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1306928

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 her Department's Official Statistics entitled Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2020 (experimental), published on 23 February 2021, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the reduction in the use of benefit sanctions since March 2020 on trends in the number of social security benefit claimants seeking help from food banks in that time period.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	178578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>We have not made any assessment of the effect of the reduction in use of benefit sanctions since March 2020 and have no plans to do so.</p><p> </p><p>We cannot isolate the effect of the reduction in the use of benefit sanctions as this has coincided with other changes to conditionality that took place over the same period, for example the three-month suspension of work search and availability requirements and the suspension of face-to-face claimant appointments. Together with the highly atypical economic circumstances we have experienced over this period, this would make any such assessment unreliable.</p><p> </p><p>Work Coaches will continue to work with claimants to ensure claimant commitments are reasonable for claimants’ circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 178579 178581 179104 question first answered 20/04/2021 13:40:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1306929

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 her Department's Official Statistics entitled Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2020 (experimental), published on 23 February 2021, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the reduction in the use of benefit sanctions since March 2020 on social security benefit claimants' (a) work search activity and (b) willingness to take up employment in that time period.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	178579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>We have not made any assessment of the effect of the reduction in use of benefit sanctions since March 2020 and have no plans to do so.</p><p> </p><p>We cannot isolate the effect of the reduction in the use of benefit sanctions as this has coincided with other changes to conditionality that took place over the same period, for example the three-month suspension of work search and availability requirements and the suspension of face-to-face claimant appointments. Together with the highly atypical economic circumstances we have experienced over this period, this would make any such assessment unreliable.</p><p> </p><p>Work Coaches will continue to work with claimants to ensure claimant commitments are reasonable for claimants’ circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 178578 178581 179104 question first answered 20/04/2021 13:40:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1306930

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 her Department's Official Statistics entitled Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2020 (experimental), published on 23 February 2021, what plans her Department has to conduct a full evaluation of the lessons that can be learnt from the period of running the social security system with little use of such sanctions.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	178581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>We have not made any assessment of the effect of the reduction in use of benefit sanctions since March 2020 and have no plans to do so.</p><p> </p><p>We cannot isolate the effect of the reduction in the use of benefit sanctions as this has coincided with other changes to conditionality that took place over the same period, for example the three-month suspension of work search and availability requirements and the suspension of face-to-face claimant appointments. Together with the highly atypical economic circumstances we have experienced over this period, this would make any such assessment unreliable.</p><p> </p><p>Work Coaches will continue to work with claimants to ensure claimant commitments are reasonable for claimants’ circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 178578 178579 179104 question first answered 20/04/2021 13:40:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1307018

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Jobcentres: Bromsgrove
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support she is providing to Bromsgrove Jobs Centre to help unemployed people in Bromsgrove District.
tabling member constituency	Bromsgrove
tabling member printed	Sajid Javid
uin	179012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>Through our Plan for Jobs, the Department is providing broad ranging support for all jobseekers. Currently, support includes the Kickstart scheme, Job Finding Support, Sector Based Work Academy Programmes (SWAP) and Job Entry Targeted Support. In addition, the Work and Heath Programme, and Intensive Personalised Employment Support, is available to support to support disabled people and people with long term health conditions, to enter and stay in work.</p><p> </p><p>To support the long term unemployed, £2.9 billion is being invested in the Restart Programme, which is due to go live from summer 2021. The Restart Programme will support individuals who have been unemployed for at least 12 months and through regular, personalised support providers will work with participants to identify the best way to support them into sustained employment. We have also increased the number of Work Coaches, by 13,500 nationally, to support Claimants - with 368 joining our Mercia District by the end of April, including 4 based at Bromsgrove Jobcentre.</p><p> </p><p>Bromsgrove Jobcentre has strong partnership links with the Local Authority with partnership representation on housing, financial inclusion and claimant support forums at both district and county level. It also has strong relations with local providers such as New Starts who have provided laptops to assist with online courses during the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Jobcentre team are engaging with Kickstart employers and Gateway organisations to support our younger customers move closer to employment, and have partnered with local employers and organisations to deliver a number of successful Sector Based Work Academy Programmes, across multiple sectors, which are available to all claimants irrespective of age or length of unemployment.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2021 16:16:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid

1307045

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 her Department's Official Statistics entitled Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2020 (experimental), published on 23 February 2021, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the reduction in the use of benefit sanctions since March 2020 on the mental health of social security benefit claimants in that time period.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	179104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>We have not made any assessment of the effect of the reduction in use of benefit sanctions since March 2020 and have no plans to do so.</p><p> </p><p>We cannot isolate the effect of the reduction in the use of benefit sanctions as this has coincided with other changes to conditionality that took place over the same period, for example the three-month suspension of work search and availability requirements and the suspension of face-to-face claimant appointments. Together with the highly atypical economic circumstances we have experienced over this period, this would make any such assessment unreliable.</p><p> </p><p>Work Coaches will continue to work with claimants to ensure claimant commitments are reasonable for claimants’ circumstances.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 178578 178579 178581 question first answered 20/04/2021 13:40:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1307089

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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 her Department's Official Statistics entitled Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2020 (experimental), published on 23 February 2021, how many and what proportion of the 4,628 universal credit claimants under sanction in November 2020 had been continuously under such sanctions for more than seven months.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	178652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2021 13:31:37 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1307254

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Carcinogens: Health and Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to apply the EU Directive 2019/130 on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens from February 2023.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	179606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>EU Directive 2019/130 is the second phase of amendments to the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (CMD) 2004/37/EC. While there is no legal obligation for the Government to apply the Directive, we will continue to have a system for setting workplace exposure limits in Great Britain (GB) to ensure worker protection and will consider, and apply as appropriate, relevant limits as part of this.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2021 15:00:08 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1307801

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Health and Safety: Coronavirus
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 number of companies that have received workplace inspections in respect of covid-19 from the Health and Safety Executive to date.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	179465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>HSE’s recording systems do not readily allow the number of companies inspected to be identified. To do so would require HSE officials to manually retrieve the data, which would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p>An estimate of the number of companies inspected can be derived from the number of COVID-19 spot checks carried out, although there will be instances where a company has been inspected more than once where they have multiple sites e.g. a construction company may have more than one of their construction sites inspected.</p><p>Since March 2020, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has carried out a programme of interventions to check how businesses are implementing measures to reduce transmission of COVID-19 at their sites.</p><p>As at 15 April 2021, HSE has completed 194,641 COVID-19 spot checks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Whenever HSE visits a workplace, irrespective of the purpose of the visit it always reviews COVID-19 control measures and if needed will take appropriate action to address any control failings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>(i) Figures represent interventions across all sectors, including both public and private sector duty holders.</p><p> </p><p>(ii) Figures were obtained from HSE’s live operational database and are subject to change, e.g., as there can be a delay of up to ten working days before information is uploaded onto the system.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2021 16:17:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1307996

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Rapid Response Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason rapid response funding does not cover retraining for those who have been made redundant.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	179078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>Rapid Response Service can fund training on a case by case basis in supporting people serving their notice period, whether from compulsory redundancy or other workforce measures such as an early release scheme. They can access:</p><p> </p><ul><li>information, advice and guidance</li><li>non-vocational training to move a person closer to employment</li><li>help to assess transferable skills in relation to the local labour market by conducting a skills transfer analysis</li><li>vocational training to address skills needs</li><li>other RRS funded support to help overcome barriers to getting a job or starting self-employment</li></ul><p> </p><p>Those who don’t find alternative employment before losing their job can access the same support as those under notice of redundancy for a period of 13 weeks. This is whether they make a claim for benefit or not.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2021 15:09:33 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1308057

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Unemployment: Ethnic Groups
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 Office for National Statistics' labour market statistics data published in February 2021, what steps she is taking to tackle the disproportionate rise in unemployment among (a) Black African, (b) Black Caribbean and (c) Black British people compared to white people in the UK from 2019 to 2020.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	179346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to levelling up and uniting the country, including improving the employment outcomes of people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Throughout these unprecedented times the Government has provided a crucial safety net to record levels of claimants, ensuring all our customers receive the support they need, when they need it.</p><p> </p><p>We have focussed on providing financial and extensive support through our Plan for Jobs. This will protect, support and create jobs, targeting young people, the long term unemployed, and those in need of new training and skills. The Plan for Jobs includes the Kickstart scheme, an expanded youth offer, and the expansion of the Work and Health Programme, all offering new support to those, including those from ethnic minority backgrounds, who lose their job during the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also considering the recommendations on how to increase opportunity and ensure fairness for all made in the recent independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 20/04/2021 15:03:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill