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89843

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department monitors the number of employment and support allowance claims which are awaiting action by (a) a work capability assessment provider and (b) his Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	207549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 05/09/2014 11:11:42 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

89844

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
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, whether it is his Department's policy to permit jobseeker's allownce claimants who follow their advisor's instructions to attend a jobcentre course instead of signing on to be sanctioned or have their claim stopped because they did not sign on.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	207548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>Where a Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant is required to participate in a Jobcentre course, they are given information, verbally and in writing, which includes details about the course itself, what they are required to do by way of participation, and whether they are still required to attend the Jobcentre and meet their benefit conditions whilst attending the course.</p><p> </p><p>There are some circumstances where DWP can excuse a person from the requirement to sign on, in order to enable them to participate in a course. This includes those claimants who are participating as a full-time student on an employment related course for a maximum of two weeks.</p><p> </p><p>However, in the majority of cases, claimants will be expected to sign on whilst participating in a course. Where conflicting appointments/course times arise, we make every effort to re-arrange claimants’ signing on arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>If the decision is that the claimant is to continue attending the Jobcentre and the claimant fails to do so, without having a good reason, their benefit may be sanctioned.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/09/2014 12:26:28 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

89845

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	207267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Since 2010, 66 EU directives have been transposed and 49 direct-acting EU regulations have come into effect.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 08/09/2014 16:13:14 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89846

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have been moved to contribution-based employment and support allowance (ESA) from a combination of incapacity benefit and income support since ESA was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	207511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information as requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/09/2014 15:27:55 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

89847

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
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, with reference to the Answer of 8 April 2014, Official Report, column 220W, on the Work Programme, what the cost is of paying a second attachment fee for persons transferred from Newcastle College to new providers; and what other additional costs his Department incurs as a result of that transfer.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	207491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>It is not possible to release financial data below the national level within the duration of the Work Programme, as this could put at risk some of the commercial in confidence elements of the contracts.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 16:44:37 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

89848

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Jobcentres: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many computers have been installed for use in Jobcentre Plus offices in the UK in 2014-15; and what estimate he has made of the number of computers so installed by the end of the current financial year.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	207488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Digital Jobcentres project is modernising the Jobcentre digital infrastructure by delivering WiFi and Web Access Devices (WADs) across the Jobcentre network. From now until the end of October, we will be installing WiFi and new Web access devices (WADs) across the Jobcentre network. By the end of October, around 6,000 WADs will have been installed in Jobcentres across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 16:44:47 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

89849

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Parkinson's disease (a) have applied for personal independence payments (PIPs), (b) are receiving PIPs and (c) have been refused PIPs.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Naomi Long
uin	207496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Available data does not provide the number of people with Parkinson's disease who have (a) applied for Personal Independence Payment (b) are receiving Personal Independence Payment (c) have been refused Personal Independence Payment. However, published statistics show that at February 2014 there were 2,831 people entitled to PIP for Neurological Conditions, which would include those who have Parkinson's disease.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/09/2014 14:26:48 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	3920 label Biography information for Naomi Long

89850

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has taken steps to inform people moving to contribution-based employment and support allowance that they may no longer be entitled to free dental care, eye care and prescriptions.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	207507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>People entitled to contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance are not automatically exempt from health charges. However, people entitled to income-related Employment and Support Allowance are exempt from many health charges.</p><p>The entitlement criteria for certain passported benefits, including free dental care, eye care and prescriptions, are the responsibility of other government departments and the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/09/2014 14:56:17 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

89851

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory reconsideration periods for employment and support allowance his Department has conducted to date; what the outcomes were of each such case; and what the (a) shortest, (b) average and (c) longest periods were.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	207486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department is collecting information to understand how the introduction of mandatory reconsideration is operating, including completion timescales. However, this data is not sufficiently robust and reliable to make available.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has committed to publishing the statistics when the Departmental Statisticians judge that the data meet the standards set out in the UK Statistics Authorities Codes of Practice.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/09/2014 14:15:12 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

89852

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
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 average length of time his Department takes to process applications for hardship payments; and what targets he has set for the processing of such claims.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	207487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available. Our expectation is that claimants who are vulnerable will receive a hardship payment, if appropriate, within 3 days of them requesting hardship. We have no targets for the processing of hardship applications.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/09/2014 15:47:15 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead