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date	25/03/2024
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	Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Veterans
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of veterans living in garrison towns that claim (a) PIP and (b) Universal Credit.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	20141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>As the hon. Member is aware, the department already collects information on those members of the armed forces community, including veterans, receiving Universal Credit. This information is not required and is provided voluntarily by the claimants.</p><p> </p><p>On Personal Independence Payment, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 13 March 2024 to question UIN <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-03-04/16600" target="_blank">16600</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/04/2024 13:52:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

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registered interest
date	15/12/2015
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	Help to Work Scheme
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 his Department's publication, Mandatory Programmes official statistics: May 2011 to August 2015, published on 25 November 2015, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the difference between the number of people referred to the Mandatory Work Activity scheme and the number of people who subsequently joined the programme during this period.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	20141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>Mandatory Work Activity is a supportive programme designed to help claimants who need extra support from a short work placement to re-focus their job search activity and gain further experience of work. Unemployed Jobseekers Allowance or Universal Credit claimants are referred for up to 4 weeks work experience and will participate on the placement for up to 30 hours a week.</p><br /><p>The number of referrals and starts is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/pre-work-programme-and-get-britain-working</a>.</p><br /><p>An impact assessment of Mandatory Work Activity was published in 2012 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mandatory-work-activity--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mandatory-work-activity--2</a>) which considered referrals to the programme in the period May to July 2012. An evaluation of Mandatory Work Activity also published in 2012 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-mandatory-work-activity-rr823" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evaluation-of-mandatory-work-activity-rr823</a>) which included a telephone survey of participants who had been referred to and started an Mandatory Work Allowance placement.</p><br /><p>The evaluation and impact assessment were conducted in 2012 and does not cover the period of the Official Statistics from May 2011 to August 2015.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 20138 20139 20140 question first answered 22/12/2015 14:05:34 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry