Results 1-20 of 311 for mandatory work activity

Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL] — Second Reading (20 May 2013)

Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill: My Lords, I wish I could wholeheartedly welcome this Bill as the way forward to reduce reoffending, encourage people to live purposeful lives and save taxpayers' money, but I fear that in the end too little will be achieved. Instead, despite the best intentions of some in the Government, the Bill may set people up to fail, lead to longer sentences and put more people in prison. Of course,...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statements: North/South Ministerial Council:  Road Safety (30 April 2013)

Alex Attwood: In compliance with section 52 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, I wish to make the following statement on the fourteenth meeting of the North/South Ministerial Council (NSMC) in transport sectoral format, which was held in Armagh on Wednesday 17 April 2013.  Before doing so, it is fitting that I record that a further death, of someone aged 25, occurred on our roads in the past 24...

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties) (24 April 2013)

Jeremy Lefroy: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to enable local planning authorities to impose a mandatory financial penalty where planning permission has been deliberately breached; and for connected purposes. I recall, as a newly elected councillor in Newcastle-under-Lyme, being astonished to see a walled mansion being built in a particularly pleasant spot and being told by the ward...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment Schemes: Scotland (22 April 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Scotland were involved in the Mandatory Work Activity benefit scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the average number of working days worked was.

Public Bill Committee: Children and Families Bill: Clause 62 - SEN co-ordinators (16 April 2013)

Edward Timpson: The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. As I went around many parts of the country to talk to parents and visit pathfinder areas, that theme cropped up again and again. I said on Second Reading and in earlier debates in Committee that, important as the legislation is in setting the framework and putting in duties where they are needed in the system, we also need to be able to ignite a cultural...

Public Bill Committee: Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill: New Clause 1 - Leverage ratio (26 March 2013)

Greg Clark: My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I will come on to address the concern embodied in his intervention. However one defines or looks at them, some assets are palpably more risky than others. Whether in the past authorities had adequate arrangements to assess them, some assets can nevertheless be considered safer than others, which is the point of risk weighting. We must be sure to avoid...

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill — Committee (and remaining stages) (25 March 2013) See 3 other results from this debate

...of this Act coming into force, the Secretary of State will issue guidance on the way in which claimants may be entitled to mitigate any penalty imposed upon them under the 2011 Regulations or the Mandatory Work Activity Regulations following the coming into force of this Act."

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill — Second Reading (21 March 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord McKenzie of Luton: ...different standards should apply when benefit recipients are involved? For the avoidance of doubt, I should make it clear that we do not in principle oppose such schemes as the Work Programme or mandatory work activity and, indeed, we would have been responsible for some of the primary legislation which underpins the regulations in point, but we strongly criticise how the Government have...

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill: New Clause 1 — Report (19 March 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Hoban: ..., skills and enterprise—regulation schemes, 55,000 for not complying with training requirements or for not carrying out a jobcentre’s direction or for a failure to participate in mandatory work activity. The reason there is a range in the impact assessment is that we were trying to be helpful to the Committee. We used a combination of official statistics and an estimate based...

Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill: Clause 1 — Regulations and notices requiring participation in a scheme (19 March 2013)

Mark Hoban: ...their benefit will remain unchanged in all other matters. The clause sets out that any decision to sanction a claimant for failure to comply with the employment support allowance regulations or the mandatory work activity regulations cannot be challenged on the ground that the regulations are invalid or that the notices given under them are inadequate, notwithstanding the Court of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill (19 March 2013) See 11 other results from this debate

Liam Byrne: ...to, or agree with, the programmes that it has built on those foundations. We heard from the right hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark that the programmes now in place, not least the mandatory work activity, are seriously flawed, are malfunctioning and are not getting people back to work, especially in those communities where unemployment is at its worst. We will continue to argue...

Opposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — Tax Fairness: Apprenticeships (12 March 2013)

Gordon Marsden: We wait with bated breath to see what might occur in the Budget, and I hope that the Skills Minister might use his good offices with the Chancellor in that respect. Labour Members believe that this apprenticeship route has to be a high-quality one. We have to have that because we have had problems in the past with the duration of apprenticeships, and it took some time for the Government to...

NHS: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust — Question for Short Debate (11 March 2013)

Lord Willis of Knaresborough: My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for introducing this debate and for the measured way in which he did so. It behoves us not to begin a blame game but rather to pick up the recommendations of this superb report and act upon them. It is far more profitable. A few of us who were sat in another place during the time that this was going on raised the sorts of concerns that are...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (3rd Day) (6 March 2013)

Viscount Younger of Leckie: My Lords, Amendment 82, spoken to by the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, concerns sales of property through auctions. I shall turn to that shortly. Amendment 81A and the next group of amendments are aimed at two different types of activity. One is the letting and management of privately rented homes. The other is the management of residential leasehold properties. It is important to make...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (27 February 2013)

Mark Hoban: In answer to part (a) the information is as follows: Number of benefit claimants referred to the Work programme, mandatory work activity and community action programme and the number of benefit claimants that started work experience and sector-based work academies Work placement scheme Number Claimants referred   Mandatory Work Activity (May 2011 to August 2012) 68,430 ...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Incapacity Benefit (25 February 2013)

Mark Hoban: Jobcentre Plus delivers back to work support to claimants across all working age benefits. Jobcentre Plus advisers are able to offer claimants a comprehensive menu of help which can include skills provision, job search support and access to the flexible support fund. Advisers work with each claimant to judge which interventions will help them move into employment at the most appropriate point...

Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013 — Motion to Approve (13 February 2013)

Lord Freud: We are not defining this by saying that they are vulnerable people; we are asking how many touch points of support people have. The four groups that have a large number of touch points are people who are homeless or who have mental health problems, addiction problems or learning difficulties. They are the groups about whom I have particular concern about making sure there is support for them....

Tax Transparency (FTSE 100) (6 February 2013)

David Gauke: I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s constructive point. It is recognised that effective tax authorities are important. That feeds into political benefits as well, because a broad base of revenue raising will result in stronger political institutions that will be held accountable by the people of that developing country. I welcome his remarks and I know that he welcomes the measures that...

NHS Bodies and Local Authorities (Partnership Arrangements, Care Trusts, Public Health and Local Healthwatch) Regulations 2012: Motion to Regret (5 February 2013)

Earl Howe: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Collins, for raising his concerns and other noble Lords for following in his footsteps in sometimes very trenchant terms. A number of concerns have been raised about these regulations during the course of the debate and I will now do my best to address them in turn. A number of noble Lords reminded us of the critical importance of lay involvement in...

Animal Experiments — [Jim Sheridan in the Chair] (5 February 2013)

Mark Harper: My hon. Friend makes a good point. I was really only cautioning about the need to examine data and be careful about how we apply it. It is also worth commenting on the way statistics are set out, which was put into primary legislation. The most significant number relates to the breeding of genetically modified animals—largely mice. When the relevant table was designed, that was a small...