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	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people with a disability living in poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	243357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of people with a disability living in poverty, are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures can be found using the link below, in table 7b, in the file “summary-hbai-1994-95-2017-18-tables.ods”.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/04/2019 15:21:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

516364

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	ASW: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when (a) he and (b) Ministers of his Department last met representatives of former members of the Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	35947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>All Ministerial meetings with external parties are recorded on the Cabinet Office website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/05/2016 13:23:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

516367

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	ASW: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average value was of payments made under the Financial Assistance Scheme to former members of Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	35948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/05/2016 13:35:16 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

443341

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2016
	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	AWE: Explosives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive was notified of any cases of non-compliance with explosives labelling regulations at the Atomic Weapons Establishment during 2015 on which action was subsequently taken to address this situation.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	21557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>No notifications of non-compliance with explosives labelling regulations were received from AWE during 2015, and therefore no regulatory action was required.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/01/2016 14:29:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

443340

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2016
	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	AWE: Safety Measures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the investigation conducted by the Office for Nuclear Regulation into the operability and availability of fire detection systems at the Atomic Weapons Establishment has been completed.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	21559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>The investigation conducted by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) into the operability and availability of fire detection systems at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) was completed in August 2014.</p><br /><p>The investigation was instigated after AWE reported two events to ONR during February 2014 related to fire alarm and detection system failures, one concerning a facility at the Aldermaston site and the other a facility at the Burghfield site. Investigations of these events by AWE uncovered a configuration issue with a system in a third facility.</p><br /><p>ONR’s investigation identified concerns regarding the competency of the maintainers, the delivery and recording of the maintenance and the configuration of the fire alarm and detection systems with regard to their required safety function.</p><br /><p>ONR subsequently wrote to AWE requesting an improvement programme to address these matters, and has since been monitoring AWE’s progress against a comprehensive improvement programme agreed between ONR and AWE. AWE advised ONR in October 2015 that the improvement programme had been completed. This was confirmed by ONR following an intervention in December 2015.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/01/2016 14:44:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

1237609

	registered interest
	date	24/09/2020
	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	Access to 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 estimate she has made of the number of people who have received Access to Work grants in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	95225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2020 answer text <p>The 2019/20 Access to Work statistics show that over 43,000 people with disabilities and health conditions are receiving tailored and flexible support to do their job.</p><p> </p><p>During this period Access to Work has continued to expand its reach to underrepresented groups including those with Mental Health conditions, seeing the highest ever number of people approved for support: up 95% on the previous year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Full details of Access to Work expenditure is published here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/915547/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2020-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/915547/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2020-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/09/2020 15:39:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1237610

	registered interest
	date	24/09/2020
	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	Access to 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 plans she has to promote the Access to Work grant scheme.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	95226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2020 answer text <p>The Access to Work grant scheme has recently been extended in response to the Coronavirus outbreak, and now includes support for working from home, travel costs where public transport cannot be used, and for personal protective equipment. We’re currently delivering a communications plan to promote the extended flexible Access to Work offer and aim to reach disabled people through various communications channels. We’ve very recently promoted the flexible offer through national DWP/Local JCP social media channels, through a proactive press release, and amongst key stakeholders through newsletters and articles. In addition to these channels, we will continue to communicate through our Disability Confident employer network (18k+ employers), to our employer partnership and job centre plus teams to promote the Access to Work grant scheme available throughout the coronavirus outbreak. We’ll be monitoring the requirement for future communications to promote Access to Work dependent on the demand for grants. This will be ongoing throughout the remainder of this year and into 2021.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/09/2020 15:40:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1226968

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2020
	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	Access to 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 recent estimate her Department has made of the average length of time taken by her Department to process an Access to Work scheme application from a disabled person; and what the longest average length of time taken by her Department has been to process an Access to Work scheme application from a disabled person since 19 December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	77706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/09/2020 16:09:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1226971

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2020
	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	Access to Work Programme
	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 who applied to the Access to Work scheme in the last 12 months (a) classified themselves as disabled or with a long-term health condition, (b) were in full-time employment at the time of their application and (c) were asking to work from home as part of their Access to Work support; how many of those applicants received some or all of the support that they asked for; and what the average time frame was for the delivery of that support.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	77707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>Statistical information about Access to Work is published annually. The most recent data were published in September 2019 and can be viewed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The next set of statistics are due to be published in September 2020, and will cover the twelve months to March 2020. Under the Code of Practice for Statistics the figures for 2020/21 cannot be released ahead of the official publication of the Access to Work Statistics. For this reason, it is not possible to provide figures for the period you have requested.</p><p> </p><p>(a) Access to Work does not ask applicants whether they are in full time work. The employment criterion for eligibility is that the applicant has a paid job or is about to start or return to one.</p><p>(b) Access to Work does not ask applicants to specify whether they would describe themselves as a disabled person. The eligibility criteria for the scheme include the requirement that the applicant is affected by a health condition or disability that makes it hard for them to do parts of their job or get to and from work. The annual published statistics report the number of people who have received at least one Access to Work payment in a given financial year, including a breakdown by primary medical condition. More detail about the eligibility criteria for Access to Work may be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work/eligibility" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work/eligibility</a></p><p>(c) The data requested regarding how many Access to Work customers ask to work from home are not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/09/2020 16:19:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1236713

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2020
	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	Access to 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 the cost to the public purse has been of the Access to Work scheme in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	93647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>The 2019/20 Access to Work statistics show that 43,000 people with disabilities and health conditions are receiving tailored and flexible support to do their job.</p><p> </p><p>During this period Access to Work has continued to expand its reach to underrepresented groups including those with Mental Health conditions, seeing the highest ever number of people approved for support: up 95% on the previous year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Full details of Access to Work expenditure is published here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/915547/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2020-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/915547/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2020-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/09/2020 13:08:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft