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1171062

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
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, what steps her Department is taking to increase participation in the Access to Work programme.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	3803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>We continue to raise awareness of Access to Work through a targeted marketing approach, focusing on previously underrepresented groups such as young people, people with mental health conditions and people with learning disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018/19 Access to Work statistics illustrate the success of the scheme, with over 36,000 people receiving tailored and flexible support - up 7% on 2017/18 and currently the highest ever number - including record numbers of young people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health conditions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/01/2020 17:06:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1282087

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
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	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 applications have been received by the Access to Work programme in each year since its launch.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	145808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested on number of applications received is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Access to Work statistics includes how many applications results in provision being approved from 2007/08 to 2019/20. Please see Table 3 of the Access to Work statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Access to Work statistics can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2020</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/02/2021 17:06:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1171060

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
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, what the (a) average and (b) median waiting times were for decisions on applications for people who have applied for support from her Department's Access to Work scheme in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	3802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested about average and median waiting times for decisions on applications for people who have applied for support from Access to Work is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/01/2020 16:49:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1282086

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
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	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, what the (a) average and (b) median response time is for disabled workers to receive a decision on their Access to Work application.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	145807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested about average and median waiting times for decisions on applications for people who have applied for support from Access to Work is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/02/2021 13:48:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1282089

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
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	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 disabled workers have had their Access to Work application delayed; and for what reasons those applications were delayed.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	145809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested about Access to Work applications that have been delayed is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/02/2021 17:13:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1172651

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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 much was spent by the Access to Work scheme in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) England and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	6752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Access to Work scheme is only available to those living in England, Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Please see below the Access to Work expenditure seen in Table 11 and Table 11a of the official statistics broken down in terms of Scotland, Wales and England.</p><p> </p><p>The Access to Work official statistics can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Nominal Terms)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Country not recorded*</p></td><td><p>£369,000</p></td><td><p>£403,000</p></td><td><p>£417,000</p></td><td><p>£516,000</p></td><td><p>£636,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£85,852,000</p></td><td><p>£85,764,000</p></td><td><p>£91,987,000</p></td><td><p>£98,362,000</p></td><td><p>£114,441,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>£4,121,000</p></td><td><p>£3,816,000</p></td><td><p>£4,204,000</p></td><td><p>£4,234,000</p></td><td><p>£5,322,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>£6,658,000</p></td><td><p>£6,500,000</p></td><td><p>£7,161,000</p></td><td><p>£7,712,000</p></td><td><p>£8,721,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£96,999,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£96,483,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£103,768,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£110,823,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£129,120,000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Real Terms, 2018/19 prices)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Country not recorded*</p></td><td><p>£395,000</p></td><td><p>£428,000</p></td><td><p>£433,000</p></td><td><p>£525,000</p></td><td><p>£636,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£91,951,000</p></td><td><p>£91,128,000</p></td><td><p>£95,563,000</p></td><td><p>£100,166,000</p></td><td><p>£114,441,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>£4,413,000</p></td><td><p>£4,055,000</p></td><td><p>£4,367,000</p></td><td><p>£4,311,000</p></td><td><p>£5,322,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>£7,131,000</p></td><td><p>£6,906,000</p></td><td><p>£7,440,000</p></td><td><p>£7,854,000</p></td><td><p>£8,721,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£103,890,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£102,517,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£107,802,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£112,856,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£129,120,000</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Disability Service Client (DiSC) administrative system; Single Operating Platform (SOP) payment system; Provider Referrals and Payments System (PRaP).</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>* ‘Not recorded’ is used throughout the Access to Work publication and denotes the customers where that variable is missing. In this case, it is where information relating to a person’s residence is missing, most commonly their postcode.</p><ol><li>The expenditure data in these statistics covers payments directly to individuals and employers, as well as to assessment providers and the Mental Health Support Service.</li><li>The expenditure data in these statistics does not include DWP’s staffing and operational costs relating to Access to Work.</li><li>Real terms expenditure (where actual spending has been adjusted to remove the effects of general price level changes (inflation) over time using price levels from a base year) has been calculated using the Consumer Prices Index published by the Office for National Statistics. Real terms figures provide a more meaningful measurement of change over time.</li><li>Expenditure figures have been calculated using a methodology consistent with that used in the published Access to Work statistics. Please see the background information and methodology note for more information, in particular the “Weighting” section on pages 8-9. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-statistics-background-information-and-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-statistics-background-information-and-methodology</a></li><li>Access to Work expenditure for each country is based on residency of the beneficiary as opposed to place of work.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 due to the weighting methodology used (see Note 4).</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 17:29:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1172536

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2020 to Question 3803 on Access to Work Programme, how many people with (a) learning disabilities and (b) autism spectrum disorders received funding in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	6723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>Table 8 of the Access to Work Statistics shows the number of people who have received an Access to Work payment broken down by primary medical condition.</p><p> </p><p>The list of primary medical conditions used is consistent with that used for the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and so includes learning disabilities but not autistic spectrum disorders.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to successful expansion of the list of conditions to include autism in the LFS, we propose to expand the Access to Work list to also include autistic spectrum disorders in future.</p><p> </p><p>The Access to Work Statistics can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 31/01/2020 13:37:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1171037

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
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: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will take steps to ensure that Scotland is allocated a proportionate share of the Access to Work budget.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	3800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>We continue to raise awareness of Access to Work throughout the country, including Scotland, using a targeted marketing approach; focusing on previously underrepresented groups such as young people, people with mental health conditions and people with learning disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work funding is not allocated on a regional basis. The scheme is available for anyone aged 16 or over who lives in England, Scotland or Wales and who has a disability or health condition (physical or mental) that makes it hard for them to do parts of their job or get to and from work. The number of people in Scotland receiving support through Access to Work follows trends in the growth of the service overall, and has been increasing year-on-year since 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Further statistical information on Access to Work can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/access-to-work-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/access-to-work-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/01/2020 14:47:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1081728

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
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	Bereavement Support Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department does not pay bereavement support to widows and widowers where tacit consent to marriage with their former partner was not given but where the material circumstances of their relationship were the same as those of a married couple.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	228066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Marriage and civil partnerships are legal contracts that are associated with certain rights, including inheritance, recognition in the tax system and entitlement to certain benefits.</p><p> </p><p>A key principle of the National Insurance system is that all rights to benefits derived from another person’s contributions, such as bereavement benefits, are based on the concept of legal marriage or civil partnership.</p><p> </p><p>Under Scottish law, in certain circumstances, a person can be classed as married by cohabitation with habit and repute. Marriage by habit and repute was abolished for new relationships in 2006 by the Family Law (Scotland) Act. Marriages deemed to have been constituted prior to the 4 May 2006 are still recognised as such for benefit purposes.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/03/2019 10:38:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1132524

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
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	Carers: Re-employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department provides to single adult carers of adult dependants to re-enter work.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	265549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>Jobcentre Plus work coaches offer all claimants, including carers, a comprehensive menu of help, including skills provision and job search support, including individual support packages to help people into work. Support and coaching is personalised to the individual so that it works best for them.</p><p /><p>For example, Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches utilise packages of support such as New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) for those considering self-employment and funding from the Flexible Support Fund to help individuals overcome their barriers to enter employment.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, support is available via the National Careers Service in England, co-located in around 90% of Jobcentres and available online. This includes a Skills Health Check designed to help users explore their skills and interests to help identify the right job. In Scotland a broader offer is made via My World of Work.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/06/2019 12:55:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows