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49745

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations have received how much funding from his Department aimed at supporting access to short breaks and respite provision for children, young people and their families experiencing all types of disadvantage in each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
	tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
	uin	197824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department has no schemes of this nature.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard

49834

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support for the payment of mortgage interest will be available for universal credit recipients in low paid work; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	197914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Under the current system, low paid workers are able to supplement their earnings by claiming support from tax credits. However, tax credits do not make any allowance for mortgage interest payments. Similarly, when Universal Credit replaces the tax credit system, there will be no entitlement to help with mortgage interest during any period in which the claimant is in paid work.</p><p> </p><p>However the earnings rules are far more generous in Universal Credit. This means that most people, particularly those on low incomes, have a significantly greater incentive to move into work than under the current system.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of people claiming UC will be better off in work: even if they work part-time and even if they receive a low hourly rate of pay. For example, a lone parent receiving the average amount of mortgage interest who takes up a job that pays the national minimum wage will be better off than under the current system if he or she works just 7hours a week.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

49785

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that unemployed people who volunteer for the Help to Work Scheme do not do the same work as offenders on community service orders.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	197780
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>These are two entirely different schemes and we would expect the requirements of placements for offenders to be very different. The welfare to work companies we have contracted to provide Community Work Placements are experienced at delivering different programmes across different areas of Government.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

49952

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	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 he has made of what constitutes an adequate retirement income; what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) men and (b) women who will achieve this income; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>In September 2013 we published the “Framework for the analysis of future pension incomes” which contained details of our modelling of adequate retirement incomes. Recognising that an individual's income in working life affects the retirement income that they would deem to be adequate, we use replacement rates (the ratio of retirement income to working age income) instead of a single income value to assess adequacy.</p><p> </p><p>We use the following set of five replacement rate targets as determined in the Pensions Commission's 2004 report to define adequate replacement rates:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Average annual equivalised gross household earnings between 50 and State Pension Age (2014 earnings terms)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Target replacement rate for adequate retirement income</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under £12,300</p></td><td><p>80%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£12,300 to £22,700</p></td><td><p>70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£22,700 to £32,500</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£32,500 to £52,000</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £52,000</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To account for income sharing among couples, we use equivalised household level income for both working age and retirement incomes.</p><p> </p><p>Using the Department's Pensim2 model we look at the simulated replacement rates of individuals reaching State Pension age between 2014 and 2059, yielding around 27.9 million individuals in our adequacy measure.</p><p> </p><p>Our analysis shows that we expect there around 56 per cent (around 15.7 million) of those individuals to have an adequate replacement rate. It also shows that around a) 55 per cent of men and b) 57 per cent of women in our measure will have an adequate replacement rate.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

49946

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on (a) the ethnicity of people aged 24 years and under referred to the work programme and (b) the number of those aged 24 years and under who have (i) been attached to a work service provider, (ii) attained a job outcome payment and (iii) received at least one sustainment payment.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Statistics on the number of people aged 24 and under who have been referred to the Work Programme were identified as being from an ethnic minority background and (i) attached to a Work Programme provider, (ii) attained a job outcome and (iii) received at least one sustainment payment can be found at:</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>Guidance for users is available at:</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> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

49950

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of women with multiple part-time jobs whose total earnings are above the threshold for automatic enrolment; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>There are 230,000-260,000 female workers with multiple jobs who have total earnings above the automatic enrolment earnings trigger (£10,000 in 2014/15). Just 40,000-50,000 of these are ineligible for automatic enrollment because they earn less than the earnings trigger in any one of their jobs. A majority of these workers have earnings above the lower limit of the automatic enrolment qualifying earnings band (£5,772 in 2014/15) in at least one job and so can opt-in to a pension scheme with a mandatory contribution from their employer. Further detail is available in <em>Workplace Pension Reform: Multiple Jobholders</em>, DWP, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211729/ad-hoc-multiple-jobs.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211729/ad-hoc-multiple-jobs.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

49948

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of working age (a) men and (b) women who do not meet the wage criteria for eligibility for auto-enrolment; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The analysis required to answer this question is not currently available. To answer this question requires analysis across a number of data sources to include all women and men of working age. If a robust outcome can be reached it will be published on the DWP website.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

49832

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants have been referred early to payment group three of the work programme since June 2011; and what proportion of all the referrals to that payment group they account for.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	197913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of Jobseeker's Allowance claimants referred early to the Work Programme under payment group three between June 2011 and December 2013 is 51,440. This equates to 18.5% of the total number referred under this payment group.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 9747 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

49784

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracted staff there are carrying out functions for his Department who are paid less than the Living Wage by (a) occupation, (b) location and (c) contractor.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	197971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP have discussed with contractors the payment of the London Living Wage. Telereal Trillium have worked with us so that from April 2014 all of their London based staff were paid at least the level of the living wage. Discussions are continuing with our other major contractor, Cofely.</p><p> </p><p>We intend to have the same negotiations regarding staff based across the regions where the situation is currently:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>REGION</p></td><td><p>NUMBER OF STAFF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>539</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorks &amp; Humber</p></td><td><p>529</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>255</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>366</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>307</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>4,493</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It is not possible to provide further breakdown of these figures as this information is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 9759 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

49942

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of those benefiting from the new enterprise allowance are (a) women and (b) men aged (i) up to 24 and (ii) over 25.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is routinely published and can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-work-programme-support-new-enterprise-allowance-march-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pre-work-programme-support-new-enterprise-allowance-march-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero