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417806

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Working Mothers: 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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of present Government guidance available to employers on managing the health and safety of new and expectant mothers at work.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	9595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reviewed and revised its website and other published guidance on managing new and expectant mothers’ health and safety in 2012. A further minor review was carried out in 2014. HSE also contributed to advice produced by Acas in 2013 on breastfeeding at work.</p><p> </p><p>HSE is currently working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to assess the findings of a major survey on pregnancy and maternity discrimination at work and any implications for the effectiveness of the Executive’s current guidance.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:27:24 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

417808

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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: Disqualification
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 publish the statistics his Department holds on sanctions applied to claimants of (a) job seeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance where the claimant is also in receipt of carer's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 11:31:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

417809

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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 estimate his Department has made of the shortfall in pension accrual experienced by employees who are employed through an umbrella payroll company or similar overarching employment contract and do not receive automatic enrolment pension contributions from their employer.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	9648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:21:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

417810

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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 estimate his Department has made of the number of workers employed through an umbrella payroll company who will opt-out of automatic-enrolment into a workplace pension.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	9649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:09:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

417812

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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 assessment his Department has made of the effect of automatic-enrolment pension arrangements on workers employed through employment agencies.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	9646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The law requires employers to enrol all eligible workers into a qualifying workplace pension scheme and make at least a minimum contribution to their pension. This includes workers employed through employment agencies. The Department has made no separate assessment of the impact of automatic enrolment on these workers.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:18:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

417820

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 24 June 2015 from the hon. Member for Ashfield on self-employment amongst women.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	9550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I replied to the hon. Member on 14 July 2015.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 13:04:26 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

417822

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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, what the effect of the welfare cap will be in (a) Wellingborough and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	9590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Welfare Cap of Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) has been set for this Parliament, at the level of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Summer 2015 forecast for spending in scope of the Cap.</p><p> </p><p>This amounts to: £115.2bn in 2016-17; £114.6bn in 2017-18; £114.0bn in 2018-19; £113.5bn in 2019-20; and £114.9bn in 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>The Welfare Cap is not assessed at a sub-national level.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 11:50:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

417826

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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 the highest amount of annual housing benefit paid to a single household was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	9481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Details of the highest amount of annual housing benefit paid to a single household in each of the last five years can be found using the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </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><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 10:20:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417380

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on carbon offsetting in each of the last three years; and to which companies payments in respect of carbon offsetting were made in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	9180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department for Work &amp; Pensions (DWP) has spent the following amount on Carbon Offsetting in the last three years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Price</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Paid to</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>£ 135.32</p></td><td><p>South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>£ 616.74</p></td><td><p>EDF Trading Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/15</p></td><td><p>£1,479.55</p></td><td><p>Carbon Footprint Ltd</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:46:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417381

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Private Rented Housing: 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 his Department has made of the effect of housing benefit on the level of private-sector rents.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Turner
uin	9149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the effect of housing benefit on the level of private sector rents.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Housing Allowance rates for 2015/16 (effective from April 2015) were published by Rent Officers on 30 January 2015 together with the 30<sup>th</sup> percentiles of local rents.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/09/2015 14:43:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1426 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Turner