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224790

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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	Jobcentres
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 estimate the average cost of travel to routine fortnightly interviews at Jobcentre Plus where claimants live more than a mile from their Jobcentre Plus office.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	225993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Travel expenses are not usually reimbursed for attendance at fortnightly interviews. In exceptional circumstances there may be scope for reimbursement; however there would be a disproportionate cost to disaggregate this expenditure based on distance from Jobcentre Plus sites.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/03/2015 17:01:31 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 48388 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

224794

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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	Remploy
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 3 March 2015 to Question 225675, when he or a Minister in his Department last met a former Remploy employee or representative.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	226051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The last meeting between a DWP Minister and a Remploy representative was on 13 January 2015.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 11/03/2015 16:29:26 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 48387 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

223715

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what value of interim payments have been made to people affected by sanctions or delays in benefit payments.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	225386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>Hardship Payments may be available to claimants who have been sanctioned. We strengthened guidance for work coaches in July 2014 and sped up the payment process so that all sanctioned claimants are informed about how and when they can make an application for a Hardship Payment and can receive payment swiftly. We plan to publish statistical information on Hardship Payments in Summer 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Short Term Benefit Advances (STBAs) replaced Crisis Loan Alignment Payments and Interim Payments of benefit in April 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There has been an increase in the number of Jobseekers Allowance claims being cleared within 10 days of 19.4 percentage points, from 70.8% in March 2010 to 90.2% in March 2014. Most benefits are paid in arrears and STBAs can help tide over claimants who qualify until their first benefit payment. This is not the same as “benefit delays” and, therefore, we do not collect such data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As the Secretary of State announced in his oral answer (Official Report, 8 December 2014, column 633), more information will be provided to claimants about STBAs online and in Jobcentres. And staff guidance will be updated and staff reminded of the process for considering an STBA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department has already undertaken testing of the posters and messaging with a small number of staff and claimants and the designs have now been reviewed by the Social Security Advisory Committee.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 225387 question first answered 04/03/2015 14:23:07 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 47485 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

223716

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
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 oral Answer of 8 December 2014, Official Report, column 638, what steps he has taken to raise awareness of interim payments for people affected by sanctions or delays in benefit payments.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	225387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>Hardship Payments may be available to claimants who have been sanctioned. We strengthened guidance for work coaches in July 2014 and sped up the payment process so that all sanctioned claimants are informed about how and when they can make an application for a Hardship Payment and can receive payment swiftly. We plan to publish statistical information on Hardship Payments in Summer 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Short Term Benefit Advances (STBAs) replaced Crisis Loan Alignment Payments and Interim Payments of benefit in April 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There has been an increase in the number of Jobseekers Allowance claims being cleared within 10 days of 19.4 percentage points, from 70.8% in March 2010 to 90.2% in March 2014. Most benefits are paid in arrears and STBAs can help tide over claimants who qualify until their first benefit payment. This is not the same as “benefit delays” and, therefore, we do not collect such data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As the Secretary of State announced in his oral answer (Official Report, 8 December 2014, column 633), more information will be provided to claimants about STBAs online and in Jobcentres. And staff guidance will be updated and staff reminded of the process for considering an STBA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The department has already undertaken testing of the posters and messaging with a small number of staff and claimants and the designs have now been reviewed by the Social Security Advisory Committee.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey grouped question UIN 225386 question first answered 04/03/2015 14:23:07 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 47486 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

177923

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of his Department's advertising budget is allocated to the campaign to promote workplace pensions; and how much of that funding has been spent in the last 24 months on (a) television, (b) newspaper advertising, (c) online, (d) radio and (e) other forms of advertising using the slogan, workplace pensions, we're all in.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	223468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28 January 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-01-28/222582/" target="_blank">222582</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 15:37:22 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 43742 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

177598

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	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, what the average time taken to process new claims for jobseeker's allowance was in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	223107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There was an increase in the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance claims being cleared within 10 days by 18.9 percentage points, from 71.3 per cent in March 2013 to 90.2 per cent in March 2014.</p><p> </p><p>This is an increase in performance by 22.6 percentage points when compared with year ending April 2009 – March 2010 when it was 67.6%</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 10/02/2015 16:59:26 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 43740 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

176925

registered interest
date	30/01/2015
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, if he will take steps to encourage Work Programme providers to work with housing associations to help tenants boost their employability.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	222821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>We actively encourage housing associations to approach their local Work Programme providers to work together and there is evidence of this happening to help tenants boost their employability.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently exploring ways in which we can build on the success of the current programme in the design of future contracts, including through ensuring effective partnership working at the local level. We will be engaging with stakeholders, including housing associations, as this work progresses.</p><p> </p><p>Work Programme providers remain responsible for promoting and publicising the programme to ensure effective engagement with key stakeholders, including local partners such as housing associations. As of September 2014, the Work Programme has helped 368,000 long term unemployed people into lasting work.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/02/2015 13:49:06 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 43024 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

175169

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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	Unemployment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what further plans he has to reduce youth unemployment.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The youth claimant count is at its lowest level since the 1970s. Work coaches are offering all claimants tailored support from day one of their claim and we are on target to deliver an extra 250,000 work experience or sector based work academy places by March 2015. This provision will continue in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>We also want to help young people who may be at risk of long term unemployment and we are testing additional skills support for 18-21 year olds: those at start of their claim who lack basic skills in numeracy and literacy; and those who will benefit from a work related opportunity from 6 months in their claim. The pilots started in November 2014 and will be complete by March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/01/2015 15:26:40 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 41324 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

174485

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, whether any people claiming universal credit are subject to in-work conditionality.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	221232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Universal Credit ensures that people are better off in work – and makes it pay for people to increase their earnings through more or better paid work.</p><p> </p><p>We will, for the first time, be supporting people in low-paid work to take active steps to increase their earnings.</p><p> </p><p>We first need to build the evidence on what can be effective in helping people to earn more. We are therefore committed to testing and learning what works, including the role and impact of conditionality.</p><p> </p><p>We will evaluate this through the first trial that will start in April 2015 to inform decisions on extending in-work conditionality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 26/01/2015 17:52:04 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 39878 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

174486

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: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average weekly earnings were for self-employed women in each year since 2002-03.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	221265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong>Table 1: </strong>estimated median weekly income (£) from self-employment of women from 2002/03 to 2012/13. These figures cover a period that includes the deepest recession since the 1930s and the initial recovery from a large fall in national income. In the period since 2012/13 the economic recovery has picked up speed, with GDP in 2014 up by 2.6% on the previous year, while the number of people in work increased by more than half a million in the year to November 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Self-employed women</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002/03</p></td><td><p>147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong> Family Resources Survey</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Figures have been adjusted to 2012/13 prices using RPI and are rounded to the nearest pound (£).</li></ol><p>2. Self-employment is defined using the ILO definition.</p><p>3. The Family Resources Survey is a nationally representative sample of UK households.</p><p>4. The figures from the Family Resources Survey are based on a sample of households which have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors which align the Family Resources Survey to former Government Office Region population by age and sex. Estimates based on survey data are subject to uncertainty due to sampling error and remaining non-response error.</p><ol start="5" type="1"><li>Median self-employment income divides the number of people, when ranked by self-employment income, into two equal-sized groups.</li></ol> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 17:02:43 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 39820 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero