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93663

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
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	Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people employed on a zero-hours contract have been sanctioned by Jobcentre Plus for failing to look for or secure extra work hours in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	210694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. Jobseekers claiming Jobseekers Allowance are not required to apply for zero-hours contract vacancies, they will not be sanctioned as a result of not applying. UC claimants who refuse to accept a zero hours contract job offer, without good reason, can be subject to a sanction. However a UC claimant will not be sanctioned for refusing to take a zero hours contract with an exclusivity clause.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit automatically adjusts benefit payments depending on the number of hours a person works – whatever the type of contract. Where Universal Credit claimants refuse to apply for a role, including a Zero Hours Contract role when mandated to do so or refuse to accept a job offer, they can be sanctioned. People on Universal Credit will not be required to sign up to zero hours contracts which require exclusivity, so they will always have the opportunity to gain more hours elsewhere.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 20/10/2014 15:35:53 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

93366

registered interest
date	14/10/2014
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	Income Support: Telephones
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 commission survey research to make an estimate of the proportion of income support claimants who are aware of social tariffs available to help them access landlines.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	210290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Income Support provides extra money to help people on a low income. There are no plans to commission a survey to estimate the proportion of claimants who are aware of social tariffs available to help them access landlines.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 21/10/2014 14:29:17 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

92345

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	Unemployment Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants leaving unemployment to obtain a job return to claim out-of-work benefits within (a) 13 weeks and (b) six months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	209723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not readily available, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, the 2011 destinations survey found that of those leaving JSA for a job, 75% were still in work after 7-8 months: 58% in the same job, 13% having moved directly to a new job and 4% having spent time unemployed in the interim.</p><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/destinations-of-jobseekers-allowance-income-support-and-employment-and-supportallowance-leavers-2011-rr791" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/destinations-of-jobseekers-allowance-income-support-and-employment-and-supportallowance-leavers-2011-rr791</a></p><p>Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No 791 “Destinations of Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance Leavers 2011”</p><p>Lorna Adams, Katie Oldfield, Catherine Riley and Andrew Skone James</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 15/10/2014 14:52:50 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91445

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Disadvantaged: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the Government is using the money it has drawn down from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived; whether the Government is drawing down its remaining entitlement from that fund through a reallocation of structural funds; and how the Government plans to use that remaining entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	208917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text Member States are in the process of agreeing their Operational Programmes with the European Commission. These need to be in place before any funding can be drawn down. answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/10/2014 15:06:20 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91273

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
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	Disadvantaged: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the UK has drawn down from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived to date.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	208734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>As the UK allocation from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) is deducted from our European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund allocations, we minimised the adverse impact on those funds by taking the lowest possible allocation.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s allocation for the period 2014-2020 is €3.96m in current prices.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 208735 question first answered 12/09/2014 13:01:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91274

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
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	Disadvantaged: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the UK was entitled to draw down from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived to date.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	208735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>As the UK allocation from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) is deducted from our European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund allocations, we minimised the adverse impact on those funds by taking the lowest possible allocation.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s allocation for the period 2014-2020 is €3.96m in current prices.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 208734 question first answered 12/09/2014 13:01:16 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

89848

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Jobcentres: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many computers have been installed for use in Jobcentre Plus offices in the UK in 2014-15; and what estimate he has made of the number of computers so installed by the end of the current financial year.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	207488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Digital Jobcentres project is modernising the Jobcentre digital infrastructure by delivering WiFi and Web Access Devices (WADs) across the Jobcentre network. From now until the end of October, we will be installing WiFi and new Web access devices (WADs) across the Jobcentre network. By the end of October, around 6,000 WADs will have been installed in Jobcentres across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 16:44:47 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

89852

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Jobseeker's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average length of time his Department takes to process applications for hardship payments; and what targets he has set for the processing of such claims.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	207487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available. Our expectation is that claimants who are vulnerable will receive a hardship payment, if appropriate, within 3 days of them requesting hardship. We have no targets for the processing of hardship applications.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 15:47:15 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

78820

registered interest
date	17/07/2014
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	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, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on claimants of extending the waiting-day period for new benefit claims from three to seven days; and whether he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	206446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The principle behind the waiting days policy is that benefits are not intended to provide financial support for very brief breaks in employment or periods of sickness. The waiting days change should not be seen in isolation but as part of a package of new support measures designed to help people to return to work. Our assessment of the effects of the change is continuing.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 22/07/2014 16:59:56 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

76541

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Jobseeker's Allowance
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 the independent review of jobseeker's allowance sanctions being conducted by Matthew Oakley to be laid before Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	204479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the reply I gave the Rt. Hon. Member for East Ham, Stephen Timms, Official Report, 7 July 2014, column 106W.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 14/07/2014 14:44:45 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead