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484336

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department has given to Southampton City Council on the level of funding that will be available for discretionary housing payment in future years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	32200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities, including Southampton City Council, were informed of their Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funding allocation for this financial year on 4 February 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Southampton City Council have been allocated DHP funding of £624,817 for 2016/17, a 35% increase from their 2015/16 allocation and local authorities are able to top up Central Government funding by a maximum of two and a half times this figure using their own funds</p><p> </p><p>This package of Discretionary Housing Payment funding (£870 million over 5 years) will enable Local Authorities to provide support to the most vulnerable claimants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/03/2016 09:08:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

484337

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Discretionary Housing Payments
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 effectiveness of the discretionary housing payments scheme in preventing households in exceptional circumstances having to pay the under-occupancy penalty.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	32198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>For 2015/16 we have provided £60 million in Discretionary Housing Payment funding to help protect individuals affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy and we have protected this support at £60 million for 2016/17</p><p> </p><p>Since 2013, £25 million of the Discretionary Housing Payment funding for the removal of the spare room subsidy has been allocated to support disabled people living in significantly adapted accommodation, including any adaptations made for disabled children. This funding support remains unchanged for 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>In the last financial year, the majority of local authorities spent less than or 100 per cent of their funding which indicates that they had sufficient funds to meet demand.</p><p> </p><p>In the first six months of this financial year (2015/16) the majority of local authorities had spent less than 50 per cent of their Discretionary Housing Payment allocation.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/03/2016 09:31:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

484343

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Employment: Disability
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 reduce the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	32066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to halving the disability employment gap. In the last year, the number of disabled people in work has increased by 152,000. At the Spending Review, we announced a real terms increase in funding to help disabled people and people with health conditions to get into work and remain in work. This includes:</p><ul><li>Increasing the reach of Access to Work, providing support to an additional 25,000 people by 2020/21</li><li>The Work and Health Unit which has secured £115million of funding, including at least £40million for a work and health innovation fund. The Work and Health Innovation Fund will pilot new ways to help working age disabled people and people with health conditions get in, stay in, and return to work as well as benefit from improved health outcomes.</li><li>A new Work and Health Programme, restructuring our current provision to focus on providing the best possible support for claimants with health conditions or disabilities, as well as those who are long-term unemployed.</li><li>Engaging employers through our Disability Confident programme to see the business opportunities for employing disabled people.</li><li>Making the best use of the new funding of up to £100million per year that we announced in the Budget 2015 for additional practical support to provide the right incentives and support to enable those who have limited capability, but who have some potential to prepare, for work to move closer to the labour market, and when they are ready, back into work.</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/04/2016 11:11:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

484350

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Remploy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former workers of Remploy factories in each Parliamentary constituency are (a) looking for work, (b) in work, (c) retired, (d) in receipt of employment and support allowance and (e) in receipt of jobseeker's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	32065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>The table below is taken from the August 2015 Labour Market Statistics and shows the last data on number of former Remploy employees in work; claiming JSA or claiming ESA in England, Scotland and Wales.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Currently in work (LMS)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Claiming JSA (LMS)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Claiming ESA (LMS)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>867</p></td><td><p>234</p></td><td><p>422</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These statistics were gathered as part of the 18 month People Help and Support Package (PHSP) made available to ex-Remploy employees. We do not have the required data broken down by constituency and we did not collect data for those looking for work but not claiming ESA or JSA.</p><p>When the PHSP ended in August 2015, 1,523 former disabled employees had received support from a Personal Case Worker and 867 were in work. A total of 1,182 jobs had been found, 422 were on ESA and 234 on JSA.</p><p>DWP asked all disabled former employees made redundant from Remploy to give permission to be tracked. The data we have are necessarily incomplete because they only record the progress and outcomes of those individuals who gave this permission.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/04/2016 10:37:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd

484472

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Access to Work Programme
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 undertake a cost-benefit analysis of (a) Access to Work expenditure and (b) the potential effect of that programme on (i) social security expenditure and (ii) income tax returns.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	32132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the value users, employers and stakeholders place on the scheme which de-risks the recruitment and retention of disabled people, therefore we have increased the funding for Access to Work, to enable a further 25,000 customers to receive support by 2020. We continue to work with stakeholders to understand the value Access to Work adds.</p><p>Officials have previously explored the potential costs and benefits of Access to Work expenditure, including the impacts on social security expenditure and income tax returns. However, in the absence of a control group against which to assess the difference the programme makes to someone’s likelihood of being in work, it is not possible to establish a robust overall value for money figure and it would be misleading to publish estimates. To establish a control group could jeopardise individuals’ current and future employment by restricting access to the programme and support for a sizeable number of people in the short to medium term.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/04/2016 15:31:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams