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Name Lead organisation Status Region ISB Funding (£000)

Round 1 (announced 1999)

ONE: Single Work focused interview

Employment Service

Completed: Discontinued

National

79,540

Employment Service regional call centre

Employment Service

Completed: Discontinued

National

2,912

Better govt prototypes for Older people

Benefits Agency

Completed: Discontinued

National

804

Round 2 (announced 2000)

Call centre for Health and Safety Communication

HSE

Completed: Continued

National

448

Claims checking and completion Service

Benefits Agency

Completed: Discontinued

North West

142

Better govt for older people (Integrated Advice and Support Services for Pensioners)

Benefits Agency

Completed: Discontinued

National

76

Prisoners Passport service

Benefits Agency

Completed: Continued

North East

18

Round 3 (announced2001)

Net based Control of Hazards

HSE

Completed: Discontinued

National

200

National Height Model

HSE

Completed: Continued

National

100

Chemical Control for Health and Safety

HSE

Completed: Discontinued

National

250

Document Scanning and e-mail

DSS

Completed: Discontinued

North East

95

Internet benefit advice and digital TV/e-mail

Benefits Agency

Completed: Discontinued

National

514

Internet benefit advice and digital TV/e-mail

Benefits Agency

Completed: Discontinued

National

1,875

Round 4 (announced 2002)

Electronic Health and Safety tools for Business Support Network

HSE

Completed: Discontinued

National

535

Electronic Risk Assessment

HSE

Completed: Continued

National

90

Performance Framework for administering HB/CTB

Benefit Fraud Inspectorate

Completed: Continued

National

187

Performance Improvement Action Teams for LA administering

Benefit Fraud Inspectorate

Completed: Discontinued

National

1,003

Flexible Employment Service Delivery: Prisons

Employment Service

Completed: Continued

National

1,000

Encouraging older people into NHS employment

DWP

Completed: Discontinued

National

99

Assisting in processing claims and backlogs of work

DWP

Completed: Discontinued

National

2,750

Sharing data between social landlords and Welfare advice agencies

Southampton City Council

Completed: Discontinued

South East

305

Round 5 (announced 2003)

None

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Round 6 (announced 2004)

None

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Round 7 (announced 2005)

Rural Challenge

SERVE (Care in the Community)

Completed: Discontinued

East Midlands

99

Link Age Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire CC

Completed: Discontinued

East Midlands

478

Trellis

The Employability Forum

Completed: Discontinued

West Midlands

645

Building Future Jobs Eco-system (BTEG)

Black Training and Enterprise Group

Completed: Discontinued

London

3,926

Narrowing the Gap

QED-UK

Completed: Discontinued

Yorkshire and Humber

1,500

Workout PECAN

PECAN Ltd.

In Progress

London

1,773

Supporting Refugee Professionals

Refugees into jobs

In Progress

London

934

Round 8 (announced 2006)

Choices and well-being

SAFE (Southampton Action For Employment)

In Progress

South East

240

Round 9 (announced 2007)

Single Homelessness Enterprise Project

LB Camden

In Progress

London

595

Aspire

Welwyn Hatfield Council

In Progress

East of England

150

Notes:
1. Information has been taken from local records held by DWP and HM Treasury officials.
2. ‘Region’ information refers to the Government office region.
3. ISB funding shown is rounded to the nearest thousand pounds.
4. The information in respect of name, lead organisation and ISB funding is consistent with documents published on the ISB website at: www.isb.gov.uk

Further information on the projects can be found on the Invest to Save website at: www.isb.gov.uk (including “A Review of the Invest to Save Budget: An innovation fund for public services”).

Jobcentre Plus: Crimes Against Property

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many times criminal damage has taken place in Jobcentre Plus premises in each Jobcentre Plus district in each month since the creation of Jobcentre Plus; and what estimate he has made of
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the costs to his Department arising from such criminal damage. [249421]

Mr. McNulty: Under the terms of the Department's estate PFI (private finance initiative) prime contract, responsibility for meeting the costs of repairing damage to Jobcentre Plus buildings falls to our estates partner, Trillium. No central records are kept of instances of criminal damage, and the associated costs of repair, and this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Jobcentre Plus: Glasgow

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people (a) used services provided by and (b) found employment through Jobcentre Plus offices in Glasgow North West constituency in 2008. [251704]

Mr. McNulty: The information requested is not available.

Jobcentre Plus: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average distance from a benefit claimant’s house to a Jobcentre Plus office was (a) in the UK and (b) in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency in each of the last five years. [251470]

Mr. McNulty: The information is not available.

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people worked at Nairn Jobcentre Plus in each of the 60 months before it was closed. [251473]

Mr. McNulty: The information is not available

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people worked at Inverness Jobcentre Plus office in each of the last 60 months. [251474]

Mr. McNulty: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the Acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus, Mel Groves. I have asked him to provide the hon. Member with the information requested.

Letter from Mel Groves:


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Number of staff employed at Inverness Jobcentre Plus office (full time equivalents)
Month Staff in post

September 2007

58

October 2007

57

November 2007

57

December 2007

58

January 2008

57

February 2008

57

March 2008

57

April 2008

54

May 2008

59

June 2008

60

July 2008

61

August 2008

64

September 2008

62

October 2008

61

November 2008

61

December 2008

61

Source:
Highlands, Islands, Clyde Coast and Grampian District Jobcentre Plus

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