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442400

registered interest
date	04/01/2016
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	22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what account is taken of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome in assessing health conditions as part of work capability assessments.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	20711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is based not on what health conditions a claimant has, but on the functional impact of those conditions. During the Work Capability Assessment claimants are assessed against a number of descriptors covering physical, mental, cognitive and intellectual functions. The healthcare professional makes a recommendation on the individual’s functional capability to the DWP Decision Maker, who makes the decision on benefit entitlement by considering all available evidence, including the assessment report and any additional clinical information.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/01/2016 15:24:13 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

439471

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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 15 December 2015 to Question 19711, what the number of such claimants was in (a) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	20685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>a) DWP does not hold data on the number of ESOL learning aims started by claimants in the 2010/11 academic year.</p><br /><p>b) The 2011/12 statistics can be found in Table 4 of the joint DWP-BIS ‘Further Education for Benefit Claimants: June 2013’ official statistics publication – see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-june-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-june-2013</a>.</p><br /><p>c) The 2012/13 statistics can be found in Table 4 of the joint DWP-BIS ‘Further Education for Benefit Claimants 2012 to 2013’ official statistics publication – see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-2012-to-2013</a>.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/01/2016 14:04:03 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

439472

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland who have been sanctioned found work within six months of that sanction being imposed.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	20669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><br /><p>The information that is available, on the number of sanction referrals and adverse sanction decisions, in respect of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), is published and available at:</p><br /><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>:</p><br /><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><br /><p>Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 20666 20667 20668 question first answered 05/01/2016 12:42:14 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

439473

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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: Disqualification
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 in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland who have been sanctioned found work within three months of that sanction being imposed.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	20668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><br /><p>The information that is available, on the number of sanction referrals and adverse sanction decisions, in respect of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), is published and available at:</p><br /><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>:</p><br /><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><br /><p>Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 20666 20667 20669 question first answered 05/01/2016 12:42:14 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

439474

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland who have been sanctioned found work within three months of that sanction being imposed.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	20667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><br /><p>The information that is available, on the number of sanction referrals and adverse sanction decisions, in respect of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), is published and available at:</p><br /><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>:</p><br /><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><br /><p>Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 20666 20668 20669 question first answered 05/01/2016 12:42:14 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

439475

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseekers allowance claimants in (a) the UK and (b) Scotland who have been sanctioned found work within six months of that sanction being imposed.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	20666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><br /><p>The information that is available, on the number of sanction referrals and adverse sanction decisions, in respect of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), is published and available at:</p><br /><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>:</p><br /><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><br /><p>Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 20667 20668 20669 question first answered 05/01/2016 12:42:14 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

439478

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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 to submit the full business case for universal credit to HM Treasury; and when he expects final approval of that case to be granted.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	20625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The Strategic Business Case was submitted and signed off by HMT in 2014. As HMT colleagues stated at the PAC on 7 December (link below) the Outline Business Case was approved in December 2015 and the Full Business Case will be submitted in 2017.</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmworpen/1082/1082.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmworpen/1082/1082.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 20624 question first answered 05/01/2016 13:34:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

439479

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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	Welfare Reform and Work Bill
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 17 December 2015 to Question 20080, by what date his Department will review all reports which relate to the Welfare Reform and Work Bill; and whether his Department will publish a response to or make a statement on those reports after completing that review.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	20662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department continually monitors published reports in the public domain. This includes those which relate to policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, which is currently being discussed in Committee in the House of Lords.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/01/2016 12:05:58 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

439480

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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, with reference to the report entitled, Estimating the Early Labour Market Impacts of Universal Credit, published by his Department in December 2015, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of (a) the finding reported on page 27, that the additional work undertaken by participants in the study who were claiming universal credit is likely to consist of relatively few hours at relatively low wages and (b) the findings of the independent peer review, published in Annex B of the report, that the differences between the earnings of people in receipt of universal credit and people in the control group were not satisfactory significant.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	20632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>The main and most robust finding in the report is that UC has a substantial impact on the chances of people moving into work after they make a new claim. UC claimants were 8 percentage points more likely to get a job within 270 days of claiming than equivalent new claims to JSA made at the same time in similar areas by similar individuals.</p><br /><p>The report and the peer review also set out findings on earnings. These are consistent with the extra people in work and suggest that the policy is working by making it more worthwhile and easier for claimants to do small amounts of work. That is, UC ensures that all work pays.</p><br /><p>Most of the findings on earnings are statistically significant. As the report explains, we will be able to improve these estimates over time as we get more data.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/01/2016 13:58:16 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

439481

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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: Disqualification
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 page 7 of the Government's response to the Fifth Report from the Work and Pensions Committee, on Benefit Sanctions: Beyond the Oakley Review, HC 557, when the Government plans to publish the results of its evaluation of the pilot programme of in-work sanctions.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	20633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>Following a successful Proof of Concept stage, national roll-out of the Universal Credit In-Work Progression Randomised Control Trial commenced from 7 December 2015. Recruitment into the trial will continue until the target sample of 15,000 in-work participants is achieved. We currently expect to reach this number by Autumn 2016, after which time the trial will continue to run for a period of 12 months. An evaluation report will follow in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/01/2016 14:25:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry