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date	18/04/2019
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	Unemployed People: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseekers have made a claim under the Jobcentre Plus Travel Discount scheme via job centres; and what the value was of those claims in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	245779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally collated in a format that can be easily disaggregated, and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/04/2019 14:34:33 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

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registered interest
date	23/10/2017
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	Unemployed People: Travel
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 (a) promote awareness of the Jobcentre Plus Travel Discount Card among jobseekers and (b) encourage travel companies to promote the scheme as widely as possible.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	108955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p><strong>Jobcentre Plus Travel Discount Card</strong>: Jobcentre Plus has administered the current scheme on behalf of Rail Delivery Group (formerly Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) since 2011 in England and 2012 in Scotland.</p><p>a) The card is currently issued at work coach discretion subject to current eligibility and is valid for up to 3 months. The Work Coach (WC) is responsible for ensuring that all eligible claimants are aware of the travel discount scheme in England, Wales and Scotland.</p><p>Departmental Instructions are available to all work coaches and regular reminders are issued to all Jobcentres to encourage use of the scheme. .</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>b) The Rail Delivery Group promotes the Travel Discount Card Scheme via their own individual Company websites. DWP encourages all Transport Companies to promote the scheme and works with them to ensure that all eligible claimants can take advantage of discounts on offer to support them into work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 31/10/2017 11:51:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

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registered interest
date	13/11/2015
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	Unemployed People: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the effect on jobseekers of the requirement to search and apply for jobs within a 90-minute travel radius.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	16195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>Before requiring a JSA claimant to apply for a job within a 90 minute travel radius, a Work Coach will always take a claimant’s personal circumstances into account, including local travel arrangements and only require a claimant to apply for a job within a 90 minute radius if it is reasonable to do so. No recent assessment has been made of the effect on jobseekers of the requirement to search and apply for jobs within a 90 minute travel radius.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 19/11/2015 15:57:06 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner