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100009

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	Unemployed People: Travel
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what financial assistance is given to help young people on benefits with the travel costs associated with attending job interviews.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL2224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>All Jobcentre Plus District Managers have access to the Flexible Support Fund, that they can use to supplement mainstream services and to tailor support to the needs of individuals and the local area. A proportion of this fund will be spent by their Work Services Teams on discretionary awards to individual claimants, which could include helping with travel costs to attend job interviews.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 23/10/2014 15:06:09 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

99947

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	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any savings an individual has accrued as a result of saving and investing lump-sum payments they have received from the Macfarlane and Eileen Trust, Macfarlane Trust, Eileen Trust or Skipton Fund are taken into account when deciding their eligibility for employment and support allowance and other welfare benefits; and whether the transfer of such savings to a dependant or partner, affects that dependant or partner's entitlement to benefits.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	211082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Payments received from Government funded Trusts and Funds may be disregarded for benefit purposes. This includes payments from the following Trusts/Funds: Macfarlane, Eileen Trust and Skipton Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Any capital resource which derives from a payment from these Trusts/Funds, such as interest, is also disregarded indefinitely.</p><p> </p><p>Money which derives from the Trusts/Funds which is transferred to a partner is disregarded indefinitely in any benefit claim made by the couple. It is also disregarded indefinitely in any claim made by the partner after the sufferer’s death providing that the couple were not estranged or divorced at the time of the death. However, money derived from the Trusts/Funds which is transferred to a dependent child or young person is not disregarded in any subsequent claim made in later life by that person.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 27/10/2014 17:55:45 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

99952

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	Employment and Support Allowance: Haemophilia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) haemophiliacs, (b) haemophiliacs with hepatitis C, (c) haemophiliacs with HIV and (d) haemophiliacs with both HIV and hepatitis C have been initially migrated from income support or incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance; how many such decisions to migrate have been overturned on appeal; how many of those migrated have been placed in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group; and how many such decisions to place those migrated in the work-related activity group have been overturned on appeal.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	211034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested for (b), (c) and (d) and the information for (a) on the number of decisions overturned on appeal is not available.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/10/2014 15:39:46 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

99953

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	Affordable Homes Bill
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 oral contribution by the Minister of State for Disabled People of 5 September 2014, Official Report, column 554, what the evidential basis is for his statement that the Affordable Homes Bill would cost about £1 billion of public expenditure.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	John Hemming
uin	211139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The calculation of the £1 billion cost of the Affordable Homes Bill was made on Thursday 4<sup>th</sup> September by Departmental Officials following an assessment of the potential effects of the provisions set out in the draft Bill at Second Reading.</p><p> </p><p>The potential cost was estimated using administrative data (Single Housing Benefit Extract) and the department’s policy simulation model.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/10/2014 11:36:09 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1483 label Biography information for John Hemming

99954

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	Employment and Support Allowance: Disqualification
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 review sanctions for employment and support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	John Hemming
uin	211164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As with all our policies, we will continue to keep the operation of the sanctions system under review to ensure that it continues to operate effectively and as fairly as possible. We also continue to make improvements as committed to in the Oakley Review.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/10/2014 11:32:18 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1483 label Biography information for John Hemming

99748

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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information will be published by his Department on take-up of the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment scheme; and at what frequency such data will be published.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	210968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>DWP will carry out an annual review of the scheme as set out within the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme Regulations 2014. The first report under this regulation will be published on or before 30<sup>th</sup> November 2015. The report will set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the scheme, include the level of take up, and assess the extent to which those objectives have been achieved over the reporting period.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/10/2014 16:03:52 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

99749

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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims made under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment scheme have been (a) submitted, (b) accepted, (c) concluded, (d) remain outstanding and (e) resulted in a payment being made.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	210969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As of 30<sup>th</sup> September 2014, the following applications have been made under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme:</p><p> </p><p>a) 173 applications have been submitted</p><p>b) 101 applications have been accepted</p><p>c) 130 applications have been concluded</p><p>(101 successful, 28 unsuccessful and 1 withdrawn)</p><p>d) 43 applications were pending decisions.</p><p>e) 88 applications have been paid.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/10/2014 15:57:23 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

99750

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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid out under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment scheme to date.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	210970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As of 30 September 2014, the cumulative total of all payments made since the scheme began is £11,013,694.48. This figure is derived from £8,633,440.75 total paid to applicants and £2,380,253.73 total paid to the DWP Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU). DMPS payments are subject to recovery following benefit legislation which provides for CRU to recover social security benefits and lump sums that were paid for the same condition.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 28/10/2014 13:56:44 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

93870

registered interest
date	16/10/2014
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	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, how many people have received compensation payments from his Department for delays to assessment and decisions for personal independence payments; and how much his Department expects to pay out in such compensation in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	210907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The reasons for making special payments are not routinely recorded and to provide the requested information would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/10/2014 16:37:45 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

93711

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
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: Bristol
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people in Bristol have enrolled in their Work Programme; and how many of those, after six months, were not in employment, education or training.
tabling member printed	Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
uin	HL2140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The number of people in Bristol City Local Authority who have been referred to the Work Programme up to and including June 2014 is 13,060.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>This information is published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on those not in employment, education or training after six months on the Work Programme, is not available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/11/2014 14:01:58 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3703 label Biography information for Baroness Royall of Blaisdon