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45740

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2014
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of Atos Healthcare's complaints policy and procedure, as held by the Department for Work and Pensions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
	uin	HL6389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I will place a copy of Atos Healthcare's complaints policy and procedure in the House library.</p><p> </p><p>Atos Healthcare provides leaflets which are available in all their assessment centres for information on their complaints procedure and policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud attachment 1 file name eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390.doc title eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390 2 file name Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure 3 file name 22-13 Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure grouped question UIN HL6390 question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow

45741

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2014
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether all persons undergoing medical examinations by Atos Healthcare in respect of benefit applications are advised of the complaints procedure and policy, as held by the Department for Work and Pensions; if so, whether this has been routine practice since Atos Healthcare commenced service provision; and how persons are made aware of the complaints policy and procedure.
	tabling member printed	Lord Morrow
	uin	HL6390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I will place a copy of Atos Healthcare's complaints policy and procedure in the House library.</p><p> </p><p>Atos Healthcare provides leaflets which are available in all their assessment centres for information on their complaints procedure and policy.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud attachment 1 file name eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390.doc title eDeposits Coversheet for HL6389 & H6390 2 file name Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure 3 file name 22-13 Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedures Guide.pdf title Update to Atos Healthcare Complaints Procedure grouped question UIN HL6389 question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	3795 label Biography information for Lord Morrow

619494

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2016
	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	Agriculture: Industrial Health and Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their latest assessment of health and safety in the agricultural sector.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The number of fatal injuries in the agriculture sector fluctuates each year, and as such it is not possible to draw conclusions from figures for individual years. The annual number of deaths averaged over a five year rolling period is broadly static and remains a cause for concern for the Health and Safety Executive, the Farm Safety Partnerships (FSP) in England, Scotland and Wales, the Agriculture Industry Advisory Committee (AIAC) and the industry itself.</p><p>The Health and Safety Executive publishes figures on health and safety in the agriculture sector in the attached document “Statistics on fatal injuries in the workplace in Great Britain 2016”. Further information can also be found in the published report “Health and safety in agriculture, forestry and fishing in Great Britain, 2015/16”, which is also attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud attachment 1 file name HL2600 - Statistics on fatal injuries in the workplace in Great Britain 2016.pdf title Statistics on fatal injuries in the workplace GB 2 file name HL2600 - Statistics on fatal injuries in agriculture, forestry and fishing in Great Britain 2015-16.pdf title Statistics on fatal injuries in agriculture etc question first answered 07/11/2016 16:01:20 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

167612

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	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	Poverty: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Lord Freud in the Grand Committee debate on the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Targets) Regulations 2014, that the facts Lord McAvoy had quoted were "simply not true" (HL Deb, 25 November, col GC 263), how they were not true.
	tabling member printed	Lord McAvoy
	uin	HL3387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>I wrote to the Noble Peer on this issue on 4<sup>th</sup> December 2014. I have placed a copy of this letter in the library of the House and have also attached it to this response.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2014 15:43:27 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Letter to Lord McAvoy 4.12.14.PDF title Letter to Lord McAvoy 4th Dec 2014
	tabling member	4158 label Biography information for Lord McAvoy

174281

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2015
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 15 January (HL Deb, col 893), in which he stated that the current backlog of claims for personal independence payment assessments stands at 107,000, what was the source of that data and where it is published.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Sherlock
	uin	HL4225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lady to the letter my Noble Friend Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth wrote on 21<sup>st</sup> January 2015 to Lord Dubs, a copy of which has been placed in the House Library, and is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 26/01/2015 14:14:21 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name 4225LETTER.pdf title Letter to Lord Dubs
	tabling member	4147 label Biography information for Baroness Sherlock

388796

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Disqualification
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how the official monthly rate of sanctions applied to Jobseeker's Allowance claimants is calculated.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
	uin	HL1273
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department calculates a monthly sanctions rate for Jobseekers Allowance claimants based on the number of sanctions in a month divided by the Claimant Count.</p><p> </p><p>The data underpinning the calculations are DWP’s statistics on decisions to apply a sanction and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) statistics on the number of people claiming JSA (the Claimant Count). These are publicly available Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>More detail on the calculation of the monthly sanctions rate can be found in the statistical ad-hoc publication, “JSA and ESA benefit sanctions rates: explanation of methodology”, available on GOV.UK. A copy of the publication is also attached here.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 23/07/2015 16:10:53 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name HL 1273 JSA and ESA benefit sanctions rates.pdf title JSA and ESA benefit sanctions rates
	tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

388027

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many, and what proportion of, households affected by the proposed reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000 per year receive (1) Employment and Support Allowance, and (2) Income Support.
	tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
	uin	HL1153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20<sup>th</sup> July. The impact assessment is now available on Parliament’s website, and a copy is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 21/07/2015 15:32:41 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Impact Assessment.pdf title Imapct Assessment
	tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

100946

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2014
	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	Industrial Health and Safety: Agriculture
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the latest figures they have of the number of fatal and serious accidents occurring in the farming industry.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL2414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>These figures are published on the Health and Safety Executive’s website: <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/agriculture/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/agriculture/index.htm</a>. They can also be found in the published report attached, “Health and safety in agriculture in Great Britain, 2014” on pages 6 and 7.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 04/11/2014 15:42:22 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name HSE Agri Stats.pdf title Health and Safety in agriculture in Great Britain
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

432079

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	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	Poverty: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many of those responding to the 2012 consultation <i>Measuring Child Poverty</i> supported the exclusion of any income measure; and whether they will name those organisations that supported the exclusion.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL3852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the consultation on new measures of child poverty can be found in Annex E of the attached document. The analysis of the results in 2013 recorded that two respondents to the consultation said income should not be included in a measure of child poverty.</p><br /><p>We cannot give the names of the respondents due to Data Protection Act requirements. However, one was from an academic organisation and the other was from a frontline service.</p><br /><p>The Government wants to focus future effort on tackling the root causes of child poverty. That is why the life chances provisions in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill will introduce new measures of worklessness and educational attainment, and why we have committed ourselves to introducing a set of non-statutory indicators including ones on family breakdown, problem debt and addiction. These measures will focus action on the areas which the evidence indicates will make a sustainable difference to children’s lives - now and in the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2015 17:55:31 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Consultation on Child Poverty Strategy.pdf title Consultaion on Child Poverty Strategy
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

417008

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Carers
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of carers who will be affected by the reduction of the benefit cap to (1) £20,000 per year outside London, and (2) £23,000 per year in London.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL1928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A copy of the impact assessment is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1929 question first answered 14/09/2015 13:27:33 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Benefit CAp Impact Assessmet.pdf title Benefit Cap Impact Assessment
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett