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1719664

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Employment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on (a) dedicated work coaches, (b) support elements separate to the work coaches and (c) youth hubs through his Department's Youth Offer in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022 and (c) 2023.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/05/2024 11:58:33 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719665

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Employment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many places were (a) available and (b) taken up for the Youth Offer in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022, (iii) 2023 and (iv) 2024 as of 21 May.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The Youth Offer launched on the 20 September 2020 and provides support for 16–24-year-olds who are on Universal Credit to help them move into employment. It includes three elements:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The Youth Employment Programme, which provides young people dedicated intensive Work Coach support in finding &amp; applying for jobs, with additional assistance available for those who have recently begun their Universal Credit claim.</li><li>Youth Hubs, which bring together in one location DWP services with local support provided by youth experts. This ensures that the needs of young people are matched to services that help them tackle barriers to employment.</li><li>Youth Employability Coaches, who are focused on supporting young people furthest from the labour market overcome complex challenges so that they can move into work.</li></ul><p>The Youth Offer is a demand led programme and is available to eligible young claimants on Universal Credit.</p><p>The most recent data available is up to end of April for Starts on the Youth Offer.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Starts between dates</p></td><td><p>Youth Employment Programme</p></td><td><p>Youth Hub</p></td><td><p>Youth Employability Coach</p></td><td><p>Youth Offer</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/09/2020 – 31/03/2021</p></td><td><p>206,700</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>206,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2021 – 31/03/2022</p></td><td><p>259,300</p></td><td><p>14,800</p></td><td><p>21,700</p></td><td><p>295,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2022 – 31/03/2023</p></td><td><p>272,700</p></td><td><p>15,100</p></td><td><p>18,300</p></td><td><p>306,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2023 – 31/03/2024</p></td><td><p>308,900</p></td><td><p>14,200</p></td><td><p>20,800</p></td><td><p>344,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/04/2024 – 30/04/2024</p></td><td><p>24,300</p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>2,100</p></td><td><p>27,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Starts</p></td><td><p>1,072,000</p></td><td><p>45,300</p></td><td><p>63,000</p></td><td><p>1,180,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Eligible claimants who have recently begun their Universal Credit claim, and are actively searching for work, start in the Youth Employment Programme element of the Youth Offer. A Work Coach may later refer them to a Youth Hub, Youth Employability Coach or other employment support as appropriate based on their needs.</li><li>When a claimant starts on any of the three elements of the Youth Offer, this is recorded as a start on that element, as well as a start on the Youth Offer.</li><li>A claimant may take part in multiple elements of the Youth Offer. They may start any element of the Youth Offer multiple times. Each of these starts is recorded as a start on the Youth Offer.</li><li>Claimants do not take part in multiple elements of the Youth Offer simultaneously.</li><li>Data for Youth Hubs and Youth Employability Coaches is not available prior to April-21.</li><li>Youth Hub and Youth Employability Coach data is produced from a manual process and although care is taken when processing and analysing Youth Hub and Youth Employability Coach referrals, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which features manual data. Therefore, Youth Hub and Youth Employability Coach figures are likely to underestimate the number of young people who have started at a Youth Hub and/or with a Youth Employability Coach.</li></ol><ol start="7"><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100. Therefore, the individual elements in the table may not sum to the total figure.</li><li>Figures are subject to retrospective revision.</li></ol> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/05/2024 14:14:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719668

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Employment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 27357 27358 27359 question first answered 24/05/2024 11:35:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719669

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Employment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 27356 27358 27359 question first answered 24/05/2024 11:35:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719670

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Employment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 27356 27357 27359 question first answered 24/05/2024 11:35:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719671

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Employment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there are as of 21 May 2024.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 27356 27357 27358 question first answered 24/05/2024 11:35:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719710

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) face-to-face, (b) remote and (c) paper-based Personal Independence Payment assessments resulted in claims being (i) awarded, (ii) disallowed and (iii) withdrawn in each financial year since 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/05/2024 11:46:07 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719714

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Access to 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 the average waiting time was for an initial assessment for people on the Access to Work Scheme in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	27362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The average waiting time for an initial assessment for people on the Access to Work Scheme in the last five years is not available.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Access to Work statistics includes how many applications result in provision being approved from 2007/08 to 2022/23. Please see Table 3 of the Access to Work statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Access to Work statistics can be on the Access to Work statistics on GOV.UK</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/05/2024 13:49:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1719830

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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: Temporary Accommodation
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 make an assessment of the potential impact of taper rates for (a) housing benefit and (b) Universal Credit housing elements on people in temporary accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	27512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The taper rates in Universal Credit (UC) and Housing Benefit (HB) are different and the Department acknowledges the challenge that this creates for those moving into work whilst living in Temporary Accommodation - when transitioning between receiving UC and HB to receiving HB only as their earnings increase.</p><p> </p><p>Officials continue to develop policy and delivery options to improve the customer experience for those reliant on Housing Benefit. Any options involving further investment to strengthen work incentives would require fiscal approval in the normal way.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/05/2024 10:55:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1719868

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
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	Employment: Health
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 help ensure that adequate support is in place for jobseekers with (a) health conditions and (b) disabilities in the period between the end of referrals to the Work and Health Programme in Autumn 2024 and the start of Universal Support in 2025.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	27550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>When referrals to the Work and Health Programme (WHP) end in September and before Universal Support begins its rollout from Autumn 2024 there will still be services available for disabled people and those with health conditions who have employment support needs. These include Employment Advisors in NHS Talking Therapies and the Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care (IPSPC) programme for disabled people and those with mild to moderate mental and physical health conditions.</p><p>It also includes, for example, the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) programme for people with drug and alcohol dependency and the Local Supported Employment (LSE) programme for people who are learning disabled, neurodivergent or Autistic as well as locally led employment support delivered through Jobcentres.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/05/2024 13:50:33 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft