Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she will suspend all benefit debt deductions during the winter months with immediate effect.
Answered by Will Quince
DWP and HMRC currently have no plans to suspend benefit debt deductions.
There are established support processes in place for any claimants who may be experiencing financial difficulty.
Anyone unable to afford a rate of recovery proposed by DWP is encouraged to contact them so an affordable rate of repayment can be negotiated.
Anyone unable to afford a rate of recovery proposed by HMRC is encouraged to check the HMRC webpages, or contact them to see what support they can offer.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
What recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of child poverty.
Answered by Will Quince
The recent welfare changes ensure people receive the support they need in these difficult times. But we know that a child in a household where every adult is working is about 4 times less likely to be in poverty than a child in a household where nobody works. That is why we are focusing on how to support people back into work, following the outbreak.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department reported their religion as Islam in the latest period for which figures are available; what the reported ethnicity of those staff was; and how many of those staff were employed at each grade.
Answered by Mims Davies - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016-2020 set out the ambition for the Civil Service to become the most inclusive employer in the UK. We are already working towards this ambition and are embedding the commitments within Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: A Brilliant Civil Service: becoming the UK’s most inclusive employer, within our day-to-day working practices with all our customers, colleagues and partners. This includes a commitment to focus on faith and belief as part of our wider approach to inclusion.
DWP encourages all of its employees to provide details of their personal diversity information, however this action is voluntary and therefore we do not hold a complete picture of our workforce representation.
As at 30 September 2019, 46.2% of our workforce have positively shared their religious belief information, and 83.7% have shared information on their ethnicity. Due to the different reporting levels caution should be taken when drawing conclusions from this data.
Information has been provided using the 2011 Census in England and Wales 5 broad categories commonly referred to as ONS 5+1 (2011)
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Number of Muslims by Ethnicity Category and Grade as at 30 September 2019 |
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Ethnicity Category | A/AA | B/AO | C/EO | D/HEO | E/SEO | F/G7 | G/G6 | SCS | Grand Total | ||
Asian/Asian British | 6 | 583 | 685 | 79 | 25 | 11 | * | * | 1395 | ||
Black African/Caribbean/Black British |
| 15 | 27 | * | * |
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Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Group |
| 13 | 18 | * | * |
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| 36 | ||
Other Ethnic Group |
| 9 | 14 | 5 | * |
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| 32 | ||
Prefer not to say | * | 14 | 28 | * |
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White |
| 8 | 19 | * | * | * |
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Not Recorded |
| 35 | 41 | * |
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Grand Total | * | 677 | 832 | 96 | 33 | * | 5 | * | 1664 | ||
* in line with Office of National Statistics guidance, the data has been suppressed where less than 5 people have contributed a response.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many EU nationals who live abroad claim UK state pension in each non-UK EU country; and what the total value is of these payments annually.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The UK State Pension is paid worldwide to those who are eligible. Entitlement to State Pension is based not on nationality but on a person’s national insurance contributions record. Therefore, from the information we hold on those in receipt of the UK State Pension in EU countries we cannot separately identify EU and UK nationals. In addition, we do not hold information on pension entitlements administered by other EU countries.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK pensioners who live outside the UK receive pensions from other EU countries; and how many receive such entitlements from each other EU country.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The UK State Pension is paid worldwide to those who are eligible. Entitlement to State Pension is based not on nationality but on a person’s national insurance contributions record. Therefore, from the information we hold on those in receipt of the UK State Pension in EU countries we cannot separately identify EU and UK nationals. In addition, we do not hold information on pension entitlements administered by other EU countries.