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Industrial Injuries: Compensation
Julie Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make it his policy to establish a compensation scheme to make provision for the payment of employer liability claims for injury and illness which relate to employers whose insurers cannot be traced. [260503]
Mr. McNulty: The Government have no plans to introduce such a scheme but are fully committed to ensuring that people who become ill as a result of their work can receive the compensation to which they are entitled.
The Code of Practice for Tracing Employers’ Liability Insurance Policies enables potential claimants to identify employer’s liability policies which they need to claim against. The Department for Work and Pensions monitors the success rate of the Code of Practice, and works with insurers and claimant representatives to improve tracing success rates. For example, we have asked the Association of British Insurers to consider the feasibility of an electronic database for recording details of all future employers’ liability insurance policies.
Jobcentre Plus: Labour Turnover
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Jobcentre Plus staff have been (a) recruited and (b) made redundant in each Jobcentre Plus region in each (i) year, (ii) month and (iii) quarter since 1 January 2006; and if he will make a statement. [249890]
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 Jobcentre Plus staff have been (a) recruited and (b) made redundant in each Jobcentre Plus region in each (i) year, (ii) month and (iii) quarter since 1 January 2006. This is something that falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
I enclose the information requested. A copy has been placed in the Library.
Jobcentre Plus: Sutton
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the address is of each Jobcentre which has closed in the London borough of Sutton since 2002; on what date each closed; and if he will make a statement. [258542]
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 what the full address is of each jobcentre which has closed in the London borough of Sutton since 2002; on what date each closed; and if he will make a statement. This is something that falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
On 5 January 2007 we closed Sutton Jobcentre at 240 High Street, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 1PA. This was replaced by the Sutton Jobcentre Plus office at Helena House, 348 High Street, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 1PX which we opened on 9 January 2007.
Jobcentre Plus: Telephone Services
Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many calls were received by each Jobcentre Plus call centre in each of the last 24 months; and what the (a) average waiting time for calls to be dealt with and (b) number of dropped calls was in each call centre in each of those months. [251407]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 26 January 2009]: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the acting chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, Mel Groves. I have asked the acting chief executive to provide the hon. Member with the information requested.
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question asking how many calls were received by each Jobcentre Plus call centre in each of the last 24 months; and what the (a) average waiting time was for such calls to be dealt with in each month;
and (b) how many dropped calls there were in each month. This is something that falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
Information about the average waiting time for calls to be dealt with is not available at individual Call Centre level. Information about how many calls were answered or abandoned is only available at site level until July 2008 when our network became virtual. This means the network of 33 sites operates as a single network so the number of calls answered is only available at national level. I have placed the available information in the Library.
Lehman Brothers: Pensions
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what requests have been made to the Pension Protection Fund in respect of employees of Lehman Brothers by the Lehman Pension Fund Trustees. [260370]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 2 March 2009]: Following a qualifying insolvency event the Lehman Brothers pension scheme entered an assessment period on the 15 September 2008. The assessment period will last for a minimum of one year and could be longer. Disclosure of scheme-specific information is restricted under section 197 of the Pensions Act 2004.
During the assessment period, the Lehman Brothers pension fund trustees retain responsibility for the administration of the scheme and for communicating with and making pension payments to scheme members. The trustees must continue to act in the interests of all the scheme members. However, during an assessment period, various restrictions and controls will apply in relation to the scheme. In particular, pensions will be restricted to pension protection fund compensation levels.
During the assessment period the Pension Protection Fund will work with the trustees to establish whether the scheme has sufficient assets to pay benefits at least as good as PPF compensation. The PPF will in particular seek to pursue any debts owed to the scheme.
Roscommon Way Extension
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment has been made of the effect of the Roscommon Way Extension on Canvey Island on the (a) pipelines and (b) other major accident hazard sites in its vicinity; and if he will make a statement. [259636]
Jonathan Shaw: The Health and Safety Executive has made no assessments of the impact of the Roscommon Way Extension on Canvey Island on major accident hazard sites or pipelines in its vicinity.
Social Security Benefits
Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the processing time for each new benefit claim was, broken down by benefit type in each of the last 24 months; [249280]
(2) how many new benefit claims waiting to be processed there were in each of the last 24 months, broken down by benefit type. [249281]
Kitty Ussher [holding answer 19 January 2009]: The number of outstanding claims provides a snapshot of claims that are waiting to be processed at the end of the month. It is entirely possible that claims outstanding at the end of the month will be processed within the average actual clearance time target.
The available information is in the following tables.
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