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437242

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	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 his Written Statement of 10 December 2015, HCWS377, on universal credit and local authorities, how he will define reasonable efforts to redeploy staff.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	19630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>We will work with Local Authorities to manage the impact of these changes in a way which minimises the need for any redundancies. Where this does not prove possible, after the exercise of all reasonable efforts to redeploy people, the Department has given Local Authorities a commitment that we will meet their costs of any residual redundancies. Reasonable efforts will vary according to the circumstance of the Local Authority.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/12/2015 15:01:23 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 35752 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

436356

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	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	Universal Credit: Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures his Department has put in place to ensure that conditionality requirements for jobseekers who are in receipt of universal credit, as set out in each individual's Claimant Commitment, take into account whether the individual may be homeless.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	19172
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Work Coaches regularly discuss a range of issues and circumstances with claimants. Where homelessness is raised, and is a barrier to employment, work coaches can temporarily lift or vary work search and availability requirements to help support in finding accommodation. Conditionality requirements reflect reasonable expectations given the claimants circumstance. These are recorded in the Claimant Commitment and regularly reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 19082 question first answered 16/12/2015 15:22:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 35757 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

436345

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	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	Universal Credit: Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that conditionality requirements for jobseekers in receipt of universal credit are eased during periods when an individual claimant is homeless.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	19082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>Work Coaches regularly discuss a range of issues and circumstances with claimants. Where homelessness is raised, and is a barrier to employment, work coaches can temporarily lift or vary work search and availability requirements to help support in finding accommodation. Conditionality requirements reflect reasonable expectations given the claimants circumstance. These are recorded in the Claimant Commitment and regularly reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 19172 question first answered 16/12/2015 15:22:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 35756 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

437247

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	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 his Written Statement of 10 December 2015, HCWS377, on universal credit and local authorities, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of people employed by local authorities to administer housing benefit, (b) the number of such employees likely to be made redundant as a result of the universal credit roll-out, (c) the total cost to the public purse of such redundancies, (d) the total number of staff that will be required to administer universal credit at a local level once the roll-out is complete and (e) the number of people currently employed by his Department in that capacity.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	19631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Local Authority associations estimate up to 5000 people are, in full or in part, engaged in delivering housing services and some of this work will continue in Local Authorities. There are over a million jobs in the Local Authority sector so with turnover we would expect opportunities for redeployment over the next 3-5 years as housing benefit for working age people is gradually phased out. We expect the number of people at risk of redundancy to be very small, but where Local Authorities are not able to redeploy people, we have said the Government will meet the costs of compulsory redundancy. Universal Credit will be delivered locally through our existing network of Jobcentres supported by a number of Service Centres. The number of staff employed will be determined by the number of people on Universal Credit, itself subject to the prevailing economic situation at the time. Our current estimate for the combined workforce in 2021 is 34,000</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/12/2015 16:09:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 35758 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

429473

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working households in receipt of (a) working tax credit and (b) universal credit have marginal deduction rates of (i) less than 70, (ii) between 70 and 80, (iii) between 80 and 90 and (iv) more than 90 per cent on earned income above the level of the applicable disregard.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	16962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>In 2010 we estimated that in the existing system half a million people had marginal deduction rates of 80% or above. See page 55 of Universal Credit: Welfare that Works report, below:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48897/universal-credit-full-document.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/48897/universal-credit-full-document.pdf</a></p><br /><p>Further information is not available as we have not updated these estimates.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 26/11/2015 16:42:06 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

429456

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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
	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 improve employment support for people who are classed as economically inactive due to long term sickness or disability.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	16994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>In the Autumn Statement on Wednesday 25 November, the Chancellor announced a real terms increase in funding to help people with health conditions and disabilities including those in receipt of the support component of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), return to, and remain in, work.</p><br /><p>Government will be launching a new ‘Work and Health Programme’ - restructuring our current provision so that it provides the best possible support for people with health conditions or disabilities, including those classed as economically inactive due to long term sickness or disability.</p><br /><p>At least £115m of funding will go to the Work and Health Unit, including a work and health innovation fund to test new ways to join up health and employment to help people with disabilities and health conditions to return to and stay in work.</p><br /><p>Government will publish a White Paper in the New Year that will set out further reforms to improve support for people with health conditions and disabilities and further reduce the disability employment gap.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 16955 question first answered 30/11/2015 11:41:27 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

429468

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to improve employment support for people with disabilities who are in receipt of the support component of employment and support allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	16955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>In the Autumn Statement on Wednesday 25 November, the Chancellor announced a real terms increase in funding to help people with health conditions and disabilities including those in receipt of the support component of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), return to, and remain in, work.</p><br /><p>Government will be launching a new ‘Work and Health Programme’ - restructuring our current provision so that it provides the best possible support for people with health conditions or disabilities, including those classed as economically inactive due to long term sickness or disability.</p><br /><p>At least £115m of funding will go to the Work and Health Unit, including a work and health innovation fund to test new ways to join up health and employment to help people with disabilities and health conditions to return to and stay in work.</p><br /><p>Government will publish a White Paper in the New Year that will set out further reforms to improve support for people with health conditions and disabilities and further reduce the disability employment gap.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 16994 question first answered 30/11/2015 11:41:27 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

431820

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people referred to Help to Work since April 2014 have left the scheme after opening a claim for working tax credit.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	17190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><br /><p>The information that is available on Help to Work, on the number of programme referrals and Community Work Placement starts can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-work-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/help-to-work-quarterly-statistics</a></p><br /><p>The latest published information on Help to Work covers the period from April 2014 to June 2015 inclusive.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/11/2015 11:52:20 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

431811

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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, whether participants in Daily Work Search Review under the Help to Work scheme are set quotas for completing a minimum number of job applications.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	17163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>Under Daily Work Search Review claimants need to provide evidence of their work search activity on a daily basis. Their Claimant Commitment will specify their work search activity requirements which can be up to 35 hours a week. The Claimant Commitment is tailored to claimants’ individual circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/11/2015 11:58:36 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

431809

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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, how many hours each week Jobcentre Plus work coaches are expected to spend with each participant in the Mandatory Intervention Regime under the Help to Work scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	17161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The Mandatory Intervention Regime (MIR) under the Help to Work scheme delivers all the employment support measures available through the JCP Offer and, to supplement those, provides more intensive, personalised support through increased work coach interviews. The length, nature and frequency of these additional interviews is determined locally on a case by case basis and may vary over time.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 17162 question first answered 30/11/2015 12:46:32 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry