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1402331

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential for the kickstart scheme to fill vacancies in the haulage sector.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	102641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676" target="_blank">87676</a> for a recent breakdown of Kickstart jobs made available and started by sector. This shows that as of 5<sup>th</sup> December 6,260 Kickstart jobs were made available within the delivery and storage sector (the nearest applicable sector category), and 3,180 of these jobs had been started by young people.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are categorised by the nature of the role rather than the sector of the employer. This means for example, that an administrative job within the haulage sector would be categorised as ‘administrative’, rather than ‘haulage’.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are additional and must not displace existing opportunities within the wider labour market. We continue to support employers to fill available jobs including those within the haulage sector for the remainder of the Kickstart Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, DWP are working with the haulage industry, and the Department for Transport, to provide our work coaches with the knowledge they need to identify suitable candidates and to develop relationships with key employers in their local areas. As a result, local jobcentres are now directly connecting with employers in their area, to discuss their recruitment needs enabling them to provide young people with the skills and knowledge they need to enter the sector.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/01/2022 18:12:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1402335

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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	Kickstart Scheme: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social care providers have signed up to provide placements as part of the kickstart scheme.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	102643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given for PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676" target="_blank">87676</a> for a recent breakdown of Kickstart jobs made available and started by sector. This shows that as of 5<sup>th</sup> December 2021, 4,740 Kickstart jobs within the social care sector were made available for young people to apply to and that 1,840 Kickstart jobs had been started by young people.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are categorised by the nature of the role rather than the sector of the employer. This means for example, that an administrative job within the social care sector would be categorised as ‘administrative’, rather than ‘social care’. Therefore, it’s likely that there are a number of other jobs with social care providers that have been categorised within other sectors.</p><p> </p><p>We do not centrally collate information regarding jobs filled or advertised in the social care sector. To gather this would require each Kickstart application to be reviewed to ascertain the principle activities of each employer, which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are additional and must not displace existing opportunities within the wider labour market. We continue to support employers to fill available jobs including those within the care sector for the remainder of the Kickstart Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, DWP are working with the social care industry, and the Department of Health and Social Care, to provide our Work Coaches with the knowledge they need to identify suitable candidates and to develop relationships with social care employers in their local areas. As a result, local jobcentres are now directly connecting with employers in their area, to discuss their recruitment needs.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 102644 question first answered 17/01/2022 18:06:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1402336

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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	Kickstart Scheme: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential for the Government's Kickstart scheme to fill vacancies in the social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	102644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given for PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676" target="_blank">87676</a> for a recent breakdown of Kickstart jobs made available and started by sector. This shows that as of 5<sup>th</sup> December 2021, 4,740 Kickstart jobs within the social care sector were made available for young people to apply to and that 1,840 Kickstart jobs had been started by young people.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are categorised by the nature of the role rather than the sector of the employer. This means for example, that an administrative job within the social care sector would be categorised as ‘administrative’, rather than ‘social care’. Therefore, it’s likely that there are a number of other jobs with social care providers that have been categorised within other sectors.</p><p> </p><p>We do not centrally collate information regarding jobs filled or advertised in the social care sector. To gather this would require each Kickstart application to be reviewed to ascertain the principle activities of each employer, which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are additional and must not displace existing opportunities within the wider labour market. We continue to support employers to fill available jobs including those within the care sector for the remainder of the Kickstart Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, DWP are working with the social care industry, and the Department of Health and Social Care, to provide our Work Coaches with the knowledge they need to identify suitable candidates and to develop relationships with social care employers in their local areas. As a result, local jobcentres are now directly connecting with employers in their area, to discuss their recruitment needs.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 102643 question first answered 17/01/2022 18:06:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1401976

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the number of complaints made about her Department accepted by the Independent Case Examiner has increased over the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	101734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>The Independent Case Examiner (ICE) plays an important role in responding to complaints about the Department, where the customer remains dissatisfied with DWP’s final response, and there are a variety of factors that can influence the numbers of complaints accepted by the ICE office.</p><p> </p><p>As yet, it is too early to draw any firm conclusions about what may have caused any increase in complaints being accepted by ICE over the last 12 months, but we continue to monitor escalation rates closely and work with the ICE office to identify and address potential drivers.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/01/2022 14:23:50 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1401281

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to introduce a secure electronic system that will enable British citizens living overseas to submit documentary evidence as proof of entitlement particularly in relation to pensions.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Allan Dorans
uin	100692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>DWP already uses a secure electronic system to allow customers to upload certain categories of evidence to the department.</p><p> </p><p>We have been carrying out extensive research to expand this capability to cover other services such as pensions. Our expectation is that this capability will possibly be available towards the end of the next financial year 2022/3.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/01/2022 14:08:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4740 label Biography information for Allan Dorans

1401503

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
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	Jobcentres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish opening dates for each of her Department's confirmed temporary job centres.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	100665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The Department has published the list of temporary Jobcentres on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic</a> and, in the next week, opening dates will be included for those sites that have already opened. The Department will continue to update <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic</a> as more sites open. The date a site opens is dependent on a number of factors including, but not limited to, lease signing dates, planning approvals and completion of the building work required.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/01/2022 18:06:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1400716

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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	Admiral Group: Newport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact on the employment rate in Newport West constituency of the Welsh-based financial services company Admiral closing its Newport office.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	99378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>Where redundancies do occur, the Department for Work and Pensions’ Rapid Response Service (RRS) works to address the effects of job losses on individuals and on the local community. The RRS work with employers to deliver flexible, timely, and appropriate support for them and their employees and help individuals secure a job or move into self-employment quickly and ideally without the need to claim welfare benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The RRS is available to private and public sector employers. Third sector employers are also eligible where the job losses affect paid workers. The RRS support can start when people are under threat of redundancy or during the period of notice.</p><p> </p><p>Where individuals have not found alternative work before they lose their job, RRS support can continue for a further 13 weeks whether they make a claim for benefits or not. This is in addition to the ongoing support provided by DWP for claimants moving them forward in their journey closer to/back into employment.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has provided additional support to help people into work since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, through our Plan for Jobs, including recruiting an additional 13,500 Work Coaches to provide support to unemployed people to find a job, and launching new schemes like Kickstart, Restart and Sector Work Academies Programmes.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/01/2022 18:02:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1400737

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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	Personal Independence Payment: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what procedures are in place to ensure people with uncontrolled epilepsy are assessed accurately when making a personal independence payment claim.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	99409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>All Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Health Professionals (HPs) complete training on neurological conditions, including epilepsy. HPs maintain knowledge through Continuing Professional Development Activity.</p><p> </p><p>All claimants, including claimants with epilepsy are assessed in accordance with the DWP PIP Assessment Guide.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/01/2022 11:59:35 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1400738

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what procedures are in place to ensure people with hidden disabilities are assessed accurately in telephone assessments when making (a) a personal independence payment and (b) universal credit claim.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	99410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>All Healthcare Professionals (HPs) have extensive and rigorous training in undertaking assessments.</p><p> </p><p>Each referral is initially reviewed by a HP, if there is sufficient supporting evidence to provide paper based advice to the department, the HP will assess the claimant on this evidence alone. If they cannot, the claimant will be invited to attend a telephone, video or face to face assessment.</p><p> </p><p>All claimants, including those with hidden disabilities, are assessed in accordance with the PIP Assessment Guide for Providers or Work Capability Assessment Handbook.</p><p> </p><p>We have continuously improved our processes and guidance to minimise the number of customers for whom a telephone or video assessment is not suitable. In such instances, these claimants will be prioritised for a face to face assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/01/2022 14:51:02 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1400778

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people placed on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme whose income fell below the Lower Earnings Limit and as a result have gaps in their National Insurance contributions that will affect their state pension entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	99348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>Where the furlough scheme operated, individuals may have also been entitled to claim Universal Credit. Those eligible for Universal Credit will have had a National Insurance credit applied to their record for this period, protecting their future State Pension entitlement. There may also be people whose total income across a tax year meant that they received a National Insurance qualifying year, even if there were periods where their earnings were below the Lower Earnings Limit.</p><p> </p><p>There are a wide range of National Insurance credits available, ensuring people can achieve the best possible State Pension outcome when they reach State Pension age.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/01/2022 14:03:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth