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date	27/11/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2017 to Question 3585, on disability: employment, what steps his Department is taking to achieve its target of 1 million more disabled people in work over the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	115720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>We remain committed to improving employment outcomes for disabled people. The manifesto commitment to get one million more disabled people in work over the next ten years gives us a clear, ambitious, and time-bound goal.</p><p>The employment rate of disabled people is 49% – up 4.7 percentage points since 2014. There are 3.5 million disabled people in work – an increase of over 530,000 since 2014. We know that there is much more that needs to be done, so that everyone who can work is given the right support and opportunities to do so. Today (November 30<sup>th</sup> 2017) the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions have published our response to the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper consultation in <em>Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability</em>. This sets out our vision for a 10 year programme of reform, the actions we have taken since the Green Paper and our immediate next steps.</p><p>We will track the number of disabled people in employment and publish a statistical update annually. We will also consider other useful statistical indicators, which give more information about how disability and employment change over this time period, and inform our actions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 115721 question first answered 30/11/2017 17:15:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

795300

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2017 to Question 3585, on disability: employment, how his Department plans to report its progress on getting 1 million more disabled people into work over the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	115721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>We remain committed to improving employment outcomes for disabled people. The manifesto commitment to get one million more disabled people in work over the next ten years gives us a clear, ambitious, and time-bound goal.</p><p>The employment rate of disabled people is 49% – up 4.7 percentage points since 2014. There are 3.5 million disabled people in work – an increase of over 530,000 since 2014. We know that there is much more that needs to be done, so that everyone who can work is given the right support and opportunities to do so. Today (November 30<sup>th</sup> 2017) the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions have published our response to the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper consultation in <em>Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability</em>. This sets out our vision for a 10 year programme of reform, the actions we have taken since the Green Paper and our immediate next steps.</p><p>We will track the number of disabled people in employment and publish a statistical update annually. We will also consider other useful statistical indicators, which give more information about how disability and employment change over this time period, and inform our actions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 115720 question first answered 30/11/2017 17:15:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

793963

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July to Question 3587 on social security benefits, in what circumstances it is unreasonable to expect an individual to undertake any form or amount of work or work related activity.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	115052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>All Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) recipients are divided in to two groups. Those assessed as having Limited Capability for Work (LCW), are placed in the Work-Related Activity Group (WRAG). This means they are required to engage with their Jobcentre Plus work coach, and take reasonable steps to move them closer to the labour market with the aim of being capable of working in the future. They are not required to search for or undertake any form of work.</p><p> </p><p>Those assessed as having Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA), are placed in the Support Group. This means they are not required to participate in any work, work search or, work-related activity, but can choose to access work-related support through the Jobcentre at any point during their claim if they wish to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit claimants with Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity are not set any work-related requirements and just need to inform DWP if they have a change in circumstances that affects their claim.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/11/2017 17:21:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

731860

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Queen's Speech 2017, who will sit on the commission for countering extremism and how does the Government plans to appoint the commissioners to the commission.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government is considering options for establishing the process by which Commissioners are appointed.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/06/2017 13:28:12 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

674329

registered interest
date	17/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide a comprehensive list of the public policy targets established by her Department (a) between 2010 and May 2015 and (b) since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	60315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>A comprehensive list of Home Office public policy objectives and supporting targets is available on the GOV.UK website. For the period 2010 to 2015, the previous coalition government published ‘The Coalition: our programme for government’ which set out the key policy objectives for the government. The detailed Home Office objectives from this document were published in the Home Office Structural Reform Plan. The documents are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78977/coalition_programme_for_government.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78977/coalition_programme_for_government.pdf</a></p><p>and at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/structural-reform-plan--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/structural-reform-plan--2</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Following the General Election in May 2015, the Home Office, in common with other government departments has published a Single Departmental Plan which sets out current policy objectives. The current plan is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-single-departmental-plan-2015-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-single-departmental-plan-2015-to-2020</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/01/2017 09:37:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis