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387741

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date	06/07/2015
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	Welfare State
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions published in the Tablet on 4 July.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL1118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State received a letter from Ekklesia dated 3 July 2015, which was subsequently published online in the Tablet.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State has responded to this letter from Ekklesia.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate for us to make public our response to this private correspondence.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 20/07/2015 15:23:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

387742

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
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: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to replace benefit sanctions with community service, for those who are unemployed, disabled or in chronic bad health.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL1119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no current plans to replace benefit sanctions with community service.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 13/07/2015 15:52:12 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

348434

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
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	Welfare State
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to publish details of the proposal in the Conservative party's manifesto to reduce the welfare budget by £12 billion by the 2017–18 financial year, and in particular their assessment of how it will affect pensions.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to save £12bn from welfare spending was set out in its election manifesto. Further details will be given in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/06/2015 16:08:41 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

228959

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
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: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people were subject to benefit sanctions, preventing them receiving any form of national financial help, at the most recent date for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL5924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Claimants who have a sanction applied could also be in receipt of other Government financial support such as Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit, Council Tax Support or Housing Benefit.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who are sanctioned can also apply for hardship payments, equivalent to 60 or 80% of their benefit payment, subject to meeting the necessary criteria.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 26/03/2015 13:14:23 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

77778

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Freud on 9 July (HL Deb, col 223), how many people have made use of the "system of advances", and how many have been helped by "local support frameworks" through local authorities, in the last two years for which figures are available; and whether they consider that those methods have reduced numbers resorting to food banks and loan sharks.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL1075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Statistics on how many people have made use of the &quot;system of advances&quot; is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how many people have been helped by &quot;local support frameworks&quot; is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Our Local Authority partners are supporting claimants through our local delivery partnerships, and feedback from claimant surveys suggests there is no significant difference between the proportion of UC and JSA claimants accessing funding from third party lenders.</p><p> </p><p>Information on whether these methods have reduced numbers resorting to food banks and loan sharks is not collected by the Department.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/07/2014 14:30:57 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton