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752095

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Child Maintenance Service on the methods that it uses to ensure that payments are made.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	5051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service introduced collection and enforcement fees to encourage parents to make a collaborative arrangement and incentivise compliance.</p><p> </p><p>If a paying parent fails to pay on time or in full, we aim to take immediate action to re-establish compliance. If necessary we can deduct on-going maintenance and arrears directly from earnings or from solely held bank accounts.</p><p> </p><p>We also have a range of other strong civil enforcement powers including seizing property, removal of driving licences and commitment to prison.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:30:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

752096

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Children: Maintenance
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 Child Maintenance Service requiring victims of domestic violence to give their bank details to former partners on the victims' safety and peace of mind; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	5050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service understands how important it is to ensure that the system works for everyone, including victims of domestic violence and abuse. But we do not believe that a history of domestic violence and abuse has to be a barrier to using the Child Maintenance direct pay service.</p><p> </p><p>When parents have a direct pay arrangement, caseworkers can act as an intermediary and pass information between parents, including bank details, so that the parents do not need to have any contact with each other.</p><p> </p><p>They will also provide information about how to set up a bank account with a centralised sort code, which means that it gives no indication of the possible location of the account holder. Parents can also choose to have the money paid into someone else’s account.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:34:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

752103

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Lone Parents: 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 families in Scotland are lone parent families with one or more children under the age of two and subject to the benefit cap.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	5068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:35:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

752104

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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 benefit cap on food insecurity.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	5069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold any data on the effect of the benefit cap on food insecurity.</p><p> </p><p>The lower cap is still the equivalent of gross family earnings of £25k, and £29k in London. Where claimants need further financial support, Local Authorities can provide additional support through the use of Discretionary Housing Payments.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:37:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

752106

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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: Public Sector
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 make an estimate of the number of benefit claimants subject to the household benefit cap who are public sector workers subject to the one per cent pay cap.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	5071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold any data on the number of public sector workers subject to the benefit cap. Households are exempt if entitled to Working Tax Credit, (essentially, lone parents working 16 hours per week and couples working 24 hours per week between them where one partner works at least 16 hours per week) or in Universal Credit if earning £520 per month.</p><p> </p><p>Households can be exempt from the cap if they are claiming WTC and the most recent official statistics show that</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>134,000</strong> households in Great Britain have been capped since April 2013</li><li><strong>68,000</strong> households are no longer subject to cap and<strong> 29,000 of these (43%) </strong>are exempt due to working tax credit indicating they <strong>have found work.</strong></li></ul> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:28:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

752110

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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, what steps his Department has taken to improve the accuracy of the real time information it receives from HM Revenue and Customs to calculate awards of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 July 2017 to questions 4800 and 4801.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 5055 question first answered 19/07/2017 09:19:01 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752111

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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: Disability
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 make it his Department's policy to make no further cuts to disability benefits in the current Parliament.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to make any further cuts to disability benefits beyond those already legislated for.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2017 10:24:59 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752112

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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, what recent assessment he has made of the accuracy of the income data supplied through real time information by HM Revenue and Customs to calculate awards of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 July 2017 to questions 4800 and 4801.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 5044 question first answered 19/07/2017 09:19:02 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752128

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Orthopaedics: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2017 to Question 3123, what information in any format his Department holds on the number of people in England who had an operation to amputate a limb since 2010; and what psychological support is available to such people during their rehabilitation.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	5041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of people who had an operation to amputate a limb since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital regularly collects publically available information on the number of finished episodes of care involving amputation, however one person may have multiple episodes of such care.</p><p> </p><p>Rehabilitation involves a specialised multi-disciplinary team, which includes a psychologist, and counselling should be made available to any person with limb loss, but we do not collect information on the level of psychological support offered in rehabilitation.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:46:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

752129

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2017 to Question 1736, whether his Department holds any information on how much the NHS has paid private healthcare companies for the provision of (a) eating disorder and (b) mental health services since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	5004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>This data is not collected in the format requested. NHS England directly commissions specialised services for mental health and eating disorders; including those for National Health Service services in the independent sector. Other services for eating disorders and mental health services are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:38:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger