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1341848

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2021
	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: Veterans
	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 adequacy of the range of support provided by her Department to members of the armed forces in the transition to civilian life; what proportion of veterans are employed within three months of discharge; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	24098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department remains committed to the Armed Forces Covenant and will do what is necessary to help and support members of the Armed Forces Community to transition to civilian life.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently introduced our new model for Armed Forces Champions which comprises 50 Armed Forces Champions working alongside 11 Group Leads at managerial level.</p><p> </p><p>It means for the first time that there is at least one Armed Forces Champion in each Jobcentre Plus District and resources in the new network are targeted where there are particularly high levels of demand, for example in garrison towns, and here the Armed Forces work will form a significant part of that done in individual Jobcentres.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the Armed Forces Champions roles, all 27,000 DWP Work Coaches are trained to provide veterans and others with the help and support they need.</p><p> </p><p>We have also recently introduced an Armed Forces “identifier” on to the Universal Credit system, giving customers the opportunity to tell us whether they are a veteran or currently serving. This will help us ensure that veterans and serving personnel receive any additional support they need.</p><p> </p><p>We have a range of other support arrangements in place for members of the Armed Forces community. For example, veterans are given early voluntary entry to the Work and Health Programme.</p><p> </p><p>We also work alongside the Career Transition Partnership, whose resettlement provision helps personnel leaving the Armed Forces prepare for entering the civilian job market and to make a successful transition to employment. The outcomes are good; 84% of veterans are employed within 6 months of discharge. These rates compare very favourably with the wider population, where 76% are in employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s preferred method is to look at employment outcomes from within 6 months of discharge as those collected earlier are likely to provide unfair reflections on “unplanned exits” who are only able to receive minimal employment support prior to leaving service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/07/2021 16:15:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1399407

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	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	Employment: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many armed forces champions are in post in each job centre district; and how many of those districts are without an armed forces champion.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	96771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>DWP has 50 Armed Forces Champions, with at least one in each of our 37 Jobcentre Plus Districts. In addition, there are 11 Armed Forces Leads at group level.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/01/2022 17:40:14 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1467215

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	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	Employment: Veterans
	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 has taken with the Secretary of State for Defence to enhance the job opportunities for armed forces service leavers.
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	11818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>DWP regularly meets with departments responsible for key sectors to identify and promote opportunities. We offer significant support across Great Britain to access employment opportunities through our network of Jobcentres. Our Work Coaches provide veterans and others with the help and support they need, and our National Employer and Partnership team encourage our national employers to sign the Armed Forces Covenant, pledging to recruit veterans.</p><p> </p><p>Through our Plan for Jobs, the Department is providing broad ranging support for all jobseekers with our Sector Based Work Academy Programmes (SWAP), Job Entry Targeted Support and Restart scheme.</p><p> </p><p>DWP’s network of 50 Armed Forces Champions and 11 Group Leads provide vital support to veterans and other members of the armed forces community, including providing additional help to get veterans in to work. 83% of veterans are employed within 6 months of discharge, which compares very favourably with the wider population where 75% are in employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Armed Force Champions network receive Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) opportunities direct, supporting this cross government accredited scheme to provide veterans and veterans’ partners (and others) with work placements and fixed-term opportunities across Civil Service departments, which could in turn lead to permanent employment.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/06/2022 15:30:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1690458

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	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: Veterans
	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 6 February 2024 to Question 11938 on Veterans: Employment, if he will take steps to help ensure that the Office for National Statistics collects data on veterans in the labour market on a non-experimental basis.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	14791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The process the independent Office for National Statistics take to evaluate whether statistics should be labelled experimental statistics or not, is outlined <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/methodologytopicsandstatisticalconcepts/guidetoexperimentalstatistics#:~:text=Experimental statistics are official statistics,clearly explained within the release." target="_blank">here.</a></p><p /><p>ONS welcome feedback on their plans for the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/labourmarkettransformationupdateonprogressandplans/latest" target="_blank">transformation of the Labour Force Survey</a> by emailing them at <a href="mailto:labour.market.transformation@ons.gov.uk" target="_blank">here.</a> Currently all data from the Transformed Labour Force Survey is badged as experimental because it is still in the development phase including data on veterans in the labour market.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/02/2024 11:02:35 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1690460

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	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: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to help veterans into work.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	14792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 6 February 2024 to question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-01-30/11939" target="_blank">11939</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 14789 question first answered 29/02/2024 10:57:22 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1690833

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2024
	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: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the impact of the level of employment support for veterans in jobcentres on trends in the number of veterans finding employment.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	15009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2024 answer text <p>DWP supports people across the country to move into and progress in work through a range of support including face-to-face time with work coaches, job-search advice and more intensive employment programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Veterans were eligible for the Work and Health Program (WHP), through the Early Access Group (EAG), which was on a voluntary basis. Evidence from the participant surveys suggests that the WHP has had some positive impacts on participants’ work readiness compared with the control group. This is most evident for voluntary WHP participants relative to their control group. Among both mandatory and voluntary participants, six in ten thought the support received had increased their chances of moving into work.</p><p> </p><p>Veterans will also be eligible for the Universal Support (US) programme which is currently in development. This will be evaluated to provide evidence on the effectiveness of the program for its participants.</p><p> </p><p>The is currently no analysis of veteran’s outcomes on Universal Credit (UC). The armed forces marker on UCFS was introduced in 2021. Coverage is not yet at the level required for robust analysis.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/02/2024 10:20:10 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1235730

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment: Veterans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps the Office for Veterans' Affairs is taking to work with the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure that veterans who have become unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic find new employment.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL8255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is delivering a range of employment support for those affected by COVID-19. These initiatives can benefit those whose employment has been affected by COVID-19, including veterans. <br> <br>More widely, the Government is committed to helping veterans secure fulfilling and sustainable employment. The Ministry of Defence provides a Career Transition Partnership (CTP) to assist Service leavers in finding employment.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 01/10/2020 16:25:06 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1404471

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to (a) implement the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative and (b) help ex-service men and women secure employment.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	107496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>We have successfully piloted the Great Place to Work scheme across six government Departments and have commenced the roll out of this initiative across Departments for all Civil Service roles, including Senior Civil Servant positions by the end of March 2022. During the pilot phase, the scheme received 3,000 applications, made 155 appointments to roles and saw 180 successful applicants placed on a reserve list.</p><p> </p><p>The new Veterans’ Strategy Action Plan outlines over 60 commitments funded by over £70 million from departments across Government, including initiatives to make sure veterans are able to find quality employment after leaving service.</p><p> </p><p>These commitments build on recent progress and support to encourage employers to recruit veterans, such as the National Insurance contribution holiday for employers of Service leavers and the Defence Employer Recognition scheme. We have committed to promoting pathways into careers in public service for veterans, such as teaching and in the uniformed and health services and introduced a fast-track recruitment scheme for veterans wishing to become prison officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 24/01/2022 17:45:16 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1586040

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Employment: Veterans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that qualifications gained by servicemen and women in the military are recognised by civilian employers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>Over 600 nationally recognised qualifications are delivered to personnel across the single Services from Levels 1 to 8 on the Regulated Qualifications Framework, covering a wide range of subject areas including aviation, engineering, IT, leadership, and medical training.</p><p> </p><p>Where possible, all mandatory military training and education is accredited and leads towards a full or partial nationally recognised qualification. In instances where this is not possible due to niche content, individuals may elect to undertake additional learning to achieve a full qualification or accreditation, supported by their Service. In addition to in-service military training and education, the Ministry of Defence provides funding for Service personnel and Service leavers to gain qualifications in subjects of their choosing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Goldie question first answered 23/02/2023 16:32:46 answering member 4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick