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1379309

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of (a) the impact of off-setting private pension income against income-based employment and support allowance earnings for people who have been able to draw their pension early due to ill health and (b) the potential merits of allowing people who have drawn their pension early due to ill health to retain their employment and support allowance earnings.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	76867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>Entitlement to income related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA (IR)) is based on financial need and both income and capital will affect entitlement. Any pension income received is deducted from the amount of ESA (IR) payable. Cash lump sums taken from a pension savings are deemed to be capital. Claimants are not entitled to ESA (IR) if their household has capital of more than £16,000. Capital in excess of £6,000 and up to £16000 reduces the amount of ESA (IR) payable.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 25/11/2021 14:17:38 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1379346

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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 estimate her Department has made of the number of percentage of deductions of earnings orders put in place by the Child Maintenance Service which are subject to delayed payment to the parent with responsibility for the child due to employer error.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	76729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The percentage of Deduction from Earnings Orders put in place by Child Maintenance Group which are subject to delayed payments due to employer error amount to 40% of missing payments generated. This equates to 2,360 per month or 5% of all Deduction from Earnings Orders in operation.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/11/2021 17:56:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1379347

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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 many times the Child Maintenance Service has taken formal action against an employer that has failed to meet the requirements of a deduction of earnings order in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	76730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Group policy allows for its Financial Investigation Unit to attempt to try and establish compliance in all cases before looking to see if the case may be prosecutable.</p><p> </p><p>If the employer does not comply immediately a warning of Interview Under Caution and possible prosecution is sent. It is only after this notice expires that a notice that we intend to carry out an Interview Under Caution is sent, which would signal prosecution even if the employer then complies.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/11/2021 17:12:22 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1379360

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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 Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle levels of food poverty in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	76712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>This Government is wholly committed to supporting low-income families by spending over £110 billion on welfare support for people of working age in 2021/22 and by increasing the National Living Wage by 6.6% to £9.50 from April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>With the success of the vaccine rollout and record job vacancies, our focus now is on continuing to support people into and to progress in work. Our multi-billion-pound Plan for Jobs, which has recently been expanded by £500 million, will help people across the UK to find work and to boost their wages and prospects.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Universal Credit recipients in work will soon benefit from a reduction in the Universal Credit taper rate from 63% to 55%, while eligible in-work claimants will also benefit from changes to the Work Allowance. These measures represent, for the lowest paid in society, an effective tax cut of around £2.2 Billion in 2022-23, and will benefit almost two million of the lowest paid workers by £1000 a year on average.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that some people may require extra support over the winter as we enter the final stages of recovery from the impacts of the Covid pandemic, which is why vulnerable households across the country will now be able to access a new £500 million support fund to help them with essentials. This includes £421 million for the Household Support Fund, which will help vulnerable people in England with the cost of food, utilities and wider essentials. Coventry City Council are receiving £3,224,222.30 of this funding.</p><p> </p><p>To support low income families further we have also increased the value of Healthy Start Food Vouchers from £3.10 to £4.25, helping eligible low income households buy basic foods like milk, fruit and vitamins, and we are investing over £200m a year from 2022 to continue our Holiday Activities and Food programme, which is already providing enriching activities and healthy meals to children in all Local Authorities in England.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 22/11/2021 13:51:24 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1379368

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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: Harrogate
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 her oral contribution of 8 November 2021, Official Report, column 8, if she will publish the learnings from the pilot work on the managed migration from legacy benefits to universal credit that took place in Harrogate.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	76769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 1<sup>st</sup> November to question number <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-10-27/64687?_sm_au_=iVV655nWvfRBZBJNW2MN0K7K1WVjq" target="_blank">64687</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 76770 question first answered 22/11/2021 14:00:08 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1379369

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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: Harrogate
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 her oral contribution of 8 November 2021, Official Report, column 8, how the Harrogate pilot informed the Government's plan on resuming the managed migration to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	76770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 1<sup>st</sup> November to question number <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-10-27/64687?_sm_au_=iVV655nWvfRBZBJNW2MN0K7K1WVjq" target="_blank">64687</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 76769 question first answered 22/11/2021 14:00:08 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1379449

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department’s process is for (a) recording and (b) keeping minutes of all meetings relating to Government business.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	76753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>Formal, structured meetings are usually minuted, however, not all meetings need to be minuted. It is expected that the general guidance that departments give to their staff will help officials make judgements as to what meetings need to be minuted, noting their Civil Service Code obligation to ‘keep accurate official records’.</p><p> </p><p>Specific procedures are in place for external meetings involving ministers. These are publicly available and can be found in the <a href="https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/popapersguidance2009.pdf" target="_blank">Guidance on the management of Private Office Papers.</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/11/2021 17:41:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1379484

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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	Maternity Leave and Maternity Pay: Multiple Births
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what extra statutory maternity pay and leave provisions are available for parents of multiple births.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	76828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>Statutory Maternity Pay is paid in respect of each pregnancy. This provides a measure of financial security which allows a pregnant working woman to take time off from work towards the end of her pregnancy, and in the months following childbirth in the interest of her own and her babies' health and wellbeing.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/11/2021 17:44:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1379545

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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 recent estimate her Department has made of the effect of ending the £20 uplift to universal credit on the levels of in-work poverty.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	76582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>It is not possible to produce a robust estimate of the impact of removing the temporary £20 uplift on levels of in-work poverty. Projecting the impacts of policies on poverty involves projecting forward the impact of the pandemic on every household’s income which is not possible to do with confidence, not least because the latest comprehensive data on net incomes for households is from 2019-20, before the pandemic began.</p><p> </p><p>With the success of the vaccine rollout and in the context of record job vacancies, we are committed to helping people get back into work and to progress in their careers. This approach is based on clear evidence about the importance of employment, particularly where it is full-time, in substantially reducing the risks of poverty. Our multi-billion-pound Plan for Jobs, which has recently been expanded by £500 million, will help people across the UK to find work and to boost their wages and prospects.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking decisive action to make work pay by cutting the Universal Credit taper rate from 63p to 55p, and increasing Universal Credit work allowances by £500 per annum. This is essentially a tax cut for the lowest paid workers, worth around £2.2 billion in 2022-23 and means that 1.9m households will keep, on average, around an extra £1,000 on an annual basis. These changes are combined with a rise in the National Living Wage to £9.50 per hour.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 25/11/2021 17:26:34 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1379581

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
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 Schemes: Disability
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 Second Report of Session 2021–22, Disability employment gap, published on 30 July 2021, if she will accept the conclusions and recommendations of that Committee that (a) her Department carry out a radical overhaul of its approach to employment support for disabled people and (b) funding for the Work and Health Programme be devolved.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	76676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government sent our response to the committee on 5 November 2021, who subsequently published the response on 22 November 2021.</p><p><a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7913/documents/81987/default/" target="_blank">Disability employment gap: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2021–22 (parliament.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/11/2021 13:34:24 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 33910 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah