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100764

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) qualifications and (b) experience are required to be an adviser on the New Enterprise Allowance programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The sourcing for suitable volunteer mentors is the responsibility of New Enterprise Allowance providers. Providers must ensure that mentors have the right skills and experience to provide business mentoring and support the participants into self-employment.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 15:51:02 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100769

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mentors are working to assist the delivery of the New Enterprise Allowance.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 11:48:33 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100774

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recommendations the Work Programme Building Best Practice Group has made to help the over 50s back to work.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We will be publishing the Work Programme Building Best Practice Group report, and the department’s response to the recommendations made later on this autumn.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 11:28:06 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100535

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
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	Jobseeker's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were refused income-based jobseekers' allowance in 2013-14 as a result of their having more than £16,000 in personal savings.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/10/2014 15:07:26 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100266

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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	Work Experience
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014 to Question 209803, how many of the people undertaking work experience have since entered paid employment.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Research with claimants published earlier this year shows that 36 per cent of work experience participants were in employment at the time of interview, and 42 per cent had at least been in employment at some point (even if they were not at the time of the interview).</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284017/rr865-youth-contract-customer-experiences.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284017/rr865-youth-contract-customer-experiences.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/10/2014 12:40:48 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

99955

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
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	Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2014 to Question 209722, how many work programme participants he expects to be surveyed in the evaluation he has commissioned; and what criteria he has set out for selecting those participants.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The department has commissioned a comprehensive evaluation of the Work Programme conducted by independent researchers which includes large scale participant surveys. In summer/autumn 2012 a national telephone survey that was representative of those joining the programme at that time was conducted with over 4,700 participants between six and nine months into their Work Programme journey; a follow-up survey of over 1,800 of the same participants was conducted in early 2014 when respondents had completed the two-year programme period.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/10/2014 12:41:37 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

99753

registered interest
date	17/10/2014
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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the jobseeker's allowance claimant count has been sanctioned in each month from October 2012 to date.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) sanctions each month is published at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Claimant count JSA monthly figures are published at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This information will enable you to estimate the proportion sanctioned each month.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 22/10/2014 14:48:47 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

93378

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
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 measures he uses to assess the timeliness of payments in the benefits system.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	210464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The department uses a range of metrics to track and manage timeliness of payments within the benefits system.</p><p> </p><p>Our transparency indicators also include an overall productivity measure.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 17/10/2014 13:47:58 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms