Tag: Emily Thornberry

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish statistics on the number of sanctions made in relation to jobseekers claiming universal credit.

Priti Patel

The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for UC. All statistics will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.

The latest official experimental statistics on UC and the Departments release strategy can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people affected by the benefit cap are participants in the work programme.

Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were affected by the benefit cap in August 2015 were also affected by the benefit cap in September 2013.

Justin Tomlinson

Benefit cap statistics for the period to August 2015 have been pre-announced for publication on 5th November 2015.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many branches of Jobcentre Plus employed at least one full-time equivalent (a) disability employment adviser and (b) income support adviser in each of the last five years.

Priti Patel

We are committed to doing all we can to ensure all those who can work into employment, including claimants of all backgrounds, lone parents and disabled people.

As part of our continuous improvement, we are rolling out the use of Work Coaches across Jobcentre Plus who are trained in all areas. This means that a claimant remains with the same adviser (Work Coach) regardless of their journey within the benefit system. As a result, the need for some specific advisers is reducing.

The number of Jobcentre Plus branches employing at least one full-time equivalent Disability Employment Adviser and Income Support Adviser in each of the last five years is in the table below.

Year	Number of Jobcentres Employing at least One Full-Time Equivalent Disability Employment Advisor	Number of Jobcentres Employing at least One Full-Time Equivalent Income Support Adviser
2011/12	226	474
2012/13	190	384
2013//14	145	357
2014/15	118	443
2015/16 (part year)	90	441

1. The numbers for 2015/16 are for the period April to September 2015.
2. Source of management information: DWP Work Services Activity Based Management Tool.
3. The management information contained within this document does not form part of any official statistics and is intended for DWP internal use only.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many income support advisers were employed by Jobcentre Plus in each of the last five years.

Priti Patel

The number of Income Support Advisers that were employed by Jobcentre Plus in each of the last five years is in the table.

Period/Year	Number of Income Support Advisors that were employed by Jobcentre Plus
2011/12	1,305
2012/13	1,088
2013//14	983
2014/15	1,172
2015/16 (part year only)	1,209

1. The numbers for 2015/16 are for the period April to September 2015.
2. The numbers of advisers are expressed as Full Time Equivalents.
3. Source of management information: DWP Work Services Activity Based Management Tool.
4. The management information contained within this document does not form part of any official statistics and is intended for DWP internal use only.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to respond to the fourth Report of the Work and Pensions Committee of Session 2013-14, Support for housing costs in the reformed welfare system, HC 479.

Justin Tomlinson

Following the General Election the Work and Pensions Select Committee has a new membership and a new Chair. The treatment of any inquiries conducted by the Committee during the last Parliament is a matter for the new Committee to consider.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which employers who have provided work placements for participants in (a) help to work and (b) mandatory work activity since the start of programme in question.

Priti Patel

The Department does not disclose details of organisations who have provided work experience placements for participants in Help to Work and Mandatory Work Activity.

Contracted providers source work placements for individuals referred to Help to Work Community Work Placements and Mandatory Work Activity. The names of the contracted providers are published on Gov.uk.

Mandatory Work Activity contracted providers:
https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/166545/

Help to Work contracted providers:
https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/search/?q=Community+Work+Placements

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to respond to the fifth Report of the Work and Pensions Committee of Session 2014-15, Benefit sanctions policy beyond the Oakley review, HC 814.

Priti Patel

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 2 July 2015 to Question 3938

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish equality impact assessments for the proposals in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

Priti Patel

The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. These are available on the Parliament website.

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) investigations were carried out, (b) individuals were charged, (c) corporates were charged, (d) criminal prosecutions were launched and (e) criminal convictions were secured by the Serious Fraud Office in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) each of the five preceding years.

Mr Robert Buckland

11 convictions were secured in 2013/14 and 16 prosecutions were completed in 2013/14 (including those with convictions).

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigates and, where appropriate, prosecutes cases of serious or complex fraud (including cases of domestic or overseas bribery and corruption) which, in the opinion of the Director of the SFO, call for the multi-disciplinary approach and legislative powers available to the SFO. Since April 2012, the SFO’s caseload has been recalibrated so that it is taking on fewer and more complex cases, as envisaged by the Roskill model.

The SFO’s Intelligence Unit will assess all matters referred to the SFO whether by the public, the police or other agencies or organisations and refer those considered suitable for acceptance to a Case Evaluation Board before submission to the Director for his decision to open a criminal investigation under the Criminal Justice Act 1987.

SFO investigations are complex, and this can sometimes lead to investigations merging or splitting into different parts. For instance, the Libor investigation is into numerous financial institutions, and there are other large investigations which have been subdivided.

The information requested for earlier years is contained in the following table.

	2012/13	2011/12	2010/11	2009/10	2008/09	2007/08
Number of investigations opened	8	10	13	17	20	18
Number of individuals charged	18	24	25	57	31	20
Number of corporates charged	0	0	1	2	0	1
Number of convictions secured	14	39	23	24	33	17
Number of prosecutions completed by defendant (including those convicted)	20	54	28	26	54	25

Note 1: Two cases have been opened, closed, and then re-opened. These have been counted only once in the data above.

Note 2: Prior to April 2012 the SFO did not collate all of its casework data centrally and it is therefore possible that some records form this period may not have been identified. The SFO is currently carrying out a project to ensure that its reporting systems are more robust in the future.