The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-04-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants making the transition from employment and support allowance to jobseeker’s allowance have received a decision assurance call; and what the outcome was of each such call.
Priti Patel
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-05-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of work capability assessments were carried out within 13 weeks of submission of a new employment and support allowance claim in the latest period for which figures are available.
Priti Patel
Official statistics for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) processing times are not readily available and to provide the information requested would incur disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-07-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people working for her Department or its executive agencies on a (a) directly employed, (b) agency or (c) outsourced basis are paid less than the living wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation; and how many of those people are employed on zero-hours contracts.
Sarah Newton
All permanent members of staff directly employed by the Home Office and its agencies are paid the Living Wage Foundation rates or above. The Home Office and its agencies do not retain any directly employed staff on zero-hour contracts.
All temporary agency staff are employed in accordance with the Agency Workers Regulations which ensures parity with directly employed staff after 12 weeks. Starting pay rates comply with the requirements of the current Government Living Wage legislation; this is a contractual obligation on the supplier and is monitored through contract compliance mechanisms.
The Home Office only requires its outsourced contractors to comply with the legal minimum standards of pay of their staff as set out in the Government National Living Wage legislation; again this is a contractual obligation on the supplier and is monitored through contract compliance mechanisms and annually through out supplier assurance programme.
The Home Office does not however require outsourced contractors to pay the Living Wage Foundation rates or requires or monitors that such outsourced contractors do not employ staff on zero hours contracts.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of people released from each prison in England and Wales (i) reoffended and (ii) went into employment within six months of their release in each of the last five years.
Mr Sam Gyimah
Information on the employment status of prisoners beyond the point of release is not available centrally and can only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
All other information requested can be found on GOV.UK.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many places were available for new entrants to study medicine in England in each year between 2010 and 2015; and how many places for new entrants to study medicine are planned to be available in each year between 2016 and 2020.
Ben Gummer
The number of places available for new entrants to study medicine in England from 2010 to 2015 are as follows:
|
Year (academic) |
Commissions |
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2010/11 |
6,195 |
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2011/12 |
6,195 |
|
2012/13 |
6,195 |
|
2013/14 |
6,071 |
|
2014/15 |
6,071 |
|
2015/16 |
6,071 |
Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England, Medical and Dental Survey
The number of medical students planned for 2016/17 entry to undergraduate training in England is 6,071. Health Education England (HEE) will be establishing a review of medical student numbers as part of their wider workforce planning process to inform future year intakes. Any changes to student intakes will require careful consideration by HEE, Department of Health, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications were received per individual training place in England for (a) nurses and (b) midwives in each year between 2010 and 2015.
Ben Gummer
Information relating to the number of applications for pre-registration nursing and midwifery training is not collected by the Department.
Information on applications and admissions to full time education courses in the United Kingdom is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of people claiming, or applying for, Employment and Support Allowance, who are found fit for work, are then refused Jobseeker’s Allowance because they are judged by Jobcentre Plus as being not fit for work.
Priti Patel
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-26.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of migrants residing in the UK who claim benefits on behalf of children living abroad by country of residence of the child.
Damian Hinds
I refer the hon Member to the answer that I gave to the hon member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) on 16 June 2015:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2015 to Question 11226, for what reasons decisions were not made on 118,039 of the applications his Department received in the period between October 2014 and September 2015 for Short Term Benefit Advance.
Priti Patel
We only collect limited data on those requests for a Short Term Benefit Advances that are refused although we do know that the vast majority of refusals are either because:
(i) There was a doubt about whether the claimant would be entitled to the benefit being claimed and, therefore, we could not be sure that there was any benefit to advance or
(ii) Actual benefit was paid instead, which is a better outcome for the claimant.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2015-10-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are entitled to receive free school meals but do not receive them.
Mr Sam Gyimah
The January 2015 census recorded that there were 2,755,021 children registered for free school meals (FSM). We do not hold information on the number of FSM entitled pupils who did not receive a school meal.
Further information is available in the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015
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