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1131245

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date	11/06/2019
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	Universal Credit: Repayments
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 19 June 2019 to Question 260559 on universal credit, what assessment she has made of the average length of time taken to repay in full advance payments made under universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	263065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department encourages all Universal Credit claimants to actively consider how best to manage their personal budget, with additional advice and support available from work coaches and case managers. When an advance payment is appropriate, claimants decide what percentage of their expected monthly award to apply for and over what period to repay it, up to a maximum of 12 monthly instalments.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants have the ability to make the decision for themselves on the time period for repayment. Most claimants (around 85%) choose to repay their advance over a 12-month period, with others repaying in a shorter timeframe.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has taken a number of steps to ensure that advances meet the needs of claimants and that recovery arrangements are personalised and reasonable. From October 2019 we are reducing the maximum rate of deductions to 30 per cent and from October 2021 we are increasing the maximum recovery period for advances from 12 to 16 months.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/06/2019 17:00:48 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 123347 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1131367

registered interest
date	11/06/2019
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: Medical Examinations
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 June 2019 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations, what the timetable is for the conclusion of the negotiations to extend the Health and Disability Assessment Service contract; and whether she plans to place in the Library a copy of those contract terms once those negotiations have been concluded.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	263068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The negotiations to extend the Health and Disability Assessment Service contract will conclude with the signature of the contract to support the extension. On current timescales my Department expects this to be by the end of July 2019. There are currently no plans to publish a redacted version of the contract which supports this extension in the House of Commons library.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/06/2019 14:55:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1131001

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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 estimate he has made of the number of recorded hate crimes by each protected characteristic defined in the Equality Act 2010 in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	262259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales since 2011/12 in Table 2 of the Hate Crime data tables available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2017-to-2018</a>. Such data was not collected prior to 2011/12 and data for 2018/19 are due to be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/06/2019 11:32:48 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1131051

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	UK Shared Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of implications for his policies on the design of the Shared Prosperity Fund of the report entitled, Communities in Charge, published by Locality.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	262260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>Following our departure from the European Union, the Government will create the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to support those parts of our country whose economies are furthest behind.</p><p>Decisions on the quantum of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund are due to be taken following Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 13/06/2019 15:11:18 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1131052

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions the Government held with pensioner groups prior to his Department's decision to transfer responsibility for funding TV licences for people aged over 75 to the BBC.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	262261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government agreed with the BBC at the 2015 funding settlement that responsibility for the concession will transfer to the BBC in 2020. The future of the concession was a decision for the BBC. Following a public consultation, including with pensioner groups, it has decided to maintain the concession for the poorest pensioners.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/06/2019 13:56:07 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1131053

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of pensioners who will be affected by the BBC's decision to charge people aged over 75 for tv licences.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	262262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the licence fee. It estimates that 4.5 million pensioner households are eligible for the existing over 75 licence fee concession. It estimates that 900,000 households will continue to receive a free TV licence from 2020/21, rising to 1.5 million households if all pensioners eligible take up Pension Credit.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/06/2019 13:57:15 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1130743

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
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	Poverty: Children
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 trends in the level of child poverty (a) before and (b) after housing costs have been taken into account in each local authority in Wales in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	261483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of people in relative and absolute low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The number and proportion of children in low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p>3-year estimates for the proportion of children in before and after housing cost low income in the Wales region are available using the link below, in the file “children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2017-18-tables.ods”.</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip</a></p><p>Table 4.16ts shows child relative low income estimates and table 4.22ts shows child absolute low income estimates.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/06/2019 11:56:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1130744

registered interest
date	07/06/2019
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	Poverty: Children
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 housing costs on the level of child poverty; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	261484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department looks at rates of child poverty both before and after housing costs. Absolute child poverty after housing costs has reduced from 28% in 2009/10 to 26% in 2017/18. However, this is higher than the absolute child poverty rate before housing costs which was 18% in 2017/18, suggesting that housing costs have an effect on rates of children in low income households.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/06/2019 15:43:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1130542

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Digital Technology: North Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much Government funding has been made available for improving digital connectivity in North Wales each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	261114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>The total spend on improving digital connectivity as a result of the Welsh government’s Superfast programme (Superfast Cymru) in North Wales equates to £62.78 million. This is made up of contributions from the UK government, the Welsh government and the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>On 4 December 2018, Building Digital UK (BDUK) here at DCMS approved £8 million of funding for North Wales through Wave 3 of the Local Full Fibre Networks programme. This project has started to deploy fibre upgrades to 335 public buildings across six local authorities in North Wales (Gwynedd, Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighsire, Flintshire and Wrexham).</p><p> </p><p>The number of Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) vouchers requested for North Wales to date are low because of the coexistence with the previous Welsh scheme. BDUK recently launched a joint new scheme, hosted by DCMS but co-branded with the Welsh government, with the voucher values topped up by the Welsh government. The numbers for the GBVS are as follows:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Conwy 1</li><li>Denbighshire 12</li><li>Flintshire 10</li><li>Gwynedd 6</li><li>Wrexham 8</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/06/2019 15:40:26 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1130543

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has made available for renewable energy generation in each nation and region in the UK in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	261115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not collect regional funding data. However, the Government has spent a total of £30.7 billion in renewable electricity technologies since 2010. The table below shows how much was invested in each year, through the Renewable Obligation (RO), Feed in Tariff (FITS) and Contracts for Difference (CfD) schemes:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Cost (£m)</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Total over period</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RO</p></td><td><p>1,285</p></td><td><p>1,458</p></td><td><p>1,991</p></td><td><p>2,599</p></td><td><p>3,114</p></td><td><p>3,743</p></td><td><p>4,511</p></td><td><p>5,371</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FiTs</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>506</p></td><td><p>691</p></td><td><p>866</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td><td><p>1,284</p></td><td><p>1,375</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CfDs</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>544</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CfD (admin)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>1,608</p></td><td><p>2,498</p></td><td><p>3,290</p></td><td><p>3,980</p></td><td><p>4,853</p></td><td><p>5,898</p></td><td><p>7,304</p></td><td><p>30,731</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Renewables spending covered under the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme is published monthly and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rhi-mechanism-for-budget-management-estimated-commitments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rhi-mechanism-for-budget-management-estimated-commitments</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/06/2019 16:48:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 122111 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane