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178217

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many peopled claimed jobseeker's allowance Domestic Violence Easement in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	223651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The Jobseeker’s Allowance Domestic Violence Easement began in April 2012. The table below provides details of easements granted for the three years since its introduction. The increasing number of individuals claiming the easement is likely to be related to the awareness raising work carried out with operational staff and stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>YEAR</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Claims for JSA DV easement</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>277</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>2087</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>3178</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 14:47:56 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

178218

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to publicise the jobseeker's allowance Domestic Violence Easement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	223652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Since the Domestic Violence easement was introduced we have worked with stakeholders and DWP staff to raise awareness of it. Information on the Domestic Violence easement is available on Gov.uk and we have worked with stakeholders to ensure that they are aware and understand how the easement works. We also issued a poster to stakeholders which explains the easement and can be printed and distributed to anyone who wishes to know more about it.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 15:11:56 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

178223

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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 the total advertising budget is for the Your Future Your Pension campaign; and how much has been spent on (a) television, (b) newspaper, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other advertising including the phrase Your Future Your Pension in the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	223660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) uses a variety of free and paid for channels to effectively communicate important reforms and how people are affected.</p><p> </p><p>The channels used are considered the most effective route to reach key audiences, whilst offering value for money. All advertising spend is scrutinised and agreed through the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>DWP launched an information campaign to help people understand what the State Pension changes mean for them. The multi-channel advertising campaign ‘Your Future, Your Pension’ is part of the Government’s drive to explain the State Pension reforms to both current and future pensioners.</p><p> </p><p>The advertising directs people to the information they need on GOV.UK and encourages relevant groups to request a statement through the Statement Service.</p><p> </p><p>No money was spent on promoting the phrase ‘Your Future, Your Pension’. The money spent on the marketing campaign that includes the phrase ‘your State Pension, your future’ is as follows:</p><p>Direct Mail – £6,177</p><p>Magazine advertorials – £61,982</p><p> </p><p>There is no specific budget for the use of either phrase within the campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 15:08:07 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

178229

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
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, how many people who are affected by the benefit cap are in receipt of (a) bereavement allowance, (b) carer's allowance, (c) child benefit, (d) child tax credit, (e) employment and support allowance, except where the support component has been awarded, (f) guardian's allowance, (g) housing benefit, (h) incapacity benefit, (i) income support, (j) jobseeker's allowance, (k) maternity allowance, (l) severe disablement allowance, (m) widowed parent's allowance and (n) widow's benefit.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	223557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Full benefit cap statistics for November 2014 can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-cap-number-of-households-capped-to-november-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics do not contain benefit type information. However, all capped households included in the official statistics are in receipt of Housing Benefit. At November 2014 (the latest available data) 24,252 households are subject to the cap, and therefore are in receipt of Housing Benefit. At November 2014 22,866 capped households had 1 or more child dependants so we could infer that all of these capped households with child dependant(s) are in receipt of child benefit.</p><p> </p><p>A suite of evaluation was published on 15 December 2014. This evaluation made estimates of the proportion of capped households in scope for the cap who were in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support (IS), Employment Support Allowance (ESA) or other benefit types over time.</p><p>Further information can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-evaluation</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-review-of-the-first-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-cap-review-of-the-first-year</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 14:56:12 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

177916

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Jobcentre Plus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what performance measures are used to monitor frontline advisers in Jobcentre Plus.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	223472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Frontine Advisers’ performance is measured in a variety of ways. Departmental staff have individual key work objectives that support the Department to meet organisational performance measures, and deliver high quality public services.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 16:23:24 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

177917

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of his Department's advertising budget is allocated to the campaign to promote the New Enterprise Allowance; and how much of that funding has been spent in the last 24 months on (a) television, (b) newspaper advertising, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising mentioning the New Enterprise Allowance.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	223469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not have a specific advertising budget. In the last 24 months, the Department spent £25,150 (excluding VAT) on marketing activities to support the New Enterprise Allowance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) Television – nil</p><p> </p><p>(b) Newspaper – nil</p><p> </p><p>(c) Online - £2,450</p><p> </p><p>(d) Radio – nil</p><p> </p><p>(e) Other – £22,700 (for posters, flyers and videos)</p><p> </p><p /> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 17:59:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

177930

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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, with reference to Annex 5 of the Written evidence submitted by the Public and Commercial Services Union to the Work and Pensions Committee dated 29 January 2015, whether the target set out in the memorandum dated 1 July 2013 raising the adverse decision rate of 80 per cent in that Annex remains in place; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	223509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no targets or benchmarks for the number of benefit sanctions applied by Decision Makers. The Department is careful to ensure quality and consistency of decision making throughout the sanctions process. The 80% adverse decision rate forms part of this quality assurance and was introduced to ensure that only appropriate referrals are made by Job Centre Plus advisers to Decision Makers. This measure is in place so that all evidence is considered first by an adviser before a doubt is referred to a decision maker.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 17:26:19 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

177593

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	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 Work Programme participants have entered Payment Group One since June 2011; and how many of those participants were identified as being not in employment, education or training before entering the programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	223096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In response to the first part of the question, this information is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p>Of those Payment Group One participants who have entered the Work Programme since June 2011, over 88,000 have moved into long term work as of September 2014. In total the Work Programme has helped 368,000 long term unemployed people into lasting work.</p><p> </p><p>Information is not available regarding the number of Payment Group One participants which were identified as not in employment, education or training before entering the Work Programme.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 16:28:32 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

177594

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	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 his Department has taken to reclaim overpayments from Work Programme providers since June 2011; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	223098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department samples and validates paid outcomes on the Work Programme independently from providers and has made appropriate recoveries over the lifetime of the programme, where overpayments have occurred.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 18:00:12 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

177596

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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, how many applications were made for short-term benefit advance in 2014; and how many of these applications were successful.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	223104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 16:35:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead