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1222107

registered interest
date	08/07/2020
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 Schemes: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether young people who are medically shielding from covid-19 will be required to take up a place on the Kickstart jobs scheme.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	71093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>Those who have declared a health condition that restricts their ability to work, including those who are shielding and clinically extremely vulnerable, will not be required to be available for work. Further details about the Kickstart Scheme will be set out in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/07/2020 12:29:46 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1222109

registered interest
date	08/07/2020
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 Schemes: 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 conditions will be placed on employers participating in the Kickstart jobs scheme to protect the employment conditions of workers aged 25 and over.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	71094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>The Kickstart scheme will protect the employment conditions of workers aged 25 and over. Jobs available to young people, aged 16-24, will be new jobs - with the funding conditional on the employer demonstrating these jobs are additional. Further details about the Kickstart Scheme will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/07/2020 12:27:01 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1222137

registered interest
date	08/07/2020
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
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 paragraph 3.2 of the Government's policy paper, A plan for jobs, published on 8 July 2020, if she will publish further details on how the Government plans to deliver a new online, one-to-one job finding support service.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	71050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>The Job Finding Support package will be an on-line service providing tailored one-to-one support to help people who have recently lost their job to increase their employability and provide links with suitable employers.</p><p> </p><p>We are considering options to provide additional provision for Job Finding Support through a contracted provision. This would be subject to a commercial exercise that will be carried out as a fair and open competition to select a provider who will be working alongside Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches. We will publish more details shortly.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/07/2020 14:27:10 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1220870

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average (a) phone and (b) broadband costs incurred by universal credit claimants fulfilling their responsibility to spend 35 hours per week seeking employment.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Kate Osborne
uin	69720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to estimate the average phone or broadband costs incurred by claimants fulfilling their responsibilities under the Universal Credit regime.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to supporting the individual needs of claimants, including agreeing realistic and structured steps to encourage them into or towards the labour market taking into the account their personal circumstances and resources.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 15:15:26 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4783 label Biography information for Kate Osborne

1221002

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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 her Department’s policy is from 1 July 2020 on applying benefit sanctions for claimants who have been assessed as failing to comply with their claimant commitment.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	69562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>From the 1<sup>st</sup> of July, we will be contacting claimants to introduce a personalised claimant commitment.</p><p>Claimant commitments must be reasonable for this unprecedented time, reflecting the reality of a person’s local jobs market and personal circumstances to help prepare them for getting back into work. The claimant commitment will take into account local and national public health guidelines.</p><p>Sanctions are only used when people fail to meet their agreed commitments without good reason – and UC sanction rates have fallen to the lowest rate on record.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:47:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1221003

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her latest estimate is of the (a) job vacancy rate and (b) unemployment rate in each region and nation of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	69563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The latest official statistics on vacancies, from the Office for National Statistics, cover the period Mar-May 2020. These statistics estimate the number of UK vacancies at 476,000, or 1.6 vacancies per 100 employee jobs. These statistics can be found <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/datasets/vacanciesbyindustryvacs02" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of vacancies are not available for each region and nation of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The latest official employment statistics, from the Office for National Statistics, cover the period Feb-Apr 2020. These statistics can be found <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/regionallabourmarket/june2020" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 14:07:46 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1221004

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
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 her Department's planned expenditure on staff costs for 2020-21 as listed on page 170 of her Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20, HC 401, published on 30 June 2020, how many (a) full-time equivalent work coaches and (b) other staff her Department plans to employ for the year 2020-21 at (i) August and (ii) December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	69564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>At the time of publication of the Department’s 2019-20 Annual Report and Accounts, projected spending on staff costs (as per the core tables on page 170) was around £3 billion for 2020-21; as per Spending Round 2019. This equates to approximately 68,900 FTE of which around 13,500 are work coaches (as of May 2020). These numbers would have remained relatively static over the year.</p><p> </p><p>Since publication of the Annual report and Accounts the Government set out in its Summer Economic Statement, on 8 July, a labour market package that included significant investment to enhance work search support in response to the current pandemic by doubling the number of work coaches before the end of 2020/21 - this equates to an additional 13,500 work coaches to be recruited over the remainder of this financial year.</p><p> </p><p>We know that the short term unemployed are more likely to be able to move into work either on their own or with just Jobcentre core support. Given the economic situation, we plan, for a period, to bolster the support provided through Jobcentres by using contracted providers to offer additional help. We will expand the Work and Health Programme and provide a bespoke offer to the more recently unemployed, activating their jobsearch and engagement with the labour market.</p><p> </p><p>For other staffing the Department is continually assessing the service being offered to customers. In addition, as part of our monitoring of the impact of Covid-19 on the labour market we will continue to actively keep staff numbers and broader provision under review in order to ensure that we can provide the most effective support to those who have lost work.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:24:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1221006

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department is providing for universal credit claimants to undertake courses to reskill.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	69565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>Evidence suggests that the numbers of people requiring DWP support will increase further over the coming months, particularly as the CJRS winds down. Many of these people will effectively be ‘job ready’ and will not require extensive support from Government to return to work. Our ‘Good Place to Start’ campaign has already gone live, with digital advertising that signposts jobseekers to our job websites.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will now go further and <strong>will spend £895 million to double the number of work coaches</strong> in Jobcentre Plus before the end of the financial year across Great Britain. Work coaches are at the core of our employment offer and this increase will provide more people with the tailored support they need to move into work. We know some people might require additional support to get back into work, and DWP is launching a “Getting Britain Back into Work” package, which builds on and bolsters the existing support offered by our Jobcentre Plus network. The package includes:</p><p>- <strong>Kickstart Scheme</strong> <strong>–</strong> a £2b fund to create hundreds of thousands of high quality 6-month work placements aimed at those aged 16-24 who are on Universal Credit and at risk of long term unemployment.</p><p>- <strong>Expanded Youth Offer </strong>– increasing the intensive support offered to those 18-24 in the Intensive Work Search group in Universal Credit. Further support will be available through Youth Hubs with specialist Youth Employment Coaches.</p><p>- <strong>Expansion of the Work and Health Programme </strong>– to introduce additional voluntary support for those on benefits in England and Wales that have been unemployed for more than 3 months.</p><p>- <strong>Flexible Support Fund (FSF) </strong>– increase the funding for the FSF by £150m to increase the capacity of the Rapid Response Service (RRS), supporting those facing redundancy.</p><p>- <strong>Expanding sector based work academies </strong>– increase participation in our sector-based work academy programmes, offering training, work experience and a guaranteed interview. We will establish bespoke opportunities, working with employers and training providers to support claimants to fill job vacancies and pivot into new careers, including in priority sectors such as construction and social care.</p><p>- <strong>Job finding support service </strong>– £40 million to fund additional capacity to introduce an online, one-to-one service to help those who have been recently unemployed.</p><p>Taken together, the package will ensure that we can get Britain back into work quickly.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:44:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1221058

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a minimum maintenance payment for parents with care under the Child Maintenance Service to guarantee a minimum maintenance income.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	69605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>There is no plan for any such assessment. The purpose of the Child Maintenance Service is to facilitate the payment of child maintenance between separated parents.</p><p> </p><p>No one should use the pandemic as an excuse to avoid their child maintenance payments. Where paying parents experience a change in income, we can review their case and check if the amount paid should change. If it does not, they should continue to make payments.</p><p> </p><p>We know the majority of parents take their responsibilities extremely seriously and will do what is needed to ensure their children are supported.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:25:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1221061

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases child maintenance was not collectable as a result of a Child Maintenance Service administrative error when a deduction from earnings request was made to the armed forces in each quarter of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	69606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service does not record this data as there is no facility on the Child Maintenance System to record instances when a Deduction from Earning Request has been rejected by MoD or where an administrative error occurred.</p><p> </p><p>As the information requested is not collated centrally it would require examination of individual cases and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:29:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows