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384513

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	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: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people they expect to find jobs as a result of the Disability Confident campaign.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Disability Confident campaign makes the business case for recruiting and retaining more disabled people and aims to increase the number of employers taking positive action to be more disability confident. We are not able to measure the number of disabled people moving into employment as a direct result of it, but the campaign is an important contributor towards our commitment to halve the gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:00:19 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

384516

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	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	Families
	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 22 June, how they have calculated that £1 spent on advice yields approximately £11.50 in savings.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This calculation was derived from an independent review commissioned by the Department for Education.</p><p> </p><p>The information is available in the Department for Education’s Relationship Support Interventions Evaluation, published in 2014. This sets out a detailed explanation of how the savings were calculated using a cost benefit analysis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 13:22:18 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

385209

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2015
	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	Work Programme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people, after two years on the Work Programme, (1) obtained a job, and (2) returned to the jobcentre, in each year since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not collect official statistics on job starts made by Work Programme participants. Information is collected on the job outcomes paid to Work Programme providers for getting people into sustained employment.</p><p> </p><p>The cumulative number of job outcomes paid (June 2011-March 2015) for people who have completed their allotted time on the Work Programme is 344,900.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for the number of people who have returned to the Jobcentre on completing the Work Programme is published by month of completion and can be found in the table below. It should be noted that the first applicable month was May 2013 and data is currently available up to 31 March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Current Work Programme Status</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Completed allotted time: returned to JCP at 104 weeks</p></td><td><p>Completed allotted time: returned to JCP post 104 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-13</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-13</p></td><td><p>58,710</p></td><td><p>8,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-13</p></td><td><p>73,230</p></td><td><p>11,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-13</p></td><td><p>45,160</p></td><td><p>7,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-13</p></td><td><p>43,750</p></td><td><p>7,770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-13</p></td><td><p>44,700</p></td><td><p>8,170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>43,440</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>38,250</p></td><td><p>6,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-14</p></td><td><p>46,440</p></td><td><p>8,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-14</p></td><td><p>40,550</p></td><td><p>7,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-14</p></td><td><p>39,030</p></td><td><p>7,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-14</p></td><td><p>30,530</p></td><td><p>6,030</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-14</p></td><td><p>28,200</p></td><td><p>5,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-14</p></td><td><p>28,800</p></td><td><p>5,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-14</p></td><td><p>30,810</p></td><td><p>5,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-14</p></td><td><p>23,780</p></td><td><p>4,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-14</p></td><td><p>27,720</p></td><td><p>4,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-14</p></td><td><p>27,730</p></td><td><p>3,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>29,630</p></td><td><p>3,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-14</p></td><td><p>24,470</p></td><td><p>2,140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-15</p></td><td><p>30,940</p></td><td><p>2,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>19,810</p></td><td><p>980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-15</p></td><td><p>18,770</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 12:44:05 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

385303

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	Pension Funds
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 7 January (HL Deb, col 432), when they plan to consult on improving transparency for pension savers regarding where their money is invested and how rights attached to it are being exercised; and when they plan to consider how secondary legislation could be used to ensure greater transparency for pension savers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
	uin	HL786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is committed to ensuring greater transparency for pension savers.</p><p> </p><p>From April this year, workplace schemes are required to report on the value delivered by costs and charges in their scheme for the first time. Building on this, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Financial Conduct Authority ran a joint Call for Evidence ‘Transaction Cost Disclosure: Improving Transparency in Workplace Pensions’, considering how transaction costs could be disclosed in a standardised way. This is the first phase of work required to meet duties under Section 44 of the Pensions Act 2014 to require transaction costs to be disclosed to members and others; and transaction costs and administration charges to be published. The Government is currently considering responses to the Call for Evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Transparency is not just about costs and charges. Earlier this year the Government consulted on changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes Investment Regulations requiring trustees to report how they take financial and non-financial factors into account when investing, and their schemes stewardship policy. The Government is currently considering responses to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government intends to consult on any secondary legislation required following these exercises later this year, and will consider what further proposals may be needed to ensure greater transparency for pension savers including consideration both of its duties under the Pensions Act 2014 and the remarks made in debates on 7 January.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:06:11 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
	tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

385316

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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: Disqualification
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many sanctions have been applied to Universal Credit claimants in each month since the roll-out began.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the noble Baroness to the answer I gave on 16 June 2015 to her Question number HL 402:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Baroness Lister of Burtersett :To ask Her Majesty’s Government: </strong>whether they have plans to publish statistics on sanctions imposed under the universal credit scheme as it is brought into effect.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Lord Freud</strong><strong>: </strong>The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are quality assuring data for Universal Credit and formulating a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 11:56:36 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

385336

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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: Migrants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 24 June (HL540), whether they plan to make such assessments in future; and if not, why not.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL819
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Although data regarding claimant nationality is not currently recorded on benefit payment systems, Universal Credit will record such data, when EEA nationals are able to claim. The Department has no plans to make specific assessments regarding Polish nationals when such data becomes available. However, we will continue to monitor EEA nationals’ access to benefits more generally.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has made clear that further steps are needed to reform welfare to reduce the incentives which have led to mass immigration from the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 11:59:13 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

384502

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Economic and Monetary Union
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the European Union Five Presidents' Report published on 22 June recommending the ceding of powers by member states to European Union institutions and the creation of a eurozone treasury.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Report is part of an ongoing process to identify next steps to better governance in the euro area.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government’s position is that the UK benefits from the Single Market, and does not want to stand in the way of the euro area resolving its difficulties. But we will not let the integration of the euro area jeopardise the integrity of the Single Market or in any way disadvantage the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>That is one of the important objectives we seek in our renegotiation with the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 06/07/2015 16:43:50 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

384504

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	International Monetary Fund
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the United Kingdom's financial involvement in the International Monetary Fund; and what percentage of the whole it comprises.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is primarily a quota-based institution. The UK’s quota subscription to the IMF is 10,738.5 million Special Drawing Rights, equivalent to £10,009 million at 31 March 2015. This accounts for 4.5% of total quotas at the IMF.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are a number of other financial arrangements and associated transactions between the UK and the IMF. The IMF routinely publishes information on its members’ financial positions in the IMF, including for the UK. The Government also publishes complementary information in the annual accounts of the National Loans Fund and Exchange Equalisation Account.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further details are available on the IMF and gov.uk websites.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>[1] http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/exfin1.aspx https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-central-funds</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 06/07/2015 16:58:26 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

384505

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Public Sector Debt
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of recent research by the Taxpayers' Alliance indicating that the United Kingdom's true national debt is £8.6 trillion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>According to the latest <em>Public Sector Finances</em> release (May 2015) produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Public Sector Net Debt (PSND) stands at £1.5 trillion. This is the government’s usual measure of debt, and the measure on the basis of which the official forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) are produced.</p><p> </p><p>The number quoted by the Taxpayers’ Alliance includes many future and government liabilities not generally included in debt figures and it does not include corresponding future assets, physical assets, illiquid financial assets or future revenues.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 06/07/2015 16:44:24 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

384506

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to extend the right of access to pension funds available to employees in the private sector to those working in the public sector; and if not, why not.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to extend the pension flexibilities to members of unfunded, defined benefit, public service pension schemes. The last Government restricted transfers from unfunded, defined benefit, public service pension schemes to those arrangements from which the member may acquire a right or entitlement to flexible benefits in order to protect the taxpayer from the increased in-year costs that would result should a large number of members of such schemes elect to transfer out to a scheme providing flexible access to pension pots.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In an unfunded public service pension scheme, there is no fund of assets with which to finance transfer payments. Instead, they are funded from contributions from current members and their employers, and through general expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Therefore, should the introduction of the flexibilities have led to an increase in the number of members transferring out of their unfunded public service scheme to a scheme providing flexible benefits, there would have been a direct cost to Government. For every extra pound paid out in transfers, the Government would have had one less pound to spend that year on public services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government estimates that if 1% of all public service workers reaching retirement took their benefits flexibly, it could cost the tax payer £200m a year. The Government does not think it is fair to ask taxpayers to meet such in-year costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Members of funded, defined benefit, public service pension schemes, such as the Local Government Pension Scheme, continue to be able to transfer. This is because there is a fund of assets available for use to meet the cost of the transfers. Government took the decision to treat funded schemes differently for this reason, extending freedom and choice to as many individuals as possible.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 06/07/2015 16:59:44 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon