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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2017-04-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total amount of housing benefit claimed was in Bolsover constituency in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/348496/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>In the last 12 months there has been an increase of 238,000 disabled people in work. That is really positive, but there is more to do.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>We have been very clear that the gap between the employment rates of disabled people and non-disabled people remains too big and have committed to halving it.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Government cannot achieve this ambition alone so we are working closely with disabled people, their organisations, employers and employment support providers to develop our strategy to enable more disabled people to get into, remain in and progress in work.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Disability Confident Campaign, which actively promotes the Access to Work scheme, is key to supporting employers in working with Government to halve the disability employment gap.<\/p>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/542", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Touhig"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4308", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/350105/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p>The information as requested is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.<\/p>"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-11", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Prescribed Industrial Diseases"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government how many claims they have received for Prescribed Disease C3b in the last 10 years; and of these, how many were allowed.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1861", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for The Countess of Mar"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/350106", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/350106/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p>The 1991 Health and Safety Executive (HSE) report presented the findings of a 1990 survey of sheep dipping and was published by HSE as an internal document in May 1991.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The report was discussed at a meeting of the then Health and Safety Commission\u2019s Agricultural Industry Advisory Committee (AIAC) working group, Chemicals In Agriculture (ChemAg), on 10 July 1991. The ChemAg working group membership included HSE, the Confederation of British Industry, the Trades Union Congress and other industry organisations.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4533", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Altmann"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Baroness Altmann"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-11", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the statement by George Eustice, Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on 10 June (HC Deb, col 136WH), who published the 1991 Health and Safety Executive report of an inquiry into sheep dipping; and to whom it was distributed.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1861", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for The Countess of Mar"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "The Countess of Mar"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/381048/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p>The information requested is available from the attached Impact Assessment for the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme which was published in March 2014 and sets out the anticipated levels of claims over the first 10 years of the scheme.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The scheme has now been running since April 2014 with payments being made from July 2014. We will publish statistics on the number of claims made in 2014/15 in due course, and consider a review of the estimates made in the Impact Assessment in light of this data.<\/p>"}
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          , "title" : "Impact Assessment for Mesothelioma Payment Scheme"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-06-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what estimate they have made of (1) the number of people who have received compensation under the terms of the Mesothelioma Act 2014 since the Act came into effect, and (2) the number of people projected to receive compensation in each of the next three years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/260", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Wills"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/384513/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<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>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4303", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/384514/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Court rejected two of the three legal grounds brought by the claimants, finding that their human rights had not been breached and not awarding damages.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Where the Court found that the historic delay for the two claimants was unlawful, they also ruled that they are not \u201ctest cases\u201d and it would be inappropriate to make wider findings.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Court accepted that the Government had made significant improvements to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) process and there are now no inherent failings in the system.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>As a result of these improvements, the average time taken for a claimant to be assessed by an assessment provider has fallen by more than three quarters since June 2014. In April 2015, the average new claimant was waiting 5 weeks for their PIP assessment \u2013 well within the 16 week target set by the Secretary of State.<\/p>"}
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