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1082587

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Local Housing Allowance: Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of the Local Housing Allowance freeze on levels of rough sleeping.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	229224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made to date on the effect of the Local Housing Allowance freeze on levels of rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/03/2019 15:55:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1082710

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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	Social Security Benefits: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 June 2018 to Question 153188, Common Travel Area, whether the Government's commitment to reciprocal Common Travel Area rights to social welfare entitlements and benefits for Irish nationals will encompass all social security provision currently accessible to Irish nationals in the UK under EU free movement rights.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	229266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>This Government is committed to preserving the reciprocal social security rights of UK and Irish nationals established through the Common Travel Area arrangements and currently provided under EU law. The Government signed an agreement on social security with Ireland on 1 February which, subject to ratification, will ensure that Irish and UK nationals residing and/or working in the UK or Ireland do not lose their rights to social security benefits as a result of the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p>The agreement was laid for consideration by Parliament on 12 February as Command Paper 49, in accordance with section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/03/2019 18:04:57 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1082301

registered interest
date	05/03/2019
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	Occupational Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the average cost to an employer of contracting a physician-led occupational health service.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	228635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment that would specifically address this question.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the Government’s 2017 Command Paper ‘Improving Lives; the future of work, health and disability’ we have commissioned research to better understand occupational health provision. Findings are due to be published in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We have worked with a wide range of stakeholders, including through our Occupational Health Expert Group, to shape measures to improve access to high quality occupational health. We will set out our proposals in a consultation exercise in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 228634 question first answered 13/03/2019 16:05:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1079344

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
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	Private Rented Housing: Natural Gas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the number of private landlords who do not conduct annual gas safety inspections; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	227044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Landlords are required by the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 to maintain their gas installations in a safe condition and to arrange annual safety checks, by Gas Safe registered engineers, of any appliances and flues that they provide for their tenants’ use.</p><p> </p><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) takes action against landlords who fail to meet this duty in line with the domestic gas events and enforcement advice (<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/400-499/440_30.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/400-499/440_30.htm</a>) and HSE’s enforcement policy statement and enforcement management model (<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/enforcement.htm</a>) which is proportionate, targeted, consistent, transparent and accountable.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/03/2019 12:38:57 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1077516

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
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: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce a central employment forum for people on the Autistic Spectrum, to match skill sets and employer needs.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	226195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>We have no plans to introduce a central employment forum for people on the Autistic Spectrum. However, Disability Confident employers who use the Find a Job service to advertise jobs can now add a searchable Disability Confident tag to their vacancies. This allows disabled people to find Disability Confident employers who are offering jobs that match their skills. Over 10,500 employers have signed up to Disability Confident, and their number continues to grow.</p><p> </p><p>Overall, improving employment opportunities for people with learning difficulties, including those on the Autism Spectrum, disability is a Government priority. We take a life course approach, working with other Departments to tackle barriers to employment that start early in life.</p><p> </p><p>For example:</p><ul><li>DWP is exploring ways to improve our support to this group through a Local Supported Employment proof of concept, which is being tested in nine local authorities.</li><li>The new Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, which is rolling out this year, will provide highly personalised packages of employment support for people who are at least a year away from moving into work, including those with the Autism Spectrum Disorder.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We are also running a number of local initiatives in jobcentres, such as:</p><ul><li>Calm and Quiet sessions in North London, where autistic people and their family members or carers have an opportunity to discuss with trained staff opportunities to move into or towards employment.</li><li>In Northumberland, Tyne &amp; Wear, we have contracted with two local organisations to provide 40 places each to support autistic people in developing employment skills, giving careers advice based on local demographics and the individual's employment expectations.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/03/2019 16:20:44 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1051454

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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	Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the Government's timescale is for (a) acknowledging the concluding observations from the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and (b) responding to that convention's recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	214659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is committed to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and to the progressive realisation of the rights for disabled people that it sets out.</p><p> </p><p>We have provided our first report to the UN Committee as requested. We published this report on 6 September 2018. This report and accompanying ministerial letter setting out the UK's progress are available on GOV.UK website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disabled-peoples-rights-information-following-the-uks-first-periodic-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disabled-peoples-rights-information-following-the-uks-first-periodic-review</a></p><p> </p><p>I tabled a Written Statement (HCWS938) on 6 September 2018, providing an update on the UK’s follow-up response to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-09-06/HCWS938" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-09-06/HCWS938</a></p><p> </p><p>We will be responding to the recommendations in the Concluding Observations during our next periodic review, currently scheduled for 2023. In the meantime, we will be preparing in due course, as recommended by the UN Committee, a progress update on the 2016 inquiry recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/02/2019 12:57:03 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1050433

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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	Universal Credit: Civil Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions each local authority has been subject to legal action for the provision of inaccurate advice on universal credit to claimants in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	213888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will respond to any questions relating to Universal Credit policy if asked to do so by local authorities. However, DWP would have no wider role to play in, and would collect no data in relation to, legal challenges brought against individual local authorities as a result of their advice about Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 04/02/2019 18:07:48 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1045772

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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	Mental Health: First Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the Backbench Business Committee debate on Mental Health First Aid on 17 January 2019 Official Report columns 1366-1395, what steps her Department is taking to ensure employers are aware of the the Health and Safety Executive's guidelines on existing requirements to consider mental health alongside physical health when undertaking a first aid needs assessment, published in November 2018.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	210679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>On the 21 November 2018 the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published revised guidance for employers on compliance with the existing Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 (<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/firstaid/needs-assessment.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/firstaid/needs-assessment.htm</a>). HSE developed this revised guidance with Mental Health First Aid-England to clarify and increase employer understanding that mental health should already be considered alongside physical health when undertaking a first aid needs assessment. The findings from this assessment will help direct employers to decide what measures they need to put in place. There are a range of actions that employers can undertake, but their choice should be guided by the outcomes of their first aid needs assessment and will depend on factors such as employee needs, the type of work and size of company.</p><p> </p><p>HSE has communicated this clarified guidance directly to key stakeholders involved in the design and delivery of first aid at work training courses.</p><p> </p><p>HSE is also taking opportunities to raise awareness through existing activity under its Health and Work programme, where preventing work-related mental ill health is a key priority. There is also related wider government activity led by the Joint DWP/DHSC Work and Health Unit to promote mental health core standards from the Lord Stevenson and Paul Farmer ‘Thriving at Work’ review published in October 2017, to help employers implement a comprehensive approach to managing mental health in the workplace.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/01/2019 14:51:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010730

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Johnston Press: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,what the Pension Protection Fund has determined the value of Johnston Press pension deficit to be.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	193593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Johnston Press Pension Plan is currently in the Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) assessment period, where it will be assessed whether the scheme’s funding level is sufficient to secure pensions to its members at least equal to the level of compensation the PPF would pay. If the scheme’s funding is not sufficient, then it will transfer into the PPF and compensation will be paid at 100 per cent for individuals over their scheme’s retirement age at the date of the insolvency, and 90 per cent of the member’s accrued benefits, subject to an overall cap for everyone else. Benefits accrued post 1997 will be linked to PPF indexation going forward.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>There are around 5,000 pension scheme members who will be affected.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator and the PPF are working together with the administrators to understand the circumstances surrounding the sale and its implications for the Johnston Press Pension Plan.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/11/2018 14:41:05 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

1007689

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment the Government has made of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit on women.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	907643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit treats all individuals equally, irrespective of gender. It provides one-to-one support and incentives to help claimants to progress in work.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Office for National Statistics labour market statistics show a near record high rate for women in employment.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 15/11/2018 15:28:41 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson