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1087149

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	12/03/2019
	date tabled	12/03/2019
	ddp created	12/03/2019 21:29:07
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	12/03/2019 21:39:15 15/03/2019 15:10:03
	hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
	house id	1
	identifier	231374
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/03/2019 14:38:03
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to improve information for (a) job seekers and (b) employees on the support available through Access to Work.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231374
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231374
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Access to Work continues to undertake targeted marketing and awareness raising activities. For example, the scheme is promoted to benefit claimants through Jobcentre Plus and to a range of business leaders through the Disability Confident scheme. We have also worked with a variety of stakeholder organisations to market Access to Work to their clients, including sharing information about how individuals can apply for support.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently testing a number of communication activities to raise awareness of Access to Work among Jobcentre Plus staff in Greater Manchester, in order to equip work coaches with the knowledge to have conversations with customers who may require in work support. We will evaluate the most successful methods before a national roll-out.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work is also reviewing the content and formats of its existing information channels, including considering how to achieve more effective use of alternative formats such as British Sign Language videos.</p>
	creator	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1088520

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 22:06:44
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 22:23:04 19/03/2019 12:16:02
	hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
	house id	1
	identifier	231984
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	19/03/2019 11:44:20
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what deadline is to implement the new online system to submit Access to Work signed claim forms with invoices.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
	tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231984
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231984
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Access to Work is in the process of transforming its digital processes, from application through to payment. We do not yet have a timetable for completion of this work. We are currently evaluating a range of digital options for Access to Work claim form and receipt/invoice submissions and we will be able to develop delivery timetables for that aspect of the transformation once this analysis has been completed.</p>
	creator	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

1088494

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 22:05:15
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	14/03/2019 17:45:13 20/03/2019 11:02:01
	hansard heading	Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning
	house id	1
	identifier	232008
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/03/2019 10:30:58
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support festival providers in safeguarding people attending festivals from the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 232008
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	232008
	version	3
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) leads on national occupational health and safety policy for the entertainments and leisure sector, whilst Local Authorities are responsible for enforcing the law at individual events, such as festivals, in their geographical area.</p><p> </p><p>Festival organisers have responsibilities under Section 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSWA) to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of their employees and others, including members of the public, affected by their undertaking. These responsibilities extend to ensuring that equipment, such as gas cookers and BBQs, are maintained and operated in a safe condition.</p><p> </p><p>Disposable BBQs are popular with those attending festivals, and there have been examples where fatalities, arising from exposure to carbon monoxide, have occurred due to BBQs being taken into tents as a source of heat. Festival organisers are expected to take reasonably practicable measures to raise awareness of the potential dangers. Reasonable arrangements should also be in place to monitor the use of disposable BBQs and the behaviour of attendees at the event so that action can be taken to prevent these items being used in enclosed areas.</p><p> </p><p>HSE has published web-based event safety guidance to help event organisers comply with their legal duties (<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/event-safety/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/event-safety/index.htm</a>). The Events Industry Forum also produces a guide, known as the Purple Guide, for the live event industry including festival organisers.</p>
	creator	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1087208

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	12/03/2019
	date tabled	12/03/2019
	ddp created	12/03/2019 21:31:41
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	12/03/2019 21:41:49 15/03/2019 14:19:03
	hansard heading	Christmas Bonus
	house id	1
	identifier	231471
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/03/2019 13:47:16
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of (a) personal independence payment and (b) disability living allowance were (i) entitled to the £10 Christmas bonus and (ii) received that Christmas bonus in 2018.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231471
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231471
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Christmas Bonus is a one-off tax-free £10 payment paid to claimants who receive certain qualifying benefits including Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA). To qualify, the claimant must be in receipt of the qualifying benefit in the qualifying week which is normally the first full week of December. If a DLA or PIP claimant receives another qualifying benefit their bonus may be attached to that benefit rather than to their PIP or DLA award.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes a range of detailed statistics for PIP and DLA on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>. These statistics include monthly caseloads (claims in payment) to August 2018 for DLA and to October 2018 for PIP. Caseloads for December 2018 have not yet been published.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claimants, regardless of qualifying benefit, who received the Christmas Bonus in 2017/18 can be found in Table 1c of the “Outturn and forecast: Autumn Budget 2018 (XLS)” spreadsheet in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2018" target="_blank">2018 Benefit Expenditure and Caseload tables. </a> Outturn figures for 2018/19 will be published in due course.</p>
	creator	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1087210

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	12/03/2019
	date tabled	12/03/2019
	ddp created	12/03/2019 21:31:45
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	12/03/2019 21:41:52 15/03/2019 15:15:07
	hansard heading	Christmas Bonus: Non-payment
	house id	1
	identifier	231472
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/03/2019 14:43:36
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have contacted her Department since 1 December 2018 on non-payment of the 2018 Christmas bonus.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231472
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231472
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Christmas Bonus was first paid in 1972 as a result of The Pensioners and Family Income Supplement Payments Act 1972 and was introduced as a means of providing additional financial support to customers in receipt of a pension or qualifying benefit.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Both Pensioners and working age customers in receipt of certain benefits receive the tax-free £10 Christmas Bonus and payments are usually automatically generated based on receipt of a qualifying benefit.</p><p> </p><p>For the 2017/2018 qualifying period (latest data available) 15,922000.00 (fifteen million, nine hundred and twenty two thousand) DWP customers received the Christmas Bonus.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not retain information relating to the number of customers who contacted the Department to report non-payment of the Christmas Bonus as it does not have a business requirement to do so. Therefore, this information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions.</p>
	creator	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1088513

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 22:06:25
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 22:22:44 19/03/2019 13:04:03
	hansard heading	Disability: Cost of Living
	house id	1
	identifier	232032
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	19/03/2019 12:32:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report entitled the Disability Price Tag 2019, published by Scope in February 2019, what steps she plans to take to made additional funding available to cover potential extra costs incurred by disabled people; and if she will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 232032
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	232032
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department provides a range of benefits to support people with long term health conditions and disabilities, including benefits which contribute towards the extra costs they may face. Benefit provision is in addition to the wide range of additional support people with health conditions and disabilities may receive including from Local Authorities or the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, spending on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions has increased by £8.4 billion (18%) in real terms. This year it will be over £54 billion, and next year it will rise to over £55 billion – over 2.5 per cent of GDP and 6 per cent of Government spending. And since 2010 spending on extra-costs disability benefits, which have been increased by inflation and have been protected from the benefits freeze, has increased by £5 billion (25%) in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>As the Secretary of State recently announced, we also plan to commission independent research to understand the needs of disabled people and how health and disability benefits can better support them.</p>
	creator	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1088514

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 22:06:28
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 22:22:46 19/03/2019 13:04:02
	hansard heading	Disability: Cost of Living
	house id	1
	identifier	232033
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	19/03/2019 12:32:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report entitled the Disability Price Tag 2019, published by Scope in February 2019, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people can afford the same standard of living as non-disabled people.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 232033
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	232033
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department provides a range of benefits to support people with long term health conditions and disabilities, including benefits which contribute towards the extra costs they may face. Benefit provision is in addition to the wide range of additional support people with health conditions and disabilities may receive including from Local Authorities or the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, spending on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions has increased by £8.4 billion (18%) in real terms. This year it will be over £54 billion, and next year it will rise to over £55 billion – over 2.5 per cent of GDP and 6 per cent of Government spending. And since 2010 spending on extra-costs disability benefits, which have been increased by inflation and have been protected from the benefits freeze, has increased by £5 billion (25%) in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>As the Secretary of State recently announced, we also plan to commission independent research to understand the needs of disabled people and how health and disability benefits can better support them.</p>
	creator	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1088515

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 22:06:30
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 22:22:49 20/03/2019 15:43:11
	hansard heading	Disability: Cost of Living
	house id	1
	identifier	232034
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/03/2019 15:11:46
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report entitled the Disability Price Tag 2019, published by Scope in February 2019, what steps she is taking to ensure that personal independence payments assessments accurately capture the extra costs incurred by disabled people.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 232034
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	232034
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a more modern, dynamic and fairer benefit than its predecessor, Disability Living Allowance (DLA), designed to focus support on those experiencing the greatest barriers to living independently. DLA had not been fundamentally reformed since it was introduced over 25 years ago and it lacked some of the basic checks and reviews that are integral to most other State-funded support.</p><p> </p><p>Built on rules developed for disability benefits created in the 1970s, DLA was also a product of its time, focusing primarily on physical disabilities, whereas we now have a better understanding of the needs of individuals with mental health conditions, learning difficulties, and sensory impairments like blindness. Understanding of conditions like autism has also changed measurably. That is why we introduced PIP. Reform of DLA had long been overdue and the benefit had to be changed to better support disabled people to lead independent lives as they want to today. PIP provides an opportunity to better target support for disabled people and to enable them to lead full, active and independent lives.</p><p> </p><p>At the core of the benefit’s design is the principle that awards of the benefit should be made according to a claimant’s overall level of need; entitlement being assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a health condition or disability. It is intended to act as a contribution <br>towards the extra costs that arise as a result of a long-term health condition or disability. We take all feedback regarding the benefit and assessment process seriously; and we remain committed to continuous improvements and working closely with claimants and <br>representative organisations.</p>
	creator	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1088355

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 21:59:27
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 22:17:27 21/03/2019 15:17:01
	hansard heading	Employment
	house id	1
	identifier	231938
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	21/03/2019 14:44:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's budget was for its Dynamic Purchasing System for employment in each of the last five years.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231938
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231938
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The information is not available.</p><p /><p>The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is used to purchase training provision from a range of providers to help our claimants move into or closer to work.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure through the DPS is part of the overall expenditure incurred through the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). Whilst there is a budget for FSF as a whole, the budget is not split into individual areas of expenditure. There is therefore no separately identifiable budget allocation for DPS.</p>
	creator	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

1088358

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 21:59:36
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 22:17:33 21/03/2019 14:55:04
	hansard heading	Employment
	house id	1
	identifier	231940
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	21/03/2019 14:23:45
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations were allocated funding through her Department's Dynamic Purchasing System for employment in each of the last five years; and what the value was of that funding so received for each of those organisations.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231940
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231940
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) is used to purchase training provision from a range of providers to help our claimants move into or closer to work.</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure through the DPS is part of the overall expenditure incurred through the Flexible Support Fund (FSF). In any given month there would typically be over 2,000 transactions relating to FSF Training, of which a proportion would have been made via the DPS.</p><p> </p><p>The Hyperion accounting system used to record transactions does not identify DPS transactions separately. Whilst we could provide total expenditure for each supplier that we have contracted to use DPS with, we cannot easily separate out DPS transactions from other expenditure which may have been incurred with that supplier. A manual interrogation of various other systems would be required in order to provide the information requested, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Attached is a list of suppliers who have been awarded Flexible Support Fund DPS call-off contracts from the commencement of the platform in 2016 until 31 December 2018, which was the latest Contracts Finder publication date for contracts valued at over £10K. The values of each awarded contract can be found on contracts finder <a href="https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Contracts valued at below £10K are not published on Contracts Finder and are therefore not in the public domain.</p>
	creator	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas