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1713527

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
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: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of changes in the level of social security benefits on people living in unsuitable housing.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	23477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions spends around £30bn a year on housing support for renters in both the private and social rented sectors. Benefit rates and the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) are reviewed annually.</p><p>From April this year the Government is investing £1.2 billion increasing LHA rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents. This significant investment ensures 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit gain on average, nearly £800 in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024/25.</p><p>LHA provides a reasonable level of housing support towards rental costs in the private rented sector. LHA rates are not intended to cover all rents in all areas.</p><p>The Department works closely with other government departments, stakeholders, jobcentres, and local authorities to understand the impact of its policies.</p><p>For those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs and need further support Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are available from local authorities. Since 2011 the Government has provided nearly £1.7 billion in DHP funding to local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/04/2024 15:27:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1713600

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
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: National Insurance Contributions
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 impact of the rules on the level of National Insurance contributions that are required to receive the full State Pension on people who contracted out.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	23598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>In January 2016, the Department published an impact assessment titled “<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a803fde40f0b62302692669/impact-of-new-state-pension-longer-term-reserach.pdf" target="_blank">Impact of New State Pension (nSP) on an Individual’s Pension Entitlement – Longer Term Effects of nSP</a>”. This included an assessment of the impact that contracting out could have on an individual’s ability to achieve the full rate of the new State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 29/04/2024 15:48:35 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1702470

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many fraudulent advance Universal Credit claims have been identified by his Department's machine learning algorithm.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>Publishing these figures would compromise our ability to prevent or detect fraud.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 22692 22693 22694 22695 question first answered 29/04/2024 16:01:24 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702471

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total annual cost of his Department’s use of machine learning algorithms to identify fraudulent benefit claims is.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not record this information.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 22690 question first answered 29/04/2024 15:51:32 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702473

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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: Data Protection
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 page 10 of the NAO's Report on Accounts 2022-2023, when his Department plans to report to Parliament on the impact of data analytics on protected groups and vulnerable claimants.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department will include its first assessment in its Report and Accounts 2023-24.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 29/04/2024 15:45:56 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702479

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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	Fraud and Maladministration
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 paragraph 4.2 of the report by the National Audit Office entitled Department for Work and Pensions Accounts 2022-23, published on 6 July 2023, whether it remains his Department's plan to bring forward a Fraud and Error Bill.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>As mentioned by the Prime Minister on 19<sup>th</sup> April, we are also preparing a new fraud bill for the next Parliament, which will align DWP with HMRC so that we treat benefit fraud like tax fraud with new powers to make seizures and arrests and will also enable penalties to be applied to a wider set of fraudsters through a new civil penalty.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 29/04/2024 15:50:05 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702481

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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	Jobcentres: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the average distance benefit recipients need to travel to their assigned Jobcentre; and what the greatest distance for a recipient was in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/04/2024 16:27:43 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702501

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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	Health Services: Coronavirus
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 classifying covid-19 as an occupational disease for healthcare workers; and whether his Department has had discussions with relevant professional bodies on that matter.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	22721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The DWP is advised by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), an independent scientific body, on changes to the list of occupational diseases for which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) can be paid.</p><p> </p><p>The Council considered the available scientific and epidemiological evidence around COVID-19 infection and published a Command Paper entitled, ‘COVID-19 and occupational impacts’ in November 2022 found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-and-occupational-impacts" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p> </p><p>The Command Paper recommends that the list of prescribed occupational diseases for which IIDB can be paid should be expanded to include health and social care workers with five serious pathological complications following COVID-19 infection.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is currently carrying out a detailed assessment of the report’s recommendations and will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/04/2024 11:41:58 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1702104

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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: Underpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average value was of an underpayment of the State Pension due to incorrectly updated National Insurance records in the 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>This response covers both missing Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) and UC National Insurance issues.</p><p> </p><p>The exercise to correct National Insurance records for those individuals impacted by errors in their HRP record is underway. The HRP corrections exercise started with HMRC dispatching letters in late 2023. Cases subsequently notified from HMRC started being processed in DWP in early 2024.</p><p> </p><p>In the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023, the central estimate value of an underpayment was £5,000 for alive cases above state pension age and £3,000 for deceased cases.</p><p> </p><p>We intend to publish an update on the exercise in this year’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has corrected the UC data issue for the cases impacted for the tax years up to and including the tax year 2022/2023. This data has been shared with HMRC. As HMRC updates NI records, these updates are sent to DWP. Any State Pension entitlement will be reassessed, and any underpayment addressed accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/04/2024 12:22:27 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702167

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to undertake a review into the potential merits of issuing compensation to all women impacted by changes to the State Pension age.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	22480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>In laying the report before Parliament at the end of March, the Ombudsman has brought matters to the attention of this House, and a further update to the House will be provided once the report's findings have been fully considered.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 24/04/2024 11:41:43 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick