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416149

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
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	Unemployment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he plans to take to reduce youth unemployment.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	901150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Youth unemployment has fallen 200,000 since 2010 and the youth claimant count has fallen for 44 consecutive months, to its lowest level since the 1970s.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at the Summer Budget, from 2017 we are introducing the Youth Obligation, a new package of support for most 18-21 year olds on Universal Credit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/09/2015 16:07:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

416866

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish statistics on the number of people with disabilities claiming benefits who take their own lives.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	901165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The department does not collect information on cause or manner of death of an individual, although it does keep a record of the date of death.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/09/2015 16:25:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

416867

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statistics on people who died after claiming employment and support allowance published by his Department on 27 August 2015; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	901163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Whilst any death is extremely distressing for the family no causal link whatsoever can be made between the likelihood of dying and the fact that someone is claiming benefits.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 901169 question first answered 07/09/2015 16:17:13 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

416868

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
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	Unemployment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to young people seeking work.
tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
tabling member printed	Mims Davies
uin	901166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave today to Oral Question UIN 901156.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/09/2015 16:32:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies

416869

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
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, whether the Health and Safety Executive has carried out research into the potential risks associated with hydraulic fracturing.
tabling member constituency	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
tabling member printed	Tom Elliott
uin	901170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>It is not necessary for HSE to commission new research in order to be confident that it can regulate the shale industry effectively, due to the broad range of shale research already available and HSE's existing knowledge of oil and gas extraction.</p><p> </p><p>I have asked HSE to keep the situation under review.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/09/2015 16:39:28 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4367 label Biography information for Tom Elliott

416870

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the statistics on people who died after claiming employment and support allowance published by his Department on 27 August 2015; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	901169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Whilst any death is extremely distressing for the family no causal link whatsoever can be made between the likelihood of dying and the fact that someone is claiming benefits.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 901163 question first answered 07/09/2015 16:17:13 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

416871

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
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	Unemployment: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to tackle youth unemployment.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	901167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Youth unemployment has fallen 200,000 since 2010 and the youth claimant count has fallen for 44 consecutive months, to its lowest level since the 1970s.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at the Summer Budget, from 2017 we are introducing the Youth Obligation, a new package of support for most 18-21 year olds on Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 07/09/2015 16:35:55 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

392023

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
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	Workplace Pensions: LGBT+ People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Altmann on 13 July stating that the total cost of equalising survivor benefit payments would amount to £3.3 billion (HL Deb, col 343), what assessment they have made of the cost of equalising payments specifically on the grounds of sexual orientation; and whether they consider those costs to be prohibitive.
tabling member printed	Lord Cashman
uin	HL1778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/08/2015 answer text <p>The capitalised cost of eliminating all differences in survivor benefits because of sexual orientation is estimated at £120 million, as set out in the Review of Survivor Benefits in Occupational Pension Schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Although all differences because of sexual orientation in the provision of survivor benefits would be eliminated, differences because of sex would remain. This would mean that there would be differences in treatment between male same sex couples and female same sex couples. This is because male same sex couples would receive survivor benefits based on accruals from 1988 (in line with widowers of an opposite sex marriage), with female same sex couples receiving them based on accruals from 1978 (in line with widows of an opposite sex marriage).</p><p> </p><p>The Government must take into account the costs and all other effects of reducing or eliminating differences before deciding on whether the law should be changed.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 04/08/2015 10:57:32 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	4340 label Biography information for Lord Cashman

392024

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Organs: Donors
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to encourage organ donation.
tabling member printed	Lord Condon
uin	HL1779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2015 answer text <p>We are supporting a number of initiatives to raise awareness and to encourage more people to consent to organ donation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) launched a new United Kingdom wide organ donation and transplantation strategy in July 2013. <em>Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020</em> was developed by NHSBT and the four UK Health Departments. The strategy sets the agenda for increasing organ donation and transplantation rates to world class standards over the next few years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2014 NHSBT ran a successful campaign during National Transplant Week entitled ‘Spell it out’. This encouraged people to tell their friends and family once they have signed up to the Organ Donation Register (ODR). Last year’s campaign achieved higher levels of social media engagement than ever before, and media coverage reached 82% of adults. This year National Transplant Week takes place 7 – 13 September.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In July we also launched a modern ODR system which will enable people to make their wishes about donation much clearer and also link better with social media and donation partners, record more information such as ethnicity and religion and promote organ donation across the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department also supports a number of initiatives to raise awareness in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities to become donors. Less than 5% of deceased organ donors are BAME, yet patients from BAME communities represent around a quarter of people waiting for a transplant.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHSBT also works collaboratively with a number of partners in the private, public and third sectors to promote organ donation, such as Boots Advantage Card. People can also add their name to the ODR via Government-owned channels such as applying for a driving licence and paying car tax online.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2015 14:49:38 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon

392025

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North of England
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether the pause in the electrification of the TransPennine rail line and Midland Main Line will affect (1) the ending of the use of Pacer vehicles on the Northern franchise by 2020, and (2) the terms and conditions relating to the re-letting of the Northern franchise.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL1780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>The pause in the electrification of TransPennine and Midland Main Line will have no impact on the ending of the use of Pacer vehicles on the Northern franchise by 2020 or the terms and conditions relating to the re-letting of the Northern franchise.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 28/07/2015 10:03:52 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves