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172449

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	Work Programme
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 the staff in his Department responsible for the Work Programme are divided between those dealing with contracting and those dealing with performance; and what assessment he has made of the effect of that division on his Department's efficiency.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Staff responsible for commercial and performance aspects of the Work Programme are part of the Department’s Finance Group. Commercial staff work closely alongside Performance staff who focus their activities on further driving up performance with those suppliers. This approach allows greater flexibility and efficiency in deploying staff across the Department’s portfolio of contracts. This approach fits with best practice endorsed by Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 12/01/2015 14:16:06 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

172289

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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	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, what representations he has received in the last two years about the adequacy of his Department's hardship payments scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/01/2015 10:51:35 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

172290

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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	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 sub-contractors have received no referrals since the inception of that programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The level of referrals is a commercial matter between the prime provider and their sub-contractors.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/01/2015 10:58:05 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

172291

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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	Trussell Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he last met representatives of the Trussell Trust.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Secretary of State last met with representatives from the Trussell Trust in September 2014. The Department and its Ministers engages regularly with a wide range of organisations.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/01/2015 10:55:01 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

172018

registered interest
date	05/01/2015
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	Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's policy is on using 0845 business rate telephone numbers for benefits claimants.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	219754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Calls to claim benefit by telephone are free as the Department uses 0800 free phone numbers for these lines. The use of 0845 numbers were inherited from previous Government and this Department has since introduced 0345 numbers, but will retain the 0845 prefixes for the time being given it can still cost less to call these numbers from some operators’ packages.</p><p> </p><p>Any charges that apply to these calls will be set by the customer’s telephone or mobile operator. Charge variations will occur due to operator packages and individual price plans. We are aware of possible concerns about call charges to our enquiry lines so we will offer to call a customer back if concerns are raised over the cost of the call.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 12/01/2015 16:24:43 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

171851

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
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	Unemployed People: Training
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 bring forward proposals to introduce a loan repayment scheme to assist jobseekers to enrol on training courses.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	219594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>DWP offer jobseekers a range of free training options tailored to their requirements through the Work Programme or through local provision in Jobcentre Plus Districts</p><p> </p><p>In England, for those wishing to enrol in other courses, Advanced Learning Loans may be available.</p><p> </p><p>Skills is a devolved issue, and funding the responsibility of the Devolved Administrations.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/01/2015 15:46:02 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

171854

registered interest
date	02/01/2015
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	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 take steps to ensure the quicker payment of benefits to those on temporary work placements.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	219624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>Where someone takes-up work of 16 hours or more each week, either on a temporary or permanent basis, they are treated as being in remunerative work and their JSA claim is terminated and any outstanding payment issued to the claimant.</p><p> </p><p>If a person’s temporary work ends and they wish to re-claim JSA within 26 weeks of the last day of a previous award and providing there has been no change to their circumstances, Jobcentre Plus has a streamlined process known as Rapid Reclaim/Reclaim Gather to ensure claims are dealt with quickly. Additionally, all claimants can be considered for a Short Term Benefit Advance at the start of any new claim.</p><p> </p><p>Jobseekers engaged on work experience arranged through their Jobcentre still continue to receive their benefit uninterrupted, provided they continue to satisfy the conditions of entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit helps to ensure people are better off in work than on benefits and abolishes the limit to the number of hours someone can work each week. A claimant’s UC payment adjusts automatically according to the number of ours worked. As claimants increase their hours their UC payment will gradually reduce, ensuring they are always better of in work.</p><p> </p><p>We want to ensure that we minimise the administrative burden on claimants so that those who move off Universal Credit on a temporary basis can return to it quickly and easily as possible. The Universal Credit re-claims and re-award processes allow this to happen for certain claimants when they become re-entitled to Universal Credit within 6 months of a previous Universal Credit claim ending by re-using information already held on the claimant as part of their previous Universal Credit claim.</p><p> </p><p>The re-claim and re-award processes also ensure that these claimants have a shorter wait until they are paid Universal Credit by re-instating the previous assessment period from the claimant’s previous Universal Credit award.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/01/2015 14:01:06 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

171690

registered interest
date	18/12/2014
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
hansard heading	Vacancies: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job applications have been made through Universal Jobmatch from the EU-wide jobs portal since November 2012.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available as it is not possible to quantify the number of applications made through Universal Jobmatch from the EURES Portal.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/01/2015 16:31:38 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

171691

registered interest
date	18/12/2014
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
hansard heading	Unemployment: Young People
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 reasons for the recent change in the number of 16 to 24 year olds unemployed for more than two years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Youth unemployment has fallen by 208,000 – over a fifth – on the year to 754,000. <strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Estimates of long-term youth unemployment on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) definition are based on relatively small samples of individuals and can fluctuate from one period to another. The information published by the Office for National Statistics covers 18-24 year olds and shows that over the last year as a whole the number unemployed for two years or more has fallen by about 10%. The number of young people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance for more than two years – the group directly covered by Government employment support – nearly halved in the year to November 2014</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/01/2015 17:55:18 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

171694

registered interest
date	18/12/2014
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
hansard heading	Jobseeker's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants participating in the Work Programme have received more than one sanction since June 2011.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/01/2015 13:47:41 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms