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1144446

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	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: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the assessment procedure for personal independence payment.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	286200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Since introducing the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Assessment in 2013, we have made significant improvements to our services in response to stakeholder feedback.</p><p>In particular, we have carefully considered and learnt from two independent reviews of PIP as well as the 2018 Work and Pensions Select Committee’s Report on PIP assessments. To offer a transformed service to people with disabilities and health conditions, the DWP Health Transformation Programme will be integrating the services that deliver PIP and WCA from 2021.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/09/2019 11:24:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1144476

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	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	Older Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to support older workers.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	286217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The number of older people in employment is at a record high. There are now 10.6 million workers aged 50 and over in the workforce compared to 9.1 million five years ago. In 2018/19, the employment level for 50+ individuals in the Woking constituency was estimated at 19,300 (Source: Annual Population Survey, NOMIS).</p><p> </p><p>To support older workers to remain and return to the labour market, the Government has removed the Default Retirement Age meaning most people can choose when to retire, and extended the right to request flexible working to all employees with 26 weeks’ continuous service with their employer.</p><p> </p><p>We have appointed a Business Champion for Older Workers to engage and influence employers both strategically and in terms of practical advice.</p><p> </p><p>In February 2017, the UK Government published “Fuller Working Lives: a partnership approach” to set out the role employers, individuals and Government can play in supporting fuller working lives. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/587654/fuller-working-lives-a-partnership-approach.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/587654/fuller-working-lives-a-partnership-approach.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>And in February this year, DWP launched an online web page which brings together money, job and health elements of the mid-life MOT. <a href="https://www.yourpension.gov.uk/mid-life-mot/" target="_blank">https://www.yourpension.gov.uk/mid-life-mot/</a></p><p> </p><p>To support employers, Business in The Community has also created MOT guides that support businesses. <a href="https://age.bitc.org.uk/tools-impact-stories/toolkits" target="_blank">https://age.bitc.org.uk/tools-impact-stories/toolkits</a></p><p> </p><p>For people who simply can’t work, our welfare system will continue to provide a strong safety net, as it does for people of all ages now. We will spend £55 billion [£55.4bn] this year (2019/20) on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions. This is around 2.5% of GDP, and over 6% of government spending, and as a share of GDP, the UK’s public spending is second highest in the G7, bar Germany [OECD 2015 data].</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/09/2019 14:25:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1144491

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	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: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help jobseekers travel to find work.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	286225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/09/2019 16:00:28 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1145035

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2019
	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	Incapacity Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to support long-term incapacity benefit claimants into work.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	287536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government has an ambitious objective to see 1 million more disabled people in work by 2027. We are committed to supporting long-term incapacity benefit claimants into work.</p><p> </p><p>With effect from April 2017, we introduced the Personal Support Package for claimants on Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit throughout the Jobcentre Plus network. This initiative is expanding and improving the help we offer to those with disabilities and health conditions. It offers support for ESA and UC claimants to prepare for, find and enter work, but also ensures that we have enough work coaches and advisers to provide that support.</p><p> </p><p>The Work and Health Programme (WHP) was launched throughout England and Wales on a rolling basis between November 2017 and March 2018 and will provide innovative support for around 275,000 people over five years.</p><p> </p><p>The third set of experimental WHP statistics was published on 30 May 2019, and found that 78% of starts were people with a health condition or disability, 9% were people in an early access priority group and 13% were long-term unemployed. Although it’s still very early in the life of WHP, as of February 2019 3,140 participants had achieved a Job Outcome. From the December 2017 cohort, who had received 14 months of support, 23% have achieved a Job Outcome.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work continues to offer eligible individuals practical advice and a discretionary grant of up to £59,200 per year to fund support above the level of an employer’s statutory obligation to make reasonable adjustments, and this can communication support at interviews for people moving into work.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced in December 2018 that we would be investing more than £40m in the new Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme (IPES), a highly personalised package of support for disabled people who are at least a year away from moving into work. IPES is expected to be in place by the end of 2019 and run for a period of 4 years from the start of the contract. IPES will provide support for around 2,500 starts per year, totalling 10,000 on the programme.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/09/2019 13:21:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1352227

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2021
	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 recent estimate she has made of the number of people who have found employment through the Plan for Jobs skills and employment programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	41862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions will be monitoring and evaluating the Plan for Jobs programmes throughout their implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2020, almost 1.6m people have moved from unemployment to employment from the Universal Credit Intensive Work Search group as shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Movements into employment are available for out-of-work Universal Credit claimants in the Intensive Work Search (Searching for Work) group.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit Into Work Rate, May 2018 to May 2021</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Into Work Rate (Percentages)</p></td><td><p>Into Work Volume (‘000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-18</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-18</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-18</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-18</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-18</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-18</p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-18</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p>9.4</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-19</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-19</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-19</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-19</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-19</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-19</p></td><td><p>10.4</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-19</p></td><td><p>10.4</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-19</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-19</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-20</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-20</p></td><td><p>8.5</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-20</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-20</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-20</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-20</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-20</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-20</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-20</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>136</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-20</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-20</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-20</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-21</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-21</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-21</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-21</p></td><td><p>9.9</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-21</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: The base population for the Into Work measure is UC claimants in the Intensive Work Search (Searching for Work) conditionality group who are not in work or who have a valid fit note in the relevant month. The Into Work rate is the proportion of these claimants who move into work the following month. These rates are calculated from DWP Management Information and are subject to revision. Figures shown here are from data as of August 2021. The Into Work volumes do not align to caseloads in the DWP Universal Credit Official Statistics due to differences in definitions and population filters. Claimants included in the Into Work rate may or may not remain in the Intensive Work Search group or on Universal Credit depending on their level of earnings and other circumstances. Claimants are identified as being in work if they have earnings in HMRC's Real Time Information data, or if they are required to report self-employed earnings. Claimants can be part of the Into Work rate in more than one month if they move in and out of periods of work.</p><p> </p><p>For the latest available information on starts on Kickstart jobs, I refer the honourable member to the answer given for PQ36791 (<a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-20/36791" target="_blank">https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-20/36791</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Employment outcomes are available for Job Entry Targeted Support (JETS) in England and Wales and JETS Scotland, and provided in the table below. It should be noted that JETS provides support for up to six months and many people who have started on the scheme will not yet have had time to achieve an employment outcome.</p><p> </p><p>JETS Starts and Employment Outcomes</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Programme Starts (To End June 2021)</p></td><td><p>Employment Outcomes (To End June 2021)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JETS England and Wales (launched 5 October 2020)</p></td><td><p>132,885</p></td><td><p>24,535</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JETS Scotland (launched 25 January 2021)</p></td><td><p>5,995</p></td><td><p>655</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: JETS data are taken from the Provider Referrals and Payments (PRaP) system. An employment outcome is defined as when an individual achieves £1,000 cumulative earnings within eight months of starting on the programme as identified via HMRC earnings information.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people who have started on Job Finding Support (JFS) and Sector Based Work Academies (SWAPs) provision is provided in the tables below. Employment outcomes for these programmes is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>SWAPs Starts</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1 April 2020 - 31 March 2021</p></td><td><p>64,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2021 - 29 August 2021</p></td><td><p>30,070</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total since April 2020</p></td><td><p>94,570</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes: A SWAP start is defined as the first day of the placement, which is usually the first day of pre-employment training. A start is only recorded where a claimant attended their placement. SWAPs starts data are collected by Jobcentre staff and reflect the number of SWAP starts by claimants in receipt of Universal Credit (UC), Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or Income Support (IS).</p><p> </p><p>JFS Starts</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Starts to JFS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-21</p></td><td><p>1,440</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-21</p></td><td><p>3,465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-21</p></td><td><p>4,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-21</p></td><td><p>2,585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-21</p></td><td><p>4,490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-21</p></td><td><p>4,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-21</p></td><td><p>5,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-21</p></td><td><p>4,265</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>31,455</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes: JFS Starts are taken from the Provider Referrals and Payments (PRaP) system. Starts occur where an initial meeting has taken place and participant has acknowledged receipt of appropriate documents such as the Job Finding Action Plan (JFAP).</p><p> </p><p>Through our Youth Offer we currently have over 115 Youth Hubs physically open to support young people across Great Britain get into work and the ambition is to have 150 open by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/09/2021 12:49:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1436969

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle fraudsters who seek to exploit the benefits system.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	132247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department takes benefit fraud very seriously and is taking a wide range of steps to tackle fraud, as well as seeking to actively prevent it.</p><p>In addition to having dedicated teams to investigate cases of suspected fraud, we continue to invest in innovative measures to combat fraud, focussing wherever possible on preventing it entering the benefit system in the first place.</p><p>To this end, the Department successfully secured additional funding of £613m last year, recognising and supporting the steps we have already made in tackling Fraud and Error, enabling us to make a significant impact towards reducing levels of fraud and error in DWP, more effective collection of debt and providing effective counter fraud operations on a larger scale.</p><p>In particular, it will support the development of several new initiatives to:</p><ul><li>Drive down the level of fraud and error in Universal Credit (UC) through a targeted review of UC claims. This allows us to systematically review stock UC cases to immediately uncover fraud and error and remove it from the system.</li><li>Target hard to collect debt through the formation of a new Debt Enforcement Function.</li><li>Continue our recruitment into the Counter Fraud and Compliance Directorate (CFCD) up to 9,500 FTE so that we can continue to respond quickly and effectively to threats.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Where fraud does enter the benefit system, we take action to recover the money and apply appropriate penalties, including prosecution.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 09/03/2022 11:56:27 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1436971

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2022
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help people who lost their jobs during the covid-19 pandemic back into work.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	132248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to supporting everyone who has been affected by the unprecedented impact of COVID-19. We want everyone who can work to find a job, progress in work, and thrive in the labour market.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic the UK Government has provided over £400 billion to support the economy, including funding for the Plan for Jobs. The Kickstart scheme has provided over 130,000 young people with Kickstart jobs, with many of these securing permanent employment. Alongside this, the Restart Scheme offers a fresh start to those who have been unemployed for over 9 months. The scheme breaks down employment barriers that could potentially prevent jobseekers from finding work.</p><p> </p><p>In January, we launched Way to Work, a national campaign to help half a million job ready claimants on Universal Credit into work by the end of June 2022. We are changing our approach with claimants to an A, B, C approach (Any Job, Better Job, Career) in recognition that the longer a claimant is out of work the harder it can be to find a job. We are building on the success of Kickstart to work more closely with employers to bring them into our jobcentres. We will work with employers to move claimants into work quicker, through recruitment days, job fairs and work trials.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/03/2022 14:50:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord