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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

385541

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits
	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 publish the guidance given to jobcentre staff in pilot jobcentres on the Claimant Commitment and the responsibility of individuals to increase their earnings.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	4030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>DWP publish staff guidance on an ad-hoc basis as requested. Information on making a claim to Universal Credit and the claimant commitment is available on the gov.uk website here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-and-your-claimant-commitment-quick-guide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-and-your-claimant-commitment-quick-guide</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 02/07/2015 13:06:19 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

227918

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 227352, if he will publish the data collected on protected characteristics for people making Employment Tribunal Service claims for each quarter from October 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Meg Munn
	uin	227761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Experimental statistics on Employment Tribunal (ET) fees data taken from the administrative IT system built to process fee receipts and remission applications, were published for the first time on 12 March 2015, as an Annex to the Tribunal and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly, October to December 2014 publication. It is our intention to publish them on a quarterly basis from this point forward subject to further data quality work.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the experimental nature of the statistics, the publication stated that additional analyses will be carried out to assess their quality and that of the administrative system the data are extracted from. Information on protected characteristics is collected by this employment tribunal fee and remission IT system. Subject to the results of data cleansing and quality assurance work to assess its coverage, robustness and usefulness, figures on protected characteristics will be included in future publications in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 23/03/2015 15:08:12 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

348035

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	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	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many apprenticeship places were taken up by people (a) already in employment with the same employer, (b) already in employment with a new employer and (c) who were previously unemployed in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Figures are not available on the numbers of apprenticeships taken up with the same or different employer.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 attached shows the number of apprenticeship starts by individuals aged 19-64 who were in receipt of a DWP benefit in the 6 months prior to starting their learning in the 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13 academic years (August – July). Statistics are only available for these academic years.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012/13, 45,800 individuals started an apprenticeship who were previously in the receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance or in the Employment and Support Allowance Work Related Activity Group in the 6 months prior to starting their learning. This is an increase from 42,900 in 2011/12 and 33,500 in 2010/11.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 776 question first answered 10/06/2015 16:06:08 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel attachment 1 file name Table 1 Apprentices aged 19-64 who claimed benefits before training by Benefit Type, Level and Academic Year.doc title Table 1: Apprentices aged 19-64 who claimed benefi
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

226764

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information is collected by the Employment Tribunal Service to monitor the protected characteristics of people making claims to the Employment Tribunal Service.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Meg Munn
	uin	227352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service collects information on the protected characteristics of those making a claim to the employment tribunals via the Diversity Monitoring section of the application form ET1. The form and questions can be found at http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/courtfinder/forms/et001-eng.pdf.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 16/03/2015 16:05:28 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

225502

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to the public purse of an employment tribunal was in the 12 months (a) before and (b) after the introduction of fees.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Meg Munn
	uin	226469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>It is not possible to provide the average costs to the public purse of an employment tribunals in the 12 months before and after the introduction of fees on a comparable basis, as explained in my answer to PQ 223678.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 17/03/2015 16:50:57 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

347001

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
	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 effect of benefit sanctions on (a) families with children and (b) people with mental ill health.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Jobcentre Plus offers a wide range of support to help claimants back into work. This includes specialist provision delivered through the Flexible Support Fund aimed at supporting vulnerable claimants with a mental health condition, learning difficulties or other disabilities. The Work Programme, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies and the Troubled Families Programme are also tailored to support families with children and people with mental health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The decision to temporarily halt a claimant’s benefit payment is always thoroughly considered and is not something we do lightly. It is a consequence of a claimant not meeting their requirements in return for receiving the benefit without good reason. The requirements and consequences are clearly communicated with them throughout their claim and set out in their Claimant Commitment. There are a number of steps in the decision making process to ensure that our decisions are correct.<em> </em></p><p> </p><p>After being notified of the decision, claimants can apply for hardship payments<em>.</em> Vulnerable claimants can apply for hardship immediately and the majority of claims are approved.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/06/2015 11:20:17 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

348908

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	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	Public Sector: Pensions
	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 effect on long-term returns to the public purse of fossil fuel divestment by public sector pension funds.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	1350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Most public sector pension schemes are unfunded and do not therefore make investments. The only major public sector pension scheme that makes investments is the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). Investment decisions are taken locally by each of the 89 pension fund authorities in England and Wales with regard to the policies set out in their Statement of Investment Principles. Details of these investments are included in each authority’s annual pension fund report, copies of which can be found at the LGPS Advisory Board website at <a href="http://www.lgpsboard.org/index.php/fund-annual-reports-2014" target="_blank">www.lgpsboard.org/index.php/fund-annual-reports-2014</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/06/2015 15:24:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

172616

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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	Driving: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Logistics Strategy Forum of the Health and Safety Executive has discussed driver fatigue.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Meg Munn
	uin	220106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No. However, the Logistics Strategy Forum’s predecessor, the Road Distribution Action Group, which represented trade associations, trades unions and other stakeholders, expressed concerns about fatigue and sleep disorders among drivers. Their work was taken up by the Department for Transport, which leads on driver health-related issues such as driver hours, medical fitness to drive and rest facilities at the roadside.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 12/01/2015 16:51:36 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

346996

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	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	Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to encourage pension providers to invest responsibly.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Pension scheme trustees are subject to a range of duties which, broadly speaking, require them to act in the best interests of beneficiaries.</p><p>The Government consulted on whether the law should be changed to provide clarity for pension scheme trustees about their legal duties regarding considering financial and non-financial factors when taking investment decisions, as well as encouraging trustees to consider their approach to stewardship. The Government will respond to this consultation later this year.</p><p>The guidance provided by The Pensions Regulator in its free ‘trustee toolkit’ was updated earlier this year to clarify that where trustees think environmental, social or governance issues are financially material to a scheme’s investments they should take these into account. The guidance also makes clear that the law permits trustees to make investment decisions that are influenced by non-financial factors, provided they have a good reason to think that scheme members share the concern, and there is no risk of significant detriment to the fund</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 172 question first answered 03/06/2015 16:42:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh