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748444

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date	05/07/2017
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	Offshore Industry: Helicopters
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 ensure that the Health and Safety Executive's website is updated to include the safety record of helicopters in the UK offshore sector in each year between 2002 and 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	3286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulates all UK aircraft operators to ensure they comply with relevant international safety standards including European-wide safety regulations set by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).</p><p> </p><p>Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors visit offshore installations on a regular basis to inspect all aspects of health and safety, including helidecks and helideck operations. The split of responsibilities between HSE and CAA is explained in the HSE Guidance Document <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg219.pdf" target="_blank">INDG219</a>, which is published with the HSE Offshore <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/marineaviation.htm" target="_blank">Marine and Aviation</a> safety guidance.</p><p> </p><p>HSE also has a Memorandum of Understanding with the CAA which describes how the two organisations work with one another, and which is published on the <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/airtransport/hse-and-caa.htm" target="_blank">HSE MoU web pages</a>.</p><p> </p><p>HSE directs any queries on the regulation of the airworthiness and operational safety of an aircraft or its passengers to the CAA and its website.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The CAA published a review of accidents operations directly associated with offshore oil and gas activities during the period 1976-2002 in its publication <a href="http://www.caa.co.uk/cap1145" target="_blank">CAP1145 – Safety review of offshore public transport helicopter operations in support of the exploitation of oil and gas</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 09:59:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

748579

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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 complaints have been made regarding factual inaccuracies in employment and support allowance and personal independent payment assessments in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many of those complaints were upheld.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>0.06% of assessments received complaints about factual inaccuracies in Employment Support Allowance assessments in the last 12 months. Information on the number of complaints which were upheld is not recorded.</p><p> </p><p>0.2% of assessments received complaints about factual inaccuracies in Personal Independence Payment assessments in the last 12 months, of which 8.1% were upheld.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 09:49:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

748603

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many notifications the Health and Safety Executive has received on health and safety matters related to multi-storey buildings in each region of the UK and in each year since 2005; and what the principal reason was for each of those notifications.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	3060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The ‘Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013’ (RIDDOR) puts duties on employers, some self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses). Generally, such notifications are made in relation to workplace incidents and do not provide for the reporting of general health and safety concerns in relation to buildings.</p><p> </p><p>There are two specific exceptions to this, firstly in Regulation 11 of RIDDOR which covers the reporting of gas related incidents in buildings, not just workplaces and secondly, in Schedule 2 of RIDDOR, which concerns itself with ‘Dangerous Occurrences’ in relation to structural collapse.</p><p> </p><p>Where required under Regulation 11, reports are made to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) via an online form which asks for details of the incident and in what type of building it occurred (i.e. house, flat up to 4 stories, flat over 4 stories, bungalow, maisonette, other). HSE reviews all reports received against its own regulatory model to assess where further enforcement action is appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The information is not held in a readily accessible format and to extract and collate it would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>Dangerous Occurrence reports (Schedule 2 of RIDDOR) require that the responsible person reports the unintentional collapse or partial collapse of any structure, which involves a fall of more than 5 tonnes of material; or any floor or wall of any place of work, arising from, or in connection with, ongoing construction work (including demolition, refurbishment and maintenance). The RIDDOR notification system does not provide for the reporting of building type in this case.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 09:56:10 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

748605

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Health and Safety Executive: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) chartered structural engineers and (b) fire engineers with expertise in cladding and external wall systems are employed by each Health and Safety Executive office.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	3064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has a national team of construction engineering specialist inspectors providing a broad range of structural and civil engineering expertise in support of HSE’s operations to ensure workplace risks are being properly managed and controlled. The team comprises one chartered structural engineer based in HSE’s Bedford office, the remainder are civil engineers.</p><p> </p><p>HSE does not employ fire engineers with expertise in cladding and external wall systems.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 09:47:56 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

748606

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Insulation: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the role of the Health and Safety Executive is in relation to ensuring the safe installation of cladding and external wall insulation systems.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	3059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive is the national regulator for workplace health and safety. HSE’s role in relation to the installation of cladding and external wall insulation systems is to ensure that health and safety risks during the construction work are properly managed and controlled.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 09:37:46 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

748861

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they are considering a review of Carers Allowance to ensure that it is sufficient to meet the financial support needs of carers.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>This Government recognises and appreciates the valuable support that carers provide to those with care needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010 the rate of Carer’s Allowance has increased from £53.90 to £62.70 a week, meaning an additional £450 a year for carers. Carer’s Allowance is excluded from the benefit freeze and is uprated annually in line with the Consumer Prices Index.</p><p> </p><p>Carers on low incomes can access other financial support through income-related benefits. Income Support, Housing Benefit and Pension Credit include an additional carer’s premium of £34.95 a week. Universal Credit includes a carer’s element of £151.89 per monthly assessment period. People entitled to Carer’s Allowance or the carer’s element in Universal Credit are not subject to the benefit cap.</p><p> </p><p>As society ages and care needs increase, it is important that carers are able to combine caring with paid employment, or return to paid work when their caring duties allow. The Government’s Fuller Working Lives Strategy, published in February 2017, sets out proposals to help carers combine work and care or prepare for returning to the labour market. In addition, earned income up to £116 net a week is ignored for the purposes of Carer’s Allowance. Means-tested benefits and Universal Credit also provide for care to be combined with earnings.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/07/2017 10:59:53 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

748862

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to support boxers and footballers with dementia pugilistica who currently rely on financial assistance from various charities.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s (IIAC) 2005 review of Dementia in boxers and footballers concluded that there was insufficient evidence to recommend an addition to the list of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (available to employed earners) prescribed diseases. In 2014 IIAC sought high quality research evidence about the risks of neurodegenerative diseases in professional sportspersons. The IIAC response in May 2016 concluded that despite the passage of time, epidemiological evidence on risk of dementia pugilistica in boxers relative to other workers remains elusive, and that there was no new important evidence to change the previous appraisal of prescription in respect of soccer players. As in 2005, there remains insufficient evidence to indicate a more than doubled risk of a dementia in boxers.</p><p> </p><p>IIAC has no plans at present to revisit this, but would likely reconsider should new evidence emerge. However the department provides a range of benefits to support with extra costs of disability, which individuals may be entitled to depending on their circumstances.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 18/07/2017 11:13:51 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry