Information between 23rd May 2024 - 11th August 2024
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Division Votes |
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22 Jul 2024 - Economy, Welfare and Public Services - View Vote Context Alison McGovern voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 377 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 111 Noes - 390 |
23 Jul 2024 - Immigration and Home Affairs - View Vote Context Alison McGovern voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 373 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 85 Noes - 382 |
23 Jul 2024 - Immigration and Home Affairs - View Vote Context Alison McGovern voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 361 Labour No votes vs 7 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 103 Noes - 363 |
23 Jul 2024 - Immigration and Home Affairs - View Vote Context Alison McGovern voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 374 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 117 Noes - 384 |
29 Jul 2024 - Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill - View Vote Context Alison McGovern voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 341 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 351 Noes - 84 |
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Universal Credit: Employment
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of Universal Credit who were (a) in the intensive work-search labour market regime, (b) assessed to have limited capability for work and (c) assessed to have limited capability for work and work-related activity were (i) in and (b) not in work in each month for which data is available since April 2013. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Statistics for people on Universal Credit at the second Thursday of each month are published monthly on Stat-Xplore. The latest statistics are available in the People on UC dataset for the conditionality regime category of ‘searching for work’, by employment status monthly from April 2015 to March 2024. Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest and, if needed, can access guidance on how to extract the information required.
The monthly statistics from April 2019 to December 2023 are provided in the attached spreadsheet. Monthly caseload statistics for the same time period are available in the UC Health caseload dataset on Stat-Xplore. |
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Work and Health Programme
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs have been filled as a result of the Work and Health Programme since its inception. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities We publish Work and Health Programme (WHP) statistics quarterly on GOV.UK and they include the number of people who enter employment and gain job outcomes within two years since starting on the WHP. The next release of published statistics is planned for 30 May 2024. |
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Work and Health Programme: Expenditure
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the annual spend on the Work and Health Programme. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities The contract costs for Work and Health Programme over the last 7 financial years are shown in the table below.
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Work and Health Programme
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the end date is for referrals to the Work and Health Programme. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Under current contracts the Work and Health Programme will take last referrals on 30 September, with support continuing to July 2026. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many places were (a) available and (b) taken up for the Youth Offer in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022, (iii) 2023 and (iv) 2024 as of 21 May. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities The Youth Offer launched on the 20 September 2020 and provides support for 16–24-year-olds who are on Universal Credit to help them move into employment. It includes three elements:
The Youth Offer is a demand led programme and is available to eligible young claimants on Universal Credit. The most recent data available is up to end of April for Starts on the Youth Offer.
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Access to Work Programme
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Thursday 23rd May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for an initial assessment for people on the Access to Work Scheme in the last five years. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities The average waiting time for an initial assessment for people on the Access to Work Scheme in the last five years is not available.
However, the Access to Work statistics includes how many applications result in provision being approved from 2007/08 to 2022/23. Please see Table 3 of the Access to Work statistics.
The latest Access to Work statistics can be on the Access to Work statistics on GOV.UK |
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Employment
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people entered employment through the people and skills strand of the European Social Fund in each year since its inception until its end. Answered by Jo Churchill It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there are as of 21 May 2024. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2023. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2022. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2021. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) face-to-face, (b) remote and (c) paper-based Personal Independence Payment assessments resulted in claims being (i) awarded, (ii) disallowed and (iii) withdrawn in each financial year since 2019-20. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Universal Credit: Employment
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant the Answer of 24 April 2024 to Question 22551 on Universal Credit: Employment, what her planned timetable is for the (a) conclusion and (b) publication of the evaluation of the Additional Jobcentre Support pilot. Answered by Jo Churchill It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on (a) dedicated work coaches, (b) support elements separate to the work coaches and (c) youth hubs through his Department's Youth Offer in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022 and (c) 2023. Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent work coaches were working specifically to support young people as of 21 May 2024. Answered by Jo Churchill It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
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Employment: Young People
Asked by: Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) Friday 24th May 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work coaches were employed to support young people in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023. Answered by Jo Churchill It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. |
MP Financial Interests |
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28th May 2024
Alison McGovern (Labour - Birkenhead) 3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources Name of donor: Liverpool Football Club Address of donor: Anfield Road, Liverpool L4 0TH Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets and hospitality to Liverpool Football Club event, value £598 Date received: 22 May 2024 Date accepted: 22 May 2024 Donor status: company, registration 35668 (Registered 23 May 2024) Source |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Budget Responsibility Bill
74 speeches (32,890 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 30th July 2024 - Commons Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Matthew Patrick (Lab - Wirral West) Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Alison McGovern). - Link to Speech |
Economy, Welfare and Public Services
151 speeches (47,061 words) Monday 22nd July 2024 - Commons Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) Member for Birkenhead (Alison McGovern) as places that do not offer real help. - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Wednesday 29th May 2024
Minutes and decisions - 11 - Informal Note (12 July 2023) Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art Found: Margaret Bondfield Emma Gormley, Curator: Works of Art, briefed the Committee on a proposal from Alison |