Asked by: Abena Oppong-Asare (Labour - Erith and Thamesmead)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Health and Safety Executive employees are dedicated to mental health related workplace matters.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
Information on the work and resourcing within Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the prevalence of discrimination towards young ethnic minorities seeking employment.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Employment statistics show the ethnic minority employment rate at 68%, up 9.2 percentage points on the same quarter in 2010, with 5.4m people from an ethnic minority background in employment which is a record high.
The Department supports people to move into employment by providing access to a range of mainstream services and bespoke programmes that are designed to be flexible to individual needs. We also take targeted action where there is a high ethnic minority employment gap and work with partners, employers, and specific sectors to improve opportunities for all.
The Youth Offer provides individually tailored Work Coach support to young people aged 16 to 24 who are claiming Universal Credit. This support includes the Youth Employment Programme, Youth Employability Coaches for young people with additional barriers to finding work, and Youth Hubs across Great Britain. This was expanded in 2023 to include additional young people on Universal Credit not currently searching for work, including young parents and carers.
In April 2023, the Government's Equality Hub published updated guidance for employers on how to use the positive action provisions in the Equality Act 2010. This is to help people who share a particular protected characteristic overcome barriers and to level the playing field.
Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024
Inquiry: Disability employmentFound: employment for people living with mental illness8.Stigma and Discrimination: from employers and in the workplace
Written Evidence Nov. 15 2023
Inquiry: Impact of the rising cost of living on womenFound: exploring ways to overcome constraints within workplace pensions.
Jun. 16 2011
Source Page: Table showing Department for Work and Pensions research projects and statistical collections initiated in 2010-11 and which projects have been finished or amended in this period. 4 p.Found: Table showing Department for Work and Pensions research projects and statistical collections initiated
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Accounting Officer Assessment: Workplace Transformation Programme. 2p.Found: Accounting Officer Assessment: Workplace Transformation Programme. 2p.
Asked by: Apsana Begum (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any (a) public and (b) private sector employer has been reported to the Health and Safety Executive for failure to abide by health and safety legislation during the Covid 19 pandemic.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act (HSWA) 1974 is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in Great Britain. It sets out the general duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public, employees have to themselves and to each other and certain self-employed have towards themselves and others.
HSWA applies equally across all workplaces in all industry sectors and does not distinguish between either public or private sector duty-holders. As such, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) would not routinely differentiate or record this information.
Reports received by HSE are generally in the form of a ‘concern’. These can be in relation to any health and safety issue in the workplace and can be submitted via HSE’s online reporting portal.
Between the 1st April 2020 and the 31st March 2022, this being the timeframe of the pandemic prior to HSE returning to business as usual, HSE handled over 70,000 concerns about health and safety in the workplace.
However, not all of these concerns were in relation to a failure to abide by health and safety legislation, some were requests for general health and safety advice, support, and guidance. This data has been published in the HSE Annual Report 2020/21 and 2021/22 respectively and is not Covid specific.
Feb. 08 2024
Source Page: Efforts to tackle small pension pots step up a gearFound: A new group designed to help savers track their pensions was launched yesterday (7 February) by Pensions
Mentions:
1: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) forgotten, or are choosing to ignore, the immense benefits of having trade union recognition in the workplace - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) They are doing that because, as we all know, the benefits of trade union membership in a workplace are - Speech Link
3: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) union, so that issue will not arise.I am pleased to be able to tell my former colleague on the Work and Pensions - Speech Link
Nov. 22 2023
Source Page: Workplace pension participation and savings trends: 2009 to 2022Found: Workplace pension participation and savings trends: 2009 to 2022