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1272921

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	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	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, for what reason the publication of the health and disability Green Paper and reform of the assessment processes for employment support allowance and personal independence payments, has been delayed.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	133064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>Given the focus on the departmental response to Covid-19 and providing citizens with the support they need, we are working to a longer timescale than previously anticipated. We will continue to develop the Green Paper, supported by virtual engagement with charities and disabled people, and plan to publish the formal consultation later in 2021. The Green Paper aims to better understand the needs of disabled people and will seek views and ideas on what improvements should be made to the health and disability benefits system.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/01/2021 15:37:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1272922

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	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	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 plans her Department has to engage directly with (a) disabled and (b) seriously unwell people who have been through its assessments for (i) employment support allowance and (ii) personal independence payment during the consultation on the Health and Disability Green Paper.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	133065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The Green Paper aims to better understand the needs of disabled people and will seek views and ideas on what improvements should be made to the health and disability benefits system.</p><p>The Department has ensured a strong emphasis on engaging with stakeholders and we have hosted a series of workshops across the country with local disability organisations, disabled people and people with health conditions. This engagement has continued virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic and will continue until publication and during the consultation period.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/01/2021 15:41:49 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1272923

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	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	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 the Gunning Principles will be applied to the consultation on the Health and Disability Green Paper in the event that paper is published during a period when covid-19 lockdown restrictions are in place.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	133066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The consultation on the Health and Disability Support Green Paper will follow the Government consultation principles which provide clear guidance to Government departments on conducting consultations. These principles are published on gov.uk. We will be mindful of any covid-19 restrictions that are in place at the time of publication.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/01/2021 15:45:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1283998

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2021
	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	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 of the Answer of 11 January 2021 to Question 133065 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, if she will publish a list of the (a) disabled and deaf people's organisations and (b) other charities and organisations her officials have consulted with ahead of the forthcoming health and disability green paper to date.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	149287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>We have undertaken engagement with a range of stakeholders, disabled people’s organisations and disabled people ahead of the forthcoming publication of the health and disability Green Paper. This will ensure the Green Paper focuses on the issues that are important to those who use our services.</p><p> </p><p>This has included several consultation events, face to face prior to the pandemic and through video after, attended by disabled people, representatives from charities and disabled people’s organisations from across the country.</p><p> </p><p>We will produce the Green Paper in a range of accessible formats. Engagement will continue alongside the formal consultation after publication where we will maximise the way we engage using a variety of digital methods such as on-line video platforms and Citizen Space. There is not a fixed budget for the public consultation, but it will come from the Department’s existing funding allocation.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 149288 149289 question first answered 11/02/2021 14:04:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1283999

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2021
	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	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 of the Answer of 11 January 2021 to Question 133065 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, if she will instruct her officials to explore opportunities to utilise digital technology to increase direct engagement with disabled and seriously unwell people during the formal consultation on the health and disability green paper.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	149288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>We have undertaken engagement with a range of stakeholders, disabled people’s organisations and disabled people ahead of the forthcoming publication of the health and disability Green Paper. This will ensure the Green Paper focuses on the issues that are important to those who use our services.</p><p> </p><p>This has included several consultation events, face to face prior to the pandemic and through video after, attended by disabled people, representatives from charities and disabled people’s organisations from across the country.</p><p> </p><p>We will produce the Green Paper in a range of accessible formats. Engagement will continue alongside the formal consultation after publication where we will maximise the way we engage using a variety of digital methods such as on-line video platforms and Citizen Space. There is not a fixed budget for the public consultation, but it will come from the Department’s existing funding allocation.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 149287 149289 question first answered 11/02/2021 14:04:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1284000

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2021
	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	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 of the Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 52280, whether her Department has set a budget for the formal consultation on the Health and Disability Green Paper.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	149289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>We have undertaken engagement with a range of stakeholders, disabled people’s organisations and disabled people ahead of the forthcoming publication of the health and disability Green Paper. This will ensure the Green Paper focuses on the issues that are important to those who use our services.</p><p> </p><p>This has included several consultation events, face to face prior to the pandemic and through video after, attended by disabled people, representatives from charities and disabled people’s organisations from across the country.</p><p> </p><p>We will produce the Green Paper in a range of accessible formats. Engagement will continue alongside the formal consultation after publication where we will maximise the way we engage using a variety of digital methods such as on-line video platforms and Citizen Space. There is not a fixed budget for the public consultation, but it will come from the Department’s existing funding allocation.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 149287 149288 question first answered 11/02/2021 14:04:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

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

1278953

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2021
	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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many disabled benefits claimants were sanctioned in (1) 2019, and (2) 2020; how those figure compare to the number of non-disabled such claimants who were sanctioned; how many of those sanctions were appealed and upheld; and what steps they have taken to ensure that disabled people claiming benefits are not discriminated against.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL12359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>The information requested for Universal Credit is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics are available on the number of self-identified disabled people who have received an adverse sanction decision whilst in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance and these are published by decision type online.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure our approach to sanctions is fair those who are not expected to look for work, those with severe health conditions are not in scope of sanctions. For those who we do expect to look for work, conditionality requirements are tailored to the claimant’s circumstances so they are reasonable, achievable and are agreed between the claimant and their Work Coach. Should there be a doubt, the Decision Maker will take into account all the claimant’s individual circumstances, such as health conditions, and any evidence of good reason they have provided, before deciding whether a sanction is warranted. Claimants have the right to a Mandatory Reconsideration and appeal should they wish to dispute the decision.</p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 26/01/2021 16:09:50 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

521342

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	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, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) medical assessors and (b) others considering applications for (a) personal independence payment and (b) other benefits have knowledge of (i) muscular dystrophy, (ii) neuromuscular conditions and (iii) other rare and progressive conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
	tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
	uin	38288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2016 answer text <p>All healthcare professionals carrying out assessments receive comprehensive training in disability analysis, which includes the evaluation of how medical conditions affect claimants in their day-to-day activities. Prior to carrying out an assessment, assessors refresh their knowledge of any condition with which they are not fully familiar.</p><p> </p><p>Benefit entitlement is determined by the Department’s decision makers, who receive extensive training to enable them to evaluate a claim and assess a claimant’s needs. In order to make a decision on benefit entitlement the decision maker considers all the available evidence, including the reports received from the healthcare professional and any further evidence, which may include reports from GPs, hospital doctors and other clinicians.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/05/2016 13:46:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

752813

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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, how many health and disability assessment centres are not wheelchair-accessible.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	5251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>All Assessment Centre buildings [operated by Independent Assessment Services (an Atos company), Capita, and the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA)] are compliant with the Equality Act 2010 and are wheelchair accessible.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The assessment providers are required to ensure that the needs of all claimants are considered, including proximity to public transport routes and access to suitable parking. Before attending an assessment, claimants are given the opportunity to alert the assessment provider to any additional requirements they may have. The providers will endeavour to meet any reasonable requests.</p><p> </p><p>If a claimant is unable to travel to, or access an Assessment Centre as a result of their health condition or impairment, a home visit may be offered.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 5252 5253 question first answered 20/07/2017 12:53:59 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed