To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the research projects (a) currently underway and (b) planned by the Department in all areas excluding invalidity benefit, giving the title of the research, its estimated cost and its completion date in each case.
The tables set out the details of research under way and planned by the Department. A number of additional studies are under consideration to start in 1991–92 depending on available resources but details of these have not yet been fully considered.
Project
| Cost(£ thousands)
| Completion due
|
| Evaluation of consumer consultations in the social security system | 42 | Final report awaited |
| Hard to place residents of resettlement units | 47 | April 1992 |
| Survey of admissions to London resettlement units | In-house | July 1991 |
| Assessment of women users of resettlement units and their needs | 2 | June 1991 |
| Housing benefit reviews | 100 | Completed: final report received |
1 DSS contribution to joint funded research. | ||
2 Main stage of the survey of incomes in and out of work completed summer 1990. Results published in: Erens, B and Hedges, B: Survey of Incomes In and Out of Work (SCPR, 1990) and Garman, A and Redmond, G: The Changing characteristics of unemployed men, Employment Gazette, September 1990. | ||
Table B
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Planned research
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Project
| Anticipated cost(£ thousands)
| Anticipated completion due
|
| Changes in income and benefit status over time | 103 | To be decided |
| Structure of employers' national insurance contributions | To be decided | To be decided |
| Survey of incomes in and out of work—takeup of in-work benefit | In-house | Autumn 1991 |
| Survey of incomes in and out of work—Econometric analysis of partner activity | 16 | December 1991 |
| Survey of occupational pensions | Awaiting costings | To be decided |
| Information needs of and access to service by minority ethnic groups | 50 | To be decided |
| Information needs of and access to service by people with disabilities | 50 | September 1991 |
| Annual independent national customer survey | To be decided | September 1991 |
| Customer perceptions of resettlement units | 37 | July 1991 |
| Effect of benefit availability on housing decisions | 60 | To be decided |