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Mr. Willetts: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he expects the new CSA rules to come into force for new cases. [47818]
Malcolm Wicks: I refer the hon. Member to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on 20 March 2002, Official Report, columns 31516.
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in which locations Action Teams for Jobs are in operation. [47926]
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Mr. Nicholas Brown: The 63 Action Teams for Jobs are in the following locations.
Birmingham North
Birmingham South
Blackburn with Darwen
Blaenau Gwent
Brent
Brighton and Hove
Caerphilly
Chester-le-Street
Cornwall
Doncaster
Dundee, City of
Easington
East Ayrshire
Greenwich
Glasgow Central
Glasgow North
Glasgow South
Glasgow West
Hackney
Halton
Hartlepool
Haringey
Highlands and Islands
Islington
Kingston-upon-Hull
Knowsley
Lambeth
Lewisham
Liverpool Central
Liverpool North
Liverpool South
Manchester Central
Manchester North
Manchester South
Merthyr Tydfil
Middlesbrough
Neath Port Talbot
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newham
North Lanarkshire
North West Wales
Nottingham, City of
Pembrokeshire
Plymouth
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Rhondda, Cynon, Taff
Salford
Sefton
Sheffield
South Tyneside
Southwark
St. Helens
Stockton-on-Tees
Sunderland
Thanet
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wansbeck
West Dunbartonshire
Wales Objective One 1
Wirral
Wolverhampton
1 Covers areas of Wales with European Social Fund Objective One status which are not part of another Action Team. Includes selected wards in Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Torfaen and Swansea.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what new initiatives his Department has taken in 200102 to assist in achieving its Public Service Agreement targets. [47178]
Mr. Nicholas Brown [holding answer 10 April 2002]: Information about progress on PSA targets will be published in the Department's 2002 departmental report.
Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what action he is taking to harmonise and disseminate national definitions of disability for statistical and policy purposes. [48815]
Maria Eagle: Different definitions of disability and conditions of entitlement are in use within UK legislation and for relevant schemes and services. There are no plans to seek to harmonise these because they serve different purposes and reflect the fact that disability affects people in many different ways and to greatly differing degrees.
Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to enhance input by psychologists into the vocational rehabilitation service. [48820]
Maria Eagle: Jobcentre Plus employs approximately 80 occupational psychologists in its disability service. Their role is partly to help clients with disabilities who have particular problems in finding or keeping suitable employment, and partly to assist the network of disability employment advisers and access to work advisers. The psychologists' work has been reviewed over the past three years. As a result improvements have been introduced, especially to their work with clients who have mental health problems, dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities and with people who have sustained head injuries.
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Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a progress statement on the job retention pilot studies. [48821]
Mr. Nicholas Brown: Nine organisations were funded to develop and test the feasibility of their proposals for the job retention pilot studies during the three months ending on 15 March 2002. The detailed bids are currently being considered, together with a report on the evaluation methodology.
Mr. Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he intends to reply to the letter dated 4 March from the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan regarding his constituent, Mr. Light, of Banffshire. [50072]
Alan Johnson: I have been asked to reply.
I am currently considering the matters raised by the hon. Member as they more appropriately fall within my responsibility and will write to him shortly.
Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the rise in the minimum income guarantee has been since 1997 after taking account of inflation. [45913]
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Mr. McCartney [pursuant to the reply, 10 April 2002, c. 228W]: The minimum income guarantee was introduced in 1999. Since 1999, annual rises in the minimum income guarantee have been linked to earnings. The rises, after taking into account inflation increases and the differences in the premiums paid, are shown in the table.
Single | Couple | |
---|---|---|
April 1997 | n/a | n/a |
April 1998 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
April 1999 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
April 2000 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
April 2001 | 15.9 | 13.7 |
April 2002 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which of his Department's projects have received sponsorship since 1997, including (a) details of the sponsor, (b) the nature of the project, (c) the date of the project, (d) the total cost of the project and (e) the amount of money involved in the sponsorship deal. [48400]
Mr. Nicholas Brown [holding answer 11 April 2002]: In line with the Government's commitment in its response to the Sixth report from the Committee on Standards in Public Life, details on individual amounts of sponsorship valued at more than £5,000 will be disclosed in Departmental annual reports.
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Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what meetings he has had and representations he has received, by date and subject, from Members of the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Executive, regarding the increased use of private sector funding on delivering public services, broken down by date and subject. [43219]
Mr. Hutton: No meetings have been held with Members of the National Assembly for Wales, or the Welsh Assembly Executive, nor representations received
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from them regarding the increased use of private sector funding on delivering public services.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on advertising by his Department in each of the last five years; and if he will give a breakdown of the largest items of expenditure in each year. [37607]
Ms Blears [holding answer 20 February 2002]: Major advertising campaigns commissioned by the Communications Directorate are in the table as follows.
199697 | 199798 | 199899 | 19992000 | 200001 | (17)200102 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nurse and other staff recruitment | 1.43 | 1.30 | 4.90 | 4.21 | 4.90 | 6.00 |
Organ and blood donation | 0.38 | 0.62 | 2.47 | (18)0.69 | 0.43 | 0.18 |
Mental health | | | | | | 0.18 |
Smoking cessation | | | | (19)6.18 | 8.97 | (20)7.79 |
Anti-fraud | | | 0.38 | | 0.18 | 0 |
Flu immunisation | | | | | 2.01 | 1.45 |
NHS Direct | | 0.12 | 0.78 | 1.24 | 0.28 | 1.25 |
Appropriately prescribed medicine (ie antibiotics) | | | | 0.91 | | 0.44 |
Others | 0.58 | | | 2.08 | 4.20 | 2.52 |
Total | 2.39 | 2.04 | 8.53 | 15.31 | 20.97 | 19.81 |
(17) Planned (to be updated).
(18) The Department's spend on blood donation advertising reduced in 19992000 because most of this activity was funded directly by the National Blood Authority, who took over full responsibility for this expenditure on 1 April 2000.
(19) Prior to 19992000 advertising on smoking was undertaken by the Health Education Authority (HEA).
(20) Including Asian specialist press.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the publicity and advertising campaigns run by his Department in each of the last four years, specifying the (a) purpose, (b) cost to public funds, (c) number of staff involved and (d) method of evaluation in each case. [39101]
Ms Blears: I refer the hon. Member to an answer I gave the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) today, which listed, with costs the major advertising campaigns run by the Department for the period in question.
The table shows the purpose and method of evaluation for each campaign.
(21) The National Blood Authority (NBA) took over full responsibility of this campaign on 1 April 2000.
(22) Prior to 19992000 advertising on smoking was undertaken by the Health Education Authority.
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It is not possible to provide a breakdown of staff by each individual campaign. However the numbers of staff employed in the project management of advertising campaigns and publicity campaigns on 1 January each year are as follows:
1 January 2000: 21
1 January 2001: 28 1
1 January 2002: 31.
1 The Department took on direct control for a number of public health campaigns including Smoking Cessation with the closure of the Health Education Authority on 31 March 2000.
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