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1402331

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential for the kickstart scheme to fill vacancies in the haulage sector.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	102641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676" target="_blank">87676</a> for a recent breakdown of Kickstart jobs made available and started by sector. This shows that as of 5<sup>th</sup> December 6,260 Kickstart jobs were made available within the delivery and storage sector (the nearest applicable sector category), and 3,180 of these jobs had been started by young people.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are categorised by the nature of the role rather than the sector of the employer. This means for example, that an administrative job within the haulage sector would be categorised as ‘administrative’, rather than ‘haulage’.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are additional and must not displace existing opportunities within the wider labour market. We continue to support employers to fill available jobs including those within the haulage sector for the remainder of the Kickstart Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, DWP are working with the haulage industry, and the Department for Transport, to provide our work coaches with the knowledge they need to identify suitable candidates and to develop relationships with key employers in their local areas. As a result, local jobcentres are now directly connecting with employers in their area, to discuss their recruitment needs enabling them to provide young people with the skills and knowledge they need to enter the sector.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/01/2022 18:12:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1402335

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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	Kickstart Scheme: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many social care providers have signed up to provide placements as part of the kickstart scheme.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	102643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given for PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676" target="_blank">87676</a> for a recent breakdown of Kickstart jobs made available and started by sector. This shows that as of 5<sup>th</sup> December 2021, 4,740 Kickstart jobs within the social care sector were made available for young people to apply to and that 1,840 Kickstart jobs had been started by young people.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are categorised by the nature of the role rather than the sector of the employer. This means for example, that an administrative job within the social care sector would be categorised as ‘administrative’, rather than ‘social care’. Therefore, it’s likely that there are a number of other jobs with social care providers that have been categorised within other sectors.</p><p> </p><p>We do not centrally collate information regarding jobs filled or advertised in the social care sector. To gather this would require each Kickstart application to be reviewed to ascertain the principle activities of each employer, which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are additional and must not displace existing opportunities within the wider labour market. We continue to support employers to fill available jobs including those within the care sector for the remainder of the Kickstart Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, DWP are working with the social care industry, and the Department of Health and Social Care, to provide our Work Coaches with the knowledge they need to identify suitable candidates and to develop relationships with social care employers in their local areas. As a result, local jobcentres are now directly connecting with employers in their area, to discuss their recruitment needs.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 102644 question first answered 17/01/2022 18:06:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1402336

registered interest
date	12/01/2022
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	Kickstart Scheme: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential for the Government's Kickstart scheme to fill vacancies in the social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	102644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given for PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676" target="_blank">87676</a> for a recent breakdown of Kickstart jobs made available and started by sector. This shows that as of 5<sup>th</sup> December 2021, 4,740 Kickstart jobs within the social care sector were made available for young people to apply to and that 1,840 Kickstart jobs had been started by young people.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are categorised by the nature of the role rather than the sector of the employer. This means for example, that an administrative job within the social care sector would be categorised as ‘administrative’, rather than ‘social care’. Therefore, it’s likely that there are a number of other jobs with social care providers that have been categorised within other sectors.</p><p> </p><p>We do not centrally collate information regarding jobs filled or advertised in the social care sector. To gather this would require each Kickstart application to be reviewed to ascertain the principle activities of each employer, which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Kickstart jobs are additional and must not displace existing opportunities within the wider labour market. We continue to support employers to fill available jobs including those within the care sector for the remainder of the Kickstart Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, DWP are working with the social care industry, and the Department of Health and Social Care, to provide our Work Coaches with the knowledge they need to identify suitable candidates and to develop relationships with social care employers in their local areas. As a result, local jobcentres are now directly connecting with employers in their area, to discuss their recruitment needs.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 102643 question first answered 17/01/2022 18:06:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1401503

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
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	Jobcentres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish opening dates for each of her Department's confirmed temporary job centres.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	100665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The Department has published the list of temporary Jobcentres on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic</a> and, in the next week, opening dates will be included for those sites that have already opened. The Department will continue to update <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/temporary-jobcentres-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic</a> as more sites open. The date a site opens is dependent on a number of factors including, but not limited to, lease signing dates, planning approvals and completion of the building work required.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/01/2022 18:06:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1400716

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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	Admiral Group: Newport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact on the employment rate in Newport West constituency of the Welsh-based financial services company Admiral closing its Newport office.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	99378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>Where redundancies do occur, the Department for Work and Pensions’ Rapid Response Service (RRS) works to address the effects of job losses on individuals and on the local community. The RRS work with employers to deliver flexible, timely, and appropriate support for them and their employees and help individuals secure a job or move into self-employment quickly and ideally without the need to claim welfare benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The RRS is available to private and public sector employers. Third sector employers are also eligible where the job losses affect paid workers. The RRS support can start when people are under threat of redundancy or during the period of notice.</p><p> </p><p>Where individuals have not found alternative work before they lose their job, RRS support can continue for a further 13 weeks whether they make a claim for benefits or not. This is in addition to the ongoing support provided by DWP for claimants moving them forward in their journey closer to/back into employment.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has provided additional support to help people into work since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, through our Plan for Jobs, including recruiting an additional 13,500 Work Coaches to provide support to unemployed people to find a job, and launching new schemes like Kickstart, Restart and Sector Work Academies Programmes.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/01/2022 18:02:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1400020

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the proportion of economically inactive people who are waiting for an (a) universal credit or (b) other benefit assessment.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	98307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The definition of economic inactivity, set by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS), is not used within the welfare system to determine eligibility for support through Universal Credit or other benefits.</p><p>The economically inactive population is a diverse group, many of whom do not claim Universal Credit or other benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, the Department has made no such estimates.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/01/2022 15:39:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1400107

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
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 Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sector based work academies have taken place in each (a) country and (b) region of the UK since that programme began.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	98518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>Sector-based work academies were first launched in August 2011 in England and January 2012 in Scotland. Regular statistical releases on sector-based work academies, covering participation by those on legacy unemployment benefits, began in 2011 and ended in 2017. These statistics can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-schemes-work-experience-sector-based-work-academy-and-skills-conditionality-starts-to-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-schemes-work-experience-sector-based-work-academy-and-skills-conditionality-starts-to-november-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>The scheme was relaunched as ‘SWAP’ in July 2020 as part of the government’s Plan for Jobs. Data for the financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22 shows that as of 2<sup>nd</sup> January 2022, there was a total of 127,360 starts to a Sector-based Work Academy Programme (SWAP). The breakdown of these starts by nation and region is displayed in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: SWAP starts by nation</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Nation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Starts FY 2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Starts FY 2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Starts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>58,310</p></td><td><p>56,760</p></td><td><p>115,070</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>6,120</p></td><td><p>5,750</p></td><td><p>11,880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>64,500</p></td><td><p>62,860</p></td><td><p>127,360</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 2: SWAP starts by region</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Starts FY 2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Starts FY 2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Starts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>5,000</p></td><td><p>4,960</p></td><td><p>9,960</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central, East &amp; North Scotland</p></td><td><p>4,340</p></td><td><p>3,990</p></td><td><p>8,330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South &amp; West Scotland</p></td><td><p>1,780</p></td><td><p>1,770</p></td><td><p>3,550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London &amp; Essex</p></td><td><p>12,950</p></td><td><p>15,380</p></td><td><p>28,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North &amp; East Midlands</p></td><td><p>7,800</p></td><td><p>7,120</p></td><td><p>14,920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Central</p></td><td><p>6,960</p></td><td><p>7,060</p></td><td><p>14,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>5,550</p></td><td><p>4,570</p></td><td><p>10,110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>5,340</p></td><td><p>4,550</p></td><td><p>9,890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>8,200</p></td><td><p>8,190</p></td><td><p>16,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>6,510</p></td><td><p>4,940</p></td><td><p>11,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>64,500</p></td><td><p>62,860</p></td><td><p>127,360</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Note on above: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10; components may not sum due to rounding. These figures reflect the number of starts by claimants in receipt of Universal Credit (UC), Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Income Support (IS). </em></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/01/2022 17:39:38 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1399350

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
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: Personal Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the results of any impact assessment her Department has conducted on the reintroduction of the universal credit minimum income floor.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	96990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The Department was always clear that the change to the Minimum Income Floor as a result of the coronavirus pandemic was temporary, and that it would be reinstated when appropriate. As the reintroduction of the Minimum Income Floor is a return to an existing policy, the Department does not intend to publish an impact assessment.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/01/2022 17:40:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1399406

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
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	Kickstart Scheme: Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many kickstart positions were (a) advertised and (b) filled in the defence sector during 2021.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	96770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>We do not centrally collate information regarding jobs filled or advertised in the defence sector.</p><p> </p><p>To encourage young people to apply for them, Kickstart jobs are categorised by the nature of the role rather than the sector of the employer. This means for example, that a defence-sector administrative job would be categorised as ‘administrative’ not ‘defence’. The most recently published statistics are published here: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-06/87676</a></p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics, but is provided in the interests of transparency. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/01/2022 16:29:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1399407

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
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: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many armed forces champions are in post in each job centre district; and how many of those districts are without an armed forces champion.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	96771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>DWP has 50 Armed Forces Champions, with at least one in each of our 37 Jobcentre Plus Districts. In addition, there are 11 Armed Forces Leads at group level.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/01/2022 17:40:14 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey