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101248

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	Disability Living Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who the decision maker is in the case of a DLA review; and what the assessment process is.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	212004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>A Case Manager, the term for a DWP DLA decision maker, will conduct the review. In conducting the review, DLA Case Managers are instructed, through training and guidance, to ensure they have all the necessary information before making their decision. They will consider the evidence held and/or received, sending out for more evidence as appropriate, and only then make their decision.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:47:22 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

101235

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people enrolled under automatic workplace pension schemes have chosen to opt out after (a) six, (b) nine and (c) 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Fareham
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hoban
	uin	212140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Findings from qualitative research with large employers show the overall opt out rate was around 9 per cent. Most individual employers had an opt out rate between 5 and 15 per cent. Opt out is only possible within the opt out window which is one month after being automatically enrolled.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 03/11/2014 15:39:46 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1414 label Biography information for Mr Mark Hoban

101233

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	Workplace 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 people who had no prior pension savings have been enrolled under automatic enrolment into workplace pension schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Fareham
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hoban
	uin	212139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The latest information published by The Pensions Regulator shows that over 4.7 million eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension. It is not possible to identify how many of these jobholders had no prior pension savings.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 03/11/2014 15:37:32 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1414 label Biography information for Mr Mark Hoban

101246

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	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 in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK received support through the Access to Work scheme in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
	tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
	uin	211996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>35,530 individuals were helped through Access to Work in GB in the 2013/14 financial year. 2,830 of which were in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 30/10/2014 13:59:50 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

101236

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	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 users of the Access to Work scheme with each primary medical condition received reductions to their support package after a review of their support in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	212122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Access to Work carries out reviews periodically for all customers, the frequency of these varies from case to case. This information is not recorded and we are therefore unable to provide the data that you have requested.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:44:03 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

101242

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	Access to Work Programme: East of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people are using Access to Work support for a (a) work trial, (b) work experience opportunity under the Youth Contract, (c) supported internship, (d) traineeship and (e) pre-employment training work placement in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) the East of England.
	tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
	uin	211954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Access to Work does not have a means of reporting DWP programme volumes for specific constituencies, or geographical districts. Cases are recorded by disability type, not by the categories specific to your request.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:41:34 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

101237

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	Access to Work Programme: Suffolk
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (b) Suffolk have received new support from the Access to Work scheme to participate in internships, traineeships and work placements since September 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
	uin	211955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Access to Work does not have an historic means of reporting on DWP programme participant volumes nor do we have a means of reporting DWP programme participant volumes for specific constituencies, or geographical districts. Cases are recorded by disability type, not by the categories specific to your request.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:48:56 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

100959

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	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	Food Banks
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of people using food banks who also receive benefits; and whether they have any plans to discuss the matter with the organisers of food banks or to adapt benefits to take account of the situation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Gould of Potternewton
	uin	HL2415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>DWP does not monitor or estimate the percentage of people using food banks.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the extremely valuable work of civil society in supporting local communities. Government officials and Ministers routinely meet with a range of civil society organisations, some of which may be connected to foodbanks.</p><p> </p><p>DWP reforms are already making the benefits system simpler and helping claimants to move into work.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 04/11/2014 14:50:14 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	3573 label Biography information for Baroness Gould of Potternewton

101191

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many private finance initiative projects his Department contracted for in each year from 1997 to 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
	uin	212101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The data requested on PFI projects is publically available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2013-summary-data." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2013-summary-data.</a></p><p> </p><p>The data accessed via this link can be filtered by procuring authority and then by date of financial close in order to determine how many PFI projects were contracted by a Department in a specific year.</p><p> </p><p>This information is provided by Departments and published by the Treasury each year. The current data is as at 31 March 2013 but will be updated with data as at 31 March 2014 shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 03/11/2014 12:35:53 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

101195

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison staff from which prisons were dismissed for conducting inappropriate relationships with prisoners in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	211989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The definition of an inappropriate relationship is any relationship with prisoners, ex prisoners, partners, immediate family or close associates involved in criminal activities if not formally declared to the Governor or Head of NOMS unit as a potential ‘Conflict of Interest’. The information setting out how many prison staff were dismissed from each establishment solely for having an inappropriate relationship with a Prisoner(s)* is set out in the tables below:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Dismissals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMYOI Aylesbury</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP&amp;YOI Brinsford</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMYOI Feltham</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Highpoint</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Leicester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Maidstone</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Send</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Wandsworth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMPYOI Warren Hill</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Wormwood Scrubs</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Dismissals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Acklington</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Coldingley</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Dorchester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Downview</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Full Sutton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Garth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP&amp; YOI Isis</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Lindholme</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Morton Hall</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Pentonville</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Preston</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMYOI Rochester</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Dismissals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Blantyre House</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Brixton</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Durham</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Hewell</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Holloway</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Lincoln</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Send</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Wellingborough</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMYOI Wetherby</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Dismissals</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Downview</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Erlestoke</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Frankland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP High Down</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Holloway</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Hull</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Liverpool</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Long Lartin</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP New Hall</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Northumberland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMYOI Portland</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Preston</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Wandsworth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMPYOI Warren Hill</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMP Whatton</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>*The information provided has been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 06/11/2014 18:07:37 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan