Tag: Baroness Manzoor

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2016-04-21.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, how many times official errors have resulted in (1) underpayment, or (2) non-payment, of (a) Jobseekers’ Allowance, (b) Employment and Support Allowance, (c) Universal Credit, (d) Housing Benefit, and (e) Income Support, in each local authority in the UK.

Lord Freud

DWP is unable to provide a breakdown of the number of official errors at the Local Authority level. This is because the estimation of the rate and monetary value of official errors in a particular benefit is based on a sample of cases rather than the entire caseload for that benefit, and this sample is not large enough to split at the Local Authority level.

DWP does not gather information on the number of children in a household when evaluating the rate of fraud and error in any particular benefit.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2016-04-21.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each of the last three years, how many households containing children had an underpayment or non-payment of benefit as a result of official error.

Lord Freud

DWP is unable to provide a breakdown of the number of official errors at the Local Authority level. This is because the estimation of the rate and monetary value of official errors in a particular benefit is based on a sample of cases rather than the entire caseload for that benefit, and this sample is not large enough to split at the Local Authority level.

DWP does not gather information on the number of children in a household when evaluating the rate of fraud and error in any particular benefit.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2016-04-28.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) women, and (2) men, had jobs paid below £10,000 per annum in (a) 2013–14, and (b) 2014–15.

Lord Bridges of Headley

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2016-04-28.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) women, and (2) men, worked in part-time jobs in (a) 2013–14, and (b) 2014–15.

Lord Bridges of Headley

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2016-06-13.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many civil servants involved in the delivery of Universal Credit have left the Department for Works and Pensions in each of the last five years; how large is the team working on Universal Credit delivery; and how many people involved in the delivery team when it was originally created remain within the department.

Lord Freud

Universal Credit rollout started in April 2013. At the same time the Universal Credit Directorate was established within Operations, to deliver Universal Credit with 80 paid employees.

AT 31^st March 2016, the Universal Credit Directorate consisted of 4,295 paid employees.

The numbers of Universal Credit Directorate employees who have left DWP since April 2013 are as follows:

Of the original 80 employees who were part of Universal Credit Directorate in April 2013, 67 are still employed by DWP.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2016-06-13.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many council tenants in receipt of Universal Credit were in rent arrears in (1) 2014, and (2) 2015; and how many are currently in arrears.

Lord Freud

The Department holds a range of information relating to Universal Credit and housing but do not hold the information you have requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2016-06-13.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of the Universal Credit claimants currently in rent arrears did not have a record of being behind with their payments before moving to Universal Credit.

Lord Freud

The Department holds a range of information relating to Universal Credit and housing but do not hold the information you have requested.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2015-10-19.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) children, (2) kinship carers, and (3) victims of domestic violence, they estimate will be affected by limiting the child element of tax credits to the first two children.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley

This information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.