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Nato: Pensions Bill (17 June 2013)

Sheila Gilmore: ...maturity—on the best 20 years of people’s earnings, which would have been particularly beneficial not just for those with caring responsibilities, but for other people with interrupted work patterns, perhaps through illness or unemployment. That issue has not been resolved by any other proposal. I would argue, therefore, that much of what has made this step forward possible has...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Employment and Support Allowance (13 June 2013)

Mark Hoban: The Department regularly publishes official statistics on employment and support allowance (ESA), the work capability assessment (WCA) and the reassessment of incapacity benefit claimants. The latest report was published in April 2013 and can be found on the internet at the following link: http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/workingage/esa_wca/esa_wca_ 20130430.xls Note that table 10 shows the...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Capability Assessment (13 June 2013)

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what specialist training is provided to Atos assessors making work capability assessments on understanding the needs of individuals with mental health disorders; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Capability Assessment: Appeals (13 June 2013)

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people died before their appeal against a work capability assessment conducted by Atos was heard in each year since 2010.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Work Capability Assessment: Warrington (13 June 2013)

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many appeals against the outcome of work capability assessments carried out by Atos were made in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency in each year since 2010; what the cost of those appeals to the public purse was; and what proportion of such appeals were successful.

Business without Debate: Work Capability Assessments (12 June 2013) See 5 other results from this debate

Mark Hoban: ...being unusually helpful and supplying a copy of her speech to my office in advance. I hope that that will enable us to engage in a reasoned debate on how we are to introduce the audio recording of work capability assessments. It is important, and we must get it right. It accords firmly with our commitment to improving the WCA process continuously. The interest in audio recording that has...

Written Answers — Health: Cancer (12 June 2013)

Anna Soubry: ...Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2012-12 will be published in summer 2013. The results of the Survey will continue to support the improvement of the local national health service. NHS IQ will be working on the design and testing of an improvement framework for engaging, involving and improving experience of care, a capability building programme for commissioners and providers, and specific...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Benefits: Bassetlaw (12 June 2013)

Mark Hoban: ...support allowance (ESA) is not based on an individual's diagnosis or the nature of their particular disabling condition, but rather on the way that condition limits their ability to function. The work capability assessment assesses the effects of a person's condition on their ability to carry out a number of everyday activities. In the case of someone with drug or alcohol dependency, needs...

Children and Families Bill: New Clause 10 — Childcare costs scheme: preparatory expenditure (11 June 2013)

Elizabeth Truss: ...in due course. Childminder agencies will be a one-stop shop, meaning that there will be a simpler process for childminders entering the profession, without the large up-front costs that put many capable people off. We are working closely with childminders and other providers, including those interested in setting up agencies, and with Ofsted, as we develop details of how agencies might...

SMEs (Public Sector Procurement) — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (11 June 2013)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...mythology about why we cannot do things with procurement for SMEs, and those myths are used as the excuse not to do anything. We first need to shatter some of the myths, and then say to those who work in procurement departments, “There is no excuse. We will encourage, support, offer guidance and put in place, when necessary, light-touch regulatory approaches, but you need to get on...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Overseas Trade: BRIC Countries (11 June 2013)

Michael Fallon: ...Britain can take advantage of opportunities for future prosperity through bilateral trade and investment with Brazil, Russia, India and China. Following on from this, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, deployed a range of criteria in its 2011 corporate strategy to assess which emerging and high growth markets to focus on. These included:...

Written Answers — House of Lords: St Helena (11 June 2013)

Baroness Northover: A review to assess the progress of St Helena’s infrastructure programme was conducted in February 2012. The review found that while work on the energy sector was progressing well and meeting quality standards, the majority of the programme was not progressing as expected and overall was not providing value for money. Following the review DfID has been working with the St Helena...

Care Bill [HL]: Committee (2nd Day) (Continued) (10 June 2013)

Earl Howe: The answer is twofold. First, the Care Quality Commission inspects every care home to a uniform standard. One of its duties is to ensure that the staff in a care home are sufficiently capable and trained to deliver care in the right way to the patients and service users who live there, taking into account the acuity of need of those people. Secondly, as the noble Lord may be aware, the...

Defence: Better Defence Acquisition — Statement (10 June 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Lord Astor of Hever: ...to share its expertise but to be held accountable for delivery will, we believe, deliver far greater effect than a wholly public sector set-up. We are testing that right now. This is very much the assessment phase—a decision will be made next year—and we are in listening and learning mode. There are a lot of experts in this House who know a great deal about this subject. We are...

GCHQ: Better Defence Acquisition (10 June 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Jim Murphy: ...a new budgetary discipline, whereby deferred decisions that increase cost are accounted for within a rolling 10-year cycle, and increased certainty for industry over sovereign and off-the-shelf capabilities. Labour Members are open-minded about how that is achieved, but I wish to be clear that welcoming this process today is not the same thing as supporting a GoCo in principle. There needs...

Government Communications Headquarters — Statement (10 June 2013)

Lord Wallace of Saltaire: ...which my right honourable friend the Foreign Secretary has just been making in the House of Commons. The Statement is as follows. “Mr Speaker, with permission, I will make a Statement on the work of the Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ, its legal framework and recent publicity about it. As Foreign Secretary, I am responsible for the work of GCHQ and the Secret...

GCHQ (10 June 2013)

William Hague: With permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement on the work of the Government Communications Headquarters—GCHQ—its legal framework and recent publicity about it. As Foreign Secretary, I am responsible for the work of GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service—MI6—under the overall authority of the Prime Minister. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (10 June 2013)

Mark Hoban: People undertaking study or training will be eligible for universal credit provided the course is compatible with the work-related requirements appropriate in their case and it is not: a course of non-advanced education or training undertaken by a young person whose parent would be eligible for the child element of UC; a full-time course of advanced education, or another full-time course for...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit: Young People (10 June 2013)

Mark Hoban: ...own right both where they are living with their parents and where they are not: those with dependent children—lone parents or couples; sick or disabled young people who have satisfied the work capability assessment or are waiting to be assessed with medical evidence; those who are caring for a severely disabled person; and young women who are pregnant between 11 weeks before and 15...