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520770

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	EU Globalisation Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government has applied to the European Commission Globalisation Adjustment Fund; and whether each such application was successful.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	37786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK has not made any applications to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).</p><p> </p><p>The European Globalisation Fund (EGF) provides a financial contribution for active labour market measures, aimed at reintegrating those made or at risk of being made redundant in the labour market. EGF Regulations state that these measures must complement actions at national, regional and local level.</p><p> </p><p>The EGF Regulations also set out strict criteria and eligibility for potential applicants with regards to the number of redundancies that take place over a given period of time and the link between these redundancies and globalisation or the global financial and economic crisis.</p><p> </p><p>The UK already offers a broad range of personalised support to workers made redundant through its Rapid Response Service and Jobcentre Plus, which could therefore not be duplicated or substituted by EGF.</p><p> </p><p>The Rapid Response Service and the Jobcentre Plus Core Offer are effective reintegration tools which represent good value for money and are our primary and most effective means of response to support the industry.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills also announced packages of support worth up to £80 million for SSI in Redcar.</p><p> </p><p>It has, therefore, not been necessary to make an application for EGF funding to provide complementary support.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 37808 37810 question first answered 26/05/2016 15:59:48 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

520945

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK: Redcar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the Government did not apply to the European Globalisation Fund to secure financial support for those affected by the closure of SSI Redcar in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	37808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK has not made any applications to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).</p><p> </p><p>The European Globalisation Fund (EGF) provides a financial contribution for active labour market measures, aimed at reintegrating those made or at risk of being made redundant in the labour market. EGF Regulations state that these measures must complement actions at national, regional and local level.</p><p> </p><p>The EGF Regulations also set out strict criteria and eligibility for potential applicants with regards to the number of redundancies that take place over a given period of time and the link between these redundancies and globalisation or the global financial and economic crisis.</p><p> </p><p>The UK already offers a broad range of personalised support to workers made redundant through its Rapid Response Service and Jobcentre Plus, which could therefore not be duplicated or substituted by EGF.</p><p> </p><p>The Rapid Response Service and the Jobcentre Plus Core Offer are effective reintegration tools which represent good value for money and are our primary and most effective means of response to support the industry.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills also announced packages of support worth up to £80 million for SSI in Redcar.</p><p> </p><p>It has, therefore, not been necessary to make an application for EGF funding to provide complementary support.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 37786 37810 question first answered 26/05/2016 15:59:48 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

520946

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	EU Globalisation Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria the Government considers before making an application to the European Globalisation Fund.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	37810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK has not made any applications to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).</p><p> </p><p>The European Globalisation Fund (EGF) provides a financial contribution for active labour market measures, aimed at reintegrating those made or at risk of being made redundant in the labour market. EGF Regulations state that these measures must complement actions at national, regional and local level.</p><p> </p><p>The EGF Regulations also set out strict criteria and eligibility for potential applicants with regards to the number of redundancies that take place over a given period of time and the link between these redundancies and globalisation or the global financial and economic crisis.</p><p> </p><p>The UK already offers a broad range of personalised support to workers made redundant through its Rapid Response Service and Jobcentre Plus, which could therefore not be duplicated or substituted by EGF.</p><p> </p><p>The Rapid Response Service and the Jobcentre Plus Core Offer are effective reintegration tools which represent good value for money and are our primary and most effective means of response to support the industry.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills also announced packages of support worth up to £80 million for SSI in Redcar.</p><p> </p><p>It has, therefore, not been necessary to make an application for EGF funding to provide complementary support.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 37786 37808 question first answered 26/05/2016 15:59:49 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

519335

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the taper arrangements will be for the proposed phasing in of EU migrants' entitlement to in-work benefits.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	37077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the February European Council Conclusions. The restrictions on in-work benefits will apply to each newly arriving EU worker for a period of four years from the commencement of employment, with the limitation tapered “from an initial complete exclusion but gradually increasing access to such benefits to take account of the growing connection of the work with the labour market of the host Member State”. Precise details are a matter for the implementation of the proposal, and further announcements will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 26/05/2016 15:56:10 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

519381

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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: National Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of people having to travel more than one hour to attend a jobcentre plus office in order to obtain a National Insurance number in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	37202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the number of people having to travel more than one hour to attend a Jobcentre Plus office in order to obtain a National Insurance number in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 23/05/2016 16:40:38 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

515022

registered interest
date	22/04/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many infraction proceedings the EU has initiated against his Department in each of the last 10 years; what the reasons were for each such proceeding being undertaken; and what the outcome was of each such proceeding.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	35203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is publicly available on the website of the European Commission where the infringement cases for each member state can be found. This includes the infringement and the decision. These records go back to 2002 and can be found <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/applying-eu-law/infringements-proceedings/infringement_decisions/index.cfm?lang_code=EN&amp;r_dossier=&amp;decision_date_from=01%2F04%2F2006&amp;decision_date_to=01%2F04%2F2016&amp;EM=UK&amp;title=&amp;submit=Search" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/applying-eu-law/infringements-proceedings/infringement_decisions/?lang_code=en" target="_blank"><strong>http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/applying-eu-law/infringements-proceedings/infringement_decisions/?lang_code=en</strong></a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 29/04/2016 13:45:30 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

513103

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will (a) commission research to estimate the number of people from other EU member states who receive (i) in-work and (ii) out of work benefits in the UK; and if he will publish that information before 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	34063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>There are no current plans to conduct the analyses listed.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 34064 34065 34066 question first answered 21/04/2016 14:17:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

513104

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Housing Benefit: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will (a) commission research to estimate the number of people from other EU member states who receive housing benefit and (b) publish that information before 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	34064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>There are no current plans to conduct the analyses listed.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 34063 34065 34066 question first answered 21/04/2016 14:17:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

513105

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will (a) commission research to estimate the number of people from other EU member-states who receive universal credit and (b) publish that information before 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	34065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>There are no current plans to conduct the analyses listed.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 34063 34064 34066 question first answered 21/04/2016 14:17:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

513106

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will (a) commission research to estimate the number of people from other EU member states who receive support through the Work Programme and (b) publish that information before 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	34066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>There are no current plans to conduct the analyses listed.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 34063 34064 34065 question first answered 21/04/2016 14:17:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen