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417806

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Working Mothers: Industrial 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, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of present Government guidance available to employers on managing the health and safety of new and expectant mothers at work.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	9595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reviewed and revised its website and other published guidance on managing new and expectant mothers’ health and safety in 2012. A further minor review was carried out in 2014. HSE also contributed to advice produced by Acas in 2013 on breastfeeding at work.</p><p> </p><p>HSE is currently working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to assess the findings of a major survey on pregnancy and maternity discrimination at work and any implications for the effectiveness of the Executive’s current guidance.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:27:24 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

417808

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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: Disqualification
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 publish the statistics his Department holds on sanctions applied to claimants of (a) job seeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance where the claimant is also in receipt of carer's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 11:31:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

417809

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Workplace Pensions
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 the shortfall in pension accrual experienced by employees who are employed through an umbrella payroll company or similar overarching employment contract and do not receive automatic enrolment pension contributions from their employer.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	9648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:21:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

417810

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Workplace Pensions
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 the number of workers employed through an umbrella payroll company who will opt-out of automatic-enrolment into a workplace pension.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	9649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:09:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

417811

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Children: Poverty
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 effect on (a) relative and (b) absolute child poverty of the four-year freeze announced in the July Budget on the uprating of (i) jobseeker's allowance and (ii) employment and support allowance.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	9628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government has carefully considered all measures introduced in the Summer Budget.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to reducing child poverty, and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to get on in life.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this we are introducing new life chances measures to drive action on addressing the root causes of disadvantage.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/09/2015 11:25:40 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

417812

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of automatic-enrolment pension arrangements on workers employed through employment agencies.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	9646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The law requires employers to enrol all eligible workers into a qualifying workplace pension scheme and make at least a minimum contribution to their pension. This includes workers employed through employment agencies. The Department has made no separate assessment of the impact of automatic enrolment on these workers.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 11:18:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

417813

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made on addressing the backlog in applications for personal independence payments; and for what median end-to-end time applicants are currently waiting.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	9645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We have implemented a wide range of initiatives across the whole Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim journey to speed up processes and are continuing to identify further opportunities for improvement. Figures released on 17 June reflect the significant progress made over the past year and show claims for PIP are now being cleared at four times the rate they were in January 2014. These figures can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics show that as at April 2015 a new claimant was waiting on average (median) 11 weeks from the point of registration to a decision being made on their claim (end to end), compared to 41 weeks in July 2014. DLA reassessment claims were taking on average (median) 10 weeks in April 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Updated statistics on PIP registrations, clearances, clearance times and outstanding times (up to July 2015 data) are due to be published and can be found from 16th September at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 13:53:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

417814

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received from the UN Special Rapporteur on disabled rights on an investigation into welfare reforms since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No representations have been received from the UN Special Rapporteur.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 13:45:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

417815

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2015 to Question 228133, and pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2015 to Question 748, how much has been claimed in hardship payments in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	9414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on how much has been claimed in hardship payments in each of the last 12 months is not available.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:58:25 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

417818

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which external organisations he has met to discuss the consequences of the UK leaving the EU in each of the last three years; and how many times he has met each such organisation.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	Mr David Nuttall
uin	9549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis. The Secretary of State regularly meets with a range of external organisations to discuss the Government's objectives in Europe.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on Gov.UK.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387937/ministers-meetings-apr-jun-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387937/ministers-meetings-apr-jun-2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/09/2015 11:16:38 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4140 label Biography information for Mr David Nuttall