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747963

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of introducing a double lock on Pension Credit uprating from 2018–19 onwards, uprating pensions by the highest of the consumer price index or earnings inflation, (1) over the course of this Parliament, (2) over the next 10 years, and (3) up to 2050.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>No estimate of the cost of introducing a double lock on Pension Credit uprating has been made. The legislative requirement is that the standard minimum guarantee in Pension Credit should increase at least in line with earnings.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 18/07/2017 16:24:54 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

748315

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what rationale the Government has used to decide the order of local authority areas for the Universal Credit Transition Schedule.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Universal Credit Transition Schedule is designed to ensure a safe and secure delivery which minimises disruption for claimants. In order to facilitate this, the order of jobcentre sites in the schedule aims to create a fair and even distribution across the country. We collaborate closely with Local Authorities and stakeholders throughout the development of the schedule and through the rollout of Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 10:56:19 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

748318

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Jobcentres: Glasgow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many customers have used free wi-fi in (a) Govan Jobcentre Plus and (b) Pollock Jobcentre Plus in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>There is not a Pollock Jobcentre Plus, the only Jobcentre in the Glasgow South West constituency being Govan Jobcentre Plus.</p><p> </p><p>We do not have any data on the specific numbers of customers accessing our free Wi-Fi in Govan or any other of our Jobcentres. We can track the number of Wi-Fi connections per month. For example in May 2017 (the last period we have data for) there were 1701 unique Wi-Fi connections in Govan Jobcentre. However, any member of the public can access our public Wi-Fi (from inside the office or immediately outside). As a result, we are unable to state with accuracy the number of customers using Wi-Fi in any of our Jobcentres.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 11:19:06 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

748319

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Jobcentres: Glasgow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions the Government has had with colleges and third sector organisations in Glasgow South West constituency to extend the availability of public access terminals.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Govan JC has a Local Authority Delivery Partnership in place for Public Access Terminals. This includes Glasgow Life where Glasgow City Council Libraries (Ibrox and Cardonald) deliver the Goals for Work IT course (two hours a week for five weeks to enable customers to gain basic IT skills on Public access Terminals). During the five weeks Skills Development Scotland support customers by delivering a CV session.</p><p> </p><p>Customers also have access to Public Access Terminals at other local Glasgow City Council libraries such as Elderpark and Govan.</p><p> </p><p>Skills Development Scotland work closely with Govan Jobcentre, attending the Jobcentre for three days a week and use Jobcentre facilities (Digital Suite) to deliver Digital Group Information Sessions to customers.</p><p> </p><p>Scottish Action for Refugees have opened premises in Shaw Street, Govan, and provide a drop in facility for non-English speaking Refugees, including customer access to their IT facilities.</p><p> </p><p>Jobcentre Plus colleagues have regular conversations with the Community Education Officer at Clyde College around how we work together to provide additional support and access.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 11:06:28 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

748321

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Jobcentres: Glasgow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the locations are of the 16 public access terminals available for claimants in Glasgow South West constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>There are currently 16 customer computers in Govan Jobcentre, located over two floors (ground floor has 9 computers and first floor has 7).</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 10:51:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

748322

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Jobcentres: Glasgow
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many customers have been provided with an assisted service for additional support to use the 16 customer access terminals in Glasgow South West constituency in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Every customer who enters Govan Jobcentre is offered and can receive a personalised assisted service to use the customer access terminals regardless of the reason why they have come to the Jobcentre.</p><p> </p><p>Support is given in a number of ways, dependant on the needs of the customer and tailored to their needs. For example, this can be one-to-one support from the customer’s named Work Coach or from the Service Delivery Coach, who will assist them with all forms of job searching, job application completion and creating and improving their CVs. This can also include 1-2-1 customer coaching at the Jobcentre’s customer computers. This supports customers gaining basic digital skills or improving their existing digital capability, enabling them to widen their job search and tailor their CVs to a wider range of vacancies.</p><p> </p><p>Support at the customer computers can also be in the form of group sessions, where our Service Delivery Coaches coach customers to create an e-mail account, set up a Universal Job match account, produce a quality CV or register with a variety of recruitment websites. Our Service Delivery Coaches use a “Show and Tell” approach to building the digital skills customers require, where the customer is coached with the aim of them becoming confident in their digital skills and self-sufficient in their use of digital to complete job searches.</p><p> </p><p>Customers with little or no IT skills are encouraged to attend the Jobcentre on a regular basis to practice and consolidate their learning using the customer computers. Customers can apply for vacancies with full support provided by their Jobcentre Work Coaches and Service Delivery Coaches. Customers who do not have access at home to a computer or other suitable device are also actively encouraged to attend the Jobcentre daily to carry out their Job search activities.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 11:25:10 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

748323

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to progress the proposals set out in the Green Paper entitled Work, health and disability green paper: Improving Lives.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving employment and health outcomes for disabled people including delivering on the manifesto commitment to get 1 million more disabled people into work over the next 10 years. We received a very large response to the consultation on the Green Paper, with over 6000 responses. We are considering these and will set out our next steps on this important agenda in due course.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/07/2017 10:41:15 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

748324

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to improve the understanding of mental health among personal independence payment and employment and support allowance assessors.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Health Professionals (HPs) receive training on how to identify the impact of mental health conditions on claimants. This is followed by on-going professional training and support which continues for the duration of their employment in the role.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Mental Health Champions support HPs by providing additional expertise about mental health, cognitive, developmental and learning disabilities and can be referred to at any time during the assessment process.</p><p> </p><p>HPs make every attempt to obtain the best evidence available to assist them in undertaking the assessment. This includes accessing evidence from Community Mental Health Teams, psychologists, psychiatrists and other medical professionals.</p><p> </p><p>Health Assessment Providers frequently engage with medical experts, charities and relevant stakeholders to strengthen review and update training programmes for all their assessment staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/07/2017 11:01:02 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

748325

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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 the average time is for an employment and support allowance claim to reach the assessment stage in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Birmingham, Yardley constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
	tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 12/07/2017 15:24:15 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

748330

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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: Disclosure 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 protected disclosures were made by staff in his Department in each of the last three years for which figures are available; how many of those disclosures were found to be valid; how many staff alleged detriment as a result of those disclosures; and how many staff subsequently left his Department's employment.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2863
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>For the purposes of this response, we have interpreted ‘<em>protected disclosures’ as a </em>referral received via the DWP Whistle-blowers Hotline that has been classified under the definitions in the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA). We have interpreted <em>‘staff alleged detriment’ </em>as staff members reporting a grievance.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Protected disclosures received (Whistle-blower referrals)</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Protected disclosures found to be valid</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1 (8 cases ongoing)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staff alleging detriment as a result of these disclosures</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staff leaving the Department as a result of detriment following raising a disclosure</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*2017/18 data covers the period 1 April 2017 to 30 June 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/07/2017 14:18:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders