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225683

registered interest
date	06/03/2015
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 Schemes: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much expenditure has been allocated to the Youth Contract to date.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	226635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Youth Contract was allocated £1bn.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 11/03/2015 17:09:02 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225175

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Dogs: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will implement the recommendations contained in the recent report by the Dogs Trust entitled The Puppy Smuggling Scandal.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	226356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>We are taking action to tackle the illegal puppy trade focused on three areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Dogs Trust’s report highlights that responsibility for stopping the illegal movement of puppies begins in the country where they are born. The UK Chief Veterinary Officer wrote to the authorities in the countries highlighted in the report and follow up action has been taken. We will continue to alert the authorities in any Member State where we become aware of issues in relation to the operation of the pet travel scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“Secondly, we will maintain effective border controls. Every pet entering Great Britain is checked for compliance with the EU pet travel scheme and in 2014 checks were carried out on over 170,000 dogs, cats and ferrets. Stringent penalties are in place where people are found to be breaking the rules.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Thirdly, the illegal trade is driven by demand for cheap, pedigree puppies and we have published guidance on the steps pet owners can take to avoid buying an illegally imported pet: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/buying-a-cat-or-dog" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/buying-a-cat-or-dog</a>. We are also working with the Pet Advertising Advisory Group who have developed minimum standards for on-line pet advertisers which have led to the removal of over 130,000 problematic adverts in the last year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Dogs Trust has been invited to meet with the Minister for animal welfare to discuss their report ‘<em>The Puppy Smuggling Scandal’</em>.</p><p> </p><p><br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/03/2015 17:13:13 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225178

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Dairy Farming
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the proportion of dairy production which involves intensive indoor methods.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	226260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>Defra does not collect information on systems of production. It is difficult to categorise dairy farms in terms of intensity as it can be measured in many different ways and levels of intensity change gradually rather than at specific predetermined points.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/03/2015 11:46:21 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225258

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve road safety for elderly pedestrians.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	226290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department issued revised guidance in January 2013 aimed mainly at local traffic authorities who are responsible for setting speed limits on local roads. Traffic authorities set local speed limits in situations where local needs and conditions suggest a speed limit which is lower than the national speed limit.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities may provide pedestrian crossings, including dropped kerbs, where there is a local need. Pedestrian crossings and crossing timings are a matter for guidance rather than legislation. The Department intends to produce a new Chapter of the Traffic Signs manual on traffic lights and crossings but there is no date yet for publication.</p><p> </p><p>In London there is a general ban on parking on the footway. In the rest of England there is no such prohibition but traffic authorities have wide-ranging powers to prevent people parking on the pavement and my Rt Hon Friend the Minister of State for Transport, Baroness Kramer, wrote to all English traffic authorities on 27 June 2014 to remind them of this.</p><p>The Government is committed to cycling and walking and making it easier for people to choose them as sustainable travel options. The Government laid an amendment to the Infrastructure Bill that would place into law a commitment of the Government to produce a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy. The Bill has now completed its passage through both Houses and was granted Royal Assent on 12 February.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 10/03/2015 14:50:16 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225283

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Universal Credit
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 5 February 2015 to the hon. Member for East Ham to Question 222906, if he plans for the number of universal credit claimants in May 2015 to be between 50,000 and 150,000.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	226399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department is not setting targets for numbers in receipt of Universal Credit at various points in time. The latest forecast agreed with OBR rounds to 0.1 million cases, as set out in <em>Universal Credit at Work</em> published in October 2014.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 09/03/2015 17:32:16 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225293

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	MAXIMUS Health and Human Services
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 2 March 2015 to Question 225360, if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract with Maximus Health and Human Services Ltd.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	226345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As part of the Government’s transparency agenda, a redacted version of Maximus Health and Human Services Ltd Contract with the Department for Work and Pensions to deliver Health and Disability Assessments was published on the Contracts Finder website, on 24 November 2014. This can be accessed at: <a href="https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&amp;lang=en&amp;NoticeId=1644334" target="_blank">https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&amp;lang=en&amp;NoticeId=1644334</a></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 11/03/2015 17:18:10 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

225301

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Jobcentres: Telephones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many telephones he expects to be available to claimants in Jobcentre Plus in each of the next five years; and what is the average number of telephones in each Jobcentre Plus.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	226274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As part of our Jobcentre modernisation programme we have replaced all Customer Access Phones with computers. Over 80 per cent of new Jobseeker’s Allowance claims are taken online and job search is predominantly internet based. Vulnerable claimants who require access to a phone in connection with their benefit or job search will still be given access to a telephone in a Jobcentre.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/03/2015 17:07:09 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

224474

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Destitution Domestic Violence (DDV) concessions were granted to individuals on a UK partner visa whose relationship has broken down because of domestic violence in each of the last three years; and how many individuals granted a DDV concession were later granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	225816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of individuals who have been granted a Destitution Domestic Violence <br>(DDV) concession, since the concession was introduced on 1 April 2012 is as <br>follows:<br>2012 – 455<br>2013 – 650<br>2014 – 665<br><br>The number of individuals who have been granted a DDV concession who have then <br>been granted indefinite leave to remain, since the concession was introduced on <br>1 April 2012 is as follows:<br>2012 – 125<br>2013 – 270<br>2014 - 290</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/03/2015 16:14:50 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

224061

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Universal Credit
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 making an application for universal credit are not registered on the real-time information system.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	225640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>All Universal Credit claims - whether relating to the employed, self-employed or unemployed - which are successfully made are then registered on HMRC systems. Any PAYE reported in real time by employers in respect of these is then passed to Universal Credit systems. The majority of employed Universal Credit claimants will have their earnings reported via PAYE, and over 99% of all such employments are now being reported in real-time. For the minority whose earnings are not reported through PAYE (for example the self-employed) we have developed processes to ensure they can self-report their earnings.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/03/2015 17:16:20 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

223537

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many mandatory reconsiderations have been requested for tax credit claims; how many of those requests have been successful; and how long on average it takes to process each such request.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	225361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>HMRC has revised the appeals process, in order to align it with that of DWP in advance of the migration of tax credits claimants to Universal Credit. Since 6 April 2014, there has been a new stage in the process called mandatory reconsideration (MR). Now if a claimant disagrees with an HMRC tax credit decision, they are required to ask HMRC to look at its decision again and revise it where appropriate. This change was introduced to enable more disputes to be resolved as early as possible in the decision making process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Mandatory reconsideration was introduced on 6 April 2014. Annual figures for 2014/15 are not yet available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 04/03/2015 13:33:45 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead