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New Deal Schemes: Hemel Hempstead
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Hemel Hempstead constituency have received assistance through New Deal schemes in each year since 1997. [289437]
Jim Knight: The information requested is as follows.
| Number of people who have entered into the New Deal in Hemel Hempstead constituency. | |
| Number of starters | |
| Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Figures may not sum to total due to rounding. 3. Westminster parliamentary constituency (post May 2005) is allocated using the ONS Postcode Directory and the customer's postcode. 4. Latest data for the calendar year of starting New Deal is to February 2009. 5. The New Deal for Young People pilots began in January 1998 and full national roll-out occurred in April 1998 6. The New Deal for 25 plus programme was introduced in July 1998 7. The New Deal for Lone Parents was introduced in October 1998 8. The New Deal for Disabled People was introduced in July 2001 9. Data on New Deal 50 plus are available from January 2004 (programme was introduced in April 2000) 10. Data for New Deal for Partners are available from April 2004 (programme started in May 1999) Source: Department for Work and Pensions, Information Directorate | |
Nuclear Installations Inspectorate: Manpower
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment she has made of the effect of staffing levels in the (a) the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and (b) the HSE Nuclear Directorate on (i) safety at the UK's nuclear sites and (ii) the rate of progress of the generic design assessment. [289870]
Jonathan Shaw: Primary responsibility for safety at the UK's nuclear sites rests with the operators of those sites. The role of HSE's Nuclear Directorate, which includes the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, is to provide regulatory oversight and assurance that they discharge that responsibility. I am advised by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations that he has the resources available to discharge that role.
As a result of successive recruitment exercises, resources in the Directorate for generic design assessment should reach planned levels by December this year. The Health and Safety Executive is confident, subject to the provision of the necessary documentation from the industry, that it will meet the published timetable for completing a meaningful assessment of the generic design proposals by June 2011.
The Government are determined to ensure that nuclear regulation is properly and sustainably resourced to meet the challenges of the future. It has published proposals to restructure the Nuclear Directorate to that end, which can be found at:
Nuclear Power: Safety
Greg Clark:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what budget her Department has set for the (a) Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, (b) Office
for Civil Nuclear Security and (c) HSE Nuclear Directorate for each of the next five financial years. [290372]
Jonathan Shaw: The information requested in relation to 2009-10 and 2010-11 is provided in the following table.
Gross Expenditure budget of the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Nuclear Directorate (ND), comprising the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) and the Office for Civil Nuclear Security (OCNS), for this and the next financial year.
| £ 000 | |||
| Financial year | (a) NII | (b) OCNS | (c) ND |
| Notes: 1. HSE has allocated a budget to ND for 2009-10 and an indicative budget for 2010-11 as shown in the table. The figures are rounded to the nearest thousand. 2. HSE has not yet set budgets for 2011-12 and beyond as this year is outside of the current Spending Review settlement. | |||
Pension Credit: Birmingham
Mr. Godsiff: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate her Department has made of the number of people entitled to a pension credit who have not claimed it in the Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency in each of the last three years; [291446]
(2) how many people in Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency (a) are entitled to and (b) receive pension credit. [291567]
Angela Eagle: Estimates of eligibility and therefore those who are entitled to pension credit but have not claimed it are not available below the level of Great Britain.
The latest estimates of the take-up rates and the number of those entitled to but not receiving pension credit are published in the report "Income Related Benefits Estimates of Take-Up in 2007-08".
As at February 2009 there were 7,680 households in receipt of pension credit in the Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath constituency.
Notes:
1. The number of households in receipt are rounded to the nearest ten.
2. Household recipients are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household.
Source:
DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data.
Pension Credit: Hemel Hempstead
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in Hemel Hempstead constituency were in receipt of pension credit in the last 12 month period for which figures are available. [289436]
Angela Eagle: The number of household recipients of pension credit in the Hemel Hempstead constituency is shown in the following table.
| Households in Hemel Hempstead constituency in receipt of pension credit | |
| 2008 | Number |
| Notes: 1. The number of households in receipt of pension credit are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 3. Household recipients are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household. Source: DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data. | |
Pensions Service: Manpower
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of Pensions Service staff left the service in the last (a) six and (b) 12 months. [289764]
Angela Eagle: The information available is in the following table:
| Leavers | ||
| November 2008 to April 2009 (six months) | July 2008 to April 2009 (10 months) | |
| Note: The Pension Service (TPS) and Disability and Carers Service (DCS) merged to form Pension, Disability and Carers Service (PDCS) in April 2008. The resource management staffing records remained as separate entities until April 2009-therefore data for the former TPS are not available beyond that date. Source: RM Dataview. | ||
Retirement
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) the UK and (b) Coventry were obliged to retire at the age of 65 years in 2008-09. [291516]
Angela Eagle: This information is not available.
Scotland
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether her Department plans to make a submission to the Scottish Executive's National Conversation consultation on Scotland's constitutional future. [288947]
Jim Knight: The Department for Work and Pensions has not submitted evidence to the Scottish Government's National Conversation.
The Commission on Scottish Devolution was established by majority vote in the Scottish Parliament and with the full support of the UK Government. UK Departments submitted evidence to the Commission during its first phase of evidence gathering.
The Commission recently published its Final Report, which can be found here:
A Steering Group has been established under the chairmanship of the Secretary of State for Scotland to help the UK Government and the Scottish Parliament plan how to take forward the Caiman recommendations and deliver stronger devolution within a stronger United Kingdom.
Social Fund
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) England have received a (i) grant and (ii) loan from the Social Fund in each year since the establishment of that Fund. [290652]
Helen Goodman (holding answer 9 September 2009): The available information is shown in the following table.
| Yorkshire and the Humber | England | |
| n/a = Not available. Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. 2. The information provided is Management Information; our preference is to answer all Parliamentary Questions using Official/National Statistics but in this case we only have Management Information available. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official/National Statistics and there are some issues with the data, for example, it does not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System. 3. Awards shown are initial awards and do not include awards made on review. 4. Information cannot be supplied for York and North Yorkshire as the smallest geographical area we can provide figures for is Social Fund Budget Area. 5. Figures are for initial awards made, not the number of people who received an initial award. (Some people received more than one initial award.). Source: DWP Social Fund Policy, Budget and Management Information System | ||
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