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387316

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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, when he now expects the number of claimants of universal credit to exceed (a) one per cent, (b) two per cent and (c) five per cent of all benefit claimants.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We are on track with our plans for the national roll out of Universal Credit to single claimants, couples and families. The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time. Final numbers will vary according to a number of factors such as economic circumstances over time and the behavioural change of claimants.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/07/2015 15:26:33 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387317

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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 progress has been made on the trials of support for in-work progression; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The trial commenced on 20 April 2015 and therefore it is too early to make an assessment at this stage</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/07/2015 15:27:34 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387318

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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, if he will define new targets for child poverty.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions made clear in his statement to the House on 1 July that Government is committed to eliminating child poverty, and improving children’s life chances. The Government’s new approach will focus on tackling the root causes of poverty, in particular worklessness and educational attainment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will introduce legislation to give effect to this approach and to remove the existing measures and targets in the Child Poverty Act. Details of the legislation and the action the Government will take will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/07/2015 15:23:19 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387319

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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, what requirements will be placed on Government agencies in the legislation which is proposed to replace the Child Poverty Act 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This Government is committed to working to eliminate child poverty and improving life chances for children – now and in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced on the 1<sup>st</sup> July that the Government will focus on tackling the root causes of child poverty.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will introduce legislation to give effect to this approach and to remove the existing measures and targets in the Child Poverty Act. Details of the legislation and the action the Government will take will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/07/2015 15:25:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

386981

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the benefit cap on levels of homelessness in each year since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In December 2014 DWP published a suite of evaluation reports available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation</a>. These found very little, if any, impact on homelessness as a direct result of the cap. The small number of capped households who have been evicted were noted by Local Authorities as having other reasons (beyond the cap) for rent arrears and also failing to engage with relevant services; they were considered intentionally homeless.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/07/2015 13:44:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387129

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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, whether his Department has made an estimate of the potential effect on the savings arising from implementing the Universal Credit (Waiting Days) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 of removing housing costs from the scope of those regulations.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested can be found at Paragraph 26 of the report by the Social Security Advisory Committee, attached here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434281/universal-credit-waiting-days-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/434281/universal-credit-waiting-days-report.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 06/07/2015 17:00:17 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387130

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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 employment support initiatives his Department plans to fund from savings arising from implementation of the Universal Credit (Waiting Days) (Amendment) Regulations 2015; and when he plans to commence those initiatives.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The principle behind the waiting days is that benefits are not designed to provide cover for brief spells of unemployment. We expect savings of around £150m per annum which will be used to fund measures to get people off benefit and into work and will particularly help those who are likely to be long- term benefit recipients.</p><p> </p><p>These include English Language Training, targeting those for whom language is a barrier to work, and additional voluntary support for lone parents with children aged 3-4.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 06/07/2015 16:30:40 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387133

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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: Lone Parents
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 lone parents with children affected by the benefit cap have a child under (a) one year old, (b) two years old, (c) three years old and (d) four years old.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>From April 2013 (when the benefit cap was introduced) to February 2015 (the latest available data) 32,680 lone parents with dependent children have been capped.</p><p> </p><p>Of these (a) 4,210 households (13%) have a child under one year old, (b) 9,520 households (29%) have a child under two years old, (c) 14,200 households (44%) have a child under three years old and (d) 18,270 households (56%) have a child aged under four years old, as at February 2015.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/07/2015 10:40:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

387135

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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, how many and what proportion of families with children affected by the benefit cap have a child under (a) one year old, (b) two years old, (c) three years old and (d) four years old.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</del><ins class="ministerial">DWP statisticians are currently assessing the viability of publishing further age breakdowns for children in households subject to the benefit cap alongside suitable context and commentary. If the analyses prove to be sufficiently robust the results will be published at the earliest opportunity according to the Code of Practice for statistics.</ins></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/07/2015 16:57:41 question first ministerially corrected 10/07/2015 11:42:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 11479 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

386807

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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, how many jobcentres in each region have had to ask applicants to travel to another jobcentre to make their universal credit claim due to problems with IT systems.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	4919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>We have been asking claimants in the Neston area to temporarily attend Ellesmere Port Jobcentre while we work to upgrade the service. This only affects a very small number of claimants, and all those affected have been reimbursed for any associated travel costs. We expect to resume the full service at Neston in the near future.</p><p> </p><p>No other jobcentre has been affected.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 4918 question first answered 06/07/2015 13:40:50 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms