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748316

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
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 3 July 2017 to Question 1470, if he will publish the response to the Freedom of Information request referred to in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	2929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>I am depositing a copy of the Freedom of Information reply in the House library. I will also publish it as soon as possible on GOV.UK, here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=foi-releases&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=all&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5B%5D=all&amp;from_date=&amp;to_date=&amp;commit=Refresh+results" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=foi-releases&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=all&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5B%5D=all&amp;from_date=&amp;to_date=&amp;commit=Refresh+results</a> “</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/07/2017 14:57:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

748317

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Pay: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Social Mobility Commission report Time for Change, published on 28 June 2017, what steps he is taking to increase young people's wages.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	2748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Improving social mobility is at the heart of the government’s ambition to make Britain a country that works for everyone.</p><p> </p><p>The government is investing in education and skills to ensure that every young person, whatever their background and wherever they live, has the opportunity to succeed and prosper. The government is delivering three million apprenticeship places, opening up access to higher education and investing £500 million a year into technical education.</p><p> </p><p>More young people than ever before are working or studying, and the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training is at a low of 11.2%, down 0.8 percentage points from a year ago.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 10/07/2017 11:16:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

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
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
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

748320

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Certificates: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of GP surgeries refuse to provide supporting letters for disability benefit claimants; what proportion of surgeries charge for those letters; and how much surgeries charge to issue those letters.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	2928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England contracts with general practitioners (GPs) as independent providers of medical services for the National Health Service. Under the terms of their contract, GPs are required to provide certain medical reports or complete certain forms, including those related to claiming disability benefits, free of charge to their registered patients.</p><p> </p><p>Outside their contractual requirements, GPs also offer a variety of other services which successive governments have regarded as private matters between the patient and the GP. In such cases, decisions on whether to charge a fee and the level of the fee charged are at the GP’s discretion.</p><p> </p><p>Where GPs intend to charge for services to patients, the British Medical Association (BMA) advises them to forewarn patients, at the earliest opportunity, of the likely level of fees. The BMA also produces guidance on the level of fees that should be charged for commonly provided services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 2927 question first answered 10/07/2017 14:17:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

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
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

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
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
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

748326

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for an ESA appeal hearing in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	2884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The average waiting time for disposal of ESA has reduced significantly over the last four years from 21 weeks in 2013/14 to 14 in 2015/16. The information requested is set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong>Month/Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong> <strong>Average waiting time in weeks, for the disposal of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)</strong><strong>1</strong><strong> appeals from receipt to outcome</strong><strong>2</strong><strong>, between April 2016 and March 2017 (the latest period for which figures are available) </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2016</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2016</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2016</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2016</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2016</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2016</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2016</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2016</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2017</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2017</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2017</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessments).</p><p> </p><p>2 Outcome: all appeals disposed of include those appeals disposed of with and without a Tribunal hearing.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that is available.</p><p> </p><p>The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case-management system on a different date.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 14/07/2017 11:22:53 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

748328

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Working Age Benefits: Wolverhampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) Wolverhampton North East constituency qualified for (i) working tax credits and (ii) child tax credits in each financial year from 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	2806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The number of families in receipt of child and working tax credit in (a) Wolverhampton and (b) Wolverhampton North East constituency is published by HMRC and is available on the GOV website</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-tax-credits-statistics</a><strong>. </strong>The results have been reproduced in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="7"><p>Families in receipt of tax credits from 2009-10 to 2015-16 (in 000’s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Working tax credit</p></td><td colspan="7"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>2.6</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton North East constituency</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Child tax credit</p></td><td colspan="7"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td><td><p>18.6</p></td><td><p>17.0</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td><td><p>13.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton North East constituency</p></td><td><p>6.8</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td><td><p>6.5</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/07/2017 14:52:32 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds