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date	03/07/2018
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	Disadvantaged
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to release an updated progress report of the indicators included in the Social justice: transforming lives report published in March 2012.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL9196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>The indicators from the Social Justice Outcomes Framework were replaced by the Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators. On 4<sup>th</sup> April 2017, the Government published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families which set out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s long-term outcomes. This included publishing nine national indicators and underlying measures to track progress in tackling the disadvantages that affect families’ and children’s outcomes. The Government has a statutory duty to report data annually to Parliament on two of the nine indicators and made a commitment to publish the latest data on the seven non-statutory indicators each year.</p><p> </p><p>The Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators were last updated on 28<sup>th</sup> March 2018 and can be found in the attached document.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 11/07/2018 14:28:22 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name HL9196 attachment.pdf title Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

924184

registered interest
date	14/06/2018
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: Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the UK spends on family benefits; and how this compares to other countries in the OECD.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL8663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The latest data shows that the UK spends 3.8 per cent of GDP on expenditure classified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This is more than any other country in the OECD.</p><p> </p><p>“Family benefits” include cash benefits, such as person tax credits, Child Benefit; maternity benefits and child Disability Living Allowance; and benefits in kind covering child care and social services. They do not include other benefits that might be available to the claimant, such as Personal Independence Payment or Housing Benefit.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 28/06/2018 17:08:19 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

924186

registered interest
date	14/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Unemployment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much has been saved to the public purse through reducing unemployment since 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL8665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The unemployment rate currently stands at 4.2% and today there are 609,000 fewer jobseeking claimants than in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, the government is forecast to spend £2.6 billion pounds less on benefits for jobseekers in 2018-19 than in 2010-11.</p><p> </p><p>There are also likely to be indirect effects on the public purse from reduced unemployment since 2010, for example through increased tax receipts. HM Treasury has not made a detailed assessment of this.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 28/06/2018 13:59:46 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

919380

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children in Care
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children who entered the UK under (1) the Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme, and (2) section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 (a) have been placed in local authority care, and (b) remain in local authority care; and in which local authorities they were placed.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL8458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Unaccompanied children arriving in the UK through the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme and Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 are placed into the care of a local authority. Placements for these children are secured from local authorities voluntarily participating in the National Transfer Scheme.</p><p>However due to the inherent vulnerability and relatively small numbers of this cohort, the Home Office does not publish a breakdown of such children entering and leaving local authority care.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 21/06/2018 16:08:12 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

919384

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of adult offenders were in employment one year after (1) a caution, (2) a conviction, and (3) release from prison, in each year since 2012.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL8462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>We do not currently hold the data as requested. We are working with HM Revenue and Customs and Department for Work and Pensions to capture this information in the future.</p><p> </p><p>From a previous joint exercise between the Ministry of Justice, HMRC and DWP to analyse the links between employment, benefits and reoffending, we know that in 2011-12, one year after a:</p><p>- <strong>police caution</strong>: 40% of working age offenders were in P45 employment</p><p>- <strong>release from prison</strong>: 17% of working age offenders were in P45 employment</p><p> </p><p>Securing employment after a sentence has a positive impact on rates of reoffending. Offenders who found P45 employment in the twelve months after release from prison had one year re-offending rates that were 6-9 percentage points lower than similar offenders who did not find employment.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 21/06/2018 16:17:51 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud