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        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1528", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Mike Penning"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of employment and support allowance applicants who have been waiting to be given an assessment appointment for more than (a) three, (b) four, (c) five, (d) six and (e) seven months.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/605", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for John Robertson"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "John Robertson"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the time between applications for employment and support allowance and an assessment appointment for people who applied in (a) September 2013, (b) October 2013, (c) November 2013, (d) December 2013, (e) January 2014, (f) February 2014, (g) March 2014 and (h) April 2014 in (i) Glasgow North West constituency, (ii) Glasgow, (iii) Scotland and (iv) the UK.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/605", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for John Robertson"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "John Robertson"}
      ], "uin" : "199352"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58384", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58384/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p /> <p>The Government is currently considering the best use of the money. It is therefore too early to assess what impact it might have.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4084", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Esther McVey"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Esther McVey"}
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      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Disadvantaged: EU Grants and Loans"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of a Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived on deprived communities in the UK.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1498", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Mark Williams"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Mark Williams"}
      ], "uin" : "199263"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58385", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58385/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p /> <p>The UK did not refuse any money, it simply voted against adopting the regulation establishing the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived on the basis that we think MemberStates, and not the European Union, should decide how the money is spent. This was in line with the reasoned opinions adopted by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4084", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Esther McVey"}
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        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wirral West"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Disadvantaged: EU Grants and Loans"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the UK Government voted against the establishment of a Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1498", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Mark Williams"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Ceredigion"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Mark Williams"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58413", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58413/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p /> <p>Please see figures for the last full three financial years for which data is avaiable:<\/p><p>Numbers helped by Access to Work support in Scotland:<\/p><p>2010/11: 2,800<\/p><p>2011/12: 2,510<\/p><p>2012/13: 2,500<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Numbers helped by Access to Work support in Great Britain:<\/p><p>2010/11: 35,820<\/p><p>2011/12: 30,780<\/p><p>2012/13: 31,500<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1528", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Mike Penning"}
        }
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Access to Work Programme"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK have received support through the Access to Work scheme in each of the last three years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3911", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Banff and Buchan"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Eilidh Whiteford"}
      ], "uin" : "199328"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58414", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58414/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p /> <p>Please see figures for the last full three financial years for which data is available<\/p><p>Access to Work programme spend in Scotland:<\/p><p>2010/11: £6.5m<\/p><p>2011/12: £6.0m<\/p><p>2012/13: £5.9m<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Access to Work programme spend in Great Britain:<\/p><p>2010/11: £105.5m<\/p><p>2011/12: £98.3m<\/p><p>2012/13: £99.0m<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1528", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Mike Penning"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Hemel Hempstead"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mike Penning"}
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      , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "29"}
      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Access to Work Programme"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding has been provided to disabled people in Scotland and the UK through the Access to Work scheme in each of the last three years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3911", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Banff and Buchan"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Dr Eilidh Whiteford"}
      ], "uin" : "199329"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58415", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58415/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p /> <p>Access to Work is a valued and succesful national programme that makes a real difference to the working lives of disabled people throughout the UK.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions has actively marketed Access to Work to raise awareness of the programme through a national marketing campaign lasting throughout 2013. This included activity to further strengthen our partnerships with key stakeholders and organisations, developing marketing materials, attending key events and digital marketing. The campaign involved a wide range of communications activities, including press releases, presentations at disability and employer events, articles in disability publications and engagement in direct marketing to large employers. It also included use of digital media, paid advertising links in popular search engines, magazine adverts and awareness training for Jobcentre Plus Disability Employment Advisors.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Access to Work also featued in the launch of the Department's Disability Confident campaign in July 2013 and at subsequent local events, including Glasgow on 4 March 2014.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions has worked closely with the Public Health division of the Scottish Government to raise awareness of Access to Work with health professionals. This included sharing information on the NHS Scotland's Knowledge Network and the Health and Employability Delivery Group.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1528", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir Mike Penning"}
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        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Hemel Hempstead"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Access to Work Programme: Scotland"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to promote the Access to Work scheme to disabled people in Scotland.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3911", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58433", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58433/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p /> <p>The Department has not commissioned any research in the last two years specifically on age discrimination.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>(i) Previous research relating to age discrimination in the work place includes 'Attitudes to age in Britain 2010/11' \u2013 <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214361/ihr7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214361/ihr7.pdf<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p>and 'Second Survey on employers' policies, practices and preferences relating to age, 2010' \u2013 <a href=\"http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130128102031/http:/research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep682.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130128102031/http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep682.pdf<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p>This research was commissioned by the Department as part of wider research into the removal of the Default Retirement Age, including \u2018Default Retirement Age \u2013 employer qualitative research' \u2013<\/p><p><a href=\"http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130128102031/http:/research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep672.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130128102031/http:/research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2009-2010/rrep672.pdf<\/a>.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Default Retirement Age was abolished in 2011, meaning most people can now retire when the time is right for them. Employers can now only set a fixed retirement age where it can be objectively justified in their particular circumstances, but this is open to challenge at tribunal.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>On 13 June we will be publishing \u2018Fuller Working Lives \u2013 A Framework for Action'. The document outlines the business case for people to work longer at an individual, business, societal and economic level, and sets out a number of new actions the Department will be taking forward to promote fuller working lives.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>(ii) Relevant Departmental evaluations on this issue concerning Jobcentre Plus include 'How ready is Jobcentre Plus to help people in their 60s to find work?' \u2013 <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-ready-is-jobcentre-plus-to-help-people-in-their-60s-find-work-ihr11\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-ready-is-jobcentre-plus-to-help-people-in-their-60s-find-work-ihr11<\/a> .<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Also, where possible surveys of benefit claimants are broken down by age, for example 'The Jobcentre Plus Offer: Final evaluation report' \u2013 <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/261656/rrep852.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/261656/rrep852.pdf<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/220", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Webb"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Age: Discrimination"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated relating to age discrimination in (i) the work place and (ii) Jobcentre Plus.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/437", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Sir David Crausby"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58434", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58434/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p /> <p /> <p>Statistics on pension credit are available from 100% data and are published on the Department's website at:<\/p><p> <\/p><p><a href=\"http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/pc/tabtool_pc.html\" target=\"_blank\">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/pc/tabtool_pc.html<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p>Guidance for users is available at:<\/p><p> <\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance<\/a><\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/220", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Webb"}
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