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418846

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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	International Labour Organization
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on the UK's membership of the International Labour Organisation.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	10328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We continue to support the ILO’s work and actively engage with the ILO to ensure that it can offer effective policy solutions that address the employment issues and challenges of an increasingly globalised economy.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 21/09/2015 11:39:13 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

418982

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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: Brighton
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 received an assessment for both employment and support allowance and personal independence payment in (a) 2014 and (b) the first six months of 2015 in Brighton and Hove local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	10287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 12/10/2015 14:13:42 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

418984

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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, how many of the households affected by the benefit cap in May 2015 were also affected by that cap in February 2014.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	10241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>22,460 households were subject to the benefit cap as at May 2015 and of these, 10,170 households (45%) also had their benefits capped at February 2014.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/09/2015 14:21:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

418986

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments in connection with claims for employment and support allowance have been carried out in (a) Inverclyde, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	10296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>A total of 5,100 work capability assessments were carried out in Inverclyde; 221,900 in Scotland, and; 1,914,000 in Britain between April 2013 and March 2015. All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. The assessments include Employment and Support Allowance initial assessments, repeat assessments and Incapacity Benefit reassessments.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/09/2015 11:06:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

418659

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
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, what assessment he has made of the effect of reducing the benefit cap on (a) homelessness and (b) temporary accommodation costs borne by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	10147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. A link to the impact assessment is included.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 9965 question first answered 17/09/2015 10:21:30 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

418758

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
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: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hours his Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	10234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>Processing Freedom of Information requests is an integral part of civil servants' responsibilities. As such the number of hours spent on this activity is not separately identifiable.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/09/2015 10:25:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

418759

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
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	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were in receipt of housing benefit totalling up to (a) £10,000, (b) £25,000, (c) £50,000, (d) £75,000 and (e) £100,000 per annum in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><p> </p><p>To obtain the information divide the yearly amounts requested by 52.18 to give the weekly amount of housing benefit in payment. A search can then be made in Stat-Xplore for the number of cases with those weekly amounts in payment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/09/2015 11:33:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

418760

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
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	Unemployment: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help older unemployed people to retrain.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
uin	10176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Jobcentre Plus uses a range of innovative approaches to help older claimants back to work. Training to help unemployed people find work is available to benefit claimants of all ages.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we have introduced a number of initiatives to support older people including the introduction of Jobcentre Plus Older Claimant Champions and the launch of the work experience and sector based work academy pilots that will support 3,000 claimants. We are trialling career reviews and digital support in two Jobcentre Plus districts.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 17/09/2015 13:40:25 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

418761

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
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: Scotland
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 in Scotland have (a) applied for personal independence payments (PIPs), (b) been refused PIPs and (c) been refused PIPs and subsequently had that decision overturned on appeal; and how many such decisions overturned on appeal were challenged by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	10214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) registrations, clearances and award rates, at regional level, are available on Gov.UK and were most recently updated on 16 September: <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><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested in relation to appeals is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Information on PIP mandatory reconsiderations has been published with the PIP data (earlier link refers) and data for PIP appeals are published by the Ministry of Justice as part of their quarterly Tribunal statistics: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#social-security-and-child-support-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#social-security-and-child-support-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/09/2015 10:15:16 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

418762

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
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, when he plans to publish the Government's response to his Department's consultation on changes to the Occupational Pension (Investment) regulations.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Neil Carmichael
uin	10183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government plans to respond to this consultation by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/09/2015 14:16:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4104 label Biography information for Neil Carmichael