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100263

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Motherwell and Wishaw
	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 Motherwell and Wishaw constituency have been in receipt of employment and support allowance payments for more than one year.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Roy
	uin	211267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants in the Motherwell and Wishaw parliamentary Constituency, with a duration of 1 year or more: As at February 2014:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motherwell and Wishaw</p></td><td><p>3,030</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: DWP, 100% Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest ten;</li><li>Parliamentary Constituency of claimant (Westminster) These constituencies are used for the Westminster parliament.</li><li>This information is published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool</a></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/10/2014 16:25:28 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	626 label Biography information for Mr Frank Roy

100267

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress he has made on commissioning the Health and Disability Assessment Service; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	211300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The commercial competition to secure a supplier to deliver the Health and Disability Assessment Service is nearing its conclusion. I intend to inform Parliament of the outcome of the competition in the next few weeks.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 24/10/2014 13:53:18 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100268

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Employment: Disability
	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 workplaces in the UK which are accessible to disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	211337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We do not collect this information. All employers are under a duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled job applicants and their existing employees.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 24/10/2014 12:21:16 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

100269

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Employment: Disability
	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 is taking to improve the support available to disabled people in the workplace.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	211336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Access to Work provides practical and financial support with the additional costs faced by individuals whose health or disability affects the way they do their job.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Sayce review, the government committed to spending an extra £15m on Access to Work by the end of this Spending Review period. Access to Work has been extended to support some pre-employment activity such as Supported Internships, Traineeships and certain work experience. We no longer apply mandatory cost share for small employers and we have removed the list of standard equipment Access to Work will not fund; instead Access to Work advisers are working constructively with employers and employees to identify where Access to Work can assist.</p><p> </p><p>We have also introduced the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service. This can offer support to individuals with a mental health condition who are absent from work or finding work difficult. The service supports those experiencing depression, anxiety, stress or other mental health issues that are affecting their work.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Fit for Work will be launched in late 2014 with a phased roll-out coming to a close by the end of May 2015. Fit for Work will deliver both a supportive occupational health assessment and general health and work advice to employees, employers and GPs, to help individuals stay in or return to work.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, Work Choice provides disabled people with complex barriers to employment with a seamless service covering all stages of the journey into work. Short to longer-term in-work support is provided and progression into open unsupported employment is encouraged, where it is appropriate for the individual.</p><p> </p><p>Work Choice can provide an indefinite period of support once the customer is in work in recognition of the fact that some Work Choice participants may need ongoing support to overcome barriers in work that cannot be met through normal workplace adjustments.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 24/10/2014 13:54:32 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

100281

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	Employment and Support Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants rejected for eligibility for employment and support allowance and who were declared fit for work by a private assessment firm subsequently died of a pre-existing condition (a) within a week, (b) one to two weeks and (c) three to four weeks after the fit-for-work declaration to date.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	211395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note, however, that Atos Healthcare do not make decisions about entitlement for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) following a Work Capability Assessment (WCA). All eligibility decisions are taken by a DWP Decision Maker who will consider all of the available evidence, including information provided by the claimant (e.g. the ESA50 form), the Atos healthcare professional’s report and any available additional medical evidence.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/10/2014 15:49:06 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

77248

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for personal independence payments submitted by individuals in Hemsworth in 2013 are still yet to be determined; and what steps his Department has taken to reduce delays in processing personal independence payment claims.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	205105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>There are several reasons why a registered claim may not yet be determined. For example the claimant has not yet returned their additional information form or is awaiting their assessment date, DWP have not yet made a decision on their claim or the claimant has advised that they wish to withdraw their claim. At the end of December 2013 around 500 people in Hemsworth had registered a New Claim for PIP and around 100 decisions had been made.</p><p> </p><p>I also refer the hon. Member to the written answer the previous Minister for Disabled People, the Rt. Hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead, Mike Penning, gave the Hon. Member for Halton (Derek Twigg), on 7 July 2014, <em>Official Report,</em> column 110W.</p><p> </p><p>Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department took to reduce delays to personal independence payment (PIP) special rules claims; how long it took to resolve those delays; what steps he plans to take to reduce delays to PIP claims in the normal rules; and what estimate he has made of the time that will be taken to reduce those delays. [203699]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As soon as I became aware of the length of time it was taking for some Special Rules cases to be processed I took action to reduce timescales and introduced:</p><p> </p><p>- a dedicated phone service.</p><p> </p><p>- an electronic transfer of information between a claimant's health professional, DWP and assessment providers.</p><p> </p><p>- a trial of a new process to enable decisions to be made in-house with support from health care professionals.</p><p> </p><p>I am pleased to say that we are now seeing improvements to clearance times for claims from terminally ill people.</p><p> </p><p>We have acknowledged that claims under our normal rules are currently taking too long. We are absolutely committed to improving performance-ours and that of the assessment providers. We are already seeing improvements to our processes and will continue to work further to reduce delays and backlogs.</p><p> </p><p>By the autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/07/2014 16:34:19 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77249

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget was spent on activities which were contracted out in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14; and how much and what proportion of his Department's budget he expects to be contracted out in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	uin	205228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Contracted out expenditure has been interpreted as all third party expenditure. Figures are net of income and recoverable VAT. Figures cover the central Department and its Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs).</p><p> </p><p>The relevant figures for the periods 2012-13; 2013-14; and, 2014-15 taken from our General Ledger are set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>2012-13 Outturn</p></td><td><p>2013-14 Outturn</p></td><td><p>2014-15 Plans</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commercial Expenditure</p></td><td><p>3,211</p></td><td><p>3,102</p></td><td><p>3,187</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of total DEL Expenditure</p></td><td><p>41%</p></td><td><p>39%</p></td><td><p>40%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) expenditure has been used to calculate the proportion of total expenditure. These figures have been taken from the Department's Annual Reports and Accounts 2013-14, Annex 7 – Expenditure Tables.</p><p> </p><p>Data is not available for prior years on a comparable basis. The Department has changed the way it reports commercial expenditure in the last couple of years, which makes later years incomparable with earlier years.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/07/2014 16:26:15 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

77490

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	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	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies (i) have let and (ii) plan to let that are worth (A) between £1 million and £3 million and (B) over £3 million since 2010; how much his Department has spent on monitoring each such contract; and how many officials in his Department monitor each contract.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	205377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Between 01/01/2010 and 14/07/2014, the Department for Work and Pensions awarded 71 contracts with a value of between one and three million pounds and 191 contracts with a value of over three million pounds.</p><p> </p><p>At 14/07/2014, our current commercial planning data indicates we intend to let 47 contracts with a value of between one and three million pounds and 30 contracts with a value over three million pounds.</p><p> </p><p>The award timelines on future contracts stretches to 2017 and beyond. As conditions change, some of these contracts may not yet proceed to the procurement stage. Also, award values are not yet firm for those at the earliest of planning stages.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department does not record the numbers of staff and their length of assignment in monitoring individual contracts, therefore the answer to this part of the question could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Between 01/01/2010 and 14/07/2014, the Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) awarded the following contracts within the requested values:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NDPB</p></td><td><p>Number of contracts with Contract Value £1m -3m</p></td><td><p>Number of Contracts with Contract Value over £3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pensions Ombudsman</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>NIL</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Pensions Advisory Service</p></td><td><p>NIL</p></td><td><p>NIL</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Pensions Regulator (TPR)</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health and Safety Executive (HSE)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent Living Fund (ILF)</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Pensions Ombudsman estimate the cost of monitoring its contract at £7,000 per annum with a dedicated resource of 0.1 FTE.</p><p> </p><p>TPR have a planned contract to start in 2014/15 value £1-3m.</p><p> </p><p>TPR do not hold information regarding the total amount spent on monitoring the contracts and it would be disproportionate for it to calculate this. However, it has 2 FTE staff dedicated to monitoring the contract valued over £3m</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>NEST - The Scheme Administration Services contract has a Contract Manager (commencing August 2014) and is supported by a Procurement &amp; Contract Specialist.</p><p> </p><p>HSE is in the process of letting one contract with a value of between one and three million pounds.</p><p> </p><p>HSE does not record the numbers of staff and their length of assignment in monitoring individual contracts, therefore the answer to this part of the question could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/07/2014 16:09:42 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77493

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	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	Schools: Asbestos
	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 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 112W, on Schools: Asbestos, what system is in place to inspect schools under (a) local authority control and (b) outside local authority control, to assess their standard of asbestos management.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
	uin	205442
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has no specific system in place to inspect schools to assess their standard of asbestos management.</p><p>HSE's work planning systems focuses its inspection priorities on the major hazard industries and comparatively high risks sectors (such as construction, waste and recycling, and some types of manufacturing), but can also involve targeted initiatives elsewhere. In recent years this approach has resulted in discrete inspection programmes to assess asbestos management by:</p><ul><li>local authorities with responsibility for system built schools; and</li><li>schools outside local authority control on a sample basis.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 16/07/2014 14:08:41 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

77494

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	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	Mass Media: Subscriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	205350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>(a) Subscriptions to magazines are included within the Department's contracts for journals and newspapers. The Department receives the following titles via these contracts:</p><p> </p><p>.Net</p><p>Able Magazine</p><p>Adviser</p><p>BMJ - British Medical Journal - General Practice Edition - Internet</p><p>Bookseller - Internet</p><p>Business Transfers and Employee Rights</p><p>Butterworths Civil Court Precedents</p><p>Civil Service World</p><p>Community Care</p><p>Common Market Law Review - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Community Care Law Reports</p><p>Credit Collections and Risk</p><p>Credit Today</p><p>Current Law Complete Service A</p><p>Daily Express</p><p>Daily Mail</p><p>Daily Mirror</p><p>Daily Star</p><p>Daily Telegraph</p><p>Disability and Rehabilitation - Full Set - Internet &amp; Print</p><p>Disability and Society - Internet</p><p>Economist - Internet &amp; Print</p><p>Encyclopedia of Data Protection and Privacy - Including CD ROM</p><p>Equal Opportunities Review</p><p>Equality Law Reports - E-Mail &amp; Internet &amp; Optional Print</p><p>EU Public Procurement - Law and Practice</p><p>European Journal of Social Security - Internet</p><p>European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Financial Times</p><p>Freedom of Information Journal - E-Mail</p><p>Gazette - Law Society London</p><p>Guardian</p><p>Health and Safety Bulletin</p><p>Health Service Journal</p><p>Housing Studies - Internet</p><p>Housing Theory and Society - Online Archive Incl Current Year - Internet</p><p>Human Rights Practice</p><p>IDS Pensions Law Reports</p><p>In House Lawyer</p><p>Independent</p><p>Independent on Sunday</p><p>Inside Housing</p><p>International &amp; United Kingdom Report - Privacy Laws and Business</p><p>International Journal of Housing Policy - Internet</p><p>Journal of Community Care Law</p><p>Journal of Social Security Law</p><p>Journal of Welfare Benefits Law and Practice</p><p>Judicial Review</p><p>Juncture - Internet</p><p>Kemp and Kemp - Quantum of Damages</p><p>Legal Action - Legal Action Group</p><p>Mail on Sunday</p><p>Medical Law Reports - Academic - Internet &amp; Print &amp; Bound Volume</p><p>Mental Health Law Review</p><p>Modern Law Review - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Money Marketing - London</p><p>NAPF Pension Legislation Service - including CD ROM</p><p>National Institute Economic Review - Internet</p><p>New Law Journal</p><p>New Statesman</p><p>Newsweek</p><p>Observer</p><p>Occupational Pensions</p><p>Oxford Economic Papers – Internet</p><p>Pensions Management</p><p>Pensions Expert</p><p>Pensions World</p><p>Private Eye</p><p>Professional Pensions - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Public Private Partnership and PFI</p><p>Records Management Journal - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Renton and Brown - Criminal Procedure</p><p>Renton and Brown - Criminal Procedure Legislation</p><p>SEN Magazine</p><p>Social Care Law Today</p><p>Social Policy and Society &amp; Journal of Social Policy - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Solicitors' Journal</p><p>Spectator</p><p>Sun</p><p>Sun on Sunday</p><p>Sunday Express</p><p>Sunday Mirror</p><p>Sunday People</p><p>Sunday Telegraph</p><p>Sunday Times</p><p>Sweet and Maxwell's Law of Pension Schemes</p><p>Time Magazine</p><p>Times</p><p>Tolley's Pensions Law Service</p><p>Tolley's Social Security and State Benefits</p><p>Transfer of Undertaking</p><p>Vacher's Quarterly</p><p>Welfare Rights Bulletin</p><p>Work and Stress - Internet</p><p>Work Employment and Society - Print &amp; Backfile Lease - Internet</p><p>Working Brief - PDF - E-Mail</p><p> </p><p>(b) This information is not centrally collated and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/07/2014 16:28:13 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter