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91362

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	National Insurance
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 were allocated a National Insurance number in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	208839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The total number of NINo registrations to adult overseas nationals entering the UK in 2012/13 was: 562,000 and in 2013/14 it was: 603,000.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 10:25:50 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

91445

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Disadvantaged: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the Government is using the money it has drawn down from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived; whether the Government is drawing down its remaining entitlement from that fund through a reallocation of structural funds; and how the Government plans to use that remaining entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	208917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text Member States are in the process of agreeing their Operational Programmes with the European Commission. These need to be in place before any funding can be drawn down. answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/10/2014 15:06:20 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

91576

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what has been the median age of people (a) entering the Work Programme, (b) securing six months of employment through that programme and (c) completing two years on that programme and returning to their jobcentre.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	208981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is shown in the table below.</p><p>The median age of people (a) referred to the Work Programme, (b) had a Job Outcome lasting 6 months or over and (c) completed the Work Programme and returned to Jobcentre Plus, Great Britain June 2011 - March 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Median Age</p><p>(years)</p></td></tr><tr><td>Referrals</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td>Job Outcomes (lasting 6 months or over)</td><td>31</td></tr><tr><td>Completed: Returned to Jobcentre Plus at 104 weeks</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td>Completed: Returned to Jobcentre Plus post 104 weeks</td><td>30</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/10/2014 10:13:14 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

91577

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on job outcome payments for Work Programme participants aged (a) 18 to 24, (b) 25 to 34, (c) 35 to 44, (d) 45 to 49, (e) 50 to 54, (f) 55 to 59 and (g) 60 and over since June 2011.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	208982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Financial payments on the Work Programme are not segmented by participant age. The exception is 18 to 24 year old Jobseekers Allowance participants, which has its own payment group. The table below shows job outcome payments from the most recently published financial information for that group, covering the period from June 2011 to the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Participants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Job Outcome payments </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JSA 18 to 24</p></td><td><p>£80,280,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/10/2014 13:13:56 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

91578

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on job outcome payments for each Work Programme Payment Group since June 2011.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	208983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Work Programme has revolutionised how we help the long-term unemployed into work. It is designed to be good value for the taxpayer because providers only get paid on the results they achieve when they get someone into a lasting job, usually at least six months (or 3 for the hardest to help). So far more than 330,000 long-term unemployed people have been helped to escape long-term unemployment thanks to the Work Programme, which has contributed to the largest annual drop in long-term unemployment since 1998.</p><p> </p><p>The below table shows job outcome payments from the most recently published financial information, covering the period from June 2011 to the 31<sup>st</sup> March 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Payment Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Job Outcome payments </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1) Jobseeker’s Allowance 18 to 24</p></td><td><p>£80,280,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2) Jobseeker’s Allowance 25 and over</p></td><td><p>£151,468,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3) Jobseeker’s Allowance early entrants</p></td><td><p>£74,377,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4) Jobseeker’s Allowance ex-Incapacity Benefit</p></td><td><p>£3,537,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5) Employment and Support Allowance volunteer</p></td><td><p>£3,254,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6) New Employment and Support Allowance claimant</p></td><td><p>£12,030,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7) New Employment and Support Allowance ex-Incapacity Benefit</p></td><td><p>£3,254,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8) Incapacity Benefit and Income Support</p></td><td><p>£521,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9) Jobseeker’s Allowance prison leavers</p></td><td><p>£3,068,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total payments</p></td><td><p>£331,789,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/10/2014 15:22:18 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

91579

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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, what proportion of employment and support allowance claimants was in the (a) Support group and (b) Work Related Activity group in each quarter since October 2008.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	208992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is published and available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-september-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-september-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 13/10/2014 08:43:05 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

91580

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken to process financial assistance claims for specialist equipment through the Access to Work scheme was in each year since 1994.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	208955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Internal management measures of operational performance for Access to Work have not been published as they are not assured. Over the 20 year data request period the planning assumptions and methodology of measurement have changed a number of times making comparisons unreliable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 13/10/2014 11:34:12 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

91581

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of parents (a) in receipt of child maintenance paid via the Child Support Agency (CSA) who will elect not to use the Child Maintenance Service's Collect and Pay service and (b) who currently use the CSA but who will elect to reach their own child maintenance arrangements following the changes introduced from 30 June 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	208926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Most recent estimates show up that 800,000 Child Support Agency cases will close during the case closure process and 504,000 will apply to the Child Maintenance Service. Of these it is estimated that 202,000 cases will not use the Collect and Pay service and 169,000 of the 800,000 cases will make a Family Based Arrangement.<strong>     </strong></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 09:43:50 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

91582

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) parents with care commitments and (b) non-resident parents have (i) registered with the Child Maintenance Service since 30 June 2014 and (ii) chosen to use the new Collect and Pay service since 11 August 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	208927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Information on the number of new applications received to the 2012 statutory scheme is available in Table 1, on page 7, of the Experimental Official Statistics on the 2012 Scheme administered by the Child Maintenance Service available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/359363/2012-child-maintenance-scheme-experimental-statistics-september-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/359363/2012-child-maintenance-scheme-experimental-statistics-september-2014.pdf</a>.</p><p>Information on the chosen method of payment of those who are due to pay maintenance is available in Table 3 on page 9 of the above link.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 09:21:03 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

91583

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
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 estimate the number of children in poverty affected by the changes to the child maintenance system introduced from 30 June 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	208928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>An assessment of the number of children in poverty affected by the changes to the child maintenance system introduced from 30 June 2014 could only be made at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not generally record the income or circumstances of the families in receipt of child maintenance, only the income or benefit status of the parent liable to pay child maintenance.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/10/2014 13:05:30 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell