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427542

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of people in receipt of the carer's credit and (b) the total cost of the carer's credit scheme in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	15934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested for Carers Credit is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 13:59:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

427840

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of people in receipt of the Carer's Allowance and (b) the total cost of the Carer's Allowance scheme in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	16066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Benefit expenditure and the number of people in receipt of Carer’s Allowance at a Great Britain level are available in our published expenditure tables which are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 13:22:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

427844

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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 and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have flowed off employment and support allowance with a work capability assessment decision of fit for work since 2011; and how many such people's death was at the same time as defined in the document Mortality Statistics: Employment and support allowance, incapacity benefit or severe disability allowance, published in August 2015.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	15942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The information as requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 16044 question first answered 16/11/2015 13:55:43 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

427849

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cumulative loss of pension income to women born in the 1950s following the increase in state pension age in the Pensions Act 2011; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	16036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Impacts as a result of increases in State Pension age set in Pensions Act 2011 are presented in Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment, published in November 2011, available at: <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf</a></p><p>This included a gender impact assessment in annex A which found that while some aspects of the Pensions Act 2011 provisions will impact women more strongly than men, the impact is not disproportionate and is a consequence of closing the gender gap in State Pension age earlier than under current plans. Women who work for longer have the opportunity to improve their pension provision placing them in a better position to fund their retirement.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 12:55:48 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

427850

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Welfare State: Productivity
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 document Fixing the Foundations: Creating a more prosperous nation, Cm 9098, if he will publish his Department's analysis that links reform of the welfare system to increasing the UK's productivity.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	16037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Paper, Fixing the Foundations: creating a more prosperous economy focuses not on the link between welfare reforms and productivity but instead on how ‘a productive economy must make the most of its labour force and effectively mobilise people into jobs’.</p><p>The UK is making the most of its labour force and is mobilising people into jobs. The latest figures show that the employment rate rose this quarter to a new record high of 73.7%. There are now a record 31.2 million people in work.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2015 15:04:57 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

427855

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people flowed off IB/SDA with a work capability assessment decision of fit for work since December 2011; and how many such people's death was at the same time defined in Mortality Statistics: Employment and support allowance, incapacity benefit or severe disability allowance, published in August 2015.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	16044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The information as requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 15942 question first answered 16/11/2015 13:55:43 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

427859

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Offshore Industry: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many safety case assessments the Health and Safety Executive has received from installation operators in the oil and gas sector in each of the last three years; and what the rate of compliance of that sector is with the provision of the EU Directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	15798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>HSE received Safety Case submissions from UK Continental Shelf oil and gas installation operators as follows: 2012 – 187; 2013 – 183; 2014 – 223; 2015 (to 11/11/2015) – 223. These figures include submissions required by statute for new installations, and material changes or summaries of thorough reviews of existing safety cases.</p><br /><p>The 223 submissions received so far in 2015 include 53 cases required for compliance with the provisions of the EU Directive.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 14:36:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

427860

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Offshore Industry: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many improvement notices have been issued by Health and Safety Executive inspectors to operators of offshore oil and gas installations in 2015-16; and what proportion of those notices were issued in response to maintenance matters.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	15799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Twenty three Improvement Notices have been issued to offshore operators in the period April 15 to date. Of these, four were related to maintenance.</p><p>Please note that the rationale used for answering the question is as follows:</p><p>• The question specifies Improvement Notices, and so Prohibition Notices have not been considered;<br>• The total includes all notices served in respect of the offshore oil and gas industry, and includes pipelines and diving where relevant;<br>• Offshore windfarms, withdrawn notices, and notices currently under appeal, or where an appeal has been upheld have been excluded;<br>• Maintenance has been taken to include notices in relation to maintenance systems, failures to maintain (includes work equipment and fabric integrity), and maintenance backlogs (generally criteria for deferring maintenance of Safety Critical Elements etc);</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 14:55:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

427862

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Offshore Industry: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in the Health and Safety Executive have worked on processing safety case assessments from installation operators in the oil and gas industry in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	15820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>A part of the work of all inspectors and support staff working on offshore issues involves the processing of Offshore Safety Cases; scientists and others working at the Health and Safety Laboratories also contribute. From 2010 onwards representative annual offshore staffing levels were 112; 115; 116; 129 and 131. Current numbers for 2015 -16 are 148</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 12:48:30 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

427864

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Offshore Industry: 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 regulatory requirements of the EU Directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations have been fully implemented; and which regulatory bodies are represented on the Offshore Safety Directive Regulator.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	15819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The regulatory requirements of the EU Directive were fully implemented in GB by the Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations (2015) which came into force on 19 July 2015. Northern Ireland is in the process of implementing regulations.</p><br /><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) are represented on the Offshore Safety Directive Regulator (OSDR).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 12:38:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris