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Departments: Cornwall

Volume 464: debated on Monday 8 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what (a) meetings and (b) correspondence has taken place between his Department and Cornwall county council on joint delivery of services at a local level. (154769)

The Pension Service and Jobcentre Plus have had and continue to have regular communication with Cornwall county council.

There has been dialogue between Pension Service Local Service staff and Cornwall county council through meetings and correspondence since January 2004. The last meeting which took place on 11 September 2007, resulted in an agreement being reached on the joint delivery of services at a local level and a pilot is scheduled to take place from 1 January 2008 to 30 June 2008.

Jobcentre Plus (JCP) has also had regular meetings and correspondence with Cornwall county council. The external relations managers and partnership managers of JCP Devon and Cornwall district work closely with a variety of groups and boards from Cornwall county council to achieve joint delivery of services.

The information which is available on meetings and correspondence is presented in the following tables.

Correspondence and meetings between the Pension Service Local Service and Cornwall county council since January 2004

Meetings

Correspondence

Joint workshops

Job shadowing

Joint fact finding visit

22 April 2004

14 January 2004

21 July 2005

Over several days in July 2005

22 February 2005

May 2004

16 September 2004

6 December 2005

23 February 2007

0

21 September 2004

6 February 2006

0

0

0

October 2004

15 February 2006

0

0

0

6 January 2005

28 June 2006

0

0

0

4 May 2005

5 July 2006

0

0

0

4 July 2005

21 July 2006

0

0

0

8 August 2005

29 June 2007

0

0

0

16 December 2005

6 August 2007

0

0

0

22 September 2006

0

0

0

0

20 November 2006

0

0

0

0

2 March 2007

0

0

0

0

11 September 2007

0

0

0

0

Notes:

1. It has not been possible to identify every contact made.

2. Listed are the known dates of correspondence and meetings.

Source:

Cornwall Pension Service Local Service

Correspondence and meetings between Jobcentre Plus and Cornwall county council since January 2007

Meetings

Correspondence

Eight meetings with local partnership managers in early 2007

0

30 April 2007

0

1 June 2007

0

13 July 2007

0

30 July 2007

0

Source:

Devon and Cornwall Jobcentre Plus.