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1540860

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	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: Terminal Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	"To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the provisions of the Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Act 2022 enabling people who are thought to be in the final year of their life to receive fast-tracked access to disability benefits such as Personal Independent Payments will come into effect.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	82293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The Social Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill received Royal Assent on 25<sup>th</sup> October 2022 and the Government will implement it as soon as is practicable.</p><p>The Act will enable people who are thought to be in the final year of their life to get fast-tracked access to Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Attendance Allowance (AA). Similar changes were made to the definition of end of life used in Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance in April 2022.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/11/2022 14:49:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1654749

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2023
	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	Sign Language: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department's Disability Unit has made of the (a) adequacy of availability of and (b) strength of demand for courses in British Sign Language.
	tabling member constituency	St Ives
	tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
	uin	195473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Disability Unit does not keep statistics on the adequacy of availability, or strength of demand, for courses in British Sign Language, as this would be a matter for the Department for Education.</p><p> </p><p>A British Sign Language (BSL) Advisory Board has been established to help advise the Government on the implementation of the British Sign Language Act 2022. This Act legally recognises BSL as a language of England, Wales and Scotland. It requires government departments to report on how they are ensuring accessibility of their communications through the use of BSL. The BSL Advisory Board is a new expert committee which will advise the Government on the implementation of the BSL Act and other matters important to BSL signers. Amongst other things, the Board will advise on how to increase the numbers of qualified and registered BSL interpreters.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 14:20:04 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1656624

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	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	Statutory Sick Pay
	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 report by WPI Economics entitled Making Statutory Sick Pay Work, published on 12 July 2023, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) offering employees statutory sick pay from the first day they are off sick, (b) widening the eligibility criteria for statutory sick pay and (c) increasing the rate of statutory sick pay.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Gullis
	uin	197106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s 2019 Health is Everyone’s Business Consultation proposed a package of reforms which aimed to reduce ill-health related job loss and support disabled people and people with health conditions to stay in, and thrive in, work. This included proposals for (limited) reform of SSP.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the consultation (2021), the Government maintained that SSP provides an important link between the employee and employer but that this was not the right time to introduce changes to the sick pay system. The Government is continuing to keep the SSP system under review.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 197105 197107 question first answered 07/09/2023 13:35:23 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4814 label Biography information for Jonathan Gullis

1582535

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2023
	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: Huntington's Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) in the last five years, how many people with Huntington's disease (i) made a claim for Personal Independence Payment, (ii) were refused and (iii) were successful on appeal; (b) what was the cost of those successful appeals; (c) in the last five years, how many people with Huntington's disease in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (i) were reassessed, (ii) were declined and (iii) were successful on appeal; and (d) what was the cost of those reapplications and successful appeals.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	uin	136851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p><strong>a) Based on initial decisions made in the last five years (01 July 2017 to 30 June 2022), for claimants whose primary disabling condition at initial assessment is Huntington’s disease:</strong></p><p>i) 1,900 claimants made a claim for Personal Independence Payment (PIP);</p><p>ii) Of these, 330 claimants were disallowed post assessment; and</p><p>iii) Of these who had their decision initially disallowed, 50 claimants had an appeal lapsed or overturned at tribunal.</p><p> </p><p><strong>b) The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>c) Based on initial decisions made in the last five years (01 July 2017 to 30 June 2022), for claimants whose primary disabling condition at initial assessment is Huntington’s disease:</strong></p><p>i) 700 claimants had their PIP award reviewed because of a planned award review or change of circumstance;</p><p>ii) Of these, 30 claimants were disallowed post assessment; and</p><p>iii) Of these who had their decision initially disallowed, 10 claimants had an appeal lapsed or overturned at tribunal.</p><p> </p><p><strong>d) The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Please note:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based, but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</li><li>We have provided data for England and Wales (excluding Scotland) in line with the latest published figures on PIP.</li><li>These figures include initial decisions following assessment for PIP New Claims and Reassessments from 01 July 2017 up to 30 June 2022, the latest date for which published data is available.</li><li>These figures include appeal decisions at a tribunal hearing up to 31 September 2022, the latest date for which published data is available. Note that more appeals could be made and completed after September 2022, so numbers could go up as it can take some time for an appeal to be lodged and then cleared after the initial decision.</li></ul><ul><li>Figures in part c) are unpublished and may be subject to future revisions.</li><li>Prior to tribunal appeal, claimants must have requested a mandatory reconsideration (MR) from the DWP. Some of those disallowed following assessment will have their decision changed at this stage and take the dispute no further. In some cases, a claimant who has their disallowed decision changed at MR will continue to appeal for a higher PIP award, and these cases could be included in the figures reported.</li><li>A lapsed appeal is where the DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged, but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 03/02/2023 11:20:13 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1568136

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	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 he will take steps to include customer satisfaction scores for people who applied for (a) Employment Support Allowance, (b) Universal Credit Limited Capability for Work, (b) Personal Independence Payment and (c) other disability benefits in his Department's annual report for the 2022-23 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	126799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to monitoring and reporting progress against the priority outcomes agreed for the department in the Spending Review 2021 settlement.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish our Annual Report and Accounts for 2022/23 in Summer 2023, which will include performance statistics on key measures and metrics, including customer satisfaction levels, and support provided to those in receipt of disability benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 126796 126797 126798 question first answered 24/01/2023 12:18:14 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1585827

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for Attendance Allowance, how many (a) applications were received, (b) awards were made and (c) mandatory reconsiderations were completed in which the decision was (i) upheld and (ii) overturned in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
	uin	143680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>We have grouped the response to the above three parliamentary questions together.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is in the attached document.</p><p> </p><p>Points to note:</p><ul><li>Information on the volume of applications received and the volume of awards made for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit is available as published data on Stat Xplore from 2017 onwards. In particular the ‘Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) Assessments’ dataset gives data on ‘Accepted – payable’ assessments and the ‘New Claims to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)’ dataset. These datasets can be found in the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) folder. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/web</a>api/online-help/index.html.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Figures for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit applications received and awards made up to 2017 is derived from Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit quarterly statistics. This data can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics</a></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The rest of this data 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 standards. It should therefore be treated with caution.</li><li>Figures for applications received and awards made are rounded to the nearest 1,000.</li><li>Figures for Mandatory Reconsiderations (MRs) are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Figures for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit includes Industrial Injuries Disablement Allowance and Reduced Earnings Allowance.</li><li>Figures for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) cover both DLA Adult and DLA Child and awards made include new claims and renewals.</li><li>Definition of Mandatory Reconsideration: Claimants who wish to dispute a decision made on their claim are required to ask the department to reconsider the decision before they can lodge an appeal with His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service. MRs can arise for various reasons, such as omitting to tell the DWP about relevant evidence during the initial decision-making process; this could include not returning forms required as part of the claim.</li><li>Figures are for Great Britain only.</li><li>Figures cover applications, awards and Mandatory Reconsiderations from October 2013 up to May 2022.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 143679 143681 question first answered 21/02/2023 11:25:18 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1585826

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	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	Disability Living Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for Disability Living Allowance, how many (a) applications were received, (b) awards were made and (c) mandatory reconsiderations were completed in which the decision was (i) upheld and (ii) overturned in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
	uin	143679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>We have grouped the response to the above three parliamentary questions together.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is in the attached document.</p><p> </p><p>Points to note:</p><ul><li>Information on the volume of applications received and the volume of awards made for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit is available as published data on Stat Xplore from 2017 onwards. In particular the ‘Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) Assessments’ dataset gives data on ‘Accepted – payable’ assessments and the ‘New Claims to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)’ dataset. These datasets can be found in the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) folder. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/web</a>api/online-help/index.html.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Figures for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit applications received and awards made up to 2017 is derived from Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit quarterly statistics. This data can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics</a></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The rest of this data 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 standards. It should therefore be treated with caution.</li><li>Figures for applications received and awards made are rounded to the nearest 1,000.</li><li>Figures for Mandatory Reconsiderations (MRs) are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Figures for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit includes Industrial Injuries Disablement Allowance and Reduced Earnings Allowance.</li><li>Figures for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) cover both DLA Adult and DLA Child and awards made include new claims and renewals.</li><li>Definition of Mandatory Reconsideration: Claimants who wish to dispute a decision made on their claim are required to ask the department to reconsider the decision before they can lodge an appeal with His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service. MRs can arise for various reasons, such as omitting to tell the DWP about relevant evidence during the initial decision-making process; this could include not returning forms required as part of the claim.</li><li>Figures are for Great Britain only.</li><li>Figures cover applications, awards and Mandatory Reconsiderations from October 2013 up to May 2022.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 143680 143681 question first answered 21/02/2023 11:25:17 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1585828

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2023
	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	Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for Industrial Injuries Disablement Allowance, how many (a) applications were received, (b) awards were made and (c) mandatory reconsiderations were completed in which the decision was (i) upheld and (ii) overturned in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
	uin	143681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>We have grouped the response to the above three parliamentary questions together.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is in the attached document.</p><p> </p><p>Points to note:</p><ul><li>Information on the volume of applications received and the volume of awards made for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit is available as published data on Stat Xplore from 2017 onwards. In particular the ‘Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) Assessments’ dataset gives data on ‘Accepted – payable’ assessments and the ‘New Claims to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)’ dataset. These datasets can be found in the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) folder. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/web</a>api/online-help/index.html.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Figures for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit applications received and awards made up to 2017 is derived from Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit quarterly statistics. This data can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-injuries-disablement-benefit-quarterly-statistics</a></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The rest of this data 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 standards. It should therefore be treated with caution.</li><li>Figures for applications received and awards made are rounded to the nearest 1,000.</li><li>Figures for Mandatory Reconsiderations (MRs) are rounded to the nearest 100.</li><li>Figures for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit includes Industrial Injuries Disablement Allowance and Reduced Earnings Allowance.</li><li>Figures for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) cover both DLA Adult and DLA Child and awards made include new claims and renewals.</li><li>Definition of Mandatory Reconsideration: Claimants who wish to dispute a decision made on their claim are required to ask the department to reconsider the decision before they can lodge an appeal with His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service. MRs can arise for various reasons, such as omitting to tell the DWP about relevant evidence during the initial decision-making process; this could include not returning forms required as part of the claim.</li><li>Figures are for Great Britain only.</li><li>Figures cover applications, awards and Mandatory Reconsiderations from October 2013 up to May 2022.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 143679 143680 question first answered 21/02/2023 11:25:17 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1607109

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2023
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for cases in the past year where Universal Credit has been reduced due to historical overpayment of tax credits due to official error, what the average debt was that each recipient was required to repay.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	173020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2023 answer text <p>Tax Credit overpayments deemed by HMRC to be caused by official error are not transferred to the DWP for recovery where a customer makes a claim for Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 173019 173021 question first answered 29/03/2023 11:47:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1661134

	registered interest
	date	18/09/2023
	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	Human Rights: 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 Ministers did not attend the UN review of the Government's treatment of disabled people due to take place in Geneva on 28 August 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	200009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The hearing was arranged in relation to the Committee’s review of the UK Government’s follow-up reports to the 2016 inquiry under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A state party dialogue with Ministers is not a procedural requirement of this review.</p><p> </p><p>We have followed all of the Committee’s necessary rules and procedures and, as agreed with the Committee entirely properly, representatives of the UK Government will present the UK’s progress at the Committee’s session in March 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/10/2023 11:59:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi