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1178906

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/02/2020
	date	21/02/2020
	date tabled	21/02/2020
	ddp created	21/02/2020 10:10:11
	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	24/02/2020 16:16:34 27/02/2020 16:59:07
	hansard heading	Wind Power
	house id	1
	identifier	18380
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	27/02/2020 16:26:35
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the names of the training providers in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales that offer courses in (i) basic safety training and (ii) basic technical training that are required for employment in the offshore wind industry.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 18380
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	18380
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>It is a legal duty on all employers within the offshore wind industry to provide sufficient information, instruction and training to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of people in their employment and others who may be affected. It is a matter for each individual employer to decide on how that information, instruction and training is provided, commensurate to the risks. Therefore, HSE does not approve the industry training standards.</p><p> </p><p>HSE is aware of the Global Wind Organisation’s (GWO) training standards and that training providers are audited on a regular basis by the GWO to ensure that training is delivered to those standards. Further information can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.globalwindsafety.org/trainingproviders/findttraningprovider?d19e55cf_page=5" target="_blank">https://www.globalwindsafety.org/trainingproviders/findttraningprovider?d19e55cf_page=5</a>.</p>
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1179130

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/02/2020
	date	21/02/2020
	date tabled	21/02/2020
	ddp created	21/02/2020 17:05:14
	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	21/02/2020 17:48:12 27/02/2020 16:53:01
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Safety
	house id	1
	identifier	18689
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	27/02/2020 16:19:55
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive has taken since 2016 to assess the compliance of (a) basic safety training and (b) basic technical training standards required by employers in the offshore wind industry with domestic health and safety regulations.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 18689
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	18689
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In 2012, in response to the emergence of the offshore wind industry, HSE created a dedicated team to regulate the offshore renewable energy industry. In addition to carrying out planned inspection and investigation of injuries and incidents, HSE’s dedicated team has worked with a range of stakeholders to encourage the development of good standards for health and safety. This has included working with industry bodies including the Global Wind Organisation (GWO), G+ Global Offshore Wind Health and Safety Organisation (G+) and RenewableUK (RUK).</p><p> </p><p>In November 2015, HSE hosted an industry leaders’ event where a commitment was made by those organisations to further improve industry leadership, increase engagement across the supply chain, develop a common risk reduction programme for the industry and develop and deliver good practice. The industry created a steering group to ensure the effective delivery of improvement. In April 2018, HSE and the industry reviewed progress and were broadly satisfied that progress had been made with a desire to do more.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2012, one of HSE’s priorities has been worker competence to ensure that people work safely. Although HSE does not approve training standards, it has been involved in discussions about the GWO training standards for basic safety. HSE sees the benefit in industry minimum standards of training as it facilitates worker mobility, reduces unnecessary bureaucracy and costs without reducing health and safety standards. However, they make clear to industry that this should be supplemented with an individual training needs analysis to determine the additional training needs for specific tasks required to be carried out safely.</p>
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1179131

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/02/2020
	date	21/02/2020
	date tabled	21/02/2020
	ddp created	21/02/2020 17:05:17
	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	21/02/2020 17:49:51 27/02/2020 16:41:02
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Safety
	house id	1
	identifier	18690
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	27/02/2020 16:09:28
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of employees in the offshore wind industry that hold (a) basic safety training and (b) a basic technical training certification in line with the minimum safety training standards for the industry set by the Global Wind Organisation.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 18690
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	18690
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>It is a legal duty on all employers within the offshore wind industry to provide sufficient information, instruction and training to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of people in their employment and others who may be affected. It is a matter for each individual employer to decide on how that information, instruction and training is provided, commensurate with the risks. Therefore, HSE does not approve the industry training standards nor keep records of the numbers trained under any individual training scheme.</p><p /><p>At inspections and during investigations, HSE does make thorough inquiries to ensure that workers who go offshore have received basic safety training prior to going offshore and that this is refreshed on a regular basis. That basic safety training covers the following topics: Marine Safety; Work at Height and Escape and Evacuation; First Aid; Fire Awareness; and Manual Handling. In addition, HSE does make inquiries into ensuring job specific training is provided.</p><p> </p>
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1179133

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/02/2020
	date	21/02/2020
	date tabled	21/02/2020
	ddp created	21/02/2020 17:05:22
	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	27/02/2020 16:35:06 27/02/2020 17:11:07
	hansard heading	Wind Power: Safety
	house id	1
	identifier	18692
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	27/02/2020 16:38:27
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department his made of the adequacy of health and safety training standards required by employers for (a) commercial divers, (b) seafarers and (c) technicians for employment the offshore wind industry.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 18692
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	18692
	version	4
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>It is a legal duty on all employers within the offshore wind industry to provide sufficient information, instruction and training to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of people in their employment and others who may be affected. It is a matter for each individual employer to decide on how that information, instruction and training is provided, commensurate to the risks.</p><p> </p><p>HSE does not have a statutory responsibility to approve training courses or standards for the sector. In 2012, HSE created a dedicated team to regulate the sector and that team has conducted inspections and investigations at offshore wind farms, enforcing health and safety legislation in accordance with HSE’s policies and procedures. Where HSE has identified that a duty holder has not provided suitable information, instruction and training, then it has taken action in accordance with its Enforcement Policy Statement (<a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm" target="_blank">https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcepolicy.htm</a>).</p>
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	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1179142

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/02/2020
	date	21/02/2020
	date tabled	21/02/2020
	ddp created	21/02/2020 17:07:52
	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	21/02/2020 17:50:39 27/02/2020 17:26:03
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Safety
	house id	1
	identifier	18701
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	27/02/2020 16:53:50
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with (a) ministerial colleagues in the Department for Transport and (b) the Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation on changes to the basic offshore safety induction and emergency training standard since the Civil Aviation Authority’s most recent recommendations on improving passenger safety and survivability in the helicopter transport sector of the offshore oil and gas industry.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 18701
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	18701
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Offshore helicopter safety falls within the remit of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). There have been no recent discussions between the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation (OPITO) on changes to the basic offshore safety induction training (BOSIET) syllabus with respect to helicopter transport. Although HSE has no direct influence on the content of OPITO training syllabuses (it is a matter for OPITO and the offshore Oil and Gas Industry), HSE actively engaged with OPITO/Oil &amp; Gas UK Ltd in September 2015 following the CAA’s decision to introduce the new Category A Emergency Breathing System (EBS) of a compressed-air underwater escape system for offshore helicopter transport.</p><p> </p><p>HSE had no direct involvement in the CAA decision. However, because this system uses compressed air as part of basic offshore survival training it is subject to the Diving at Work Regulations 1997 (DAWR). These regulations require anyone diving as part of a work activity to pass a medical carried out by an HSE approved medical Examiner. However, this medical sets an unnecessarily high standard for the type of training undertaken. HSE worked out a balance between allowing realistic OPITO training and the risk of barotrauma to participants. Consequently, in 2015 HSE issued an Exemption Certificate from DAWR to allow training “in pool” to proceed to max depth of 1.5m, provided participants had been passed fit following an examination to a set standard by a registered medical practitioner. Following further consultation with industry, a new exemption certificate was issued in April 2017. This incorporated the medical requirements of the original certificate issued in 2015 for helicopter escape training but allowed for unrestricted medical certificate of fitness for offshore work to be acceptable for shallow water training. A further exemption was issued in 2018 to allow a similar provision for the acceptability of unrestricted medical certificates of fitness to work at sea. All exemptions followed consultation with the industry and allow for the required training to be undertaken whilst still providing a level of protection to those taking part.</p><p> </p><p>There is an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between HSE and the CAA that includes arrangements for the regulation of offshore helicopter transport. As part of this MoU, there are regular meetings held between HSE and CAA to discuss offshore helicopter safety-related issues.</p>
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1187731

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	21/04/2020
	date	25/03/2020
	date tabled	25/03/2020
	ddp created	25/03/2020 18:56:27
	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	25/03/2020 19:06:05 22/04/2020 16:12:07
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	identifier	34979
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	22/04/2020 15:40:40
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to ensure that (a) social distancing and (b) other measures to help prevent increasing covid-19 infection rates are enforced among offshore oil and gas workers.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 34979
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	34979
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a contributing member of the Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) Pandemic Steering Group, which also contains members from OGUK, helicopter operators, oil and gas companies, Step Change in Safety and Health Protection Scotland. The Pandemic Steering Group has developed a protocol and range of measures to give guidance to offshore oil and gas companies on social distancing and other measures to prevent the COVID-19 infection of offshore workers. This has been disseminated to the industry via the OGUK working groups and online communication channels where appropriate and will be supported by the published full guidance document on OGUK’s website early next week.</p>
	creator	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham
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1196306

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	19/05/2020
	date	15/05/2020
	date tabled	15/05/2020
	ddp created	15/05/2020 14:07:47
	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	15/05/2020 14:27:44 21/05/2020 15:11:05
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Tees Valley
	house id	1
	identifier	47286
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	21/05/2020 14:39:58
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new universal credit claimants there were in each of the five local authority areas within the Tees Valley in each of the last three months.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 47286
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47286
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on new Universal Credit claims is not available by local authority. However, data surrounding starts to UC by postcode area is published online and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p>This includes data on the number of new Universal Credit claims in the postcode areas of Cleveland and Darlington up to 9<sup>th</sup> April 2020.</p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p />
	creator	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham
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1196307

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	19/05/2020
	date	15/05/2020
	date tabled	15/05/2020
	ddp created	15/05/2020 14:07:50
	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	15/05/2020 14:27:46 26/05/2020 15:14:07
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	47287
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	26/05/2020 14:42:17
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department has provided to staff processing claims for universal credit on using a better off calculation when a new claim is received.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 47287
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47287
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>DWP staff will signpost people to independent benefit calculators where they can check their eligibility for Universal Credit before applying.</p><p> </p><p>The independent benefits calculators we endorse are intended to provide useful estimations of what people can get in certain circumstances, based on what information is entered on the calculators themselves. This is to allow people to safely explore what help they may receive from Universal Credit before they apply, or based on potential changes of circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>For people considering claiming Universal Credit, we have updated our information on gov.uk and on understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk, where links to independent benefit calculators are published.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/benefits-calculators" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/benefits-calculators</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/new-to-universal-credit/how-much-youll-get/" target="_blank">https://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/new-to-universal-credit/how-much-youll-get/</a></p>
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1203347

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/06/2020
	date	12/06/2020
	date tabled	12/06/2020
	ddp created	12/06/2020 14:34:37
	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	12/06/2020 14:40:00 22/06/2020 17:28:07
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	identifier	59220
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	22/06/2020 16:56:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with the Health and Safety Executive on the provision of covid-19 guidance in the workplace for (a) employers and (b) staff in the offshore oil and gas industry.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 59220
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	59220
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a contributing member of the Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) Pandemic Steering Group (PSG), which also includes members from OGUK, helicopter operators, oil and gas companies, industry associations, medical professionals, Step Change in Safety (SCiS), Health Protection Scotland (HPS) and trade unions, including Unite and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers.</p><p> </p><p>The PSG has developed and published a range of guidance for offshore oil and gas companies on measures required to manage the risks of COVID-19 infection. The PSG has also produced guidance specifically for the offshore workforce on the measures oil and gas companies should have in place to manage the risks of COVID-19 offshore: <a href="https://oilandgasuk.co.uk/covid-19/" target="_blank">https://oilandgasuk.co.uk/covid-19/</a> and <a href="https://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/workgroups/covid-19/" target="_blank">https://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/workgroups/covid-19/</a>. HSE has also supported the PSG in formulating Scottish Government sector guidance which supports working safely offshore during the COVID-19 pandemic: <a href="https://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/web-resources-container/guidance-for-prevention-and-management-of-cases-of-covid-19-on-offshore-installations/" target="_blank">https://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/web-resources-container/guidance-for-prevention-and-management-of-cases-of-covid-19-on-offshore-installations/</a>.</p>
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1203348

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/06/2020
	date	12/06/2020
	date tabled	12/06/2020
	ddp created	12/06/2020 14:34:39
	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	12/06/2020 14:40:03 22/06/2020 17:23:05
	hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	identifier	59221
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	58
	question first answered	22/06/2020 16:52:02
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and (b) Scottish Government on the (i) provision and (ii) uptake of public covid-19 test facilities for offshore oil and gas workers.
	session	2019/21
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/21 59221
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	59221
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Secretary of State and I engage with a wide variety of stakeholders on a regular basis.</p><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) supports the testing of offshore workers to identify and manage the risks from COVID-19. HSE has given its full support to the Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) Pandemic Steering Group (PSG) to help deliver testing for all offshore workers. HSE is in regular communication with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to further support the availability of testing for all offshore workers, including those who are asymptomatic.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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