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48890

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the average change in the number of days people will spend claiming benefits as a result of the help-to-work scheme.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	196911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>We have a strong evidence base which shows that Help to Work has a positive impact in terms of reducing the number of days claimants spend on benefit.</p><p> </p><p>Over almost two years, claimants who took part in a trailblazer for Community Work Placement (CWP) and Mandatory Intervention Regime (MIR) spent on average 21 (CWP) and 26 (MIR) fewer days on benefits than an equivalent group of JSA claimants.</p><p> </p><p>They also spent more time in work than the control group: 9 days for CWP and 11 days for MIR participants.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

48891

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
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 1.197 of the Autumn Statement 2013, what the expected cost to the public purse will be of the basic skills pilot; how many people will benefit from that pilot; what its start and end dates will be; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	196918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The 18-21 Skills for Work pilots will be funded from within the Department's budget settlement as agreed at Autumn Statement 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Under the pilot, young people making a claim to JSA between the ages of 18 and 21 years will be screened for English and Maths below level 2. Those identified as having a skill need will be referred on a mandatory basis to Maths or English training.</p><p> </p><p>It is projected 10,000 JSA claimants will be referred to learning. The pilot will start in late Autumn 2014 and last up to nine months.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

48893

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many short-term benefit advances were made between April 2013 and March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	196821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The total number of Short Term Benefit Advances made between April 2013 and March 2014 was 78,021.</p><p /> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

48895

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants have been made subject to a benefit sanction since 26 June 2013 because they have not been prepared to learn English.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	196859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

48896

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseeker's allowance claimants were supported by Jobcentre Plus to obtain basic English, mathematics or IT skills in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	196861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The department does not publish information on the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance who lack basic skills in English, Mathematics and IT.</p><p> </p><p>Where a claimant's lack of skills is a barrier to them finding work, Work Coaches will make a referral either for an in-depth skills assessment with a training provider or direct to the most appropriate training.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 below shows the highest level of learning undertaken by JSA benefit claimants in the first half of the 2012/13 academic year (August 2012 to January 2013) for claimants studying at Level 2 or below.</p><p> </p><p>Figures are estimated based on learning data held by BIS taken from the Individualised Learner Records (LIR) dataset matched to benefits administrative data held by the DWP. Claimants studying English and Maths have been grouped together, while claimants studying ICT are part of the ‘Other' category.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not currently have equivalent data for the academic years prior to 2012/13. However a back series of statistics on claimants who studied Maths, English and ESOL aims, from 2009/10 to 2011/12, will be published in the 2012/13 final Further Education for Benefit Claimants official statistics in summer 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Highest Level of Learning by Benefit Type, 2012/13 Year to Date (Benefit Claimants), Level 2 or below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Level</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (WRAG)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of claimants</p></td><td><p>Percentage of total claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Entry - Other</p></td><td><p>28,000</p></td><td rowspan="3"><p>22.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Entry - English and Maths</p></td><td><p>10,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Entry - ESOL</p></td><td><p>14,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 1 - Other</p></td><td><p>75,800</p></td><td rowspan="3"><p>34.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 1 - English and Maths</p></td><td><p>6,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 1 - ESOL</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 2 - Other</p></td><td><p>13,300</p></td><td rowspan="4"><p>26.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 2 - English and Maths</p></td><td><p>3,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 2 - ESOL</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FL2</p></td><td><p>45,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source information:</strong></p><p>The latest Further Education for Benefit Claimants official statistics publication, published in December 2013, can be found at the link below: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-december-2013</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 196858 question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

48897

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of jobseeker's allowance claimants who did not have basic English, mathematics or IT skills in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	196858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The department does not publish information on the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance who lack basic skills in English, Mathematics and IT.</p><p> </p><p>Where a claimant's lack of skills is a barrier to them finding work, Work Coaches will make a referral either for an in-depth skills assessment with a training provider or direct to the most appropriate training.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 below shows the highest level of learning undertaken by JSA benefit claimants in the first half of the 2012/13 academic year (August 2012 to January 2013) for claimants studying at Level 2 or below.</p><p> </p><p>Figures are estimated based on learning data held by BIS taken from the Individualised Learner Records (LIR) dataset matched to benefits administrative data held by the DWP. Claimants studying English and Maths have been grouped together, while claimants studying ICT are part of the ‘Other' category.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not currently have equivalent data for the academic years prior to 2012/13. However a back series of statistics on claimants who studied Maths, English and ESOL aims, from 2009/10 to 2011/12, will be published in the 2012/13 final Further Education for Benefit Claimants official statistics in summer 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Highest Level of Learning by Benefit Type, 2012/13 Year to Date (Benefit Claimants), Level 2 or below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Level</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (WRAG)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of claimants</p></td><td><p>Percentage of total claimants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Entry - Other</p></td><td><p>28,000</p></td><td rowspan="3"><p>22.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Entry - English and Maths</p></td><td><p>10,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Entry - ESOL</p></td><td><p>14,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 1 - Other</p></td><td><p>75,800</p></td><td rowspan="3"><p>34.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 1 - English and Maths</p></td><td><p>6,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 1 - ESOL</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 2 - Other</p></td><td><p>13,300</p></td><td rowspan="4"><p>26.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 2 - English and Maths</p></td><td><p>3,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 2 - ESOL</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FL2</p></td><td><p>45,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source information:</strong></p><p>The latest Further Education for Benefit Claimants official statistics publication, published in December 2013, can be found at the link below: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-december-2013</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 196861 question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

48697

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to jobcentres on how claimant commitments should take into account the caring responsibilities of single parents.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	196496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>All Advisers have access to comprehensive and clear procedures, guidance and extensive learning which equips them to agree a Claimant Commitment, taking account of each claimant's individual circumstances, including the caring responsibilities of single parents.</p><p> </p><p>As with other claimants, lone parents are still expected to be Available and Actively Seeking Employment. However, there are restrictions that can be applied to the requirements of this group, in order to take into account their caring responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

48699

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants were subject to sanctions in each county in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Turner
uin	196651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on JSA sanctions, including a range of geographical breakdowns is published and available at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>JSA claimant count data by geographical area is published and available at: <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1426 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Turner

48701

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which Minister in his Department has responsibility for assessing the effect of his Department's policies on the welfare of children.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	196502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Each of the Department's Ministers is responsible for assessing the effect of their policies on the welfare of children.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

48702

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to make it easier to report benefit fraud allegations.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	196633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The public can report benefit fraud by telephoning the National Benefit Fraud Hotline which is a confidential free phone service that anyone can use anonymously to report their suspicions. The service is widely used handling over 350,000 referrals in 2013/14. Alternatively an allegation can be made using an online facility, by letter, or by telephoning a Jobcentre Plus office.</p><p> </p><p>We recently ran a communications campaign pilot to test the effectiveness of communications in reducing fraud and error and we are looking to expand this activity. Our communication campaign aims to challenge and change attitudes and behaviours towards benefit fraud. This includes improving awareness of the need for claimants to report changes in their circumstances and encouraging the general public to report potential benefit fraud.</p><p> </p><p>We are actively looking at ways to improve fraud referrals, in particular, focusing on making better use of digital channels and technology.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie