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1355106

registered interest
date	13/09/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of whether there has been a change in the average time taken to process Access to Work payments in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	48133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2021 answer text I refer to my response to <a href="https://dwp.ecase.co.uk/view_case?case_ref=PQN/21-22/2021/73119" target="_blank">PQN/21-22/2021/73119</a>21-<p> </p><p>Access to Work aim for customers to be paid within 10 days of receipt of claims and all supporting evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Following postal delays during July and August, we are seeing payment clearance times returning to normal levels.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/09/2021 14:59:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1353853

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken for beneficiaries to receive their Access to Work payments.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	45038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2021 answer text <p>Access to Work aim for customers to be paid within 10 days of receipt of claims and all supporting evidence. During July and August postal delays held up payment claims being received into DWP.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced scanning of all claims on day of receipt improving payment times, and Access to Work are also developing a digital claim portal which will allow customers to submit their claim online and upload any supporting information. We expect to start testing this with some customers in December 2021.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/09/2021 15:30:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1352997

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time is for beneficiaries to receive Access to Work Payments in each of the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	43384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The average length of time for beneficiaries to receive Access to Work Payments in each of the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/09/2021 14:02:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1348632

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people currently receive carers allowance.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	36512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>As of November 2020, there were 937,000 people claiming Carer’s Allowance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2021 16:46:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1348634

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people currently eligible to claim carers allowance.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	36513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of people that (a) have an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance and (b) receiving a payment for Carer’s Allowance by Parliamentary constituency is published and available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2021 16:52:06 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1346297

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who would be eligible to claim carers allowance if the hours of care requirement are reduced from 35 hours to (a) 30 hours, (b) 25 hours and (c) 20 hours.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	32281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The threshold of providing at least 35 hours care a week has been in place since Carer’s Allowance (CA) was first introduced in 1976, and has been maintained by successive Governments as a reasonable point at which many carers would find it difficult to combine their caring responsibilities with a full-time job.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made any estimates of how many additional people would become entitled to CA if the number of hours of care required to be provided were reduced.</p><p> </p><p>There is support for those caring for less than 35 hours a week in the benefit system - including Carer’s Credits and changes to jobsearch requirements in Universal Credit which can be tailored to reflect caring responsibilities. (Carer’s Credits can be awarded to those providing care for over 20 hours a week, helping carers maintain their National Insurance records, thereby protecting their State Pensions, regardless of whether or not they are also working.)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/07/2021 12:56:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1248458

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are (a) entitled to receive and (b) receiving carer's allowance, in the latest period for which data is available, by Parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	110722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>As of February 2020, there were around 1070 carers in the Kingston and Surbiton constituency that were receiving Carer’s Allowance and in 2019/20 we spent approximately £3.8 million on Carer’s Allowance there. A further 310 carers had a claim to an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on the number of people that (a) have an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance and (b) receiving a payment for Carer’s Allowance by Parliamentary constituency is published and available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p><p /><p>The latest information on benefit expenditure by parliamentary constituency including Carer’s Allowance is also published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920543/benefit-expenditure-by-parliamentary-constituency-2019-20.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920543/benefit-expenditure-by-parliamentary-constituency-2019-20.xlsx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/11/2020 14:26:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1222808

registered interest
date	10/07/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Habitual Residence Test
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many habitual residence tests were carried out in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those tests were passed.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	72156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>The table below gives the total number of Habitual Residency Tests (HRT) completed by Universal Credit (UC) full service claimants for the last five years, and the proportion of these HRT where a pass outcome was recorded.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year UC claim declared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UC claims with an associated HRT</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UC claims with an associated HRT that passed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of Passes</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>4,600</p></td><td><p>4,100</p></td><td><p>89%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>51,400</p></td><td><p>44,800</p></td><td><p>87%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>245,900</p></td><td><p>201,900</p></td><td><p>82%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>417,400</p></td><td><p>364,100</p></td><td><p>87%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>231,400</p></td><td><p>211,900</p></td><td><p>92%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table Notes:</p><ol><li>All figures rounded to 100, but 2015 figures are rounded to the nearest 50.</li><li>Figures are taken from Management Information on Universal Credit Full Service claims and do not include Live Service claims for which HRT data is not available.</li><li>The month used in this data is the month in which the UC claim was declared (regardless of when the UC claim passed the HRT).</li><li>Subtracting the number of HRT passes from the total number of UC HRTs undertaken would not provide the number of HRT fails, as this also includes HRTs where the outcome could not be determined, for example, a claim was withdrawn before the HRT result was recorded.</li><li>The year refers to the calendar year, January – December apart from 2015 data which only includes June-December 2015 data and 2020 data which only includes January-March 2020 data.</li><li>Information on Universal Credit Full service claims may be subject to future change; this is because claim data may be entered retrospectively for past months. Any retrospective changes are most likely to affect recent months; for this reason, we have provided data up to the end of March 2020.</li><li>The UC full service data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. The data should therefore be treated with caution.</li></ol> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/07/2020 16:52:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1221890

registered interest
date	08/07/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Soical Security Benefits: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to provide additional financial support to (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment recipients during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	70954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced a suite of measures that can be quickly and effectively operationalised to benefit those facing the most financial disruption during the pandemic.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/07/2020 15:58:31 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1221892

registered interest
date	08/07/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long an employment and support allowance decision is valid for.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	70956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>An award of income-related ESA will be an indefinite award but it’s continued receipt is subject to the claimant meeting all the conditions of entitlement, and in particular that they continue to have, or be treated as having, Limited Capability for Work (LCW) or Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity (LCWRA).</p><p> </p><p>An award of contributory ESA is for a period of 12 months except where the claimant has LCWRA. Where the claimant continues to have or is treated as having LCWRA the award will be indefinite subject to the claimant meeting all the conditions of entitlement.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/07/2020 16:03:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey