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385303

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Pension Funds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 7 January (HL Deb, col 432), when they plan to consult on improving transparency for pension savers regarding where their money is invested and how rights attached to it are being exercised; and when they plan to consider how secondary legislation could be used to ensure greater transparency for pension savers.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is committed to ensuring greater transparency for pension savers.</p><p> </p><p>From April this year, workplace schemes are required to report on the value delivered by costs and charges in their scheme for the first time. Building on this, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Financial Conduct Authority ran a joint Call for Evidence ‘Transaction Cost Disclosure: Improving Transparency in Workplace Pensions’, considering how transaction costs could be disclosed in a standardised way. This is the first phase of work required to meet duties under Section 44 of the Pensions Act 2014 to require transaction costs to be disclosed to members and others; and transaction costs and administration charges to be published. The Government is currently considering responses to the Call for Evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Transparency is not just about costs and charges. Earlier this year the Government consulted on changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes Investment Regulations requiring trustees to report how they take financial and non-financial factors into account when investing, and their schemes stewardship policy. The Government is currently considering responses to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government intends to consult on any secondary legislation required following these exercises later this year, and will consider what further proposals may be needed to ensure greater transparency for pension savers including consideration both of its duties under the Pensions Act 2014 and the remarks made in debates on 7 January.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:06:11 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

385316

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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	Universal Credit: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many sanctions have been applied to Universal Credit claimants in each month since the roll-out began.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the noble Baroness to the answer I gave on 16 June 2015 to her Question number HL 402:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Baroness Lister of Burtersett :To ask Her Majesty’s Government: </strong>whether they have plans to publish statistics on sanctions imposed under the universal credit scheme as it is brought into effect.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Lord Freud</strong><strong>: </strong>The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are quality assuring data for Universal Credit and formulating a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 11:56:36 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

385336

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
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: Migrants
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 24 June (HL540), whether they plan to make such assessments in future; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Although data regarding claimant nationality is not currently recorded on benefit payment systems, Universal Credit will record such data, when EEA nationals are able to claim. The Department has no plans to make specific assessments regarding Polish nationals when such data becomes available. However, we will continue to monitor EEA nationals’ access to benefits more generally.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has made clear that further steps are needed to reform welfare to reduce the incentives which have led to mass immigration from the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 11:59:13 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

384891

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Homelessness
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 the levels of homelessness from the proposed reduction in the benefit cap to £23,000 each year; and what research was undertaken to calculate this estimate.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	3677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/07/2015 09:59:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

385209

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Work Programme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people, after two years on the Work Programme, (1) obtained a job, and (2) returned to the jobcentre, in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not collect official statistics on job starts made by Work Programme participants. Information is collected on the job outcomes paid to Work Programme providers for getting people into sustained employment.</p><p> </p><p>The cumulative number of job outcomes paid (June 2011-March 2015) for people who have completed their allotted time on the Work Programme is 344,900.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for the number of people who have returned to the Jobcentre on completing the Work Programme is published by month of completion and can be found in the table below. It should be noted that the first applicable month was May 2013 and data is currently available up to 31 March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Current Work Programme Status</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Completed allotted time: returned to JCP at 104 weeks</p></td><td><p>Completed allotted time: returned to JCP post 104 weeks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-13</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-13</p></td><td><p>58,710</p></td><td><p>8,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-13</p></td><td><p>73,230</p></td><td><p>11,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-13</p></td><td><p>45,160</p></td><td><p>7,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-13</p></td><td><p>43,750</p></td><td><p>7,770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-13</p></td><td><p>44,700</p></td><td><p>8,170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>43,440</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-13</p></td><td><p>38,250</p></td><td><p>6,820</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-14</p></td><td><p>46,440</p></td><td><p>8,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-14</p></td><td><p>40,550</p></td><td><p>7,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-14</p></td><td><p>39,030</p></td><td><p>7,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-14</p></td><td><p>30,530</p></td><td><p>6,030</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-14</p></td><td><p>28,200</p></td><td><p>5,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-14</p></td><td><p>28,800</p></td><td><p>5,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-14</p></td><td><p>30,810</p></td><td><p>5,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-14</p></td><td><p>23,780</p></td><td><p>4,280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-14</p></td><td><p>27,720</p></td><td><p>4,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-14</p></td><td><p>27,730</p></td><td><p>3,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>29,630</p></td><td><p>3,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-14</p></td><td><p>24,470</p></td><td><p>2,140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-15</p></td><td><p>30,940</p></td><td><p>2,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>19,810</p></td><td><p>980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-15</p></td><td><p>18,770</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 06/07/2015 12:44:05 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

385210

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Work Programme: Older People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Work Programme in relation to its support for older people.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>The Work Programme is succeeding. It is helping push long-term unemployment to its lowest level in over 5 years, and is transforming people’s lives.</p><p> </p><p>An independent evaluation of the Work Programme published by DWP in December 2014 identified that 63.9% of older participants found Work Programme support useful in helping them find work or move closer to work, and 63.5% felt that the support offered through the Work Programme matched their needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since this research was carried out, we have made changes to our contracts with providers to further strengthen our performance management activities, and deliver even better outcomes for participants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A copy of the full evaluation report has been placed in the House of Commons library.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 30/06/2015 16:46:28 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

385211

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Housing Benefit: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effect of removing housing benefit from 18 to 21 year-olds.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The detail of the policy will be announced in due course, and the Government will consider the impact in line with our legal obligations as part of that process.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 30/06/2015 15:20:03 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

384472

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment have they made of the impact of any shrinking of the welfare state on access by individuals to their communities and work.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s commitment to reduce welfare spending was set out in its election manifesto. Further details will be given in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 24/06/2015 14:49:57 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

384513

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
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: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people they expect to find jobs as a result of the Disability Confident campaign.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Disability Confident campaign makes the business case for recruiting and retaining more disabled people and aims to increase the number of employers taking positive action to be more disability confident. We are not able to measure the number of disabled people moving into employment as a direct result of it, but the campaign is an important contributor towards our commitment to halve the gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 06/07/2015 12:00:19 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

384514

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the recent High Court ruling regarding delays in Personal Independence Payments.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>The Court rejected two of the three legal grounds brought by the claimants, finding that their human rights had not been breached and not awarding damages.</p><p> </p><p>Where the Court found that the historic delay for the two claimants was unlawful, they also ruled that they are not “test cases” and it would be inappropriate to make wider findings.</p><p> </p><p>The Court accepted that the Government had made significant improvements to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) process and there are now no inherent failings in the system.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of these improvements, the average time taken for a claimant to be assessed by an assessment provider has fallen by more than three quarters since June 2014. In April 2015, the average new claimant was waiting 5 weeks for their PIP assessment – well within the 16 week target set by the Secretary of State.</p> answering member printed Baroness Altmann question first answered 30/06/2015 15:50:02 answering member 4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley