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Written Question
Employment Schemes
Tuesday 11th November 2014

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each constituency in (a) London and (b) England are on community work placements; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Esther McVey

The information is not readily available. The Department works to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.

Written Question
Personal Independence Payment
Tuesday 4th November 2014

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases have been registered for personal independence payment in (a) Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, (b) the London Borough of Hackney, (c) London and (d) England to date.

Answered by Lord Harper

Such information as is available on personal independence payment cases registered below national level has been published and is available in the data tables which accompany the most recent release of statistics on 17 September: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2014

Written Question
Personal Independence Payment
Tuesday 4th November 2014

Asked by: Diane Abbott (Independent - Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence claims in (a) Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, (b) Hackney local authority area, (c) London and (d) England have taken longer than 16 weeks to be awarded or declined.

Answered by Lord Harper

Departmental statisticians are continuing to develop measures around clearance times and waiting times to ensure they provide a rounded and representative picture of personal independence payment performance, improvement activity and the claimants’ experience. These statistics will be published when they are ready, with the release pre-announced in line with United Kingdom Statistics Authority release protocols.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"What assessment has the Secretary of State made of the potential role of the UK’s cultural and sporting assets in advancing human rights, specifically lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights? There is some evidence that in Africa and the Caribbean in particular things are going backwards on gay rights, not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Food Banks

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Food Banks

"Does my hon. Friend agree that if Government Members were genuinely appreciative of the work that food banks did, they would not have turned down £2.5 billion of EU funding to subsidise food banks?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 10 May 2013
Jobs and Business

"On the question of jobs and skills, training and apprenticeships, does my hon. Friend agree that black and minority ethnic young people in our great cities have been disproportionally hit by this economic crash, making it important that any strategy around jobs, skills and apprenticeships and even access to funds …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 10 May 2013
Jobs and Business

" Does my hon. Friend agree that that it is a touch suspicious that Lynton Crosby becomes the Prime Minister’s chief political adviser, Lynton Crosby’s consultancy firm was on a retainer from British American Tobacco to fight plain packaging, and plain packaging, which the Minister responsible for public health supports, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 10 May 2013
Jobs and Business

"Does my hon. Friend agree that there will be not just a lost decade but a lost generation? Academics have said that young people graduating now from college and university who do not go into employment can look forward to a future always on the fringes of the employment market...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 10 May 2013
Jobs and Business

"Is it not a fact that, overall, immigrants put more into the economy than they take out, partly because they are younger and so less likely to claim benefit or to be a charge on the health service?..."
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