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registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014 to Question 207549, if his Department will publish the number of employment and support allowance claims which are awaiting action by (a) a work capability assessment provider and (b) his Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	209455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>As at 31 August 2014 there were:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Around 616,000 cases awaiting work capability assessments at Atos Healthcare (down from 637,000 at the end of July). These figures do not include cases where the claimant has yet to return the claimant questionnaire;</li></ul><ul><li>Around 39,000 cases awaiting work capability assessment decisions by the Department for Work and Pensions.</li></ul><p> </p><p>These figures are based on un-validated operational management information and are rounded to the nearest thousand.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 15/10/2014 16:46:31 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

92335

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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	Remploy
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 what the £8 million package of support for former Remploy factory workers announced in 2012 has achieved in employment outcomes for those former workers directly affected.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	209691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>For all disabled former Remploy workers made redundant as a result of factory closures, the Government put in place the £8 million guaranteed People Help and Support Package (PHSP). The support package provides help to each affected disabled former employee for up to 18 months from the date they left Remploy.</p><p> </p><p>The PHSP provides help for each affected disabled individual to adjust to life outside of Government funded supported employment and to find alternative mainstream employment. The support provided through PHSP includes access to a Personal Case Worker and a personal budget.</p><p> </p><p>The support does not stop once the 18 months period is complete and former Remploy employees who still need help will continue to receive the specialist employment support available to all disabled people looking for a job. In most cases this will include continuation of support from the same adviser.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has asked all disabled former employees made redundant from Remploy to give permission to be tracked, and the Department can only monitor the progress and outcomes of those individuals that have given permission.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures show that 1,507 disabled former Remploy workers are choosing to work with our personal case workers to find another job and 774 are currently in work. 389 former Remploy disabled employees are in receipt of employment support allowance, 345 are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, 382 confirmed their intention to retire and 774 are currently in work.</p><p> </p><p>Our records of former Remploy disabled employees currently in work only show individuals who are in employment of 16 hours or more and do not indicate the type of employment, or whether it is permanent, fixed term, temporary or voluntary. The Department does not keep a record of impairment type.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 209672 209696 question first answered 15/10/2014 13:32:12 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

92336

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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	Remploy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former Remploy factory workers laid off since 2012 are (a) in full-time employment, (b) in part-time employment, (c) retired, (d) employed on zero-hour contracts, (e) volunteering, (f) in lower-paid employment than at the time they were employed by Remploy and (g) not in work, by impairment type.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	209672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>For all disabled former Remploy workers made redundant as a result of factory closures, the Government put in place the £8 million guaranteed People Help and Support Package (PHSP). The support package provides help to each affected disabled former employee for up to 18 months from the date they left Remploy.</p><p> </p><p>The PHSP provides help for each affected disabled individual to adjust to life outside of Government funded supported employment and to find alternative mainstream employment. The support provided through PHSP includes access to a Personal Case Worker and a personal budget.</p><p> </p><p>The support does not stop once the 18 months period is complete and former Remploy employees who still need help will continue to receive the specialist employment support available to all disabled people looking for a job. In most cases this will include continuation of support from the same adviser.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has asked all disabled former employees made redundant from Remploy to give permission to be tracked, and the Department can only monitor the progress and outcomes of those individuals that have given permission.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures show that 1,507 disabled former Remploy workers are choosing to work with our personal case workers to find another job and 774 are currently in work. 389 former Remploy disabled employees are in receipt of employment support allowance, 345 are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, 382 confirmed their intention to retire and 774 are currently in work.</p><p> </p><p>Our records of former Remploy disabled employees currently in work only show individuals who are in employment of 16 hours or more and do not indicate the type of employment, or whether it is permanent, fixed term, temporary or voluntary. The Department does not keep a record of impairment type.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 209691 209696 question first answered 15/10/2014 13:32:12 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

92337

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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	Remploy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled former Remploy factory workers are in receipt of (a) employment support allowance and (b) jobseeker's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	209696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>For all disabled former Remploy workers made redundant as a result of factory closures, the Government put in place the £8 million guaranteed People Help and Support Package (PHSP). The support package provides help to each affected disabled former employee for up to 18 months from the date they left Remploy.</p><p> </p><p>The PHSP provides help for each affected disabled individual to adjust to life outside of Government funded supported employment and to find alternative mainstream employment. The support provided through PHSP includes access to a Personal Case Worker and a personal budget.</p><p> </p><p>The support does not stop once the 18 months period is complete and former Remploy employees who still need help will continue to receive the specialist employment support available to all disabled people looking for a job. In most cases this will include continuation of support from the same adviser.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has asked all disabled former employees made redundant from Remploy to give permission to be tracked, and the Department can only monitor the progress and outcomes of those individuals that have given permission.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures show that 1,507 disabled former Remploy workers are choosing to work with our personal case workers to find another job and 774 are currently in work. 389 former Remploy disabled employees are in receipt of employment support allowance, 345 are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, 382 confirmed their intention to retire and 774 are currently in work.</p><p> </p><p>Our records of former Remploy disabled employees currently in work only show individuals who are in employment of 16 hours or more and do not indicate the type of employment, or whether it is permanent, fixed term, temporary or voluntary. The Department does not keep a record of impairment type.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 209672 209691 question first answered 15/10/2014 13:32:12 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

92356

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
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	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, with reference to the statement in his Department's press release of 9 December 2013 that hundreds of people would benefit from the extension of Access to Work to cover work placements, how many people have so benefited to date; and what data his Department collects to enable assessment of the effects of the changes to the scheme.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	209799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>We do not hold official statistics for these figures.</p><p> </p><p>DWP publishes an annual report regarding all of the operations for the previous operational year in July, so the next publication will be July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work supported 35,450 disabled people to keep or get employment during 2013/14 (up from 31,510 in 2012/13)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 15/10/2014 16:46:36 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green