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100764

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) qualifications and (b) experience are required to be an adviser on the New Enterprise Allowance programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The sourcing for suitable volunteer mentors is the responsibility of New Enterprise Allowance providers. Providers must ensure that mentors have the right skills and experience to provide business mentoring and support the participants into self-employment.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 15:51:02 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100769

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mentors are working to assist the delivery of the New Enterprise Allowance.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 11:48:33 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100771

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	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, if he will make it his policy to waive the habitual residency test for jobseeker's allowance claimants when the claimant has lived abroad because of a parent being posted as a memember of the armed forces; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	211684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>It has always been the case that any UK national who has left the country for an extended period must satisfy the habitual residence test.</p><p> </p><p>We are aware of concerns raised about the impact on returning UK nationals and are in the process of amending regulations to exempt from the three month residence requirement, members of the armed forces who have been posted abroad, Crown servants who have been posted abroad and others who had paid certain types of UK national insurance contributions during their absence abroad.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 16:57:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

100772

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Housing Benefit: Ayrshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in East Ayrshire are currently subject to housing benefit being capped as a result of the benefit cap introduced in April 2013.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	211770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The latest official benefit cap statistics, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics</a>, show that in East Ayrshire as at May 2014, there were 16 households subject to the cap.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 12:00:01 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

100773

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Housing Benefit: Ayrshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in East Ayrshire had had housing benefit capped since the introduction of the benefit cap at the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	211769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The latest official benefit cap statistics, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-cap-statistics</a>, show that in East Ayrshire between April 2013 and May 2014, a total of 36 households have been capped.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 11:56:10 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

100774

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recommendations the Work Programme Building Best Practice Group has made to help the over 50s back to work.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We will be publishing the Work Programme Building Best Practice Group report, and the department’s response to the recommendations made later on this autumn.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 11:28:06 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

100835

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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 and Support Allowance: Ashfield
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 support group, (b) the work-related activity group and (c) overall in Ashfield local authority area will be affected by the social sector under-occupancy penalty.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	211839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 28/10/2014 17:00:01 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero