Written Question
Monday 15th October 2018
Asked by:
David Evennett (Conservative - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to support claimants receiving employment and support allowance in their transition to universal credit.
Answered by Lord Sharma
Once passed, our managed migration regulations will ensure that anyone we move onto Universal Credit, without a change of circumstance, will have their existing benefit entitlement safeguarded. As part of this we will also be providing on-going protection for 500,000 claimants receiving the Severe Disability Premium.
Earlier this month, we announced a new partnership with Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland to deliver a new approach to Universal Support, initially up to March 2020. Our new partnership will ensure that all those who need to make a claim and need extra support can access it.
Our focus is always on safeguarding claimants and ensuring a smooth transition with uninterrupted support. Our plans, under discussion with stakeholders, already include a mechanism to ensure that, before the existing benefits are stopped, agents will check for evidence of complex needs or vulnerability or disability to safeguard these claimants.
Written Question
Monday 15th October 2018
Asked by:
David Evennett (Conservative - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training has been provided to case managers to ensure that they have sufficient knowledge of the universal credit regulations.
Answered by Lord Sharma
Department for Work and Pensions staff moving into a case manager role delivering Universal Credit Full Service receive a minimum of 90 hours of job-specific training. New staff joining the Department in this role undertake a minimum of 143 hours of learning. The learning includes guidance and procedures that are based on the Universal Credit regulations.
In all cases, the Department ensures staff are given sufficient on-the-job training to consolidate what they have learnt.
Written Question
Tuesday 26th June 2018
Asked by:
David Evennett (Conservative - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have a work-place pension as a result of auto-enrolment in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency (b) London Borough of Bexley and (c) London.
Answered by Guy Opperman
Since 2012 in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, approximately 5,000 eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled.
Since 2012 in the London Borough of Bexley, approximately 16,000 eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled and in London, approximately 1,892,000 eligible jobholders have been automatically enrolled.
Automatic enrolment is a great success story with more than 9.7 million workers enrolled into pensions saving and over 1.2 million employers meeting their duties.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 10 Jul 2012
Specialist Disability Employment
"I strongly support my hon. Friend’s statement. Is it not the case that for every person working in a Remploy factory, we could support eight disabled people to take up and retain a mainstream job for the same amount of money? Surely that is the right way forward...."David Evennett - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Mar 2012
Oral Answers to Questions
"Youth unemployment is far too high. I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s youth contract proposals, but does he agree that basic skills and qualifications are also vital to ensuring that young unemployed people obtain jobs?..."David Evennett - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Mar 2012
Oral Answers to Questions
"T2. Will my right hon. Friend advise us what steps he is taking to ensure that benefit fraud is reduced?..."David Evennett - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Jun 2011
Oral Answers to Questions
"T8. I welcome my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State’s proposed reform of the benefit system, but how will universal credit help people who have been out of work take up part-time or flexible work if they are unable to take on a full-time job for any reason?..."David Evennett - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Mar 2011
Oral Answers to Questions
"12. What recent progress his Department has made in reducing pensioner poverty...."David Evennett - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Mar 2011
Oral Answers to Questions
"I welcome the approach the Government are taking on this very important matter. What estimate has the Minister made, however, of the impact of the single-tier pension proposals on future levels of pensioner poverty?..."David Evennett - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Mar 2011
Welfare Reform Bill
"We are listening to the right hon. Gentleman with great interest, but is he not ashamed that although his party was in power for 13 years it failed to make work pay and that the UK now has one of the EU’s highest rates of children living in workless households? …..."David Evennett - View Speech
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