The Department does not hold this information.<\/p>
<\/strong><\/p> However, in 2015/16 1000 former Servicemen and woman were receiving Armed Forces Independence Payment.<\/p> <\/p> The Information can be found in the following link - Outturn and forecast: Spring Budget 2017 (ODS)<\/a> Table 1c<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former service men and women were in receipt of personal independence payments in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720808/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Two recruitment exercises were undertaken for the board of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 2015/16, to recruit a Chair and six Non-Executive Directors (NED). For the Chair post we received 26 applications and for the NED posts we received 213 applications.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications the board of the Health and Safety Executive received during its last intake.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720809", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720809/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " We have promoted Access to Work as part of Disability Confident, and will continue to do so. Disability Confident gives employers the tools and advice they need to think differently about disability and to take action to recruit, retain and develop disabled workers.<\/p> <\/p> We are also undertaking further marketing and promotion of the Access to Work programme. This includes working with stakeholders and partners and employer associations to raise awareness through communications to their customers and ensuring advisers who work with potential customers, including Jobcentre Plus, health professionals and advisory groups, have the information and tools to act as advocates.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department plans to take to promote the uptake of the Access to Work programme with (a) employers and (b) employees.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4478", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Royston Smith"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720814/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Department is actively promoting the employment potential of all disabled people across Britain, including those with autism, to employers via the Disability Confident Scheme. To further support employers, the Hidden Impairments National Group, established by DWP, provides an \u201cUncovering Hidden Impairment toolkit\u201d which is free of charge to employers.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will launch a national programme to promote the employment potential of autistic people to employers.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will record the number of autistic people in employment as part of the Labour Force Survey; and what steps his Department has taken to ensure that autistic people are benefitting from increased employment rates.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720817/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The information requested is not available.<\/p>"}
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}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, following the accepting of an appeal against a personal independence payment award, how many claimants (a) are offered a revised decision by his Department prior to the appeal being heard, (b) accept the revised decision leading to the appeal lapsing, (c) reject the revised decision and continue with the appeal and (d) accept the revised decision leading to the appeal lapsing and subsequently lodge an appeal against the revised decision; and how many appeals were considered lapsed in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4465", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ronnie Cowan"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720848/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The data available in relation to this question is the Actual Average Clearance Time (AACT) which is the average number of working Days (excludes weekends and English Bank Holidays) between an application being made and the date the customer was notified of the decision on their claim.<\/p> <\/p> The AACT for Carers Allowance Claims for the Financial Year which runs from April 16 to March 17 is 21.5 days<\/p> <\/p> The AACT for Attendance Allowance Normal Rules Claims for the Financial Year which runs from April 16 to March 17 is 19.3 days<\/p> <\/p> The AACT for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claims for the Financial year which runs from April 16 to March 17 is 7.9 days<\/p> <\/p> The Department has no plans to publish these statistics on a quarterly basis.<\/p> <\/p> Sources:<\/p> Attendance Allowance Computer System (AACS)<\/p> Carers Allowance Computer System (CACS)<\/p> Management Information System Programme (MISP). MISP is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time is for claims of (a) employment and support allowance, (b) carer's allowance and (c) attendance allowance; and what plans his Department has to publish that data on a quarterly basis.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720852", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/720852/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " An estimate of the overall cost to the public purse of paying Carer\u2019s Allowance to those claimants with an underlying entitlement, but not receiving a payment, is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.<\/p> <\/p> Expenditure on Carer\u2019s Allowance is published within the Benefit Expenditure and Caseload Tables 2017 \u2013 available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2017<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Official statistics on the number of people (i) receiving a payment for Carer\u2019s Allowance and (ii) have an underlying entitlement to Carer\u2019s Allowance are available within Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Guidance for users is available at: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of paying carer's allowance to all those eligible for that benefit, including those with an underlying entitlement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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