Written Question
Friday 24th October 2014
Asked by:
Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications have been made to the Government Funeral Payment scheme since May 2010; and how many such applications have been rejected.
Answered by Steve Webb
From the latest data available, 280,780 applications have been made for Funeral Payments in Great Britain between May 2010 and September 2014. In the same period there have been 139,560 refusals.
Notes
1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.
2. The figures given are the number of applications and initial refusals in the given time period and not the number of people who made applications or received awards. An individual may make more than one application in a year. Information on the number of people who made applications and received awards is not available.
3. The refusal figures given are based on the initial decisions made on each case and may include cases where an award was later made on review.
4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
Written Question
Friday 12th September 2014
Asked by:
Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time Health and Safety Executive officers were employed to monitor asbestos removal in each month since May 2010.
Answered by Lord Harper
The information requested is not held. All HSE construction inspectors are trained to enforce the management and control of asbestos by duty holders and routinely deal with asbestos issues in their everyday work. The majority of construction inspectors are further trained to inspect notified licensed asbestos removal work. The table provides the average number of full-time equivalent operational inspectors who visited construction sites on a day-to-day basis for the years 2010/11 to 2013/14.
2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 |
147 | 141 | 137 | 129 |
Written Question
Friday 12th September 2014
Asked by:
Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what records his Department holds on the number of occasions on which Health and Safety Executive asbestos removal inspectors have undertaken visits to sites outside normal business working hours.
Answered by Lord Harper
HSE does not hold records on the number of occasions when site visits occur outside normal business working hours.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Sep 2014
Asbestos Removal
"That would be a partial solution. What I am trying to understand is whether the Minister thinks the situation is acceptable, given the framework that he has outlined and the fact that HSE’s guidance says to remove asbestos. I am talking about broken pieces of asbestos, not a hole in …..."Steve Rotheram - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Sep 2014
Asbestos Removal
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger, and to have secured such an important debate about the role of the Health and Safety Executive in asbestos removal. Since the debate was tabled, I have been contacted by numerous people who have informed me of unsafe asbestos-removal …..."Steve Rotheram - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Sep 2014
Asbestos Removal
"That is a timely intervention. I absolutely agree that it would be appropriate to revisit that strategy at this juncture, and that is part of what I will ask the Minister to provide us today. I will also ask the Minister about updating education to ensure that people are fully …..."Steve Rotheram - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Sep 2014
Asbestos Removal
"The Minister is being helpful in identifying the legislative framework in which the industry must work. Is he therefore concerned that asbestos materials with a risk rating of 18-plus have been left in what have been described as fallow areas within stores for years, even up to a decade? Surely …..."Steve Rotheram - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 05 Sep 2014
Affordable Homes Bill
"I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and I apologise to the House for my late arrival this morning, which was due to the west coast main line train service. He just mentioned arrears. I can guarantee that such arrears have increased in my constituency and many others, and …..."Steve Rotheram - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Personal Independence Payments (Liverpool Wavertree)
"Does my hon. Friend agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green), who said in yesterday’s debate something along the lines that the debate is not about the philosophy of welfare reforms, but about the way it is delivered? We have all seen in our …..."Steve Rotheram - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Personal Independence Payments (Liverpool Wavertree)
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