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349902

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
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 effect of the two year freeze on benefit levels on (a) young adults, (b) pregnant women, (c) couples with children, (d) formerly looked after children, (e) veterans and (f) disabled people; and what estimate he has made of the real terms effect on the levels of each type of benefit of that freeze.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	2236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government takes into account likely impacts as part of its policy development process and will publish an impact assessment in due course.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 17/06/2015 15:06:35 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

349903

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
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	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, if he will take steps to ensure planned changes to entitlements to housing benefit and local housing allowance do not adversely affect (a) young adults, (b) formerly looked after children, (c) pregnant women, (d) couples with children, (e) veterans and (f) disabled people.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	2235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Any changes to Housing Benefit policy will be subject to a full policy equality assessment to ascertain the impacts on protected groups and ensure compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 11:50:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

349904

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Scotland
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 Scotland are not claiming what value of each benefit and pension entitlement; what proportion of each benefit and pension entitlement is unclaimed by claimants in Scotland; and if he will take steps to transfer the value of unclaimed benefits and pension entitlements to the Scottish Government.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	2275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Estimates of benefit take-up are not available at geographies below Great Britain. This is due to the size of the survey sample they are based on and methods used to generate robust national figures.</p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation at July 2012 on the future on the “Income Related Benefits: Estimates for Take-Up” National Statistics series, DWP are planning to publish Experimental Statistics on benefit take-up rates. Further details are available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-201213-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-201213-experimental</a></p><p> </p><p>In February 2012 the Department for Work and Pensions published the report “Income Related Benefits: Estimates of Take-up in 2009-10”. The full report can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/06/2015 11:49:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

349905

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, with reference to the statement by the Economic Secretary to the Treasury of 10 June 2015, if he will take steps to (a) ensure the Royal Bank of Scotland continues to meet the commitments in its 14 Point Customer Charter and (b) prevent the closure of Royal Bank of Scotland branches in Invergordon, Lochinver and Lybster.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	2274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>The 14 Point Customer Charter was a commitment set out by RBS following an internal RBS review to improve customer service.</p><p>The Government welcomed the industry-wide Access to Banking protocol announced in March 2015. From the first of May this year, a bank must carry out a number of steps if it is closing a branch. The steps include establishing the impact of a branch closure before it takes place; finding suitable alternative provision; and putting satisfactory alternative measures in place before a branch is closed.</p><p>The UK government recognises the concerns for consumers and small businesses that branch closures continue to play in affected communities and wrote to the British Bankers’ Association to set out our expectations around effective compliance with the bank branch closure protocol.</p><p>The full text of the joint-letter by the Economic Secretary to the Treasury Harriett Baldwin MP and the Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise Anna Soubry MP can found at the following:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/452900/Letter-from-Anna-Soubry-and-Harriet-Baldwin-to-British-Bankers-Association-branch-closures.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/452900/Letter-from-Anna-Soubry-and-Harriet-Baldwin-to-British-Bankers-Association-branch-closures.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 10/09/2015 14:58:06 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell previous answer version 5608 answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

349906

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
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 is taking to ensure all people entitled to benefits and not claiming those benefits are identified and assisted in claiming those benefits.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	2273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 10 February 2015 to Question <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;uin=223115" target="_blank">UIN 223115</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/06/2015 11:42:50 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan