Emily Thornberry

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people referred to Help to Work since April 2014 have left the scheme after opening a claim for working tax credit.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people referred to Help to Work since April 2014 who have participated in (a) Community Work Placements and (b) Daily Work Search Review have subsequently been referred t

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people referred to the Work Programme since 2011 who had no classifiable qualifications at the time of their referral achieved a qualification before leaving that program

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) referrals to the Work Programme since 2011 and (b) current participants in the Work Programme had no classifiable qualifications at the time of their referral.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans that referral to welfare to work schemes will be voluntary for people with disabilities after the end of the current contracts for the Work Programme and Work Choice.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to maintain a separate programme of employment support for people with disabilities after the end of the current contracts for the Work Programme and Work Choice.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) start fees, (b) short placement completion fees, (c) long placement completion fees and (d) job outcome fees have been paid to providers of Community Work Placements under the Help to Work

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of participants in (a) the Mandatory Intervention Regime, (b) Community Work Placements and (c) Daily Work Search Review under the Help to Work scheme have been sanctioned s

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what organisations are providers of Community Work Placements under the Help to Work scheme.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether participants in Daily Work Search Review under the Help to Work scheme are set quotas for completing a minimum number of job applications.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times participants in the Mandatory Intervention Regime under the Help to Work scheme are required to attend appointments at Jobcentre Plus each week.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hours each week Jobcentre Plus work coaches are expected to spend with each participant in the Mandatory Intervention Regime under the Help to Work scheme.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Welfare to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what timetable his Department has set for drawing up contracts for new welfare to work schemes; and if he will make a statement.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Welfare to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of mental health charities on the design of contracts for new welfare to work schemes.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of sanctions on employment outcomes for people with disabilities.

23 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming which benefit have been referred to Help to Work since April 2014.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many working households in receipt of (a) working tax credit and (b) universal credit have marginal deduction rates of (i) less than 70, (ii) between 70 and 80, (iii) between 80 and 90 and (iv) more

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of households in receipt of universal credit who receive support for housing costs are also subject to all work-related requirements.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people currently in receipt of housing benefit in the private rented sector are also in receipt of (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) in

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new claims for housing benefit in the private rented sector in each of the last 10 years were made by people who were in work at the time they made their claim.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans the Government has to improve employment support for people with disabilities who are in receipt of the support component of employment and support allowance.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to set targets for measuring progress towards the goal of halving the disability employment gap.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how he plans to define (a) disability and (b) employment for the purposes of measuring the Government's progress towards halving the disability employment gap.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 November 2015 to Question 15090, how much his Department spent on costs associated with the roll-out of universal credit between October 2014 and October 2015.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to improve employment support for people who are classed as economically inactive due to long term sickness or disability.

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of tenants in the private rented sector were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last 10 years.

19 Nov 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Employment Tribunals Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people who made an employment tribunal claim for (a) non-payment of wages and (b) non-compliance with minimum wage legislation in each quarter since October 2013 applied for (i) an

19 Nov 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Employment Tribunals Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many claims were taken to an employment tribunal for (a) non-payment of wages and (b) non-compliance with minimum wage legislation in each of the last five years; and how many such claims were upheld in each

19 Nov 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

ACAS

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many early conciliation cases processed by Acas in each quarter since October 2013 related to disputes regarding (a) non-payment of wages and (b) non-compliance with minimum wage legis

19 Nov 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Employment Tribunals Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal claims for (a) non-payment of wages and (b) non-compliance with minimum wage legislation were made by women in each of the last five years.