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649444

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date	01/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children's Centres: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start children's centres have closed in England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty to ensure there are sufficient centres to meet local need; and a duty to consult where changes are planned to local children’s centre provision.</p><p>As at 31 October 2016 there were 3,259 main children’s centres and sites open to families and children providing children's centre services as part of a network. Children’s centre records are maintained by local authorities and are made publicly available via the department’s “EduBase portal” at: <a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml" target="_blank">http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml</a>.</p><p>Based on the information supplied by local authorities the numbers of centres closed year by year is given in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar Year</p></td><td><p>Number of children’s centres closed by year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>12[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>33[2]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>85[3]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>156[4]</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The totals for 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 have been adjusted since replies to previous questions 3237 <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-18/3237/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-18/3237/</a>; and 38640 <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-05-26/38640/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-05-26/38640/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>[1] The total number of children’s centres closed in 2011 is three higher than previously reported due to a local authority reporting in 2016 that three centres listed as open on Edubase had been closed in 2011</p><p>[2] The total number of children’s centres closed in 2013 is one higher than previously reported due to a local authority reporting in 2016 that a centre listed as open on Edubase had been closed in 2013</p><p>[3] The total number of children’s centres closed in 2014 is two higher than previously reported due to a local authority reporting in 2016 that two centres listed as open on Edubase had actually closed in 2014</p><p>[4] The total number of children’s centres closed in 2015 is 12 higher than previously reported due to five local authorities reporting closures that took place in 2015 in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/12/2016 15:10:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

649540

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Child Poverty Unit: Staff
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 7 November 2016 to Question 51676, on Child Poverty Unit: staff, if he will give a breakdown of the staff numbers provided by civil service pay grade in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/12/2016 16:46:43 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

649541

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Social Security Benefits
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 effect of the forecasts in the Office for Budget Responsibility's Economic and Fiscal Outlook, November 2016, on his Department's estimates of the financial effect on recipients of working age benefits of the freeze on those benefits.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 has frozen the majority of working-age benefits for four tax years, from 2016-17 to 2019-20. These benefit rates will therefore remain the same.</p><p> </p><p>These reforms to working-age benefits are part of the Government’s commitment to incentivise work for those who can in a high-wage, low-tax economy. This includes increasing the National Living Wage to £9 an hour by 2020, cutting income tax for over 30 million people and the roll-out of UC. These reforms are working, with employment at historic high levels.</p><p> </p><p>We are also committed to supporting those who cannot work, and those with additional needs. Our triple lock guarantee has meant that the basic State Pension is now over £1,100 a year higher than in 2010. Benefits for the additional costs of disability, and for carers, are exempt from the benefit freeze and will continue to be up-rated in line with the rise in prices.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/12/2016 14:14:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

649543

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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	Children: Poverty
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 the policy of the Government to eliminate child poverty.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that tackling poverty, disadvantage, and delivering real social reform, is a priority for this Government.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/12/2016 17:42:24 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

649563

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Science: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to guarantee levels of funding for UK scientific programmes in the event that no agreement is reached on continued UK participation in EU scientific programmes after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The UK will maintain its status as a global centre for research and innovation. The Government has already committed to protect science funding with a total investment of £26.3 billion over the period FY 2016/17 – FY 2020/21. In addition, the Autumn Statement announced an extra £2 billion a year in research and development by the end of this Parliament.</p><p>UK businesses and universities should continue to bid for competitive EU funds while we remain a member of the EU and we will work with the Commission to ensure payment when funds are awarded. The Treasury will underwrite the payment of such awards, even when specific projects continue beyond the UK’s departure from the EU.</p><p>Access to apply to Horizon 2020 and subsequent funding programmes after we leave the EU will be a matter for the negotiations that will follow the triggering of Article 50.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/12/2016 15:51:39 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647829

registered interest
date	29/11/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Science
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in other EU member states on UK participation in EU scientific programmes after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Post-exit participation in EU research programmes will be a matter for the negotiations which will follow the triggering of Article 50. We will work through the implications for future years as part of the wider negotiations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/12/2016 16:12:36 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 24323 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647297

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Child Poverty Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2016 to Question 54256, what steps the Child Poverty Unit is taking to reduce poverty among children living in working households.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>This Government is committed to action that tackles the root causes of poverty and disadvantage, not just the symptoms. There is clear evidence that work is the best route out of poverty. Working age adults in non-working families are almost four times more likely than those in work to be living on a low income. And the Child Poverty Transitions Report (Jun 2015) found that 74% of poor children in workless families that moved into full employment exited poverty.</p><p>This is why we are reforming the welfare and tax system to support people into work, ensure that work always pays, and to allow people to keep more of what they earn. For the first time ever we are supporting claimants who are in low paid work to increase their earnings and progress in their careers.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/12/2016 16:04:51 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647298

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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
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 moved into work from receiving out-of-work benefits in each of the last five years; and how many such people have moved into work with a salary above 60 per cent of median household income in each of those years by year.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold sufficiently reliable data on claimant flows into work to answer this question. Benefit claimants are not required to report their destination to Jobcentre Plus when they stop claiming benefit. However, as we roll out Universal Credit, we expect to be able to use Real Time Information (RTI) to track claimant earnings.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/12/2016 17:17:05 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647299

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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
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 moved into work and earn above the national minimum wage from receiving out-of-work benefits in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold sufficiently reliable data on claimant flows into work to answer this question. Benefit claimants are not required to report their destination to Jobcentre Plus when they stop claiming benefit. However, as we roll out Universal Credit, we expect to be able to use Real Time Information (RTI) to track claimant earnings.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/12/2016 17:19:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

647300

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
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	Low Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to enable people in low-paid professions to move into positions with a higher salary.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	55251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>Universal Credit provides us, for the first time, with the opportunity to help people who are in low-paid work to progress. This is the first time that any country has made a significant commitment to supporting people through the welfare system to seek to increase their earnings in work. We are currently at the stage of testing a range of approaches to provide evidence for the development of our future in-work policy. This involves work with individuals – including a large-scale Randomised Control Trial delivered by Jobcentre Plus – and with employers, who play a central role.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 01/12/2016 15:56:06 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis