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Towns in Scotland with advisers in GPs surgeries
Aberdeen
Airdrie
Ayr
Blantyre
Coatbridge
Cumbernauld
Cummnock
Dalmellington
Dumfries
Dundee
Edinburgh
Galston
Girvan
Glasgow
Greenock
Irvine
Moffat
Paisley
Patna
Portland, Kilmarnock
Rutherglen
Stranraer.
For Scotland, information about the number of whole time equivalent advisers who have worked in GPs surgeries is in the following table. Funding for the project is not ring-fenced but comes from outreach work budgets. Therefore, associated costs such as risk assessment will be part of this spend and mirror the costs incurred for the main project. The cost of the personal advisers is met from general Jobcentre Plus staff cost budgets. It is planned to continue to provide the equivalent of nine full-time advisers for the foreseeable future.
| Whole - time equivalent number of advisers which have worked in GPs surgeries in each of the following years in Scotland | |
| Number | |
Employment: Coastal Areas
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of levels of under-employment in English coastal towns. [252929]
Mr. McNulty: The Department has made no assessment of under-employment in seaside towns.
Employment: Hertfordshire
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many job vacancies were notified to Jobcentre Plus in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008. [255641]
Mr. McNulty: The information is in the following table:
| As at December each year | Hemel Hempstead | Hertfordshire |
| Notes: 1. These are not whole economy figures. Coverage relates just to vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus and as such represent a market share of vacancies throughout the whole economy. This proportion varies over time, according to the occupation of the vacancy and industry of the employer, and by local area. 2. Notified vacancies include any speculative placings recorded by Jobcentre Plus. Datasets from May 2006 may reflect substantially reduced levels of speculative placings as part of the notified series. Consequently, care should be taken in interpreting time-series data. 3. Data are unrounded. 4. Comprehensive estimates of all job vacancies (not just those notified to Jobcentre Plus) are available from the monthly ONS Vacancy Survey since April 2001, based on a sample of some 6,000 enterprises. However, the ONS survey is currently designed to provide national estimates only. 5. Interpretation of these data needs to take account of changes in recent years to Jobcentre Plus procedures for taking and handling vacancies. These figures are not fully comparable over time and may not indicate developments in the labour market. A more detailed explanation is available on the NOMIS website: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/Default.asp Source: Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System. | ||
Employment: North East
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many vacancies for positions within the Jobcentre Plus network have been advertised in each of the last 12 months in the North East; and what proportion of those were advertised in local newspapers. [254914]
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.
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question asking how many vacancies for positions within the Jobcentre Plus network have been advertised in each of the last 12 months in the North East and what proportion of those were advertised in local newspapers. This is something that falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
The table below gives the total number of vacancies in the North East Region of Jobcentre Plus, and the number and proportion of these that are externally advertised through a variety of routes. We are not able to identify which specific vacancies were advertised in local newspapers. However, external vacancies were advertised by grouping these into 16 separate recruitment exercises and of these, 12 recruitment exercises advertised vacancies through the local press.
| Month | Total vacancies | Vacancies grouped into external adverts | Proportion of total vacancies advertised externally (percentage) |
Employment: Wimbledon
Stephen Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many job vacancies were notified to the Jobcentre Plus branch which serves residents of Wimbledon constituency in (a) 2006, (b) 2007 and (c) 2008. [256616]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 12 February 2009]: The information is in the following table.
| Number of notified vacancies in Wimbledon parliamentary constituency in 2006-08 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. Changes to Jobcentre Plus vacancy handling procedures have lead to a major discontinuity in the vacancy statistics pre and post May 2006. See http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/177.aspx#may06 before comparing data over this period. Interpretation of this data needs to take account of changes in recent years to Jobcentre Plus procedures for taking and handling vacancies. 2. These figures are not fully comparable over time and may not indicate developments in the labour market. A more detailed explanation is available on the nomis website. 3. These are not whole economy figures. Coverage relates just to vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus and as such represent a market share of vacancies throughout the whole economy. This proportion varies over time, according to the occupation of the vacancy and industry of the employer, and by local area. Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System. 4. Notified vacancies include any speculative placings recorded by Jobcentre Plus. Datasets from May 2006 may reflect substantially reduced levels of speculative placings as part of the notified series. Consequently, care should be taken in interpreting time-series data of the notified series. 5. Comprehensive estimates of all job vacancies (not just those notified to Jobcentre Plus) are available from the monthly Office for National Statistics Vacancy Survey since April 2001, based on a sample of some 6,000 enterprises. However, the Office for National Statistics survey is currently designed to provide national estimates only. Source: Jobcentre Plus Labour Market System. | |
Fines
Mr. Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what administrative financial penalties may be levied by his Department and its agencies. [253589]
Jonathan Shaw: DWP and local authorities offer administrative penalties as an alternative to prosecution for benefit fraud. The amount of the administrative penalty is set in legislation (Section 115A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992) as 30 per cent. of the amount of the overpayment.
Health and Safety Executive: Marketing
Jeremy Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of the Health and Safety Executive's Make the Promise campaign was; and if he will make a statement. [254069]
Jonathan Shaw: The cost of Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) ‘Make the promise - Come home safe’ farm safety campaign to date is £692,000. This covers development work; advertising in the trade press and online publications; a direct marketing pack to nearly 68,000 farmers; a press and PR campaign.
Farming is one of the most dangerous ways to make a living in Britain. Agriculture comprises about 1.5 per cent. of the working population but accounts for 15 per cent. to 20 per cent. of fatal incidents each year. This new campaign is part of a wider HSE initiative targeted at reducing the number of work related deaths in farming. The ‘Make the promise’ campaign has very strong support from the National Farmers’ Union and other stakeholders.
Housing Benefit
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) calendar days and (b) working days on average each local authority took to process (i) new housing benefit claims and (ii) housing benefit claims submitted by existing recipients as a result of a change in circumstances in each of the last (A) 12 months and (B) five years. [257192]
Kitty Ussher: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave to the hon. Member for Cardiff, Central (Jenny Willott) on 14 January 2009, Official Report, column 762W.
Information is not available in working days or for individual months.
Incapacity Benefit
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent on the administration of incapacity benefit in each of the last 10 years. [249152]
Jonathan Shaw: 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.
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has asked me to respond to your question asking how much was spent on the administration of Incapacity Benefit in each of the last 10 years. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
Jobcentre Plus started recording the costs of activities such as Incapacity Benefit processing in 2003/04. The available information is in the following table.
| Incapacity benefit administration costs | |
| £ million | |
| Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest million. 2. Figures are from the Jobcentre Plus Activity Based Information system for 2003-04 and 2004-05. The figures for 2005-06 onwards are from the Jobcentre Plus Activity Based Management System. 3. Figures represent salary costs only for Jobcentre Plus staff undertaking the task of incapacity benefit processing. 4. Various changes to incapacity benefit policy and the centralisation of benefit processing have had an effect on the costs of incapacity benefit processing and administration costs. However, the Activity Based Management system cannot quantify these changes separately. Source: Jobcentre Plus Activity Based Information and Activity Based Management systems. | |
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