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1357238

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date	21/09/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans her Department has to increase financial wellbeing throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	52486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>In January 2019, the Government established the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), merging three former organisations (the Money Advice Service, The Pensions Advisory Service, PensionWise) to provide free-to-use financial guidance and offer more holistic support to customers.</p><p> </p><p>In 2020, MaPS published the UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing which sets out five national goals to improve the UK’s financial wellbeing by 2030. These include increasing the number of children and young people receiving a meaningful financial education, encouraging saving, decreasing the number of people often using credit for food and bills, increasing the availability of debt advice, and supporting financial planning for later life.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury closely engages with MaPS on the strategy, which also includes three cross-cutting workstreams, focusing on gender, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. MaPS are working with a wide range of stakeholders from different sectors to deliver this strategy and will publish delivery plans for the strategy in due course.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 18/10/2021 13:54:29 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1357239

registered interest
date	21/09/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Minority Groups and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to improve financial inclusion for (a) young people and (b) marginalised communities.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	52487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government is strongly committed to tackling financial exclusion and wants everyone, whatever their background or income to be able to access useful and affordable financial products and services. Since March 2018, the Government has convened the Financial Inclusion Policy Forum, co-chaired by the Economic Secretary to Treasury and Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion. It brings together leaders from industry, charities, and consumer groups, as well as government ministers and the regulators to provide leadership and promote collaboration to improve financial inclusion.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has allocated £96 million of funding from dormant assets towards financial inclusion, which is being distributed by Fair4All Finance. The Government works closely with Fair4All Finance, which was founded to support those who are in financially vulnerable circumstances through fair and affordable financial products and services.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 18/10/2021 13:56:12 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1357240

registered interest
date	21/09/2021
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: Young 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 her Department is taking to support unemployed young people; and what plans she has to support job mobility.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	52488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government has provided an unprecedented economic support package to protect and create jobs, including a particular focus on young people.</p><p>The DWP Youth Offer provides wrap-around support to young people aged 18-24 who are in the intensive work search regime of Universal Credit and was introduced as part of the wider UK government Plan for Jobs package. It has been developed to combat youth unemployment and ensure that young people have the skills they need to look for, find and keep employment.</p><p>Through the Youth Employment Programme young people receive intensive Work Coach support and every young person is encouraged to take part in a wide range of work based opportunities including Kickstart placements, Sector Based Work Academy Programmes, traineeships, Mentoring Circles or apprenticeships, which can be taken up at any point in the 13-week programme.</p><p>This sits alongside Youth Hubs that are co-located and co-delivered with external partners to support young people with skills gaps, and Youth Employability Coaches that help those with significant complex needs and barriers into the labour market.</p><p>We currently have over 135 new Youth Hubs physically open to support young people across Great Britain and 150 Youth Employability Coaches, delivering tailored employment &amp; skills support for those most at risk of longer term unemployment.</p><p>To support job mobility for people of all ages, we are supporting claimants to access the skills and training opportunities delivered by the Department for Education and devolved Governments, through our DWP Train and Progress initiative across Great Britain. This includes the expansion of the successful Sector-based Work Academy Programme in England and Scotland. Where it will help people into work, DWP claimants can access sector-specific training provided as part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, including L3 Skills Boot camps of up to 16 weeks’ full time while remaining on benefit.</p><p>Additionally, we recognise that people need the skills and opportunities to progress, build their careers and increase their earnings. The independent In-Work Progression Commission published its report on the barriers to progression for those in persistent low pay on 1 July 2021. It makes a number of recommendations for the Government which we will consider carefully and respond to later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/10/2021 11:56:57 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1357311

registered interest
date	21/09/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the report by the Law Commission, Employment law hearing structures, published in April 2020, whether he has plans to implement the recommendation in that report that the employment tribunal time limit for claims be extended to six months for all types of claim.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	52489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>A claim to an Employment Tribunal must usually be made within three months. For certain claims, redundancy pay or equal pay, the claim must be made within six months. The Employment Tribunals already have the discretion to allow claims submitted out of time, on a case by basis.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 18/10/2021 14:16:22 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1357312

registered interest
date	21/09/2021
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 many and what proportion of (a) single claims and (b) multiple claimant cases are outstanding and awaiting determination by an employment tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	52490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2021 answer text <p>Our latest published statistics for employment tribunals can be found using the link below:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2020" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2020</a></p><p>The most recent employment tribunal data covers the period up to March 2021. This is because ET has moved to a new case management system and HMCTS is currently working to incorporate the new IT system alongside longer-established data sources to provide a more complete and consistent data set for this jurisdiction.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 18/10/2021 14:09:07 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham