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In support of the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE's) Strategy launched in June 2009, and to demonstrate HSE's commitment to provide real help to small business, from 1 September 2009, HSE made the range of its publications freely available on HSE's website to download, view and print. There is an option to purchase a professionally printed version should the company or individual require. These publications provide guidance to those responsible on either practical application or best practice in complying with the legal requirements under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) have the facility to charge employers to cover the printing costs of TPAS leaflets where a large number have been requested. This has not been used in, at least, the last five years.
DWP is also custodian of a large amount of personal information. DWP takes its duty of confidentiality to all its customers extremely seriously and complies with the provisions of the Data Protection At 1998. The Department does not provide its customers' personal information to any third party for commercial gain.
Departmental ICT
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many times the Labour Market System has been unavailable in the last 24 months; and for how long that system was unavailable on each occasion. [317626]
Jim Knight: The Labour Market System was unavailable on five occasions in the last 24 months. These are as follows:
10 September 2008: 1 hour
7 January 2009: 44 minutes
30 April 2009: 2 hours 10 minutes
16 December 2009: 1 hour 13 minutes
8 January 2010: 2 hours 56 minutes.
Departmental Manpower
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the staff turnover rate in her Department was in 2009; [317163]
(2) what the staff turnover rate in Jobcentre Plus was in 2009. [317164]
Jonathan Shaw: The Department and its agencies calculate turnover on a rolling 12-month basis and the following rates are based on average staffing and the number of turnover leavers.
The turnover rates as at 30 September 2009 are shown in the table.
| Percentage | |
The percentage turnover rate is calculated by dividing the number of permanent staff (includes staff on fixed term appointments exceeding 12 months) who leave in the relevant 12-month period, by the average number of permanent staff employed in the same period.
Turnover is calculated in line with a "wastage index" method which is a recognised methodology.
The following broad categories of leavers are included in the calculation:
Retirements
Death in service
Dismissals and discharge
Resignation
Transfers to other Government Departments and non civil service public sector.
staff transferring as a result of movement of work. e.g. machinery of government changes;
staff leaving as a result of voluntary early release schemes, and;
temporary staff leaving.
In order to provide a view on the trend the turnover rates at 30 September 2008 were:
| Percentage | |
Departmental Sick Leave
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in her Department have had five or more periods of sickness absence of less than five days in two or more of the last three years. [316452]
Jonathan Shaw: The number of staff currently recorded on the Department's personnel computer system as having had five or more periods of sickness absence of less than five days in two or more of the last three years is 2,699. DWP currently employs more than 120,000 full and part-time staff.
The average number of working days lost per year in the Department through sickness has fallen from 10.3 in December 2007 to 8.4 in January 2010, the latest date for which figures are available.
Future Jobs Fund
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people have obtained jobs through the Future Jobs Fund with the social enterprise Real Baby Milk since the inception of the Fund; [315669]
(2) how many placements for young people have been made in the (a) public, (b) private and (c) voluntary sector through the Future Jobs Fund since its inception; [316367]
(3) how many apprenticeship places have been delivered through the Future Jobs Fund in each region since its inception. [316368]
Jim Knight: Information on Future Jobs Fund starts and apprenticeship places delivered through the Future Jobs Fund is not currently available but will be made available from spring 2010 through an official statistical release that is planned to cover the whole of the Young Person's Guarantee.
This is normal practice for the Department's employment programmes and it allows time for the information to be collected, understood, verified and reported.
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 2 February 2010 to the hon. Member for Maidenhead, Official Report, column 258W, on the Future Jobs Fund, how many of the jobs announced to date, excluding those created under national bids will be created in each local authority area. [317645]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not collated centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Housing Benefit
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many housing benefit recipients there were in each region in each of the last 12 quarters. [316799]
Helen Goodman: Housing benefit has played a key role in helping people deal with the impact of the recession and will play an equally important part in helping people return to work as the economy improves.
The available information is in the following tables.
| Housing benefit recipients, by region: February 2006 to November 2006 | ||||
| Government Office Region | February 2006 | May 2006 | August 2006 | November 2006 |
| Housing benefit recipients, by region: February 2007 to August 2007 | |||
| Government Office Region | February 2007 | May 2007 | August 2007 |
| Notes: 1. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. 3. Figures for any non-responding authorities have been estimated. 4. Housing benefit figures exclude any extended payment cases. 5. Data are published at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/hb_ctb_aug07.xls Source: Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System Quarterly 100 per cent. taken in February 2006-August 2007 | |||
| Housing benefit recipients, by region: November 2008 to October 2009 | |||||
| Government Office Region | November 2008 | January 2009 | April 2009 | July 2009 | October 2009 |
| Notes: 1. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 2. The figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Housing benefit figures exclude any extended payment cases. 4. The Department modernised the way it collected HB and CTB from local authorities to make the process more efficient. The new data source, the Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) is a monthly electronic scan of claimant level data direct from local authority computer systems. It replaces quarterly aggregate clerical returns. 5. The data are available monthly from November 2008 and October 2009 is the most recent available. 6. Data from SHBE incorporate the local authority changes from 1 April 2009. 7. Data are published at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/HBCTB_release_JAN10.xls Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) | |||||
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