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47372

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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 suppliers his Department has contracted for the delivery of his Sorting Out Separation Web Application; and how much was awarded under each contract.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	195621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Current contracts</p><p> </p><p>Memset Ltd to provide Hosting services. The amount awarded was £10,990.83 (ex VAT) - contract expires 1st September 2014</p><p> </p><p>Lightmaker UK Ltd to provide Maintenance and Development services. The amount awarded was £97,500 (ex VAT) - contract expires 31 July 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Expired contracts</p><p> </p><p>Centre for Separated Families to develop logic for a Self Diagnostic Tool and the contract amount awarded was £19,630 (ex VAT) - contract expired 5th July 2013</p><p> </p><p>Lightmaker UK Ltd to provide interactive content services and the amount awarded was £99,625 (ex VAT) - contract expired 15th January 2013</p><p> </p><p>Bullet Ltd to provide Syndication/Promotion services and the amount awarded was £99,160 (ex VAT) - contract expired 31 October 2013</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

47373

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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 five companies were used most often to provide temporary workers for his Department in the last financial year; and how much in agency fees was paid to each of them.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Chris Leslie
	uin	195565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>In the last financial year 2013-14 DWP used the services of Capita Resourcing Limited and Capita Business Services to provide temporary workers. The amounts paid in agency fees were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Capita Resourcing Limited £9,517,163<strong> </strong></p><p>Capita Business Services £1,108,082</p><p> </p><p>Both Capita Resourcing Ltd and Capita Business Services provided a managed service to DWP to provide interim personnel and specialist contractors. The figures represent the total fee paid to Capita including the fees paid by Capita to the workers.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie

47388

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	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 10 consultancy firms were paid the most by his Department in the last financial year; and how much each of those firms was paid.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Chris Leslie
	uin	195587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The top 10 consultancy firms by spend in 2013/2014 were:</p><p> </p><p>PriceWaterhouse Coopers £2,964,276</p><p>KPMG £2,573,186</p><p>WS Atkins PLC £2,155,486</p><p>Capgemini PLC £1,520,975</p><p>Ernst &amp; Young £1,195,116</p><p>Deloitte MCS Ltd £836,116</p><p>Methods Consulting Ltd £35,400</p><p>Compass Management Consulting Ltd £31,250</p><p>British Telecom PLC £27,250</p><p>Experian Group Ltd £12,500</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie

47726

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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, whether the contract for the introduction of personal independence payment included targets for the (a) proportion of assessments to be conducted face to face and (b) average length of time for each assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	195883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department has not set Personal Independence Payment assessment providers targets for the proportion of assessments to be conducted face to face and the average length of time for each assessment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Personal Independence Payment started from April 2013 and although limited data has started to feed through we need to wait until the Department has quality assured meaningful figures for publication. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity. We intend to publish official statistics on PIP from spring 2014 in line with our publication strategy.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 195884 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

48400

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	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, whether his Department is monitoring the progress and effect of the EU Youth Guarantee.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	196470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p>My Department takes part in a range of discussions at the EU level on issues relating to youth unemployment. <br> <br> The European Commission also continues to collect information from Member States in this respect. <br> <br> We believe that action is best taken at a national level because governments are best placed to know what measures are needed to address the particular situation in their country.<br> <br> This government introduced the youth contract, which is in addition to the support already on offer through the jobcentre. <br> <br> Latest statistics show that we are making real progress in tackling youth unemployment. Overall, youth unemployment in the UK is lower than most EU countries; it has fallen by 127 000 since peaking in 2011 and continues to fall. The Government remains focused on addressing this issue.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47716

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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, whether his Department has tested (a) assessment providers' and (b) departmental plans for dealing with backlogs and high numbers of assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	195878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department does not have a target for completion of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims whilst processes are bedding in. Clearly, we want to minimise the length of time claimants have to wait for assessments but the key requirement is to produce high quality assessments, to enable DWP decision makers to make the right decisions about benefit entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to driving up PIP performance and are in regular contact with our assessment providers to do this. We already monitor performance closely and liaise with assessment providers on a daily basis, supplemented by formal monthly performance review meetings. We will continue to work closely with assessment providers on an ongoing basis to monitor quality.</p><p> </p><p>Our original Departmental operational delivery plans assumed a larger volume of assessment provider referrals than we are currently receiving and we have retained this surplus capacity using it to consolidate learning or carry out other duties. This will be available for deployment as cases are returned to the Department for decision maker action. The Department has contingency plans in place to secure additional capacity from other areas of the Department should assessment provider volumes exceed plans.</p><p> </p><p>From 10 March we have included with the PIP2 ‘How your disability affects you' questionnaire, issued to PIP claimants, communications explaining how long they might be expected to wait for a PIP assessment. This information is also available on Gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 195869 195877 195880 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

47694

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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, whether any jobseeker's allowance claimant was sanctioned for not signing on Christmas Day.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	195943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>It is not Jobcentre Plus policy to sanction jobseeker's allowance claimants for not signing on Christmas Day. Jobcentres are closed as this is a Public Holiday.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

48394

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	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, when he plans to publish on the government website an up-to-date impact assessment for universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Meg Munn
	uin	196194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Government published a detailed Impact Assessment in December 2012 to accompany the laying of the Universal Credit regulations that came into force in April 2013. There are no current plans to publish an update.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

47706

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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, when each of the 10 Help and Support for Separated Families Innovation Fund projects announced by his Department in December 2013 will start.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
	uin	195695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The round two projects delivered by the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Mediation Now, Family Matters Mediate, Family Lives, Children 1st, Sills and Betteridge, Headland Future and National Family Mediation have all started. Projects being run by NACCC and Pinnacle People have started to recruit parents to the project and will start seeing them before the end of April.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

47736

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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 the maximum length of time taken to process an application for personal independence payments has been since the introduction of that payment.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	195829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for <strong>Liverpool</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>West Derby</strong><strong> and the hon Member for Airdrie and Shotts</strong><strong>,</strong> official report, 5 March, column 850W.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 195867 195871 195873 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane