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536535

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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	Lone Parents: Low Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) female, and (2) male, single parents earn less than the median average income.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL1209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2016 answer text <p>Estimates for the numbers of female and male single parents who earn less than the median average income are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Millions, 2014/15, United Kingdom</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Below 2014/15 median household income</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of female Lone Parents in work:</p></td><td><p><strong>0.8</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of male Lone Parents in work:</p></td><td><p><strong>0.1</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Average income is defined as the median equivalised net household income, where median income divides the population of individuals, when ranked by income, into two equal sized groups.</p><p>These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income analysis.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 28/07/2016 14:01:10 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

535896

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, of the people previously claiming Disability Living Allowance at the higher component of (1) mobility, or (2) care, how many have been assessed for (a) the higher rate, or (b) the standard rate, of (i) the mobility component, or (ii) the daily living component, of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in each year since PIP was introduced.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL1175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) registrations, clearances and claims in payment for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of disability living allowance (DLA)) is published on Gov.UK.</p><p> </p><p>In particular, breakdowns of reassessed claims in payment by type and rate of awards can be found from Stat-Xplore, which is a tool for exploring DWP’s statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not have verified data on the number of DLA claimants who have had their award changed as a result of the move to PIP. We intend to provide more detailed breakdowns of DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes in due course. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/07/2016 16:13:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

524619

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
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	Nuclear Safeguards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many civil servants involved in the delivery of Universal Credit have left the Department for Works and Pensions in each of the last five years; how large is the team working on Universal Credit delivery; and how many people involved in the delivery team when it was originally created remain within the department.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Universal Credit rollout started in April 2013. At the same time the Universal Credit Directorate was established within Operations, to deliver Universal Credit with 80 paid employees.</p><p>AT 31<sup>st</sup> March 2016, the Universal Credit Directorate consisted of 4,295 paid employees.</p><p>The numbers of Universal Credit Directorate employees who have left DWP since April 2013 are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Leaving Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Employees who left DWP</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014 to March 2015</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015 to March 2016</p></td><td><p>357</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Of the original 80 employees who were part of Universal Credit Directorate in April 2013, 67 are still employed by DWP.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 27/06/2016 14:30:32 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

524620

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
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	EURATOM
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many council tenants in receipt of Universal Credit were in rent arrears in (1) 2014, and (2) 2015; and how many are currently in arrears.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department holds a range of information relating to Universal Credit and housing but do not hold the information you have requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL654 question first answered 27/06/2016 14:31:24 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

524621

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
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	Joint European Torus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the Universal Credit claimants currently in rent arrears did not have a record of being behind with their payments before moving to Universal Credit.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department holds a range of information relating to Universal Credit and housing but do not hold the information you have requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL653 question first answered 27/06/2016 14:31:24 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

524622

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
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	Gaza: Politics and Government
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to undertake a review of the impact of the policy by which Universal Credit is paid monthly in arrears.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The payment arrangements for Universal Credit are designed to help reduce welfare dependency by mirroring the world of work, in which 75 per cent of employees are paid monthly. Appropriate budgeting support is available to ensure recipients are supported effectively.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 27/06/2016 14:30:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

514678

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, how many times official errors have resulted in (1) underpayment, or (2) non-payment, of (a) Jobseekers' Allowance, (b) Employment and Support Allowance, (c) Universal Credit, (d) Housing Benefit, and (e) Income Support, in each local authority in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL7824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>DWP is unable to provide a breakdown of the number of official errors at the Local Authority level. This is because the estimation of the rate and monetary value of official errors in a particular benefit is based on a sample of cases rather than the entire caseload for that benefit, and this sample is not large enough to split at the Local Authority level.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not gather information on the number of children in a household when evaluating the rate of fraud and error in any particular benefit.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL7825 question first answered 03/05/2016 11:42:46 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

514679

registered interest
date	21/04/2016
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, how many households containing children had an underpayment or non-payment of benefit as a result of official error.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL7825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>DWP is unable to provide a breakdown of the number of official errors at the Local Authority level. This is because the estimation of the rate and monetary value of official errors in a particular benefit is based on a sample of cases rather than the entire caseload for that benefit, and this sample is not large enough to split at the Local Authority level.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not gather information on the number of children in a household when evaluating the rate of fraud and error in any particular benefit.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL7824 question first answered 03/05/2016 11:42:46 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

445389

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what case material was examined as part of the review of 105 Personal Independence Payments (PIP) claims referenced in the DWP's consultation on PIP aids and appliances (Cm 9171).
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL5153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>DWP are currently running a consultation to seek views on how support can best be provided to help meet the costs of disability faced by people who are currently awarded points due to aids and appliances. The department is keen to hear views from all interested parties, especially disabled people and disability organisations.</p><p>As part of the consultation on aids and appliances and the daily living component of PIP, the Department reviewed a sample of 105 cases where claimants scored all, or the majority, of their points from aids and appliances. These were randomly selected.</p><p>DWP doctors, who reviewed these cases, looked at all the relevant information held on departmental systems relating to each case. This included the application form, the results of any face-to-face assessment and any additional supporting evidence provided by the claimant.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 26/01/2016 13:04:52 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

445390

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
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	Personal Independence Payment: Multiple Sclerosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people with multiple sclerosis have scored a minimum of half their points for (1) standard rate, and (2) enhanced rate, of Personal Independence Payments daily living through aids and appliances descriptors.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL5154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>For Multiple Sclerosis:</p><p>3,500 individuals were awarded Standard Daily Living, of which 3,050 (87%) scored at least half of their daily living points from aids and appliance descriptors.</p><br /><p>3,110 individuals were awarded Enhanced Daily Living, of which 790 (25%) scored at least half of their daily living points from aids and appliance descriptors.</p><br /><p>These figures relate to PIP normal rules awards made during the period April 2013 to 30th September 2015.</p><br /><p>DWP are currently running a consultation to seek views on the way that aids and appliances are taken into account when determining entitlement to the daily living component of PIP. The department wants to make sure that the policy on this is meeting the intent of focusing support on those with the greatest needs and is keen to hear views from all interested parties, especially disabled people and disability organisations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 25/01/2016 12:25:23 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor