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175164

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the statement in his Department's strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 scheme administered by the Child Maintenence Service (CMS) that the strategic management information reporting capability of a new Data Warehouse would be available from 2014, what the latest timetable is for the managed process of the release of fully assured statistics on the performance of the CMS.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	221675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Development of a data warehouse capability is being implemented in stages, the first stage of this for CMS 2012 management information is expected for delivery later in 2015 with subsequent stages thereafter. In the meantime management information developed from relevant interim statistics have been released as Experimental Official Statistics and these will continue to be built on and assured.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 26/01/2015 15:10:01 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

175168

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it remains his estimate that the number of claimants of universal credit will reach 100,000 by May 2015, as forecast on page 30 of his Department's document Universal Credit at work, published in October 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The latest forecast agreed with OBR still rounds to 0.1 million cases as set out in Universal Credit at Work.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 26/01/2015 17:11:33 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

175171

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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 20 January 2015 to Question 220893, which aspects of the new closer working between jobcentres and Work Programme prime providers are improving relationships between them.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Because of the closer working approach, Jobcentre Plus and Benefit Delivery Centre representatives now meet with Work Programme performance managers prior to the monthly contract performance review meetings with providers. These meetings allow representatives to agree performance issues for discussion with the provider.</p><p> </p><p>Work Programme providers and Jobcentre Plus have worked together since the start of the programme. In January 2013, as part of our commitment to continuous improvement we called for the development of closer working with providers to help the programme progress and achieve mutual objectives. Statistical releases have shown that performance has continually improved since the programme was introduced in June 2011.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 221550 question first answered 26/01/2015 17:42:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

175172

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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 20 January 2015 to Question 220893, when the new closer working approach was introduced; and what figures he plans to use to measure that approach's effectiveness.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Because of the closer working approach, Jobcentre Plus and Benefit Delivery Centre representatives now meet with Work Programme performance managers prior to the monthly contract performance review meetings with providers. These meetings allow representatives to agree performance issues for discussion with the provider.</p><p> </p><p>Work Programme providers and Jobcentre Plus have worked together since the start of the programme. In January 2013, as part of our commitment to continuous improvement we called for the development of closer working with providers to help the programme progress and achieve mutual objectives. Statistical releases have shown that performance has continually improved since the programme was introduced in June 2011.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 221549 question first answered 26/01/2015 17:42:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

174817

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Winter Fuel Payment: 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, if he will take steps to ensure that UK pensioners living in France receive winter fuel payments when the temperature where they live is below freezing.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	221343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Winter Fuel Payments are intended to give older people in the UK reassurance that they can keep warm during cold weather. Winter Fuel Payments are payable to UK pensioners in France, however this will end from September 2015. Winter Fuel Payments are not triggered by temperature either in the UK or abroad.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/01/2015 11:24:30 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

174818

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Separated People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether an external evaluator has been appointed to provide an independent assessment of the 17 Innovation Fund projects set up under the Help for Separated Families initiative to establish what works in assisting separated parents to co-operate in the interests of their children; when it is planned that that evaluation process will take place; and when it is planned that that evaluation report will be published.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	221342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>One of two evaluation partners has been appointed and we are in the process of appointing the second.</p><p> </p><p>Evaluation data continues to be collected by all of the live projects and this data will be analysed and interpreted by our independent evaluator throughout the duration of their contract into 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Results will be published after all projects have ended delivery and the external evaluator has completed their follow up work and analysis.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/01/2015 11:13:40 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

174820

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Winter Fuel Payment: 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, pursuant to the Answer to Question 220107, if he will make it his policy to exclude French Overseas Departments in the calculation of average temperature for France for the purposes of determining eligibility for winter fuel payments to UK citizens.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	221473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>It is the French Government that defines itself as the mainland and its outermost regions, and as such are included in the EU social security co-ordination regulations, used and applied by all member states.</p><p> </p><p>It is because of this that the French Overseas Departments<em> (départments d’outre mer</em> or DOMs) are treated in the same way as mainland France with regard to Winter Fuel Payments, which are currently made to those entitled who live there. Therefore, the hotter French Overseas Departments have to be included in the calculation of the average temperature of France. We are being consistent with our policy approach.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/01/2015 11:29:58 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

174822

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which areas of the UK personal independence payments natural reassessment has not yet been rolled-out.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	221352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The postcode areas where Personal Independence Payment (PIP) natural reassessment has started, or is shortly planned to start, can be found on the Gov.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pip-postcode-map-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pip-postcode-map-uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Assembly are in the process of passing the necessary legislation to introduce PIP in due course. It is a matter for the Northern Ireland Assembly how and when natural reassessment will start.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 26/01/2015 15:17:19 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

174824

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Innovation Fund
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 he has made of the effectiveness of the Youth Unemployment Innovation Fund.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Innovation Fund is being independently evaluated and the findings will be published as soon as they are available. The first qualitative research findings were published in June 2014 and found that the Innovation Fund had successfully identified and engaged some of the most disadvantaged young people in society.</p><p> </p><p>Interim impact assessment findings will be published in the summer of 2015.</p><p> </p><p>We also publish quarterly Official Statistics and those show that things are progressing well, with 15,400 young people starting participation on Innovation Fund Projects up to the end of September 2014, (which is an increase of 2,700 from March 2014), and 16,600 positive outcomes achieved up to end of September 2014 (which represents an increase of 5,400 from March 2014).</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/01/2015 13:16:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

174825

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the principal risks are which his Department has identified with respect to the national rollout of universal credit in 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In delivering the plans for Universal Credit, the Programme follows industry-standard risk management processes, through a number of governance and assurance boards, as part of the wider Departmental risk management framework. These protocols focus on managing the cumulative impact of risks on our plans for delivery. The over-arching plans for delivering Universal Credit have been assured by the Major Projects Authority (MPA) and are subject to ongoing assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/01/2015 11:07:44 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms