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429450

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	State Retirement Pensions
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 10 November 2015 to Question 14680, on state retirement pensions, how many non-live cases there have been in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	17086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2015 answer text <p>The requested information as of September 2012, 2013 and 2014 is within the table below.</p><br /><p><strong>Number of non live cases for SP claimants aged 100 and over</strong></p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of non-live cases…</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>…of which number not suspended</p></td><td><p>10,500</p></td><td><p>10,500</p></td><td><p>11,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>…of which number suspended</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><strong><em>Source:</em></strong></p><p><em>DWP 5% data</em></p><br /><p><strong><em>Notes:</em></strong></p><p><em>1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding.</em></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 17087 question first answered 27/11/2015 12:57:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

429451

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	State Retirement Pensions
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 10 November 2015 to Question 14680, on state retirement pensions, how many of those cases have been suspended in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	17087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2015 answer text <p>The requested information as of September 2012, 2013 and 2014 is within the table below.</p><br /><p><strong>Number of non live cases for SP claimants aged 100 and over</strong></p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of non-live cases…</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>…of which number not suspended</p></td><td><p>10,500</p></td><td><p>10,500</p></td><td><p>11,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>…of which number suspended</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><strong><em>Source:</em></strong></p><p><em>DWP 5% data</em></p><br /><p><strong><em>Notes:</em></strong></p><p><em>1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding.</em></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 17086 question first answered 27/11/2015 12:57:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

429452

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	Carers: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on establishing pilot schemes to support carers to stay in work in North Tyneside, Northamptonshire, Cheshire West, Gateshead, Bury, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Staffordshire and Stoke and Sefton.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	17088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Government has provided £1.6 million of funding for nine Carers in Employment pilots in North Tyneside, Northamptonshire, Cheshire West, Gateshead, Bury, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Staffordshire and Stoke and Sefton, to explore how carers can be supported to stay in, or return to paid work alongside their caring responsibilities. They began running in all nine Local Authorities from April 2015. These pilot projects support local businesses to make the best use of flexible working arrangements, maximise the use of assistive technology; improve carers’ access to information and resources, and support carers to set up micro-businesses that will expand the local care market.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/11/2015 15:00:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

429454

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	Housing Benefit: Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of tenants in the private rented sector were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	17032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The information from 2008 to 2015 is available and is published at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><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 /> <br /><p>Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit caseload data prior to 2008 can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http:/statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/index.php?page=hbctb_arc" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130107093842/http:/statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/index.php?page=hbctb_arc</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/11/2015 14:38:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

429459

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
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 transitional arrangements for women affected by changes to the state pension age introduced during the 2010 Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	16983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 20 November 2015 to Gavin Newlands (Paisley and Renfrewshire North), Question UIN 15476</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/11/2015 14:55:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

429461

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many voluntary redundancies there have been in his Department in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	17063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>To date in 2015 there have been no voluntary redundancies in the Department for Work and Pensions.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/11/2015 16:21:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 31935 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

429462

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	Housing Benefit
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 reasons for the increase in the number of in-work recipients of housing benefits in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	17064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Under this Government the number of out-of-work Housing Benefit claimants has fallen and one key reason for this is that they have made the positive move into work. In this way it is unsurprising, therefore, that the number of in-work recipients of Housing Benefit should rise.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/11/2015 16:41:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

429465

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability discrimination tribunals have been brought against his Department as an employer in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	17061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>In the years since 2011 staffing levels in DWP have reduced from 109,445 to 84,610.</p><br /><p>The number of disability discrimination tribunals DWP lost in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 is 5, 6, 13, 2, and 2 respectively.</p><br /><p>The number of disability discrimination tribunals dismissed in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 is 14, 23, 17, 25, and 19 respectively.</p><br /><p>The number of disability discrimination tribunals withdrawn in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 is 36, 57, 50, 14, and 10 respectively.</p><br /><p>The number of disability discrimination tribunals settled in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 is 28, 24, 16, 14, and 6 respectively.</p><br /><p>The number of disability discrimination tribunals DWP won in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 is 21, 30, 23, 6 and 2 respectively.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/11/2015 16:46:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

429466

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to define (a) disability and (b) employment for the purposes of measuring the Government's progress towards halving the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	16953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Progress against the disability employment gap commitment is a key factor in progress towards full employment. This is consistent with the Government’s manifesto commitment which said ‘as part of our objective to achieve full employment, we will aim to halve the disability employment gap’. The annual report on progress towards full employment will include an update on the Government’s progress towards halving the disability employment gap.</p><br /><p>Disability is defined in the Equality Act 2010: “A person has a disability if (a) [they] have a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on [their] ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.”</p><br /><p>Employment in the UK is measured by the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Statistics on disabled employment are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics, based on internationally agreed definitions.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 16954 question first answered 26/11/2015 14:51:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

429467

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to set targets for measuring progress towards the goal of halving the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	16954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Progress against the disability employment gap commitment is a key factor in progress towards full employment. This is consistent with the Government’s manifesto commitment which said ‘as part of our objective to achieve full employment, we will aim to halve the disability employment gap’. The annual report on progress towards full employment will include an update on the Government’s progress towards halving the disability employment gap.</p><br /><p>Disability is defined in the Equality Act 2010: “A person has a disability if (a) [they] have a physical or mental impairment, and (b) the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on [their] ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.”</p><br /><p>Employment in the UK is measured by the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Statistics on disabled employment are published quarterly by the Office for National Statistics, based on internationally agreed definitions.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 16953 question first answered 26/11/2015 14:51:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry