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1719237

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any ministerial redundancy payments have been repaid to his Department since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	27082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 24/05/2024 11:32:16 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1714516

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
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: 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, what discussions he has had with housing associations on the potential impact of the 53 rent week year on residents.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	24062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-03-14/18812" target="_blank">18812</a> on the 19<sup>th</sup> March.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/05/2024 16:32:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1589171

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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: Maintenance
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 Ninth Report of the Committee of Public Accounts published on 22 June 2022, HC 255, and the Treasury Minute published on 14 October 2022, HC 255, what progress his Department has made on implementing the recommendations on (a) low customer satisfaction and (b) slow enforcement timescales.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	152256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The department has made the following progress in relation to customer satisfaction and enforcement timescales:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Customer Satisfaction</strong></p><p>We continue to improve services including digital through the wider Departmental Service Modernisation.</p><ul><li>Services that have been made available online are therefore accessible 24/7 and, in many cases, now delivered via automation making them faster and more responsive.</li><li>The introduction of online Get Help Arranging Child Maintenance service providing support to separated parents in managing their own affairs as well as making the CMS more accessible.</li><li>A wider organisational redesign is underway with a key priority to improve customer experience.</li></ul><p>Use of the DWP customer experience survey to track satisfaction levels and provide insight.</p><ul><li>The Department’s 2020/21 Customer Experience Survey and the CMS Customer Experience Survey are currently unpublished, so we are unable to share the findings at this time. The reason for the delay is because of the impacts of Covid on the survey, resulting in an extended QA process. Steps are in place to publish the findings and the final sign off procedures are currently taking place within the Department, with the intention to publish by Summer 2023.</li></ul><p>The Child Maintenance Service recently piloted ‘Real Time Customer Feedback’ on behalf of the department to better understand customer experience.</p><ul><li>Customers were given the opportunity to rate the service immediately after their contact with the department and provide narrative feedback on their experience. As this feedback has been provided in real time, where service concerns or failures were identified Child Maintenance colleagues were able to go back to the customer to further resolve their enquiry, improving customer service outcomes as well as providing valuable learning to improve our service offering. This pilot is currently supporting a business case for wider rollout.</li></ul><p>Sessions planned in March for MP researchers to support them in constituency casework relating to Child Maintenance.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Enforcement</strong></p><ul><li>We are committed to making the most effective use of our strong enforcement powers and have made a number of improvements to our processes.</li><li>Our strategy is to tackle breakdowns at earliest opportunity and use preferred Method of Payments (Deductions of Earnings Orders/Direct Debits) which achieve a higher rate of compliance, whilst agreeing more sustainable ongoing payments.</li><li>Deduction from earnings orders processes have been simplified to increase efficiency of this process.  Improvements have been introduced to the way employers make DEO payments through CMS to get money to families quicker by reducing or removing any manual intervention in allocating a payment.</li><li>We have also brought forward the point at which we make deductions from bank accounts. This has not only increased the volume of deductions from bank accounts but also means we are getting money to children more quickly.</li><li>A Private Members’ Bill (PMB) to streamline CMS enforcement, sponsored by Siobhan Baillie, had its Second Reading stage on 9 December 2022. The PMB removes the requirement to make court applications for liability orders which enable the CMS to progress with enforcement action, thus improving the efficiency of the enforcement process.</li></ul> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 07/03/2023 13:07:28 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1589174

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Low Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2022 to Question 78760 on Low Pay, when the Government will respond to the Supporting progression out of low pay: a call to action report recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	152259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has already responded on 13 December 2022, we published our report.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/03/2023 17:54:04 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1588368

registered interest
date	22/02/2023
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: Minimum Wage
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 contracted work to a business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	150519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p><strong>We have checked our contracts database and can confirm that the Department for Work and Pensions has not contracted work to any business named in round 18 of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in the last three years.</strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 27/02/2023 18:24:48 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 58180 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1583646

registered interest
date	03/02/2023
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	Local Housing Allowance: 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 he has made of the potential impact of freezing Local Housing Allowance on homelessness.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	139216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The causes of homelessness are multi-faceted and often complex, they interact dynamically making it difficult to isolate the relative importance of individual factors.</p><p> </p><p>Government is committed to preventing homelessness where possible. We have announced the allocation of £654 million in funding through the Homelessness Prevention Grant that will be made available to local authorities in 2023/24 and 2024/25. This is in addition to the £50m top-up to the Homelessness Prevention Grant for 2022/23 announced in December, which will support local authorities to help prevent vulnerable households from becoming homeless this winter. This investment builds on the £316 million in funding already available to local authorities through the Homelessness Prevention Grant for 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>In 2020 Local Housing Allowance rates were raised to the 30th percentile, a significant investment of almost £1 billion, we have maintained the increase since then so that everyone who benefited from the increase continues to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are available for those who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs. Since 2011 we have provided nearly £1.6 billion in funding to local authorities for DHPs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/02/2023 16:40:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1583657

registered interest
date	03/02/2023
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	Disability
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 letter from the Minister for Social Care to the hon. member for Ellesmere Port and Neston of 21 December 2022, what the outcome of the meeting with disabled people on policy development in summer 2022 was; and what plans he has for further such engagement.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	139227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>In Summer 2022, a number of meetings and focus groups with disabled people, and disabled people’s organisations, took place to hear disabled people's experiences in relation to the rising cost of living. Officials continue to engage with stakeholders to build this evidence base on how the cost of living is impacting disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 December 2022, we announced that a new Disability Action Plan will be consulted on and published in 2023. The plan will set out the action the Government will take in 2023 and 2024 to improve disabled people’s lives.</p><p> </p><p>Ensuring the voice of disabled people is properly heard is a priority for this Government. We will run a full public consultation on the plan later in 2023. The consultation will be accessible to ensure all disabled people who want to take part, can do so.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/02/2023 17:08:47 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1540820

registered interest
date	08/11/2022
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, what proportion of households in receipt of the spare room subsidy are in employment as of 8 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	82346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/11/2022 14:01:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1522437

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
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	Low Pay
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 research by Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith entitled Supporting progression out of low pay: a call to action, published on 1 July 2021, which recommendations she has (a) accepted and (i) is implementing and (ii) will implement in future and (b) rejected.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	63249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of supporting people to progress in work and welcomes Baroness McGregor-Smith’s report. We have considered her recommendations carefully and the response setting out this government’s approach to progression will be published shortly<strong>. </strong></p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 24/10/2022 15:37:35 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1487661

registered interest
date	08/07/2022
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, if she will publish a breakdown of the reasons for Universal Credit deductions to awards for claimants.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	33038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>Below are the liabilities or debts for which a Universal Credit deduction can be made:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Deduction Type</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Benefit Transfer Advance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Budgeting Advance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change of Circumstances Advance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Claim Advance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DWP Benefit Fraud Overpayments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DWP Benefit Overpayments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DWP Recoverable Hardship Payments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Housing Benefit and DWP Administrative Penalties</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Housing Benefit and DWP Civil Penalties</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Housing Benefit Fraud Overpayment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Housing Benefit Overpayment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Fund Loans</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax Credit Overpayments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Child Maintenance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Council Tax Arrears</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Electricity Arrears</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Electricity Ongoing Consumption</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eligible Loan Arrears</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fines</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gas Arrears</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gas Ongoing Consumption</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Home Office Integration Loan Arrears</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rent or Service Charge Arrears</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Water Arrears</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Water Ongoing Consumption</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 14/07/2022 13:39:50 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders