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47109

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish revised statistics on the number of people who have successfully appealed a sanction decision.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	195345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP statisticians identified an error in the JSA sanctions appeal outcomes data. In line with normal practice for official statistics the Department has withdrawn this particular set of information. The data will be made available again as soon as possible pending investigations by DWP statisticians who will, if necessary, make corrections to this data.</p><p> </p><p>For further information see here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47110

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time is taken to re-imburse a jobseeker's allowance claimant who has been wrongly sanctioned.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	195341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We do not hold any information that just captures the average time it takes to reimburse a Jobseeker's Allowance Claimant who has been wrongly sanctioned.</p><p> </p><p>Once a decision is made that a sanction is no longer appropriate the decision maker notifies our JSA claims maintenance teams. They identify these decisions as priority work and endeavour to input the revised decision into our system and pay any benefit due as soon as possible. For JSA our aim is to clear 90% of changes in 6 days. Based on Year to Date information, up to February 2014, we are achieving 94.9% on JSA.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47111

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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	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 about the Work Programme on the grounds of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 since June 2011.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	195342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Department requires providers to work directly with individuals to resolve complaints about their service. Records of complaints received are retained by providers.<br> <br> If the individual is unhappy with the response to their complaint from the provider they can take their complaint directly to the Independent Case Examiner's Service</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

47113

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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	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 number of children in poverty affected by the under-occupancy penalty since its introduction; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	195382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>This information can only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>This Government has made good progress in tackling the root causes of child poverty and has recently published the 2014-17 draft child poverty strategy for consultation which outlines the actions we are taking. The latest figures from 2011-12 show that 2.3 million children (17%) are in relative income poverty-down 300,000 since 2009-10. These are the lowest levels since the mid-1980s. The number of children in workless households has fallen by more than 270,000 since 2010, which is key to driving down poverty.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

47114

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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	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 extent of the availability of free telephones in jobcentres for jobseekers to contact officials within his Department.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	195404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Jobcentres provide face to face support for claimants. There is also controlled access to telephones for claimants who need to contact officials in this department over the phone.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

46705

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evidence his Department has collected on public perception of health and safety regulation.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	195116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I have been asked to respond as Minister with responsibilty for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).</p><p> </p><p>Reviews of health and safety regulation carried out for the Government by Lord Young and by Professor Ragnar Löfstedt, and endorsed in HSE's recent triennial review, found a near universal agreement that the UK legal framework is fit for purpose. However, there does exist some misunderstanding about what H&amp;S legislation actually requires.</p><p> </p><p>Partly in response to this, the Health and Safety Executive's Myth Busters Challenge Panel allows the public to challenge decisions and policies ascribed to health and safety if they believe them to be incorrect.</p><p>To date the Panel has considered over 270 cases. Details can be found at http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/index.htm</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

46808

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to implement a universal credit sanctions scheme to replace the current jobseeker's allowance and other sanctions scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	John Hemming
uin	195032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>In 2012 revised sanctions regimes introduced into Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance moved us towards the Universal Credit system, with the same value of sanction across all benefits and the same duration of sanctions at medium and high levels.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to monitor sanctions closely and consider opportunities for continuous improvement.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1483 label Biography information for John Hemming

46811

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much local authorities in (a) St Albans, (b) Hertfordshire, (c) the East of England and (d) the UK have returned to his Department in unused discretionary housing payment funding since 2011; and what steps he is taking to ensure that such funds are targeted towards those most in need.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	195039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department has responsibility for the funding of Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) in Great Britain, but not the UK. The table below shows the amounts of unused DHPs returned to the Department since 2011 for the respective areas. The figures for 2013/14 will be available in due course once the information has been collated from local authorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Under Spend since 2011</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Albans</p></td><td><p>£18,717</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>£72,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastern England</p></td><td><p>£1,494,137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Great Britain</p></td><td><p>£20,982,679</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department provides local authorities with a guidance manual and good practice guide to aide them in the administration of the DHP scheme. This has recently been updated following informal consultation with stakeholder groups and local authority practitioners. The new guidance encourages councils to make longer term awards where appropriate to those with ongoing needs.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

46812

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the progress of the Child Support Agency in restarting committal proceedings since the end of the moratorium.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	195052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Following the initial review of its commitment to prison processes the Child Support Agency has continued to develop and evolve its processes and procedures, particularly in relation to the non-resident parent's ability to make payment.</p><p>As a result of increased focus on gaining payment compliance prior to considering commitment proceedings, the volume of commitment applications made remains lower than during the period preceding the moratorium.</p><p>The Agency is however continuing to make both new commitment applications and applications where the parent has defaulted on the terms of a commitment sentence where this seems the enforcement measure most likely to secure payment compliance.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

46813

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases the Child Support Agency has started committal proceedings in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	195053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Pursuant to my Written Answer on Monday 20 January 2014, Official Report, columns 42 - 43W, information on the number of cases in which the Child Support Agency has started committal proceedings is only readily available from 2010. The table below shows the number of cases where committal proceedings were started for each of the last three complete financial years and the current year to date:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Committal Proceedings Started</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010 – March 2011</p></td><td><p>3270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 – March 2012</p></td><td><p>3560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 – March 2013</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 – December 2013</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1) Following a Court Of Appeal decision in October 2012, a review of the Commitment to Prison process was carried out to ensure it complied with the terms of the judgement given in that case. Whilst doing so, applications for Commitment to Prison were not brought before the court. Procedures resumed from March 2013.</p><p>2) Data sourced from the Tallyman Informer system.</p><p>3) Data rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller