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date	29/01/2019
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: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Buscombe on 14 January (HL12638) and 22 January (HL12887), whether they will now answer the question asked, namely, why they no longer record centrally the information on domestic violence easements provided in the answer of the Minister of State for Employment on 10 February 2015 (HC223651).
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL13227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department still collects centrally information on domestic violence easements for Job Seeker Allowance claimants. However, this data is not considered robust enough to report in Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>Since the introduction of Universal Credit, it has not been possible for the Department to report specific easements applied to individual claimants. This is because this has not been included in the Universal Credit Management Information build. We are committed to gathering better data to support claimants with complex needs and have registered this as part of the wider work programme for the Universal Credit, anything we do will be introduced incrementally and could be broad across complex needs rather than focusing on one particular group.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 05/02/2019 12:33:50 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1042896

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
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: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Buscombe on 14 January (HL12638) and the Minister of State for Employment on 10 February 2015 (HC223651), why they no longer record information on domestic violence easements centrally.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL12887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>DWP is committed to providing the best possible support for all our claimants, including the most vulnerable in society. This includes those who are, or have been, victims of domestic abuse.</p><p> </p><p>We provide a tailored service that recognises those with complex needs at any point through-out their journey and ensures appropriate support is quickly made available: a fundamental principle in the operational delivery of UC.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with Refuge and Women’s Aid to improve the training provided to our staff, which means that Departmental training and awareness is now better than it ever has been, allowing Jobcentre staff to proactively identify, support and signpost victims of abuse.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 22/01/2019 16:08:02 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1036996

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 18 December 2018 (HL12153, HL12154, HL12155) and the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Employment on 10 February 2015 (HC223651), whether they have stopped recording information on domestic violence easements since 2015; and, if not, whether they are now able to answer the question originally put.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL12638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not centrally record information on specific easements applied to individual claimants.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 14/01/2019 13:41:41 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1017064

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Bill for Survivors, published by Women’s Aid, and its proposal that they should have a statutory duty to “assess all welfare reforms for their impact on survivors’ ability to escape abuse”.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL11909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that domestic abuse is a devastating crime that shatters the lives of victims and families. It is vital that the response to domestic abuse supports victims and survivors, pursues perpetrators and ensures agencies provide an effective service.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will be publishing a landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill, which will help transform our response to the crime. We will have pledged to create a statutory Government definition of domestic abuse, introduce new Domestic Abuse Protection Orders and establish a Domestic Abuse Commissioner.</p><p> </p><p>DWP policies are subject to appraisal and impact assessment in line with HM Treasury Green Book guidance. The Department is required under the Public Sector Equality Duty to assess the impact of specific policies on ‘protected groups’ including by gender, age, race and disability, and where relevant this requirement is met by the conducting of equality impact assessments. We have no current plans separately to consider domestic abuse.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 10/12/2018 15:13:18 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

872997

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many separate bank accounts have been established in the last 12 months for benefit claimants suffering from domestic violence.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL6680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. DWP statisticians are currently working to develop official statistics on Alternative Payment Arrangements for Universal Credit (UC) which will include information on split payments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 12/04/2018 14:45:48 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley