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418518

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	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	Health and Safety Executive
	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 16 July 2015 to Question 6342, if he will place a copy of the Joint Workplace Protocol in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	10039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Joint Working Protocol (JWP), and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance to inspectors concerning the application of the JWP, is publicly available on HSE’s website at <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/001-099/84_6/appendix1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/001-099/84_6/appendix1.htm</a> and <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/001-099/84_6/" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/001-099/84_6/</a> respectively.</p><p> </p><p>I will place a copy of the Joint Working Protocol in the Library.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/09/2015 13:07:55 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

418520

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	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	Health and Safety Executive: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes are planned to the level of staffing in the Health and Safety Executive in the next 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	10046
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>HSE’s aim, currently, is to broadly maintain staffing at its existing level over the next 12 months.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/09/2015 14:04:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

418519

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	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	Health and Safety Executive
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria are used by the Health and Safety Executive to establish whether a sector presents a high risk and requires pro-active inspections.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	10047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>HSE targets industry sectors for proactive inspection according to the framework for health and safety set out in the 2011 Coalition Government publication ‘Good health and safety, good for everyone’, which can be found on-line at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/good-health-and-safety-good-for-everyone" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/good-health-and-safety-good-for-everyone</a>.</p><p>HSE employs a broad range of interventions to bring about improvements in occupational safety and health within industry sectors. Direct interventions include inspection, investigation and safety case assessment in major hazard sectors. Indirect interventions include the use of information and campaigns, guidance and engagement with intermediaries to raise awareness of duties, risks and to promote compliance across all workplaces in a sector.</p><p>HSE’s choice of intervention strategy for any particular sector takes into account a combination of factors including the actual level of risk within the sector, the industry's injury and ill-health record, its structure and commitment to improving occupational safety and health, and the effectiveness and efficiency of different types of intervention.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/09/2015 10:31:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

418517

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	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	Health and Safety Executive
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many businesses were pro-actively inspected by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	10049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of businesses that were pro-actively inspected by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last 12 months is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month/Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of businesses pro-actively inspected</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>1723</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>2128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>1310</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>1399</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>1487</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>1336</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>1176</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2015</p></td><td><p>1154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>1209</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2015</p></td><td><p>1244</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>762</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/09/2015 13:02:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

418988

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Habitual Residence Test
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK citizens have been unsuccessful in claiming jobseeker's allowance since January 2014 because they did not meet the criteria for the habitual residence test.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	10298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Statistical information regarding the habitual residence test is intended for publication at a future date.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 21/09/2015 11:35:13 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1314611

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2021
	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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
	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 potential merits of reforming the qualification criteria for the State Pension to include part year National Insurance contributions.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	1048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to change the National Insurance qualifying year definitions for State Pension purposes.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/05/2021 12:59:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

773316

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	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	Jobcentres: Sheffield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the proposed closure of the Eastern Avenue Jobcentre on the roll-out of universal credit in Sheffield.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	108549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer I gave to question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=3962" target="_blank">3962</a> on 17 July 2017, and again more recently to question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=106232" target="_blank">106232</a> on 11 October 2017.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/10/2017 09:33:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

776223

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	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	Office for Nuclear Regulation
	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 20 October 2017 to Question 108257, if the reduction in the grant to the Office for Nuclear Regulation in 2019-20 will take place.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	109007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The bulk of the income received by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is from charges to industry. The grant made available by the Department to cover statutory activity, for which the ONR cannot charge industry, is planned to decrease in line with ONR’s intention to reduce its reliance on the grant and the Spending Review 2015 Settlement.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy will allocate ONR the funding necessary to set up a domestic civil nuclear safeguards regime on leaving Euratom.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 26/10/2017 08:39:28 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

782206

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2017
	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	Pensions Regulator: Universities Superannuation Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library all correspondence undertaken between the Pensions Regulator and (a) the Universities Superannuation Scheme and (b) Universities UK since the actuarial valuation in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	110868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government established the Pensions Regulator as an independent body to provide regulatory oversight of work based pension schemes. As such, the Department for Work and Pensions does not have access to the information that the Regulator holds in relation to individual pension schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Section 82 of the Pensions Act 2004 prevents the disclosure of such restricted information by the Regulator or by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from the Regulator, except in certain, prescribed, circumstances, none of which are judged to apply in this case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/11/2017 11:54:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

805134

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2017
	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 Fund: Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much interest free credit in real terms was provided through the Discretionary Social Fund in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	118806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Interest free credit is provided through the Discretionary Social Fund with Budgeting Loans and Crisis Loans.</p><p> </p><p>The provision of interest free credit through the Discretionary Social Fund is published in the annual Social Fund Account in nominal terms. These figures have been adjusted to real terms in 2016/17 prices and are outlined in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Provision of interest free credit through the Discretionary Social Fund - £m (2016/17 prices)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>650</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>645</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>599</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>438</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>428</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>414</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>412</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest £1m.</li><li>Figures are adjusted to real terms using GDP deflators.</li><li>Figures consist of expenditure on Crisis Loans and Budgeting Loans.</li><li>Crisis Loans were abolished with effect from 31/3/13. There have been no new Crisis Loan payments since then. The provision of interest free credit through Crisis Loans since their abolition represents a net transfer of customer debt from Northern Ireland where customers have moved between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. DWP manage the recovery of the transferred debt.</li><li>Community Care Grant expenditure, although part of the Discretionary Social Fund until their abolition in April 2013, is not included as they were non-repayable grants.</li><li>Funeral Expense Payments are provided as interest free credit, but are not included in the figures as they are part of the Regulatory Social Fund.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Sources:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Social Fund Accounts, 2010/11 – 2016/17</li><li>GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP November 2017 (Autumn Budget 2017)</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The links to the annual Social Fund Account for each of the last seven years are given below.</p><p> </p><p>2010/11:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247280/1307.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247280/1307.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2011/12:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246945/0454.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246945/0454.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2012/13:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209380/SFWPA_2012-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209380/SFWPA_2012-13.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2013/14:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450047/social-fund-account-2013-to-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450047/social-fund-account-2013-to-2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2014/15:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450036/social-fund-account-2014-to-2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/450036/social-fund-account-2014-to-2015.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2015/16:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535981/social-fund-account-2015-16.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/535981/social-fund-account-2015-16.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>2016/17:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626607/social-fund-account-2016-2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626607/social-fund-account-2016-2017.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2017 16:32:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield