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982918

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date	08/10/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2018 to Question HL9912 on universal credit, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the steps that the Government is taking to ensure the accuracy of the electronic verification of universal credit claimants who meet the eligibility criteria for free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	175951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department works closely with the Department for Education (DfE) to assist it deliver its Free School Meals policy.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with DfE over the transfer of data from the Universal Credit system to the Passported Benefits Eligibility checking system. Data is received from the Universal Credit system, on a daily basis. This means that the data is at most 23 hours and 59 minutes old, depending on when the claimant / agent last updated the record.</p><p> </p><p>If a claimant has an open Universal Credit full service claim their take home pay is compared against the earning threshold. As a safeguard for claimants who have fluctuating earnings, the take-home pay is checked going back up to 3 months. In these cases, the take-home pay is aggregated to give an amount for use in the eligibility calculation.</p><p> </p><p>DfE have processes in place to inform and deal with delays to ensure no claimants lose out as a result of this.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/10/2018 09:27:44 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

982942

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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: Preston
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of delays in the payment of universal credit benefits on (a) food bank use and (b) child poverty levels in Preston.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	175952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Under the legacy system £2.4 billion of benefits did not get paid at all because claimants could not navigate the complexity of the system. Universal Credit puts this right, ensuring this money goes to 700,000 claimants who need it.</p><p> </p><p>There are many and varied reasons why people use food banks and it is misleading to link this to any single cause. People on Universal Credit move into work faster and stay in work longer. Work offers families the best opportunity to move out of poverty and Universal Credit strengthens incentives for parents to move into and progress in work. There are 300,000 fewer children in absolute poverty compared with 2010 – a record low.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/10/2018 11:45:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

982976

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the new school funding formula on primary schools in Lancashire; and how many schools will receive (a) increased funding and (b) reduced funding compared with the 2017-18 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	175954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>Under the national funding formula (NFF) all schools, including primary schools in Lancashire, will attract at least 1% more funding per pupil in 2019-20 compared to 2017-18, up from 0.5% this year.</p><p> </p><p>Based on 2019-20 notional NFF allocations, 372 primary schools in Lancashire will attract an overall increase in funding, and 110 schools will see a decrease. Because we update allocations based on the latest pupil data, including increases and decreases in pupil numbers, some schools attract less than in previous years.</p><p> </p><p>Overall, primary schools in Lancashire will attract an average of £4,111 per pupil in 2019-20, which is an increase of 2.3% or an additional £92 per pupil, compared to 2017-18 funding levels.</p><p> </p><p>To provide stability, local authorities continue to be responsible for distributing the funding they receive through the NFF to schools in their areas. This means the actual amount that schools receive may differ from the amount they attract through the NFF.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 18/10/2018 14:09:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 78768 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

983352

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure that charities suspected of extremist activities are not able to register with the Charities Commission.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	175965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is determined to defeat extremism in all its forms and cut off the funding for it, which is why we conducted a review of the funding of Islamist extremism in the UK. The review found that the majority of Islamist extremist funding comes from private charitable donations in the UK; and that some extremist organisations seek to avoid regulatory oversight.</p><p>The Government’s response therefore includes working with the Charity Commission to increase the proportion of organisations registered as charities; and encourage the public to carefully consider the credentials of the organisations they donate to.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 18/10/2018 12:11:28 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

983358

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of reasons for the recent rise in recorded hate crimes; and whether the Government has plans to identify crimes committed against people from alternative sub-cultures as hate crimes.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	175967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2018 answer text <p>The increases in recorded hate crime is thought to be driven by general improvements by the police in how they record crime, better identification of hate crimes, willingness of victims to come forward, and a genuine increase in these offences around certain events such as the EU Referendum and the terrorist attacks in 2017.</p><p>We have recently published a refreshed Hate Crime Action Plan. As part of this, we have asked the Law Commission to undertake a review of the coverage and approach of current hate crime legislative provisions. This will include consideration of whether there should be additional protected characteristics, which could include alternative sub-cultures.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 18/10/2018 14:42:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick