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  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-05-01.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he takes to monitor whether Work Programme prime providers fulfil their minimum service standards; and if he will make a statement.

    Esther McVey

    The Department has developed a clearly defined compliance monitoring regime which commits to an appropriate level of checking for each of the 40 Work Programme contract package areas.

    The compliance management team work closely with Work Programme performance managers to ensure clear factual information is available for consideration as part of monthly Contract Performance Reviews with providers.

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-05.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants in the Employment and Support Allowance Work Related Activity Group are currently on the Work Programme; and how many such claimants had the period before they were fit for work assessed as (a) up to three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to 12 months and (d) over 12 months.

    Esther McVey

    The information we have in respect of both referrals and attachments, by prognosis group, are given in the table below:

    Number of Work Programme Referrals and Attachments by ESA prognosis Customer Groups, Great Britain: 1 June 2011 – 31 December 2013

    ESA Prognosis Customer Group

    Referrals

    Attachments

    All ESA WRAG

    242,510

    234,210

    ESA (c) WRAG Mandatory

    10,470

    9,990

    ESA (c) WRAG Voluntary

    1,060

    1,040

    ESA (IR) WRAG 12Mth Mandatory

    37,370

    35,560

    ESA (IR) WRAG 12Mth Voluntary

    1,970

    1,900

    ESA (IR) WRAG 3/6Mth Existing

    5,470

    5,230

    ESA (IR) WRAG 3/6 Mth Mandatory

    98,290

    96,100

    ESA (IR) WRAG 3/6 Mth Voluntary

    750

    730

    ESA (IR) WRAG 3/6 Mth Mandatory ExIB

    23,230

    22,590

    ESA (IR) WRAG 3/6 Mth Voluntary ExIB

    210

    210

    ESA Mandatory (IR) WRAG 12m

    42,710

    40,840

    ESA (IR) WRAG 12m Mandatory EXIB

    20,980

    20,040

    ESA Credit Only

    230

    210

    ESA (IR) Support Group

    360

    350

    ESA (c) Support Group

    100

    100

    ESA (IR) Support Group ExIB

    100

    100

    ESA (c) Support Group ExIB

    100

    90

         

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-17.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials have acted as Senior Responsible Officer for the Universal Credit project since 2010.

    Esther McVey

    Five officials have acted as Senior Responsible Officer for the Universal Credit project since 2010.

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-17.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of homes in the UK served by fibre to the home broadband services.

    Mr Edward Vaizey

    Ofcom monitors and publishes broadband coverage data for the UK indicated in its 2013 UK fixed broadband market report that superfast broadband was available to 73% of UK premises. Ofcom did not, however, publish a separate figure for the number of homes with fibre to the home broadband services.

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-03-14.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on the Jobcentre estate in 2012-13.

    Mike Penning

    It is not possible to provide a figure specifically for the delivery of Jobcentre business, as other parts of the Department, such as staff from the Corporate Centre, the Pensions Service and Child Maintenance Divisions are co-located in Jobcentre sites, and each business unit pays for their space proportionate to their occupancy.

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-03-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have been given a prognosis that engagement in work is unlikely in the longer term have been placed in the work-related activity group for employment and support allowance since October 2008.

    Mike Penning

    The information requested is shown in the table below:

    Outcomes of functional assessments by prognosis of 2 years or more for the ESA work-related activity group, Great Britain: October 2008 – September 2013

    WRAG: Claimants with a prognosis of 2 years or more

    New Claims – Initial assessment

    11,800

    New Claims – Repeat assessment

    19,700

    Incapacity Benefit Reassessments

    73,100

    Source: Data in the tables above is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.

    Notes:

    1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

    2. The outcome recorded is the final DWP Decision Maker’s decision or the recommendation made by the Atos Healthcare Professional where the Decision Maker’s decision is not yet available.

    3. The data presented above comes from benefit claims data held by the Department for Work and Pensions. It related to new and repeat ESA claims and Incapacity Benefit (IB) claims reassessments. In October 2008, ESA replaced IB for new claims. Starting with a trial in October 2010, and reaching a full scale national roll-out in April 2011, existing IB claims began to be phased out, with claimants reassessed to see if they qualify for ESA instead.

    The reassessment of existing incapacity benefits claimants started in October 2010 with a trial in the Burnley and Aberdeen areas. These are included in the table.

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-03-31.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding the European Social Fund will contribute to community work placement contracts in England for 2014-15.

    Esther McVey

    We have been allocated up to £60M in 2007-2013 ESF programme funding to help support people back into employment through community work placements.

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-04-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much time someone enrolled on the new enterprise allowance spends with a mentor.

    Esther McVey

    The pre-start-up mentoring phase on the New Enterprise Allowance usually lasts for 8 weeks, although this can be extended to 12 in exceptional circumstances.

    Post-start up mentoring support is also available throughout the first six months of trading.

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-04-29.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what funding is currently allocated to the Youth Contract; and what proportion of that funding is allocated for wage incentives.

    Esther McVey

    Our 2014/15 budget allocation for Youth Contract is £183.75m, of which £42.55m is currently allocated to Wage Incentives (23.2%).

  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-05-01.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in budgeting loans was spent in each region of the UK in each of the last six years.

    Steve Webb

    Table 1 provides the Budgeting Loan expenditure in each region of Great Britain in the financial years from 2008/09 to 2013/14.

    Information regarding annual expenditure for Social Fund schemes in Northern Ireland is a matter for Northern Ireland office and is not included in the figures below. Figures are therefore given for Great Britain and not the United Kingdom.

    Table 1: Budgeting Loan expenditure by region between 2008/09 and 2013/14

    Budgeting Loan Expenditure per Region (£ million)

    2008/09

    2009/10

    2010/11

    2011/12

    2012/13

    2013/14

    East of England

    28.4

    30.3

    27.9

    29.1

    30.0

    27.6

    East Midlands

    30.4

    34.8

    33.1

    33.2

    34.2

    30.5

    London

    64.0

    64.9

    58.9

    57.5

    54.0

    47.7

    North East

    31.2

    34.3

    31.9

    32.6

    33.8

    31.2

    North West

    69.6

    72.4

    65.1

    65.3

    69.0

    62.8

    Scotland

    49.0

    51.9

    48.5

    48.3

    49.2

    44.5

    South East

    36.3

    38.1

    36.6

    37.1

    37.7

    33.7

    South West

    24.6

    27.1

    23.9

    23.5

    23.3

    21.3

    Wales

    28.7

    30.8

    27.9

    27.8

    28.3

    26.9

    West Midlands

    49.1

    53.1

    49.3

    48.5

    48.7

    45.3

    Yorkshire and the Humber

    43.5

    44.4

    43.0

    44.6

    47.1

    44.7

    Total

    454.9

    482.3

    445.9

    447.5

    455.3

    416.3

    Notes

    1. The information provided is (internal)Management Information. Our preference is to answer all Parliamentary Questions using Official / National Statistics but in this case we only have Management Information available. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official / National statistics, nor does it include the same depth of information. For example the MI does not include expenditure on applications which were processed clerically and have not been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.

    2. All figures have been rounded to the nearest £100,000. Figures may not sum due to rounding.