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605999

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
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: Disability
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 include proposals related to musculoskeletal conditions in the planned Green Paper on disability employment.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	49480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The Green Paper will explore a range of ways to improve the prospects and transform the lives of disabled people and people with musculoskeletal conditions and other long term health conditions so that their health needs and employment aspirations are met in the best possible way.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/10/2016 11:20:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

606004

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
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 and Support Allowance: Chronic Illnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which chronic illnesses and severe conditions exempt employment and support allowance claimants from regular medical reassessments.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Dr Alasdair McDonnell
uin	49460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 20 October 2016 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-10-17/48978/" target="_blank">UIN 48978</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/10/2016 11:38:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1596 label Biography information for Dr Alasdair McDonnell

606016

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
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	Industrial Health and Safety
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 all health and safety regulations will be (a) protected in the long-term and (b) retained in legislation after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	49395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>As a Government, we have been clear that we will do nothing to undermine workers’ rights. The United Kingdom has one of the best records on occupational safety and health in Europe and the wider world and the Government intends to keep it that way. Health and safety regulations are secondary legislation under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Government has no plans to change this.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/10/2016 11:44:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

598075

registered interest
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	Disability: Employment Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to trialling the introduction of personal budgets for employment support in order to support more disabled people into work.
tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
uin	HL2104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises that people need support that is tailored to their needs. Personal Budgets are currently being trialled in Access to Work to offer customers greater flexibility to manage their Travel to Work or Support Worker costs. Initial findings from the trial are expected in early 2017.</p><p>The Work and Health Unit, in partnership with NHS England, are also exploring options for trialling the expansion of personal health budgets to include employment support through the work and health Innovation Fund. This is being considered as part of a small number of health-led employment support trials that we hope to set up with devolution areas and as part of the ongoing development of Integrated Personal Commissioning where employment could be considered as part of a wider conversation to support the roll out of personal health budgets.</p><p>A Personal Budgets model was previously tested in the Right to Control Trailblazers, which ran from 2010 to 2013. Disabled people taking part in the trailblazers were offered greater choice and control over the support they received, as well as the option to take a direct payment and arrange their own support. The final evaluation report did not find any evidence that the Right to Control Trailblazers had a significant positive impact on customers, both overall and by subgroup.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/10/2016 12:42:10 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

598093

registered interest
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	Disability: Employment Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of support services for people with complex needs when entering the labour market; and what steps they are taking to make recruitment processes accessible for all.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL2122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>We have been engaging with a variety of stakeholders and partners, including those with an interest in people with complex needs, to understand their view of current employment support. We will soon publish a Green Paper to explore a range of options for long-term reform across different sectors enabling everyone to realise their aspirations, regardless of their health condition or disability.</p><p>The Government is committed to enabling all disabled people to fulfil their potential. Work is an important part of this, and the Government wants all disabled people and people with a long term health condition to go as far as their talents will take them.</p><p>We are supporting this through Access to Work, which has specialist teams to provide a dedicated service to particular groups of people including those with complex needs.</p><p>Our new Disability Confident employer scheme went live on 14 July 2016. When employers sign up as Disability Confident they are asked to make specific meaningful offers of opportunities for disabled people such as jobs, apprenticeships, internships, and work experience opportunities.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/10/2016 12:32:30 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

598094

registered interest
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	Disability: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that they meet their target of halving the disability employment gap.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL2123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>In the last three years, the number of disabled people in work has increased by almost half a million. But we recognise that the gap between the employment rates of disabled people and non-disabled people remains too large. That is why we are committed to halving it.</p><p>Last year the Work and Health Unit was established to lead the drive for improving work and health outcomes for people with health conditions and disabilities, as well as improving support for people absent from work through ill health and those at risk of leaving workforce.</p><p>The Unit has begun work to build the evidence base of what works to support disabled people and people with health conditions to obtain and remain in work. We are increasing the reach of Access to Work which provide support to an additional 25,000 people per year by 2021, and we have recently launched the Access to Work Digital Service which as so far received an average of 500 claims per week. We are more than doubling Disability Employment Advisors in job centres to help disabled people into employment and embedding employment advisers in IAPT, so that individuals with mental health conditions can receive timely and tailored employment advice.</p><p>We will soon publish a Green Paper that will explore a range of options for long-term reform across different sectors enabling everyone to realise their aspirations, regardless of their health condition or disability. We will engage with disabled people, their representative organisations and a wide range of other stakeholders, who all have an important part to play in making the transformative changes required for long-term reform on supporting disabled people into work.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/10/2016 12:39:10 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

598108

registered interest
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	Disability: Employment Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that deafblind people and those with complex needs are not prevented from securing meaningful employment due to low expectations of the professionals who are charged with supporting them into work.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Clifton
uin	HL2137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>In the last three years, the number of disabled people in work has increased by almost half a million. But we recognise that the gap between the employment rates of disabled people and non-disabled people remains too large. That is why we are committed to halving it.</p><p>We will soon publish a Green Paper on work and health.</p><p>All Stakeholders have an important part to play in making the transformative changes required so that everyone has the chance to go as far as their talents will take them, including people who are deafblind and those with complex needs.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/10/2016 12:39:56 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3144 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Clifton

598125

registered interest
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	Pensions: Fraud
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people in the UK were victims of pension scams in (1) 2014, (2) 2015, and (3) 2016 to date.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL2154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government takes the threat posed by scams very seriously and recognises that these can be complex and multifaceted, often spanning departmental and agency boundaries. It is for this reason that the Government established Project Bloom, a multi-department, multi-agency group of officials to help co-ordinate action to tackle scams, monitor trends and share intelligence on emerging threats. Members include the National Crime Agency, police forces, Pension Wise, regulators and key Government departments.</p><p>Those scams which are reported, including Pension Liberation reports, are collected and collated by the National Fraud Reporting Centre (Action Fraud), within the City of London Police, which was established in 2013. However, the true extent of pension scams in the UK is unknown because many go un-reported.</p><p>The data on the number of reported scams will include those which have been reported over the past three years by individuals, pension providers, the Pensions Regulator or other agencies but, on which, Action Fraud has not yet received any feedback from the investigating police force, for example, a report on whether suspects have been charged or summonsed. This delay is due to the complexity of pension fraud investigations which can take several years to investigate. Action Fraud would not know the outcome until the end of the court case. Frequently, numerous fraud reports will relate to a single suspect.</p><p>The data on the number of reported scams also includes reports where organisations have taken action to prevent that fraud. Outcome feedback would only be received in respect of these reports if the Police became involved.</p><p>We expect the number of charges and summons to increase as outcome feedback from investigating police forces for pre 2014 reports is received and collated. The available data is provided in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of Action Fraud Reports </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Suspect charged / summonsed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>911</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>807</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 (to date)</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total: </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL2155 question first answered 24/10/2016 13:33:31 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

598126

registered interest
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	Pensions: Fraud
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many pension scams were (1) reported, and (2) stopped by official action, in each year from 2010 to 2016.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL2155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government takes the threat posed by scams very seriously and recognises that these can be complex and multifaceted, often spanning departmental and agency boundaries. It is for this reason that the Government established Project Bloom, a multi-department, multi-agency group of officials to help co-ordinate action to tackle scams, monitor trends and share intelligence on emerging threats. Members include the National Crime Agency, police forces, Pension Wise, regulators and key Government departments.</p><p>Those scams which are reported, including Pension Liberation reports, are collected and collated by the National Fraud Reporting Centre (Action Fraud), within the City of London Police, which was established in 2013. However, the true extent of pension scams in the UK is unknown because many go un-reported.</p><p>The data on the number of reported scams will include those which have been reported over the past three years by individuals, pension providers, the Pensions Regulator or other agencies but, on which, Action Fraud has not yet received any feedback from the investigating police force, for example, a report on whether suspects have been charged or summonsed. This delay is due to the complexity of pension fraud investigations which can take several years to investigate. Action Fraud would not know the outcome until the end of the court case. Frequently, numerous fraud reports will relate to a single suspect.</p><p>The data on the number of reported scams also includes reports where organisations have taken action to prevent that fraud. Outcome feedback would only be received in respect of these reports if the Police became involved.</p><p>We expect the number of charges and summons to increase as outcome feedback from investigating police forces for pre 2014 reports is received and collated. The available data is provided in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of Action Fraud Reports </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Suspect charged / summonsed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>911</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>807</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 (to date)</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total: </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL2154 question first answered 24/10/2016 13:33:31 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

598129

registered interest
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	State Retirement Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to ensure that individuals who are currently working in multiple low paid jobs without receiving national insurance credits will not lose out on their future state pension relative to people who are not working and still being credited for National Insurance contributions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL2158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The population working in multiple low paid jobs is not static and there is little evidence that people are engaged in this type of work pattern for significant periods in their working life, or that their state pension outcomes are affected, so many of those affected are likely to build up sufficient qualifying years in the future through paid or credited contributions. There is also a very wide gateway to National Insurance cover already: the lower earnings limit, the threshold for access to contributory benefits (including the State Pension) is set at the equivalent of less than 16 hours per week at the national living wage; there is a comprehensive system for National Insurance credits; people can pay voluntary contributions to protect their State Pension position, and finally, new State Pension allows for substantial gaps in National Insurance cover – up to 15 years over a 50 year working life – without penalty.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/10/2016 13:47:32 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann