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174487

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date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has prepared an equality statement on its decision to cease grant funding for local welfare provision from 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government consultation paper on local welfare provision, published in October, asked a series of questions about equalities impacts. We have been carefully considering these representations and the equality issues, alongside those on the broader draft Local Government Finance Settlement. The Government will publish an equalities statement alongside the final Settlement.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 22/01/2015 16:04:20 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

174489

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
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	Self-employed: Industrial Health and Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how much time per year self-employed workers spend on fulfilling regulatory health and safety obligations.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive has carried out a limited qualitative survey of self-employed workers. Only those self-employed individuals in occupations where we expect them to be exempt under proposals to exempt certain self employed persons from section 3(2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 responded.</p><p> </p><p>The best estimate is one hour per individual.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 22/01/2015 14:15:57 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

174490

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
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 the Major Projects Authority to provide its next assessment of the universal credit project.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>The responsibility for the frequency and timing of formal assessments of HM Government Programmes sits with the Major Projects Authority in Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 22/01/2015 12:17:46 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

174491

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2015 to Question 220704, how large the control group will be in the proposed randomised control trial for universal credit in work progression; for how long that trial is planned to run; how progression in the two groups will be measured; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Based upon current Universal Credit roll-out plans we expect the trial to run through to 2016 and involve at least 15,000 Universal Credit claimants, of which the control group will comprise approximately 5,000 claimants. We are currently finalising the trial design and evaluation strategy.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 22/01/2015 14:51:49 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

173949

registered interest
date	15/01/2015
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	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 plans he has to improve employment support for Work Programme participants claiming employment and support allowance who have a 12 month prognosis of a return to work.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	220894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Work Programme performance is improving for Employment and Support Allowance claimants with a 12 month prognosis, but we do want it to do better. To this end we have asked all providers to come to us with a clear plan setting out the steps they are going to take to improve performance further.</p><p> </p><p>Of those completing a year on the programme, 1 in 10 ESA New Claimants have had at least three months in work since joining the scheme – this compares to 1 in 25 for the earliest cohorts.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 22/01/2015 16:16:05 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms