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registered interest
date	25/05/2016
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will provide additional financial support to disabled people whose income will be reduced as a result of (a) changes in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group and (b) the universal credit work allowance as a result of provisions in the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	38566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>No existing Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit claimants will be affected by the change to the work-related activity or limited capability for work components. We have committed to providing £60m a year from 2016/17, rising to £100m a year by 2020/21, in new, practical support for claimants with limited capability for work to help them move closer to the labour market and, when they are ready, into work. If a disabled person in work is affected by the recent changes to work allowances, additional help has been made available to help them overcome specific barriers to increasing their earnings.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 06/06/2016 12:58:06 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

453648

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether benefits for people with disabilities will be exempt from the freeze on working-age benefits.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	27720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Welfare Reform and Work Bill introduces a four-year freeze for the main rates of most working-age benefits from 2016-17 to 2019-20, as part of the Government’s welfare reforms that are moving the country to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society.</p><p> </p><p>The freeze does not apply to benefits related to the additional costs of disability, such as Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment; to the support group component of Employment and Support Allowance or the limited capability for work and work-related activity amount in Universal Credit; or to the disability premiums in Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support or Housing Benefit. Carers benefits and premiums are also exempted from the freeze.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 01/03/2016 16:19:45 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

431805

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of sanctions on employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	17192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Claimants are only asked to meet reasonable requirements taking into account their circumstances and capability, including mental health conditions, disability and caring responsibilities<strong>.</strong></p><br /><p>International evidence is clear that benefit systems supported by conditionality are effective at moving people into work.</p><br /><p>Sanctions encourage claimants to comply with reasonable requirements. These requirements are developed and agreed by claimants with their Work Coach to help them move into/prepare for work. Evidence shows that sanctions have a positive impact on behaviour – over 70% of JSA and over 60% of ESA claimants say that sanctions make it more likely they will follow the rules.</p><br /><p>The Department has not undertaken a specific assessment of the effects sanctions have on the employment outcomes of people with disabilities</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 01/12/2015 15:41:10 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

387476

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to people with a disability who are in receipt of benefits and who want to start their own business.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	5265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) scheme is the main source of self-employment support for people on out of work benefits who are interested in becoming self-employed. It offers mentoring support to develop a business plan and financial support worth up to £1,274 once participants have started to trade (as a weekly allowance of £65 for the first 13 weeks and £33 for the subsequent 13 weeks). Since January 2015 we have widened eligibility to include all Employment Support Allowance (ESA) claimants and those claiming Income Support (IS) as sick.</p><p> </p><p>NEA is open to all Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and ESA claimants and those claiming IS who are disabled, sick or lone parents. NEA is compatible with Work Choice programme eligibility; and once an NEA participant finishes the mentoring stage and starts their business, they may also be entitled to an Access to Work grant.</p><p> </p><p>The NEA has proved a very successful programme to help claimants considering self employment, with nearly 70,000 business starts to date, 13,560 (20%) by people with a disability. Of these, 6,580 start ups have been in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 10/07/2015 09:34:01 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

385917

registered interest
date	25/06/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Prime Minister's Oral Answer of 24 June 2015, Official Report, columns 885-86 and to the Answer of 22 June 2015 to Question 2955, (a) for what reason his Department changed its policy on publishing statistics on the deaths of disability claimants, (b) when those statistics will be published, (c) how much those statistics will cost to produce, (d) for what reason those statistics could previously only be provided at disproportionate cost, (e) when his Department began collecting those statistics and (f) for what reason it began collecting those statistics.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	4401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The answers to your questions are as follows:</p><p>(a) The decision to publish out-of-work benefits mortality statistics has not changed.</p><p>(b) The publication date will be pre-announced here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/list-of-scheduled-upcoming-ad-hoc-statistical-releases" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/list-of-scheduled-upcoming-ad-hoc-statistical-releases</a></p><p>(c) A cost estimate is unavailable.</p><p>(d) It was not possible to answer the original question within cost limits.</p><p>(e) and (f) I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on the 22 June 2015 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-17/2905/" target="_blank">UIN 2905</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 03/07/2015 11:33:19 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff