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228349

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Health and Safety Executive
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, which specific issues have been discussed by which Ministers on which dates in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	228247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We do not disclose details of meetings between Ministers and Officials.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 227851 227852 question first answered 23/03/2015 16:54:48 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

227918

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 227352, if he will publish the data collected on protected characteristics for people making Employment Tribunal Service claims for each quarter from October 2012.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Experimental statistics on Employment Tribunal (ET) fees data taken from the administrative IT system built to process fee receipts and remission applications, were published for the first time on 12 March 2015, as an Annex to the Tribunal and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly, October to December 2014 publication. It is our intention to publish them on a quarterly basis from this point forward subject to further data quality work.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the experimental nature of the statistics, the publication stated that additional analyses will be carried out to assess their quality and that of the administrative system the data are extracted from. Information on protected characteristics is collected by this employment tribunal fee and remission IT system. Subject to the results of data cleansing and quality assurance work to assess its coverage, robustness and usefulness, figures on protected characteristics will be included in future publications in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 23/03/2015 15:08:12 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

227961

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	Health and Safety Executive
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, on which dates in the last 12 months the Minister for Welfare Reform met officials of the Health and Safety Executive; and what issues were discussed at each meeting.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We do not disclose details of meetings between Ministers and Officials.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 227852 228247 question first answered 23/03/2015 16:54:47 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

227962

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	Health and Safety Executive
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, on which dates in the last 12 months the Minister for Disabled People met officials of the Health and Safety Executive; and what issues were discussed at each meeting.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We do not disclose details of meetings between Ministers and Officials.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 227851 228247 question first answered 23/03/2015 16:54:48 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

227117

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Carers: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice and guidance his Department has provided to local authorities on the effect of the Care Act 2014 on young carers.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has not had discussions with Minsters in the Department for Education (DfE). However, I have been fully engaged with my counterpart at DfE in relation to the provisions in the Care Act 2014 which affect young carers, and the inter-relation with the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Act falls within the responsibility of the Department of Health and we issued statutory guidance under the Act last October. The DfE was closely involved in the development of the guidance in relation to issues affecting young carers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that transition into adulthood is an important time when young people and their families are thinking about their goals and aspirations for the future and to ensure that they are not left without care and support. The Care Act, for the first time, places a legal duty on local authorities to assess the needs of young carers as they approach adulthood and that transition assessment and planning must consider how to support young carers to prepare for adulthood and how to raise and fulfil their aspirations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014 require local authorities when looking at the needs of an individual, to consider the impact of those needs on any young carer involved in the situation and identify whether the tasks they are performing are inappropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also published guidance for local authorities on a ‘whole family approach’ to assessments, which will identify any children who are involved in providing care. Identification of a young carer in the family should result in an offer of a needs assessment for an adult requiring care and support and where it appears that they may have a need for support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 227489 question first answered 17/03/2015 17:23:38 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

227153

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Carers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has provided to local authorities on the implementation of the Care Act 2014 and the right of carers to an assessment and support.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>Following consultation over last summer, we issued statutory guidance under the Care Act 2014 in October 2014, which is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-statutory-guidance-for-implementation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-statutory-guidance-for-implementation</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The guidance covers the purpose of an assessment and outlines what local authorities must do when conducting carers’ assessments and in providing support for their eligible needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also published guidance for local authorities on a ‘whole family approach’ to assessments, which will identify any children who provide care for a member of their family and put in place appropriate support for the carer, including for a young carer. The guidance is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/5756320/The+Care+Act+and+whole+family+approaches/080c323f-e653-4cea-832a-90947c9dc00c" target="_blank">http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/5756320/The+Care+Act+and+whole+family+approaches/080c323f-e653-4cea-832a-90947c9dc00c</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 17/03/2015 17:21:04 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

227154

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Carers: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with Ministers in the Department for Education on the effect of the Care Act 2014 on young carers.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has not had discussions with Minsters in the Department for Education (DfE). However, I have been fully engaged with my counterpart at DfE in relation to the provisions in the Care Act 2014 which affect young carers, and the inter-relation with the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care Act falls within the responsibility of the Department of Health and we issued statutory guidance under the Act last October. The DfE was closely involved in the development of the guidance in relation to issues affecting young carers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that transition into adulthood is an important time when young people and their families are thinking about their goals and aspirations for the future and to ensure that they are not left without care and support. The Care Act, for the first time, places a legal duty on local authorities to assess the needs of young carers as they approach adulthood and that transition assessment and planning must consider how to support young carers to prepare for adulthood and how to raise and fulfil their aspirations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014 require local authorities when looking at the needs of an individual, to consider the impact of those needs on any young carer involved in the situation and identify whether the tasks they are performing are inappropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also published guidance for local authorities on a ‘whole family approach’ to assessments, which will identify any children who are involved in providing care. Identification of a young carer in the family should result in an offer of a needs assessment for an adult requiring care and support and where it appears that they may have a need for support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 227490 question first answered 17/03/2015 17:23:37 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

226763

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how the level of gross monthly income thresholds was determined for people applying for fee remission in employment tribunals.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The current fee remission scheme was introduced in October 2013, which established a single fee remissions scheme across all courts and tribunals of HMCTS (including the Employment Tribunals but excluding proceedings in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal) and the UK Supreme Court.</p><p> </p><p>The gross monthly income test, which was introduced following a consultation exercise, is designed to ensure that fee remissions are targeted to those who need them most. Those on qualifying benefits, including Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance and Pension Credit Guarantee credit are automatically entitled to a full fee remission, provided they also meet the disposable capital test.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 16/03/2015 15:56:44 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

226764

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information is collected by the Employment Tribunal Service to monitor the protected characteristics of people making claims to the Employment Tribunal Service.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	227352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service collects information on the protected characteristics of those making a claim to the employment tribunals via the Diversity Monitoring section of the application form ET1. The form and questions can be found at http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/courtfinder/forms/et001-eng.pdf.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 16/03/2015 16:05:28 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn

226396

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Health and Safety Executive
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many meetings ministers held with officials from the Health and Safety Executive in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Meg Munn
uin	226915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Minister for Welfare Reform and Minister for Disabled People meet with HSE officials on a regular basis. Other Ministers also meet with HSE officials on specific issues.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 16/03/2015 17:53:21 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1448 label Biography information for Meg Munn