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142333

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Statement of 13 October 2014, Official Report, column 18WS, on universal credit, when the last claim for legacy benefits or tax credits will be accepted.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	213752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As has already been announced, the current business case assumes for planning purposes that the last new claims to legacy benefits will be accepted during 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Following this the stock of remaining legacy claims will progressively decline, and the Department will migrate the remaining claims to Universal Credit. Should there be no change in the labour market outlook or the pace at which claims are migrated, the current business case assumes for planning purposes the bulk of this exercise will be complete by 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit is being implemented in a safe and secure manner using a test and learn approach. Taking this approach has allowed us to accelerate our plans for national roll-out of Universal Credit to all Jobcentres and Local Authorities from February 2015, and will deliver £7 billion in economic benefits per year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 11/11/2014 17:05:49 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

114966

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
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	Universal Credit
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 4 November 2014 to Question 212414, by which means universal credit is calculated in cases where a claimant's circumstances change, so that the existing IT system does not have the functionality to complete the claimant's entitlement; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	213666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The existing IT has functionality to process changes of circumstances in Universal Credit and the majority of changes are automatically administered through to the Universal Credit award. There are a small number of complex circumstances where an agent will record this information on the system and then the functionality will automatically apply this change to the award.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 10/11/2014 17:55:06 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

106386

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) number and (b) proportion of people claiming employment and support allowance are classified as BME.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	213308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of Employment and Support Allowance recipients, by ethnicity is published at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistics-tabulation-tool</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figures can be then used to calculate the proportions of the total caseload required.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </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> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 07/11/2014 12:28:06 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

106135

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what way his Department participates in the Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>DWP administers the Disability Symbol (Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People Scheme) via the network of Disability Employment Advisors (DEAs) located in Jobcentre Plus.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is itself a Two Ticks employer.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently around 3,000 employers signed up to the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 06/11/2014 16:18:55 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

106136

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
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	Industrial Health and Safety
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 change in the number of people being injured or made ill at work; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The latest figures were only released at the end of October and it is too early to make a firm assessment of the latest trends.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 06/11/2014 16:08:29 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

102004

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
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	Asbestos
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 22 October 2014 to Question 211627, what assessment he has made of the likelihood of a link between the reduction in asbestos licence holders and changes in asbestos removal activity.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>No such assessment has been made of the number of licence holders and asbestos removal activity.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 17:45:31 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

102005

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects all new applications to be for universal credit instead of for existing benefits and credits.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Official Report, 13 October 2014, column.16WS.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 14:46:51 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

101604

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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 Schemes: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to inform residential training colleges for disabled people whether their funding will be extended beyond August 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>It is a priority for me to ensure that as many disabled people as possible are helped towards employment through the Department’s various employment programmes.</p><p> </p><p>As mentioned in the “Disability and Health Employment Strategy: the discussions so far”, I understand the importance of a specialist support offer for disabled people, and I want to continue to improve this offer by considering a wide range of ideas and initiatives.</p><p> </p><p>My officials are currently undertaking a detailed analysis of how best to support disabled customers, and the role that Residential Training Colleges should play in this support. I cannot yet confirm when I will be able to inform residential training colleges of the outcome of this work, which will take account of the broader Disability Health and Employment Strategy and of the Department’s other employment programmes including Work Programme and Work Choice. As part of the process, officials will undertake an equality analysis so that I fully understand the impact of any future proposals before I make my final decision.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:46:00 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

101605

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applications can be processed on average manually by an adviser in a day.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Claims to Universal Credit are received predominantly on-line or, in a small minority, by telephone at our Service Centre. We do not manually process claims to Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 17:12:32 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 25884 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

101607

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects Jobcentre Plus to deploy an IT solution for the calculation of universal credit for those other than single people; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	212412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Universal Credit has been available online for new claims from Single people from April 2013, has been available to Couples from June 2014 and will be available to Families by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 06/11/2014 17:08:10 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 25890 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms