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1713014

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date	23/04/2024
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, if he will provide a list of ministerial visits to the Midlothian constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	23248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>Scotland Office Ministers have conducted one visit to the constituency of Midlothian in the past five years. This was by Iain Stewart MP, while Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Scotland Office, to Midlothian Council Projects on 4 February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 30/04/2024 09:33:57 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1713079

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full time equivalent staff in his Department worked on investigation of earnings alerts for carer’s allowance in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2022-23, (d) 2022-23 and (e) 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	23249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department allocated the following resources to full time equivalent to the investigation of earnings alerts for carer’s allowance as outlined below;</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>FTE </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19/20</p></td><td><p>46.43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/21</p></td><td><p>55.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/22</p></td><td><p>80.92</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22/23</p></td><td><p>59.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23/24</p></td><td><p>48.70</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data is correct as of March for each of the following Financial Years: <strong>(a) 2019/20, (b) 2020/21, (c) 2021/22, (d) 2022/23 and (e) 2023/24.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Figures were derived from the Department’s Activity Based Model (ABM), which provides Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures based on point in time estimate by Line Managers. They cover only FTE of staff with paid employment.</p><p> </p><p>The number of colleagues employed in these directorates is unpublished management information, collected and intended for internal departmental use and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. As the Department holds the information, we have released it.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 01/05/2024 14:41:43 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1713082

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how frequently HM Revenue and Customs provides his Department with earnings alerts on potential overpayments of carer’s allowance.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	23250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>HMRC provides DWP with 4 daily alerts to changes of earnings, based off a set of business logic/rules which covers Carers Allowance, Housing Benefit and Pension Credit. The earnings notified do not take account of allowable expenses which people in receipt of Carer’s Allowance may wish to deduct.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 01/05/2024 16:46:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1713083

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many potential cases of overpayments of carer’s allowance were flagged by the Verified Earnings and Pensions service system in each of the last five financial years; and how many such cases were investigated in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	23251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Rounded</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The number of cases flagged as potentially in need of investigation by the VEPs system</p></td><td><p>91,000</p></td><td><p>73,000</p></td><td><p>96,000</p></td><td><p>107,000</p></td><td><p>67,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The number of cases investigated</p></td><td><p>35,000</p></td><td><p>38,000</p></td><td><p>46,000</p></td><td><p>50,000</p></td><td><p>35,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 01/05/2024 14:22:48 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1713085

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many carer’s allowance overpayments over (a) £5,000 and (b) £20,000 there were in (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	23252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>We recognise the significant contribution of carers to supporting those most in need, which is why we have increased Carer's Allowance by almost £1,500 since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>As with all DWP benefits, claimants have a responsibility to ensure they are entitled to the benefit they claim and to inform the DWP of any changes in their circumstances that could impact their award. For Carer’s Allowance, eligibility is partly dependent upon claimants earning £151 or less a week after tax, National Insurance and allowable expenses. This is set out at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/eligibility" target="_blank">Carer's Allowance: Eligibility - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Where overpayments do occur due to not being entitled to the benefit, the Department has a duty to the taxpayer to protect public funds and to ask for money to be paid back. We remain committed to working with anyone who is struggling with their repayment terms and will always look to negotiate sustainable and affordable repayment plans.</p><p> </p><p>Our most recent statistics show that Carer's Allowance overpayments relating to earnings/employment represents 2.1% of our £3.3bn Carer’s Allowance expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested has been provided in the table below.</p><p /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Carer’s Allowance Overpayment Value Grouping</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£5000.00 - £20,000.00</p></td><td><p>1,310</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £20,000.00</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>1,370</p></td><td><p>1,340</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The data has been sourced from internal DWP management information, which is intended only to help the Department to manage its business. It is not intended for publication and has not been subject to the same quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Note that the year relates to when the debt was raised on Debt Manager, and therefore not necessarily the period as to when Carer’s Allowance was overpaid. The overpayments may span periods of many years.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 01/05/2024 15:36:42 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson