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845519

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Long Term Unemployed People: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of long-term unemployment on the mental health needs of claimants.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	128491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>We know that the longer a working age person is out of work, the more difficult it is for them to return to work and their health and wellbeing may worsen as a result, which is why improving employment support for people with mental health issues is a key priority for this Government.</p><p>The Command Paper <em>Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability</em>, published in November 2017, outlines actions to improve out of work support, including:</p><ul><li>Investment in trials, proofs of concept and feasibility studies to test ways to provide specialist support for people with mental health conditions;</li><li>Doubling the number of employment advisers working in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services by over 300 by 2019, enabling greater provision of integrated psychological treatment and employment support;</li><li>Enhancing mental health training for Jobcentre work coaches;</li><li>Supporting NHS plans to increase access to the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model – a model of integrated employment support within secondary mental health care services.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/02/2018 12:21:10 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

845527

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that the Government’s planned review of personal independence payments resulting from the High Court judgment on the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 does not result in anyone receiving a reduction in those payments.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	128499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the statement made by myself, <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-01-30/debates/F35E85CB-FF67-467E-AD63-1C13EB1EC32B/PIPBackPayments" target="_blank">Official Report</a>, 30 January 2018, Column 703.</p><p> </p><p>This review will not lead to reduced awards as a result of applying the MH judgment.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/02/2018 12:18:25 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

845682

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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 steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment support allowance assessments take into account expert advice, including medical advice.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	128654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Claimants are advised to submit any evidence that they have. If the Department or its assessment providers require further evidence, including any supporting medical evidence, they will request it directly from the clinician or other professionals involved in the claimant’s care. All Health Professionals are subject to on-going audit by our assessment providers to ensure that they deliver high quality assessments, including the appropriate use of further evidence. The Department also undertakes independent audit to ensure that the advice provided to the Department’s decision makers is of suitable quality, fully explained and justified.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 28/02/2018 16:37:09 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

845685

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment
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 Answer of 5 February 2018 to Question 125988, for what reasons personal independence payment claimants are not given the full list of descriptors against which they are assessed; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	128657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>Claimants to Personal Independence Payment are not provided with a list of descriptors because the PIP2 questionnaire, “How your disability affects you”, was designed to allow claimants to tell us, in their own words, how their health condition or disability impacts them on a day-to-day basis. The questionnaire, which was co-produced with the assistance of disabled people, carers and organisations supporting them, is accompanied by a leaflet that helps claimants complete the form. The assessment activities and descriptors used in PIP can be found in part 2 of the PIP Assessment Guide available on www.gov.uk: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/665635/pip-assessment-guide-part-2-assessment-criteria.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/665635/pip-assessment-guide-part-2-assessment-criteria.pdf</a></p><p><em></em></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/02/2018 11:20:20 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

845693

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124897, and the Answer of 19 January 2018 to Question 122944, what plans she has to ensure that information for Employment Support Allowance is available in the same form as information for personal independence payments.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	128665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>As policies, processes and monitoring systems may vary, it is not always possible to produce the same statistics for each benefit administered by the Department. DWP statisticians work to produce statistics that most appropriately reflect the processes being measured for each individual benefit but, in cases where there are similarities, will aim to make the statistics as comparable as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes quarterly statistics on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA): Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments (WCA) which include figures on mandatory reconsiderations and appeals of WCA decisions. These statistics are not currently available to parliamentary constituency level but DWP statisticians are investigating how to extend the geography information provided. The statistics can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment</a></p><p> </p><p>With reference to Question 122944, equivalent national figures for appeals on initial and repeat ESA WCAs are available in Table 17 of these statistics. This table covers experimental statistics on the number of initial and repeat ESA WCA assessment which result in a mandatory reconsideration or an appeal.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics on all appeals made with respect to ESA claims are published by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</a></p><p>As these are not DWP statistics, responsibility for their format lies with HMCTS</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/02/2018 14:33:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

845709

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People on 13 December 2017, Official Report, column 188WH, whether the figure cited of 83 per cent of people being either satisfied or very satisfied with the work capability assessment included responses from people whose claims were disallowed.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	128681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Claimant Service and Experience Survey includes claimants who have had contact with DWP in the last three months, so there would be scope for inclusion in the survey each quarter, even if the claim for ESA was subsequently disallowed. The latest overall satisfaction figure for ESA is 82% in 2016/17 (from 83% in 2015/16) as published on 22 February 2018 and available at GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2016-to-2017</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/02/2018 11:03:52 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

845710

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to Answer of 22 January 2018 to Question 122972, whether the figure cited of overall satisfaction for personal independence payments included responses from people whose claims were disallowed.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	128682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Claimant Service and Experience Survey includes Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants who have had contact with DWP in the three months prior to interview and whose claims were successful. The latest overall satisfaction figure for PIP is 87% in 2016/17 (from 76% in 2015/16) as published on 22 February 2018 and available at GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2016-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/02/2018 14:28:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

845760

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library a copy of the questions used for (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment and support allowance assessments.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	128732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>I will place copies of the PIP2 and ESA50 questionnaires in the Library together with a booklet and flyer which accompanies the PIP2. A copy of the PIP2 questionnaire and the booklet accompanying it are also available from the Personal Independence Payment Toolkit: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-personal-independence-payment-pip-toolkit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-personal-independence-payment-pip-toolkit</a>. A copy of the ESA50 is also available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capability-for-work-questionnaire" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capability-for-work-questionnaire</a>. Both questionnaires are also available in Welsh and a range of accessible formats such as Braille.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/02/2018 14:25:04 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

845780

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what resources are provided by her Department to (a) Citizens Advice and (b) other welfare rights organisation for the provision of representation services as referenced in section 4 of the Social Security and Child Support appeal form SSCS1; and what other representation services are available to claimants if services are not available from those organisations.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	128752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not provide resources to welfare rights organisations for the provision of representation services. Claimants are still represented but funding support for that is not provided by DWP.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/02/2018 11:07:34 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah