grender
uin	HL10069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2020 answer text <p>The Benefit Cap aims to provide fairness for hard-working taxpaying households, whilst providing a reasonable safety net of support for the most vulnerable.</p><p> </p><p>We introduced £9.3bn of welfare measures that benefit those facing the most financial disruption and, in May 2020, less than five per cent of the two million Housing Benefit and Universal Credit claimants living in the private rented sector, 93,830 tenants, had their benefit capped.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2020 Local Housing Allowance rates were increased to cover the lowest 30th percent of local rents. This £1bn investment will benefit over 1 million households with an average increase of £600 this year. This will help alleviate the pressure on Discretionary Housing Payments that claimants can apply for through their Local Authority if they need additional support to meet rental costs.</p><p> </p><p>We have provided £180m in Discretionary Housing Payments to Local Authorities in England and Wales for 2020/21, which includes an additional £40m to help tackle affordability pressures in the private rented sector.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 24/11/2020 17:25:23 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4291 label Biography information for Baroness Grender

1249810

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many 19-year-olds were registered as unemployed in the months of (1) June, (2) July, and (3) August.
tabling member printed	Lord Baker of Dorking
uin	HL10039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics classify people as unemployed if, in response to the Labour Force Survey / Annual Population Survey, a person states that they are without a job; have been actively seeking work within the last four weeks and are available to start work within the next two weeks. This is not directly related to being in receipt of unemployment-related benefit.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS do not publish data on the number of 19 year olds whom are unemployed</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 23/11/2020 17:19:25 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	1028 label Biography information for Lord Baker of Dorking

1249811

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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 Benefits: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) 16, (2) 17, (3) 18, and (4) 19, year-olds registered for unemployment-related benefits in the months of (a) September, and (b) October.
tabling member printed	Lord Baker of Dorking
uin	HL10040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>Numbers of people claiming unemployment-related benefits by single year age band are publicly available through the department’s Stat Xplore website.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of people nationally aged 16, 17, 18 and 19 years old in the Universal Credit (UC) searching for work conditionality group – for people claiming UC whom are closest to the labour market - in September and October 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Age</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>September 2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>October 2020</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p>861</p></td><td><p>940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td><td><p>4630</p></td><td><p>4563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td><td><p>49828</p></td><td><p>51602</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td><td><p>70483</p></td><td><p>71766</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>125795</p></td><td><p>128878</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of people nationally aged 16, 17, 18 and 19 years old and are claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance – a legacy unemployment-related benefit - are published quarterly by DWP on Stat Xplore. However, the latest data available is May 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Age</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>May 2020</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td><p>Negligible or nil number of claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td><td><p>452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td><td><p>972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>1450</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 23/11/2020 17:14:21 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	1028 label Biography information for Lord Baker of Dorking

1249813

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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: Mental Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to respond to the report by the University of Glasgow and the Health Foundation, Mental health, welfare conditionality and employment support: Policy recommendations and key findings, published in October.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL10042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The University of Glasgow and the Health Foundation’s report offers useful insights. We take these issues seriously and will consider the recommendations and key findings alongside the work on the forthcoming Health and Disability Support Green Paper, which will explore how the welfare system can better meet the needs of disabled people and people with health conditions. Improving employment support will be a key theme of the Green Paper.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 18/11/2020 14:40:43 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1249832

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
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	Kickstart Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Stedman-Scott on 2 November (HL9276), what estimate they have made of the number of young people aged 16 to 24 who will benefit from the Kickstart Scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL10068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions Kickstart Scheme is making £2 billion available to eligible employers and Kickstart gateways. This Government has not set a limit to the number of Kickstart jobs that can be funded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 23/11/2020 16:30:19 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington