Tag: Pamela Nash

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2015-02-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding has been provided to the Rapid Response Service in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years; and what the staffing level of that service was in each of those areas in those years.

Esther McVey

The overall funding for Rapid Response by DWP in the UK was:

· 2010-11 £7.100m

· 2011-12 £3.000m

· 2012-13 £4.037m

· 2013-14 £4.000m

This spend is captured at a National level and is unable to be split into Scotland and Wales data without a disproportionate cost to disaggregate. Northern Ireland is not within the jurisdiction of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Rapid response activities are part one of an advisor’s job so it is not possible to identify specific staff time utilised on Rapid Response.

Budget data can only be provided for the 4 years from 2010/ 11 to 2013/14 as historic changes in the accounting systems mean that 2009/10 information is not available.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency cases there are in each revised order of case closure; and when the estimated closure time is for each grouping.

Steve Webb

The table below shows an estimate of when the 800,000 Child Support Agency cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability will close.

Segment and Description	Volume	Start	End
Segment 1 – No child maintenance is liable for payment	156,000	January 2015	February 2016
Segment 2 – Paying parent is currently not paying maintenance	89,000	August 2015	June 2016
Segment 3 – Cases that are currently being managed outside of the two legacy systems	46,000	November 2015	March 2016
Segment 4 – Remaining legacy cases with no enforcement action	380,000	November 2015	September 2017
Segment 5 – Enforcement action is under way	129,000	July 2017	May 2018

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much he allocated to the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.

Jenny Willott

Since 1^st April 2012 the National Trading Standards Board (NTSB) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Units in England and Wales, and Trading Standards Scotland (TSS) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Unit in Scotland. The NTSB and TSS decide what proportion of their total grant funding (provided by BIS) should be allocated for delivery of these functions. Before April 2012 Government directly funded all three of the Illegal Money lending Teams.

Below are the budgets allocated to the Illegal Money Lending teams over the last four years.

	England	Wales	Scotland
2014/15	£3.60m	£0.63m	£0.4m
2013/14	£3.91m	£0.67m	£0.4m
2012/13	£4.13m	£0.59m	£0.38m
2011/12	£4.07m	£0.65m	£0.48m
2010/11	£4.07m	£0.65m	£0.48m

Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time and part-time staff were employed to work in the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which records are available.

Jenny Willott

The numbers of full-time and part-time staff that have been employed by the Illegal Money Lending Units in Scotland, England and Wales over the last four years are as follows:

	Full-Time		Part-Time (full time equivalents)
Financial Years	England	Wales	Scotland		Wales
2014/15	58	7	8		1.9
2013/14	63	7	8		1.9
2012/13	63	7	8		1.6
2011/12	50	6	8		0.8
2010/11	Unavailable	9	8		0.8

Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-05-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) North Lanarkshire and (d) Airdrie and Shotts constituency applied to the jobseeker’s allowance hardship regime and were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful in each of the last four years for which figures are available.

Esther McVey

This data is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-05-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, column 785W, on conditions of employment, what estimate he has made of the number of indirect employees of his Department who are on zero-hour contracts.

Stephen Hammond

My Department employs no individuals via contingent labour contracts on a zero hour basis.