Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendations concerning austerity measures in paragraph 19 of the UN Economic and Social Council report entitled, Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 24 June 2016.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The Government regularly assesses the impacts of its policies and will continue to do so.
The Government’s economic plan is delivering jobs for the UK. Our reforms, including the introduction of the National Living Wage, are helping to transform the life chances of people across the country.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the median hourly pay was for (a) all employees aged 21 to 24 and (b) full-time employees aged 21 to 24 in (i) cash terms and (ii) adjusted for inflation in each year since 2008.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The Department pays monthly salaries and therefore does not record median hourly rates of pay.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) England that will be affected by reductions in employment and support allowance.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the welfare policies in the Bill on 20th July last year. However forecasts for Employment and Support Allowance are made only for Great Britain and are not broken down to the level requested. As such, the information requested is not available.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 24 June 2015 from the hon. Member for Ashfield on self-employment amongst women.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
I replied to the hon. Member on 14 July 2015.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of present Government guidance available to employers on managing the health and safety of new and expectant mothers at work.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reviewed and revised its website and other published guidance on managing new and expectant mothers’ health and safety in 2012. A further minor review was carried out in 2014. HSE also contributed to advice produced by Acas in 2013 on breastfeeding at work.
HSE is currently working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to assess the findings of a major survey on pregnancy and maternity discrimination at work and any implications for the effectiveness of the Executive’s current guidance.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in Ashfield that would be affected by a household benefit cap of £23,000.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Ashfield constituency were in receipt of benefits in excess of £26,000 per year before the introduction of the benefits cap.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average annual income of self-employed (a) men and (b) women was in each year since 2010.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Table 1: estimated median annual income (£) from self-employment of men and women from 2009/10 to 2012/13 is shown below.
Self-employed men | Self-employed women | All self-employed | |
2009/10 | 15,231 | 7,125 | 12,825 |
2010/11 | 14,272 | 6,502 | 11,866 |
2011/12 | 14,820 | 6,995 | 12,350 |
2012/13 | 14,400 | 6,257 | 10,800 |
Source: Family Resources Survey
Notes:
1. Figures have been adjusted to 2012/13 prices using RPI and are rounded to the nearest pound (£).
2. Self-employment is defined using the ILO definition.
3. The Family Resources Survey is a nationally representative sample of UK households.
4. The figures from the Family Resources Survey are based on a sample of households which have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors which align the Family Resources Survey to former Government Office Region population by age and sex. Estimates based on survey data are subject to uncertainty due to sampling error and remaining non-response error.
5. Median self-employment income divides the number of people, when ranked by self-employment income, into two equal-sized groups.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average hourly pay is for employees at each grade within his Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
Answered by Esther McVey
DWP is committed to equality and valuing diversity within our workforce. Our pay policies are applied equally to all staff regardless of ethnicity and we are compliant with the legislation contained in the Equality Act 2010.
Disclosure of ethnicity, although encouraged, is voluntary within the department. At the end of February 2015 ethnicity data was held for 77% of staff working in the department.
All our employees are salaried and information is therefore provided based on annual salary. The table below shows the department’s average annual salaries as of February 2015 by ethnicity.
| White or White British | Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group |
AA | £15,746 | £16,802 |
AO | £18,630 | £19,707 |
EO | £24,318 | £25,765 |
HEO | £29,299 | £31,078 |
SEO | £35,760 | £37,311 |
G7 | £49,294 | £51,169 |
G6* | £62,355 | £60,240 |
SCS1 | £75,898 | £78,269 |
SCS2* | £102,976 | £90,561 |
A higher proportion of staff in London are in a minority ethnic group than in the rest of the country. As London pay scales are higher, this locational difference is a factor in the average salaries comparisons.
* Ethnic minority group average salaries for G6 and SCS2 are based on small numbers of staff, some of whom have recently been promoted and are at the lower end of the pay scale.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average hourly pay is of employees in his Department identified as (a) white or white British and (b) from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
Answered by Esther McVey
DWP is committed to equality and valuing diversity within our workforce. Our pay policies are applied equally to all staff regardless of ethnicity and we are compliant with the legislation contained in the Equality Act 2010.
Disclosure of ethnicity, although encouraged, is voluntary within the department. At the end of February 2015 ethnicity data was held for 77% of staff working in the department.
All our employees are salaried and information is therefore provided based on annual salary. As of February 2015 the average annual salary of staff identified as:
(a) White or White British was £23,209
(b) From a Black, Asian or other ethnic group was £23,371.