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1458332

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's Access to Work Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	155571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>Research has demonstrated the value Access to Work delivers for people with disabilities and employers: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/756414/access-to-work-qualitative-research-with-applicants-employers-and-delivery-staff.pdf" target="_blank">Access to Work: Qualitative research with applicants, employers and delivery staff (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The research found “Nearly everyone felt it offered invaluable support for individuals with health conditions and/or disabilities, and their employers – often transforming difficult situations (e.g. in which employees were struggling to continue in work, or employee-employer relationships were deteriorating).”</p><p> </p><p>DWP continues to work closely with disability organisations to review, improve and transform the service it provides to ensure it is as effective as possible. This includes developing a new digital service that will deliver an improved customer experience. The effectiveness of the scheme is demonstrated by its growth as indicated in the Access to Work Official Statistics which shows the number of people receiving Access to Work provision has grown considerably since 2015/16. Although there was a slight decline in 2020/21 reflecting reduced use of travel to work and support worker help during the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 26/04/2022 15:08:52 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1458340

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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	Access to Work Programme: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on the annual award renewal of the Access to Work Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	155572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department has not completed a specific assessment of award renewals during the Covid-19 period. However, the Access to Work Official Statistics provide information on approvals, payments and expenditure by element type, which covers the period up to March 2021: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2021" target="_blank">Access to Work statistics: April 2007 to March 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 25/04/2022 16:08:05 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1458341

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications to her Department's Access to Work Scheme are delayed as at 19 April 2022.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	155573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>Access to Work are currently receiving an increased level of applications for support and are working through all applications to ensure that they are progressed as soon as possible. During the year April 2021-March 2022, c79,800 applications for support were processed.</p><p>For applications where a customer is due to begin a new job with a start date within 4 weeks, their case will be prioritised, and contact made as soon as possible. For renewal applications for on-going support, these are also being prioritised and in the majority of cases, support approved using a new streamlined process. In March 2022, 59% of applications to AtW were treated as a priority and allocated to a case manager for immediate action.</p><p>In addition to cases in progress and those which are prioritised, there are currently c14,700 Access to Work applications outstanding where we have not yet made contact with the customer and which are outside of our usual timescale for initial contact. These cases are considered in the date order we received them.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 26/04/2022 10:44:38 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1457775

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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: Location
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 her oral contribution of 17 March 2022, Official report 1031, on the closure of DWP processing centres, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of those closures on the processing of social security payments.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	153730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s strategic ambition for its back of house estate, announced on 17 March, will reshape how and where the Department works, resulting in a smaller, greener and better estate. This is not about reducing headcount. The Department’s priorities while delivering these changes will be to retain, retrain, and redeploy either within DWP or other government departments in order to ensure we maintain the processing and payment of benefits, where necessary, moving work across the wider delivery network to ensure continuity of service to claimants.</p><p> </p><p>Impacted colleagues are currently having one-to-one discussions with local leaders where their individual circumstances, including any potential impact for those with protected characteristics are discussed and potential options considered therefore we do not have figures on the number of staff offered a relocation until these discussions are completed.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 153731 question first answered 28/04/2022 08:49:14 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1457776

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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: Location
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 her oral contribution of 17 March 2022, Official report 1031, on the closure of DWP processing centres, how many staff are working at the 13 offices that have not been offered an alternative site to which to relocate.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	153731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s strategic ambition for its back of house estate, announced on 17 March, will reshape how and where the Department works, resulting in a smaller, greener and better estate. This is not about reducing headcount. The Department’s priorities while delivering these changes will be to retain, retrain, and redeploy either within DWP or other government departments in order to ensure we maintain the processing and payment of benefits, where necessary, moving work across the wider delivery network to ensure continuity of service to claimants.</p><p> </p><p>Impacted colleagues are currently having one-to-one discussions with local leaders where their individual circumstances, including any potential impact for those with protected characteristics are discussed and potential options considered therefore we do not have figures on the number of staff offered a relocation until these discussions are completed.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 153730 question first answered 28/04/2022 08:49:14 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1458043

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information (a) her Department and (b) the Health and Safety Executive hold on the number of fatal falls from residential buildings in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	153732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2022 answer text <p>As the regulator for workplace health and safety the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) collects information on fatal injuries resulting from work-related accidents. Data compiled by HSE identifies the number of work-related fatal injuries resulting from falls from height however this data is not held in a way that identifies what the injured person fell from. HSE does not hold information on fatal falls from height that are not work-related.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics for work-related fatal injuries are published by HSE on the <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm" target="_blank">HSE website</a>. Published statistics for work-related fatal injuries to workers resulting from falls from height for 2011/12 to 2020/21 (provisional) are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Number of fatal injuries from falls from height for:</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Workers</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Of which…</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Employees</p></td><td><p>Self-employed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><em>38</em></p></td><td><p><em>14</em></p></td><td><p><em>24</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><em>49</em></p></td><td><p><em>26</em></p></td><td><p><em>23</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><em>45</em></p></td><td><p><em>25</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><em>42</em></p></td><td><p><em>28</em></p></td><td><p><em>14</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><em>37</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><em>27</em></p></td><td><p><em>18</em></p></td><td><p><em>9</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><em>35</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td><td><p><em>15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><em>43</em></p></td><td><p><em>23</em></p></td><td><p><em>20</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><em>31</em></p></td><td><p><em>14</em></p></td><td><p><em>17</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020/21 (provisional)</strong></p></td><td><p><em>35</em></p></td><td><p><em>19</em></p></td><td><p><em>16</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Note: Statistics presented in the table are for workplace fatal injuries in Great Britain reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations (RIDDOR). For more information on RIDDOR see <a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/sources.htm" target="_blank">www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/sources.htm</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 22/04/2022 13:23:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1456421

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of child maintenance arrangements were unpaid in (a) February 2022 and (b) March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	150983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department publishes quarterly Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics, with the latest statistics available to the end of December 2021.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/dataCatalogueExplorer.xhtml" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore - Home (dwp.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/04/2022 13:41:08 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1451820

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
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	Universal Credit: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes in Universal Credit eligibility rules for students in receipt of extra-costs disability benefits brought about by The Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 on those students.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	141117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>The new regulations do not reduce the existing support which is correctly available to disabled students. They ensure this support comes from the appropriate source of funding: the student support system of loans and grants.</p><p> </p><p>These new regulations do not remove entitlement to UC from any existing disabled student who is currently receiving it. They do not remove it from any future claim to UC from a person who is entitled to a qualifying disability benefit, such as Personal Independence Payment, who is subsequently determined to have a limited capability for work and who wishes to start a course of education.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, any adult who has reached the 1st September following their 19th birthday, who is undertaking a full-time non-advanced course (i.e. up to Level 3) for which a maintenance grant is not payable, or a part-time course at any level, is entitled to Universal Credit provided their course is compatible with work-related requirements agreed with their work coach. Where the course is work-related and will give the person the best chance of securing work, the work coach may consider it a suitable work preparation activity. In such cases, time spent on the course will be deducted from the amount of time the person needs to spend looking for work.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 24/03/2022 17:29:18 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422817

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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	Carer'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 proportion of people in receipt of carers allowance receive the full amount.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	124957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>Of the 932,028 claimants in receipt of Carer's Allowance, 99.5% received the full amount of £67.60, as of August 2021 according to the latest data. The published data can be access here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-february-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-february-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/02/2022 15:52:47 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1422819

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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	Carer'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 recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing carers allowance.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	124959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon member to the answer I gave on 20 December 2021 to question number 91990.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-13/91990%0d" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-12-13/91990</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/02/2022 15:40:32 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe