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598453

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date	10/10/2016
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: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent measures the Government has undertaken to ensure that people with mental health conditions are properly supported into work.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	47903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>We are investing significant resources in improving provision to help people with mental health conditions back to work. This includes funding to increase the coverage of the Talking Therapy services by 600,000 people per year to 1.5million by 2020 and investment in a number of voluntary initiatives and trials to test different types of support, with a view to taking forward those that have the most impact.</p><p>In addition we will shortly be publishing a Green Paper on work and health to seek views on what will work to deliver real lasting change for disabled people and those with a health condition. Mental health will be a key focus of our Green Paper as we know that people with mental health conditions fare poorly in the labour market.</p><p>Our aim is to help transform the lives and prospects of disabled people and those with a health condition and contribute to building a society and an economy that works for everyone.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/10/2016 15:35:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

437969

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to assist unemployed people over the age of 50 back in to work; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	19943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 November 2015 to Question UIN16531.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/12/2015 15:31:45 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

416364

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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: Private Sector
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 effect of auto-enrolment on private sector pension saving.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	8900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Over 5.43 million workers have now been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension by their employer, many for the first time. This has reversed the downwards trend seen in workplace pension participation rates since 2003.</p><p> </p><p>So far opt out has been around 10 per cent, which is significantly lower than the original DWP estimate of around 30 per cent. This has seen the programme opt out assumption being adjusted to 15 per cent overall for the lifetime of the programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Automatic Enrolment will give around 10 million people the opportunity to save into a workplace pension - we expect to see 8 to 9 million people newly saving or saving more, generating £11 billion a year more in workplace pension saving by 2020.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2015 11:35:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

381825

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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, what assessment he has made of trends in the rate of disability employment.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	900463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Last year saw an increase of 238,000 disabled people in work. The employment rate is now 46.3% - up 2.1% from last year. Our Disability Confident Campaign is ensuring that employers understand the benefits of employing disabled people. And our programmes, like Work Choice and Access to Work, are supporting disabled people into work. We will continue build on this success.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/06/2015 16:06:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith