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670886

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2017
	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	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, what the reassessment outcomes were for each disability living allowance award type for each main disabling condition in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	59456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached give statistics on the reassessment outcomes for each Disability Living Allowance award type and for each main disabling condition in the last 12 months.</p><p>Further information on reassessment outcome can be found in published statistics:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/01/2017 09:51:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 59456 DLA reassessment outcomes by award type.xlsx title DLA - reassessment outcomes by award type
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

669111

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	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	Unemployment
	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 have been out of work who were blind or deaf in each calendar year from 2010 in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	58890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58891 58892 58893 58894 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

669112

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	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	Unemployment
	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 have been out of work who had a skin condition or epilepsy in each calendar year from 2010 in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	58891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58890 58892 58893 58894 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

669113

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2017
	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	Unemployment
	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 living with musculoskeletal conditions have been out of work in (a) Sunderland City Council borough, (b) each English region and (c) England in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	58892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The tables attached provide estimates on the number of out of work people of working age in the local authority of Sunderland, each English region and England who reported having one of the following specific long term health conditions (as either their main or secondary health condition):</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 1: Difficulty in seeing or hearing</li><li>Table 2: Conditions related to skin or epilepsy</li><li>Table 3: Musculoskeletal conditions</li><li>Table 4: Heart, blood pressure or blood circulation problems</li><li>Table 5: Diabetes</li></ul><p> </p><p>Not all data is available by the exact health conditions requested. Where data on the blind and deaf has been requested, data on those who report having difficulty in seeing or hearing has been provided. In addition, data is also not available for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, therefore only information for individuals who report they have any type of diabetes has been provided.</p><p> </p><p>Data has been provided for each financial year between 2010/11 to 2015/16.</p><p>A change in how the survey questionnaire captures information on long term health conditions was made in April-June 2013. This change led to a break in the series and in order to provide data for complete years it has been presented in financial years, not calendar years. This series break also means that data for 2013/14 onwards cannot be compared with previous years. Data is not available for 2009/10 and has therefore not been provided.</p><p> </p><p>The estimates provided are based on survey data and are therefore subject to sampling variation and bias, this means that some changes over time can appear volatile and should be treated with caution. Please see the full list of caveats below the tables for further methodological information on how this data was calculated and how these figures should be interpreted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 58890 58891 58893 58894 question first answered 16/01/2017 12:18:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name PQ UIN 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894.xlsx title Tables for PQ's 58890, 58891, 58892, 58893, 58894
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

535578

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2016
	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	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, how many assessments of claimants transferring between disability living allowance and personal independence payments have been made in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	42533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>Information on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances by type (e.g. awarded/disallowed after or before referral to the assessment provider or withdrawn), for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)), is published on Gov.UK: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 42534 question first answered 19/07/2016 13:18:22 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

535579

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2016
	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	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, how many claimants have been transferred from disability living allowance to personal independence payments in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	42534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>Information on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances by type (e.g. awarded/disallowed after or before referral to the assessment provider or withdrawn), for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)), is published on Gov.UK: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 42533 question first answered 19/07/2016 13:18:22 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

535585

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2016
	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	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, what steps he has taken to ensure consistency in the length of intervals between awards of personal independence payments.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	42461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The assessment for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is designed to treat people as individuals, considering the impact of their impairment or health condition on their everyday life and how each claimant has personally adapted to living with a disability. The length of an award for PIP is based on the needs of the individual claimant and whether these are likely to change in the future, as a result, for example, of treatment or changes in their health condition.</p><p> </p><p>The Department monitors all aspects of the PIP application process including the performance of the assessment providers, Atos Healthcare and Capita. The reports of Health Professionals who carry out assessments are subject to quality audit, to ensure accurate advice on the best time to review a case based on a claimant’s individual circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The PIP Assessment Guide for Health Professionals carrying out assessments includes guidance on how to determine the length of an award – Section 2.9 Prognosis (page 54) and 2.10 Review dates (page 56).</p><p> </p><p>This guidance can be accessed on the gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449043/pip-assessment-guide.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449043/pip-assessment-guide.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>There is also guidance and information for DWP decision makers on how best to establish the length of an award.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2016 15:21:04 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

536189

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	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	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, what steps his Department takes to ensure that the level of functional impairment is adequately assessed to provide appropriate support for a claimant to obtain employment.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	42659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department introduced the independent audit of Work Capability Assessments in March 2015 in line with the start of the new Health and Disability Assessment Service contract.</p><p> </p><p>Audit has a central role in confirming that independent health professional advice complies with the required standards and that it is clear and medically reasonable. It also provides assurance that any approach to assessment and opinion given is consistent so that, irrespective of where or by whom the assessment is carried out, claimants with conditions that have the same functional effect will ultimately receive the same benefit outcome.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2016 13:22:29 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

536190

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	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	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, if he will publish the evidence base for the choice of descriptors used in work capability assessments.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	42660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>Details of the evidence base and consultative group members involved in the development of the Work Capability Assessment can be found in the Transformation of the Personal Capability assessment reports of September 2006, February 2007 and November 2007.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090605153301/http:/www.workandpensions.gov.uk/welfarereform/pca.asp" target="_blank"><strong>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090605153301/http:/www.workandpensions.gov.uk/welfarereform/pca.asp</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 42709 question first answered 21/07/2016 13:25:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

536192

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	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	Fit for Work Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Fitness for Work data his Department receives from GPs, collected under the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Statements of Fitness for Work) Directions 2015, is considered identifiable personal data by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	42639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The data collected under the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Statements of Fitness for Work) Directions 2015 will be non patient identifiable on extraction and anonymous on publication, and will not contain any personal information that can be used to identify individuals. Additional measures such as aggregation of disease codes and small number suppression will also be applied which means that, for published information, any number less than five will be replaced by a star.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/07/2016 16:36:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff