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102224

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date	28/10/2014
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people subject to the under-occupancy penalty who have moved into a smaller home since the introduction of that penalty.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Joan Walley
uin	905823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The last published figures for May 2014 showed that, as a result of various actions, the number of people affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy had fallen by 65,000 over the last year.</p><p> </p><p>Analysis of off-flows indicated that up to December 2013, around 22,000 people had downsized or moved.</p><p> </p><p>New figures are not yet available and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/11/2014 17:55:41 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	286 label Biography information for Joan Walley

102227

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
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	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 people have received Access to Work support in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	905821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>35,400 individuals were helped through Access to Work in the 2013/14 financial year.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:26:49 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

102230

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
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: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on supporting people with mental health conditions in the workplace.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	905827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is committed to supporting people with mental health problems to remain in work.</p><p> </p><p>We are launching Fit for Work to support people off sick for four weeks or more to help them return to work, as well as introducing maximum waiting times for accessing talking therapies.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working with the Department of Health to pilot different approaches to support people with mental health problems to return to work.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:27:21 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

102231

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
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	Older Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to support older workers.
tabling member constituency	Harrow East
tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
uin	905825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>This Government has abolished the default retirement age, extended the right to request flexible working, and will be giving people more freedom in how they draw their pension pots to smooth the transition to retirement. The Department also published “Fuller Working Lives - A Framework for Action” in June, which set out the business case for employing older workers and included the following actions:</p><p> </p><ul><li>DWP to work more closely with Local Enterprise Partnerships to encourage them to focus on the issue of fuller working lives in their local area;</li></ul><ul><li>DH, DWP and GEO to launch a trial on carers in employment and the role assistive technology can play in helping them to combine work and care:</li></ul><ul><li>A number of pilots with Jobcentre Plus on back to work support for carers; and</li></ul><ul><li>DWP to develop a new guidance toolkit for employers - this will build on the existing Age Positive employer guidance.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>In July 2014, Dr Ros Altmann was appointed as the Business Champion for Older Workers and is making the case for the importance of fuller working lives for individuals, employers and wider society.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 03/11/2014 17:08:38 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

102233

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
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
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 recent employment trends.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	905826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The latest figures show a record number of people in work - 30.76 million, up 736,000 on the year. There are a record 14.4m women in work, with a record female employment rate of 68.1%. This year there have been some of the largest annual increases in employment since the 1980s.</p><p>Total unemployment saw a record annual fall of 538,000, bringing unemployment below 2 million for the first time since 2008. Youth unemployment fell a record 253,000 on the year to 733,000. Long-term unemployment fell 194,000 on the year - the largest annual fall since 1998.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/11/2014 17:41:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy