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641377

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of all fit-for-work decisions made in initial assessments for employment and support allowance which were subsequently overturned at appeal for each (a) month and (b) year from July 2013 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	53882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/11/2016 14:01:39 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

599629

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in a case where an applicant has been refused employment and support allowance (ESA), the disallowance has been confirmed following mandatory reconsideration and an appeal against the refusal has been submitted, in what circumstances ESA is payable pending the outcome of the appeal.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	47978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Employment and Support Allowance can be paid at the assessment phase rate pending the appeal hearing as long as the conditions of entitlement are satisfied. Employment and Support Allowance is not payable pending an appeal where a claimant has previously been found fit for work following a Work Capability Assessment and makes a repeat claim for benefit and is found to be fit for work again.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/10/2016 16:32:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

748329

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of applications for employment and support allowance which are rejected are overturned at the appeals stage.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds West
	tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
	uin	2883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The available information on overturned Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) appeals can be found in the ESA Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments quarterly statistics published here - see Table 3 (Latest Release) :</p><p> </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> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/07/2017 13:20:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

622116

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance decisions have been amended at the mandatory reconsideration stage in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	50575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2016</a> - go to Main Tables, link SSCS3. This is for all types of ESA decisions.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-september-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-september-2016</a> - go to Data Tables, Table 14. This is data for ESA Work Capability Assessment (WCA) decisions only. Note that MR was only introduced in Oct 2013 for ESA.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 02/11/2016 16:29:53 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

622117

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance decisions have been amended at the tribunal stage in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	50576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2016</a> - go to Main Tables, link SSCS3. This is for all types of ESA decisions.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-september-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-september-2016</a> - go to Data Tables, Table 14. This is data for ESA Work Capability Assessment (WCA) decisions only. Note that MR was only introduced in Oct 2013 for ESA.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 02/11/2016 16:40:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

626114

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	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 whose initial claim for employment and support allowance was unsuccessful died before their appeal was heard in each year from 2013 to 2016 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	51185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/11/2016 15:59:04 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

749699

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2017
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	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 waiting time is by region to complete mandatory reconsiderations of employment and support allowance claims.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	3675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Clearance Time in working days</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central England</p></td><td><p>8.34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London and the Home Counties</p></td><td><p>8.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>8.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>8.06</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>8.62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>9.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>9.19</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The period the data covers is from 1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The data has been gathered based on the claimant’s postcode and is not reflective of the processing office dealing with the mandatory reconsideration.</p><p> </p><p>The data has been measured using the Actual Average Clearance Time (AACT). This measures the average number of Working Days (excludes weekends and English Bank Holidays) between an application being made and the date the customer was notified of the decision on their claim.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p> </p><p>Decision Making and Appeals Case Recorder (DMACR).</p><p> </p><p>The above data source is a Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tool. This type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 10:58:32 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

750637

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of employment and support allowance claims were overturned at the mandatory reconsideration stage in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency in (a) January to December 2016 and (b) January to June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
	tabling member printed	Gerald Jones
	uin	4434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2017 10:50:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4501 label Biography information for Gerald Jones

606853

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provision is in place to support employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants after a successful ESA appeal during the interim period before the reinstatement of that benefit and payment of arrears.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	49707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>If an employment and support allowance claimant appeals following mandatory reconsideration, benefit can be paid at the assessment phase rate pending the appeal hearing. Following a successful appeal the payment will be backdated to cover the period of mandatory reconsideration, provided medical evidence is supplied.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 26/10/2016 15:43:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock