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58509

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
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	Separated People: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Help and Support for Separated Families Co-ordinated Telephone Network started full operation; and which organisations are taking part.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	199450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Help and Support for Separated Families telephone network began full operation in March 2014 and the participating organisations are:</p><p>Family Lives;</p><p>Relate;</p><p>Wikivorce; and</p><p>The National Youth Advocacy Service.</p><p> </p><p>£344k of awards have been made for the co-ordinated telephony network. £344k is the maximum amount payable under the terms of the grant for the period to 31st May 2014. This covers both actual invoices paid to date and amounts not yet billed by suppliers. The evaluation of the telephony network will be carried out in-house.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 199452 question first answered 10/06/2014 14:41:42 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

58510

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
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	Separated People: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to his Department has been of implementing and evaluating the Help and Support for Separated Families Co-ordinated Telephone Network to date; and what estimate he has made of the future costs of that initiative.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	199452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Help and Support for Separated Families telephone network began full operation in March 2014 and the participating organisations are:</p><p>Family Lives;</p><p>Relate;</p><p>Wikivorce; and</p><p>The National Youth Advocacy Service.</p><p> </p><p>£344k of awards have been made for the co-ordinated telephony network. £344k is the maximum amount payable under the terms of the grant for the period to 31st May 2014. This covers both actual invoices paid to date and amounts not yet billed by suppliers. The evaluation of the telephony network will be carried out in-house.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 199450 question first answered 10/06/2014 14:41:42 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

58197

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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, if he will introduce a statutory limit on the length of time decision makers in his Department can take to respond to a request to reconsider a refusal of employment and support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	198908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We have no plans to introduce a statutory time limit for deciding a mandatory reconsideration.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 09/06/2014 14:26:55 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

58198

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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 length of time taken for decisions on requests for reconsideration of fit for work decisions in relation to applications for employment and support allowance has been since October 2013.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	198667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department is collecting information to understand how the introduction of mandatory reconsideration is operating, including completion timescales. However, this data is not sufficiently robust and reliable to make available.</p><p> </p><p>In the production of new statistics, which all the above would be, the Department works to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet the high quality standards expected. Departmental statisticians need to assure themselves of the quality of administrative data sources before releasing information as Official statistics, and before the exact timing and format of statistics can be confirmed. .</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 198805 question first answered 09/06/2014 15:14:45 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

50007

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept id	58
answering dept short name	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Deputy Prime Minister
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how much has been spent on hospitality by his Office in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	197932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sheffield, Hallam answering member printed Mr Nick Clegg question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1563 label Biography information for Mr Nick Clegg
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

50008

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much (a) his Department and (b) the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister spent on a wellbeing strategy in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	197979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The Deputy Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office.</p><p>In 2010 the Office for National Statistics established a Measuring National Wellbeing Programme to look at wellbeing across the UK. The Cabinet Office is supporting this with a wellbeing policy programme across Government.</p><p>The costs of the programme are met from existing departmental budgets. Details on staffing are published through my department's organogram, on gov.uk</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

48886

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people applied for the personal independence payment in (a) Edinburgh East constituency and (b) Scotland since June 2013; how many have been awarded the payment in each case; how many have requested that a refusal of the payment be reconsidered; how many have been awarded the payment following a request for reconsideration; how many have appealed against a refusal of the payment; and how many have been awarded the payment following an appeal.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	196921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for <strong>Liverpool</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>West Derby</strong><strong> and the hon Member for Airdrie and Shotts</strong><strong>,</strong> official report, 5 March, column 850W.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

47706

registered interest
date	08/04/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when each of the 10 Help and Support for Separated Families Innovation Fund projects announced by his Department in December 2013 will start.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	195695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The round two projects delivered by the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Mediation Now, Family Matters Mediate, Family Lives, Children 1st, Sills and Betteridge, Headland Future and National Family Mediation have all started. Projects being run by NACCC and Pinnacle People have started to recruit parents to the project and will start seeing them before the end of April.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

47707

registered interest
date	08/04/2014
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	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 7 April 2014, Official Report, column 103W, on separated people: finance, whether the proposed external independent evaluation of the Help and Support for Separated Families Innovation Fund projects will include as a consistent measure across the different projects the increase in the number of children benefiting from regular child maintenance payments to meet their day-to-day living costs as a result of the interventions being tested.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	195696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p>External independent evaluation of the Innovation Fund projects will measure improvement in the relationship between parents, and therefore, their likely ability to reach agreement on a range of issues affecting their children, including agreeing financial arrangements. As the primary aim of these projects is helping parents to resolve conflict and work together, we will not specifically be measuring the number of children benefiting from regular child maintenance payments</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

46376

registered interest
date	01/04/2014
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	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 24 January 2014, Official Report, column 366W, on separated people: finance, whether the effectiveness of the seven projects granted £6.5 million of funding in April 2013 under the Help and Support for Separated Families initiative will be independently evaluated; and whether such evaluations will allow for comparisons between those projects.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	194700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are in the process of appointing external specialists to evaluate independently all 17 Innovation Fund projects. Consistent measures will be used across the projects where possible. However, direct comparison between projects is unlikely as the projects vary considerably both in terms of their innovative and diverse approaches and their target groups.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore