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date	13/01/2020
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, how many universal credit claimants did not receive their December payment before Christmas day 2019.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	2679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested surrounding the volume of Faster Payments made on 24 December 2019 is not readily available and to provide it would incur a disproportionate cost to the Department.</p><p>Universal Credit payments are issued on the same date every month throughout the year. This helps to ensure claimants manage a household budget effectively by knowing when to expect their payment.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s banking system identifies when a payment date falls on a bank holiday or weekend, and will automatically issue the payment on the last working day before the bank holiday or weekend to ensure that claimants are not disadvantaged.</p><p> </p><p>We have substantial experience of making alternative payment arrangements where necessary, and publicise any changes through channels including Jobcentres and online at GOV.UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 2680 2681 3293 question first answered 21/01/2020 18:20:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1151064

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) people and (b) women have been imprisoned by Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales for the non-payment of TV licence evasion fines in each month in (i) each year since 1995 and (ii) 2019 to date.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	2679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the table attached. Furthermore, Sentencing is a matter for independent judges who take the full facts of each case into account.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 3552 question first answered 28/10/2019 16:35:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ 2679_reply.xlsx title Table
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman