Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 24 June 2014.

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  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of outstanding child maintenance arrears currently owed by non-resident parents with a weekly assessment value set at zero are...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in how many Child Support Agency cases there are (a) non-resident parents with a nil liability at present but at least one child of qualifying...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of the total Child Support Agency arrears owed to parents with care is regarded as (a) potentially collectable and (b) likely...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what timetable he has set for the closure of Child Support Agency cases which do not form part of the agency's current live caseload; (2)...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many calls the Child Maintenance Options Service received in each month in the last year.

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what contingency arrangements have been put in place by the Department's Child Maintenance Group to ensure that the Child Maintenance Options...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in how many cases child support arrears have been written off under the Child Support Management of Payments and Arrears (Amendment)...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library and publish the tender and bid for the Child Maintenance Options contract.

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the Government will receive from deductions of charges and from charges for enforcement action in child maintenance cases under the...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the cost of (a) the tender and bid process for the Child Maintenance Options contract, (b) his Department assisting G4S to...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for what reasons the G4S contract to provide the Child Maintenance Options programme was underestimated; for what reasons staff in his...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in his Department have been asked to assist G4S in the delivery of the new Child Maintenance Options scheme to date; how many...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the Government expect to receive from (a) the 20 per cent deduction from the child maintenance payment of the paying parent and (b)...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he last reviewed the level of income disregard threshold for employment and support allowance.

  • Employment Schemes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 813-4W, on social security benefits, what estimate his Department has made...

  • Employment Schemes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 813-4W, on social security benefits, what estimate he has made of the...

  • Employment: Private Sector

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of recent trends in employment in the private sector.

  • Independent Living Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of the closure of the Independent Living Fund.

  • Independent Living Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate he has made of the proportion of Independent Living Fund recipients who will have their care and support budget (a)...

  • Independent Living Fund: Birmingham

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of (a) how many disabled people in Birmingham, Hall Green constituency will be affected by the closure of the...

  • Jobcentre Plus

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the additional costs to claimants living in rural communities of travel to attend jobcentre interviews for (a)...

  • Jobseeker's Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether jobseekers must declare casual income earned during a sanction period once their jobseeker's allowance claim is resumed; and whether...

  • Jobseeker's Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants had uninterrupted work records of (a) two years and (b) five years at the start...

  • Legal Opinion

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on external legal advice in each of the last three years.

  • Maternity Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many women received maternity allowance in the last year for which figures are available; what the average length of time they received it...

  • National Insurance: Asylum

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure that asylum seekers are able to receive a national insurance number without unnecessary delay.

  • Nurseries

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of (a) staff in his Department and (b) members of the public who use his Department’s on-site...

  • Nurseries

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of his Department's Child Maintenance Group on-site nurseries are due to close from September 2014; and what the location of each such...

  • Nurseries

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of (a) the number and (b) the cost of staff redundancies resulting from the closure of his Department’s on-site...

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure that personal independence payment applicants do not suffer financial hardship due to delays deciding their...

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to improve the personal independence claims and decision-making process.

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimates his Department has made of how many people previously on disability living allowance have had their claim for personal...

  • Personal Independence Payment: Glasgow

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he expects the claim by E. Stewart of Christchurch, ref POS(5)10870/552, for a personal independence payment which was received by the...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department has spent assisting people with the costs of (a) travel to interview and (b) clothing for interviews or to commence...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the saving was to the public purse from the reduction of (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit for individuals...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the date of the oldest outstanding claim for (a) jobseeker’s allowance and (b) employment and support allowance at each Jobcentre...

  • Social Security Benefits: Asylum

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he has taken to ensure that asylum seekers receive the benefits to which they are entitled.

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people claiming universal credit were (a) unemployed and (b) self-employed in the most recent period for which information is available.

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has given to the tribunals service of how many appeals will be brought by universal credit claimants in each of the next five...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of partners in small businesses who will apply for universal credit; and what steps such people need to...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has to merge the two IT systems being developed by his Department to deliver universal credit; and if he will make a statement.

  • Work Capability Assessment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make it his policy that reminders should be sent by text or other telephonic means informing people of the date, time and location...