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385336

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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: Migrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 24 June (HL540), whether they plan to make such assessments in future; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Although data regarding claimant nationality is not currently recorded on benefit payment systems, Universal Credit will record such data, when EEA nationals are able to claim. The Department has no plans to make specific assessments regarding Polish nationals when such data becomes available. However, we will continue to monitor EEA nationals’ access to benefits more generally.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has made clear that further steps are needed to reform welfare to reduce the incentives which have led to mass immigration from the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 11:59:13 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

385316

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many sanctions have been applied to Universal Credit claimants in each month since the roll-out began.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the noble Baroness to the answer I gave on 16 June 2015 to her Question number HL 402:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Baroness Lister of Burtersett :To ask Her Majesty’s Government: </strong>whether they have plans to publish statistics on sanctions imposed under the universal credit scheme as it is brought into effect.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Lord Freud</strong><strong>: </strong>The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are quality assuring data for Universal Credit and formulating a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 11:56:36 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

385209

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Work Programme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people, after two years on the Work Programme, (1) obtained a job, and (2) returned to the jobcentre, in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not collect official statistics on job starts made by Work Programme participants. Information is collected on the job outcomes paid to Work Programme providers for getting people into sustained employment.</p><p> </p><p>The cumulative number of job outcomes paid (June 2011-March 2015) for people who have completed their allotted time on the Work Programme is 344,900.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for the number of people who have returned to the Jobcentre on completing the Work Programme is published by month of completion and can be found in the table below. It should be noted that the first applicable month was May 2013 and data is currently available up to 31 March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Current Work Programme Status</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Completed allotted time: returned to JCP at 104 weeks</p></td><td><p>Completed allotted time: returned to JCP post 104 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-13</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-13</p></td><td><p>58,710</p></td><td><p>8,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-13</p></td><td><p>73,230</p></td><td><p>11,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-13</p></td><td><p>45,160</p></td><td><p>7,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-13</p></td><td><p>43,750</p></td><td><p>7,770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-13</p></td><td><p>44,700</p></td><td><p>8,170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>43,440</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>38,250</p></td><td><p>6,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-14</p></td><td><p>46,440</p></td><td><p>8,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-14</p></td><td><p>40,550</p></td><td><p>7,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-14</p></td><td><p>39,030</p></td><td><p>7,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-14</p></td><td><p>30,530</p></td><td><p>6,030</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-14</p></td><td><p>28,200</p></td><td><p>5,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-14</p></td><td><p>28,800</p></td><td><p>5,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-14</p></td><td><p>30,810</p></td><td><p>5,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-14</p></td><td><p>23,780</p></td><td><p>4,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-14</p></td><td><p>27,720</p></td><td><p>4,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-14</p></td><td><p>27,730</p></td><td><p>3,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>29,630</p></td><td><p>3,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-14</p></td><td><p>24,470</p></td><td><p>2,140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-15</p></td><td><p>30,940</p></td><td><p>2,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>19,810</p></td><td><p>980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-15</p></td><td><p>18,770</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 12:44:05 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

384513

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people they expect to find jobs as a result of the Disability Confident campaign.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <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> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:00:19 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

385303

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Pension Funds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 7 January (HL Deb, col 432), when they plan to consult on improving transparency for pension savers regarding where their money is invested and how rights attached to it are being exercised; and when they plan to consider how secondary legislation could be used to ensure greater transparency for pension savers.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is committed to ensuring greater transparency for pension savers.</p><p> </p><p>From April this year, workplace schemes are required to report on the value delivered by costs and charges in their scheme for the first time. Building on this, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Financial Conduct Authority ran a joint Call for Evidence ‘Transaction Cost Disclosure: Improving Transparency in Workplace Pensions’, considering how transaction costs could be disclosed in a standardised way. This is the first phase of work required to meet duties under Section 44 of the Pensions Act 2014 to require transaction costs to be disclosed to members and others; and transaction costs and administration charges to be published. The Government is currently considering responses to the Call for Evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Transparency is not just about costs and charges. Earlier this year the Government consulted on changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes Investment Regulations requiring trustees to report how they take financial and non-financial factors into account when investing, and their schemes stewardship policy. The Government is currently considering responses to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government intends to consult on any secondary legislation required following these exercises later this year, and will consider what further proposals may be needed to ensure greater transparency for pension savers including consideration both of its duties under the Pensions Act 2014 and the remarks made in debates on 7 January.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:06:11 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

384516

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
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	Families
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Altmann on 22 June, how they have calculated that £1 spent on advice yields approximately £11.50 in savings.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This calculation was derived from an independent review commissioned by the Department for Education.</p><p> </p><p>The information is available in the Department for Education’s Relationship Support Interventions Evaluation, published in 2014. This sets out a detailed explanation of how the savings were calculated using a cost benefit analysis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 13:22:18 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

384517

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to achieve "parity of esteem" between acute and mental health services, both with regard to access and the provision of health services, through the increase in the number of general practitioners in primary care settings.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p><br> We have legislated for parity of esteem between mental and physical health via the Health and Social Care Act 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 2014-15 Mandate to NHS England sets a clear objective for NHS England to deliver parity of esteem. The Mandate also makes clear that ‘everyone who needs it should have timely access to evidence-based [mental health] services’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have invested over £120 million in order to introduce for the first time waiting times standards for a number of mental health services – a very significant milestone on the road to parity.</p><p> </p><p><br> The Government will hold the National Health Service to account for achieving the objectives set out in the NHS Mandate for 2014-15 and the refreshed Mandate for 2015-16.</p><p> </p><p><br> Spending on mental health is estimated to have increased by £302 million in 2014-15, with total mental health spending rising from £11.362 billion in 2013-14 to £11.664 billion planned in 2014-15, an increase of 0.6% in real terms. In the planning requirements for 2015-16, commissioners were required to invest additionally in mental health in line with their increase in allocation. The total planned additional spend is £376 million, an increase of 4.5%.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England published planning guidance for 2015-16 which made the expectation clear that each clinical commissioning group’s (CCGs) spending on mental health services in 2015-16 should increase in real terms, and grow by at least the same percentage as each CCG’s allocation increase.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to increasing the primary and community care workforce to make available 10,000 primary care staff including an estimated 5,000 more doctors working in general practice by 2020. We have backed this commitment with £10 million of funding and a joint plan between NHS England, Health Education England, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the British Medical Association, to increase the GP workforce.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is the annual reward and incentive programme detailing GP practice achievement results. A number of mental health indicators are included in the QOF. It rewards practices for the provision of quality care and helps to standardise improvements in the delivery of clinical care. The mental health indicators help to drive improvements in the care and monitoring of patients with depression, bipolar disorder, psychoses and other mental illnesses.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 06/07/2015 13:20:48 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

384508

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Assets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Gardiner of Kimble on 22 June (HL330), what assets are currently owned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and its non-departmental public bodies; and what prospective asset sales are under review by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
tabling member printed	Baroness Parminter
uin	HL719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>A summary of Defra’s assets and their Net Book Value as at 31 March 2015 will be published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) in due course. Defra’s ARAs are available on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below shows a list of freehold property owned by the Department as at June 2015 which has been identified as a prospective asset sale, together with a summary of the status of the sale. Freehold property is the only category of asset likely to generate any significant sales. The list includes assets owned by Core Defra, its Executive Agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Property Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Post Town </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Comments</strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>GARSTANG VIC</p></td><td><p>Preston</p></td><td><p>Site under review as part of 2015-2020 property plan. Potential disposal 2016/17.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WORCESTER WHITTINGTON ROAD</p></td><td><p>Worcester</p></td><td><p>Site under offer with completion anticipated in January 2016.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TAUNTON QUANTOCK HOUSE</p></td><td><p>Taunton</p></td><td><p>Site under offer with completion expected in July 2015.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BURY ST EDMUNDS</p></td><td><p>Bury St Edmunds</p></td><td><p>Site under offer with completion expected in September 2015.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ITCHEN ABBAS VIC</p></td><td><p>Winchester</p></td><td><p>Site being vacated. Anticipated disposal 2016/17.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ELY ARTHUR RICKWOOD FARM</p></td><td><p>Ely</p></td><td><p>Site under offer. Completion expected by March 2016.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STRATFORD LUDDINGTON VIC</p></td><td><p>Stratford Upon Avon</p></td><td><p>Site vacated and marketing underway. Completion expected by March 2016.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>REACH LODE PITS</p></td><td><p>Upware</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SPORTSMANS PIT</p></td><td><p>Swaffham Bulbeck</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FENCED ACRE CLAY PIT</p></td><td><p>Mepal</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RELIEF CHANNEL</p></td><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - being prepared for market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HUNDRED FOOT RIVER</p></td><td><p>Earith</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HUNDRED FOOT WASHES</p></td><td><p>Sutton</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HAVEN RIVER: FORMER MUSSEL WASHING PLANT</p></td><td><p>Boston</p></td><td><p>Surplus - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LAVENDON MILL</p></td><td><p>Olney</p></td><td><p>Surplus weir – currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RIVER ANT (LUDHAM BRIDGE)</p></td><td><p>Great Yarmouth</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - not on the market yet. Plan to dispose in 2017/18.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STEEPING RIVER &amp; WAINFLEET</p></td><td><p>Saints, Lincs</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - under offer.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RIVER GLAVEN CLEY NEXT THE SEA</p></td><td><p>Holt</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - under offer.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>THE SHANTY</p></td><td><p>Gloucester</p></td><td><p>Surplus part of Flood Alleviation Scheme - not on the market -planned for 2017/18.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BECKINGHAM MARSHES</p></td><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>Surplus part of Flood Alleviation Scheme - under offer.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OLD RIVER DRAIN</p></td><td><p>Scunthorpe</p></td><td><p>Surplus part of Flood Alleviation Scheme - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HULL PLOT 38, WATTON NATURE RESERVE</p></td><td><p>Driffield</p></td><td><p>Surplus nature reserve – currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 GREAT CULVERT P.S. HOUSE</p></td><td><p>Hull</p></td><td><p>Surplus house - being prepared for market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 TICKTON P.S. HOUSE</p></td><td><p>Beverley</p></td><td><p>Surplus house - being prepared for market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2 TICKTON P.S. HOUSE</p></td><td><p>Beverley</p></td><td><p>Surplus house - being prepared for market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 INGS LANE, RICCALL</p></td><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>Surplus house - being prepared for market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>KILLINGTON R. LUNE BROADRAINE</p></td><td><p>Sedbergh</p></td><td><p>Surplus fishing rights - under offer.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SLAIDBURN WITCHER WELL DUNSOP</p></td><td><p>Clitheroe</p></td><td><p>Surplus fish hatchery - being prepared for market.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>46 BANKS ROAD, CROSSENS</p></td><td><p>Southport</p></td><td><p>Surplus house - currently being marketed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FERRING RIFE, HIGHDOWN WAY</p></td><td><p>Worthing</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - plan to market in 2016/17.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FERRING RIFE, LANGBURY LANE</p></td><td><p>Worthing</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - plan to market in 2016/17.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FERRING RIFE, OVAL WAYE</p></td><td><p>Worthing</p></td><td><p>Surplus land - plan to market in 2016/17.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LIME KILN COTTAGE</p></td><td><p>Rye</p></td><td><p>Surplus nature reserve - negotiations underway.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 06/07/2015 14:13:32 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4178 label Biography information for Baroness Parminter

384505

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector Debt
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of recent research by the Taxpayers' Alliance indicating that the United Kingdom's true national debt is £8.6 trillion.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>According to the latest <em>Public Sector Finances</em> release (May 2015) produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Public Sector Net Debt (PSND) stands at £1.5 trillion. This is the government’s usual measure of debt, and the measure on the basis of which the official forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) are produced.</p><p> </p><p>The number quoted by the Taxpayers’ Alliance includes many future and government liabilities not generally included in debt figures and it does not include corresponding future assets, physical assets, illiquid financial assets or future revenues.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 06/07/2015 16:44:24 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

384512

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what systems are in place to assess and evaluate the new pension freedoms.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>As part of their Retirement Income Market Study, the Financial Conduct Authority have committed to monitoring the retirement market in order to assess consumer behaviour and outcomes; and to use their wide-ranging powers to intervene where necessary. The Treasury will also be consulting in July to ensure that people are treated fairly when moving their pension to a company that offers them flexible options and are not charged excessive early exit penalties.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 06/07/2015 16:38:25 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley