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445082

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
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: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the final version of the Evaluation of Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy was agreed within his Department.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	22618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The contractors who were commissioned to undertake the report into the evaluation of the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy provided the Department with the final version of the report on 8 December 2015.</p><br /><p>It was agreed within the Department on 11 December 2015 and publication details were announced on the same day.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/01/2016 11:58:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

444564

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who do not qualify to be auto-enrolled into a pension because their qualifying earnings are achieved by income from more than one job.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	22296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s estimate of this figure can be found in <em>Workplace pensions: Update of analysis on Automatic Enrolment</em>, DWP, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/460867/workplace-pensions-update-analysis-auto-enrolment.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/460867/workplace-pensions-update-analysis-auto-enrolment.pdf</a></p><p>Automatic enrolment was designed to help more people save for their retirement, including lower earners and those with more than one job. We want to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to save for retirement, and we have seen great success in this so far. However, we need to strike a balance between ensuring as many people as possible have access to saving, and administrative simplicity for employers.</p><p>Workers earning more than £10,000 a year (£192 a week) and aged between 22 and state pension age must be automatically enrolled by their employer. Workers who do not qualify for automatic enrolment and who are aged between 16 and 75 years can choose to opt-in to a workplace pension scheme; and if the worker earns more than £5,824 a year (£112 a week) they will be entitled to a mandatory contribution from their employer.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/01/2016 14:58:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

444618

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Parents: Education
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 the Prime Minister's announcement of 11 January 2016 on parenting classes, (a) how many hours of such classes will be provided to parents and (b) whether there will be a cost to parents participating in such classes.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	22306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department will be working through the details of what will be provided by the contracted relationship support provision in the next few months.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 22158 question first answered 18/01/2016 17:02:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

444776

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Christmas Bonus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were eligible to receive a Christmas bonus on their benefits had not received it on 24 December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	22231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>Everyone eligible for a Christmas bonus will receive their payment in full. A technical error meant that 327,379 people had a delayed payment.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 19/01/2016 10:02:55 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 39698 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

444777

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff working in his Department are employees on fixed-term contracts.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	22249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>There are 2,006 employees on fixed term contracts out of a workforce of 84,429, which equates to 2.4%.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/01/2016 11:43:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

444778

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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: ICT
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 the statement in his Department's press release of 1 November 2011, entitled Iain Duncan Smith sets out next steps for moving claimants onto universal credit, on what dates since 1 November 2011 his Department has calculated the proportion of new technology required to deliver universal credit which is complete; and what that proportion was on each of those dates.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	22246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer my Rt. Hon. Member to the answer I gave on the 11 January 2016 <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;use-dates=True&amp;answered-from=2014-12-29&amp;answered-to=2016-01-15&amp;dept=29&amp;uin=21335" target="_blank">UIN21335</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 18/01/2016 17:09:05 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

444781

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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: Atos Healthcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value is of the personal independence payment assessment contract with ATOS; what the main key performance indicators (KPIs) are under that contract; and what the (a) financial and (b) other penalties are for failure to meet KPIs.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	22348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department has two Personal Independence Payment (PIP) contracts with Atos, each covering a geographical area. North of England &amp; Scotland (Lot 1) has a value of £206,703,507. London &amp; South of England (Lot 3) has a value of £183,894,556.</p><br /><p>There are a number of Service Levels (Key Performance Indicators are not used in PIP contracts) which Atos are required to deliver to meet the Department’s service requirements. These are detailed in the attached Annex 1. In addition, a number of interim Service Levels have been introduced to address specific performance targets.</p><br /><p>In the event Atos fail to achieve a key service level, contracts provide for Service Credits to be applied. Service Credits are a contractual remedy applied to Atos to recognise the loss of service received and to ensure any performance issues are rectified quickly.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/01/2016 12:10:53 question first ministerially corrected 26/01/2016 17:27:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson attachment 1 file name 22348 Annex 1.docx title Annex 1 previous answer version 39773 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

444782

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Work Capability Assessment: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to enable applicants who have suffered from a stroke, heart attack or any other major health scare to access a work capability assessment of medical assessment within a 90 minute journey.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	22424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>A home consultation can be offered, in particular where a claimant is unable to travel to a consultation as a result of their health condition or impairment. Home visits are offered when the claimant provides confirmation via their own health professional which indicates that they are unable to travel on health grounds or at a claimant’s request where the assessment provider’s health professional determines this is appropriate for their health condition or disability.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 18/01/2016 16:55:52 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

444784

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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: Burnley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Burnley receive housing benefit.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	22333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is published and available at:</p><br /><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><br /> <br /><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/01/2016 11:04:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

444788

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Winter Fuel Payment: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the results were of temperature tests to determine eligibility to receive winter fuel allowance of people living abroad in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	22383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The winter fuel payment eligibility criteria for people who normally live in the EEA, was changed for winter 2015-16. A temperature criterion was introduced by the DWP using information from a report it commissioned from the Met Office. This report showed the average winter temperature data for each EEA country and Switzerland and for the regions of the UK. The Met Office report was produced in 2012 and used information from a dataset for the reference period 1961-1990 available through the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.</p><br /><p>The average winter temperature in the warmest part of the UK, the South West, is 5.6<sup>o</sup>C. This point is the basis for the changes made to the winter fuel payment eligibility criteria. People living in countries with an average winter temperature of no more than 5.6<sup>o</sup>C, or a temperature that is close enough to that to be statistically equivalent, are eligible for a winter fuel payment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/01/2016 12:31:55 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith