Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

795379

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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	Fracking: Ryedale
	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 adequacy of the KM8 pipeline to transport shale gas safely from the KM8 well, if he will publish the evidence on which that assessment has been made; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	115800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has inspected the pipeline and is content that the gas from the KM8 well can be safely conveyed within the pipeline, under the current risk management systems employed by Third Energy. If there is any breach of the health and safety regulations resulting in formal enforcement action, HSE will make this public.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/11/2017 16:14:41 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

843925

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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: Eligibility
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential basis was for the decision to move personal independent payment mobility criteria from 50 metres to 20 metres.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	128040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>There has been no move from 50 metres to 20 metres.</p><p> </p><p>Disability Living Allowance (DLA) does not have and has never had a 50 metre measure for mobilising for the purpose of assessing whether someone is unable or virtually unable to walk.</p><p> </p><p>The 20 metre distance was introduced in Personal Independence Payment (PIP) to distinguish those whose mobility is significantly more limited than others and who face even greater barriers on a day to day basis – those who have the highest need.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/02/2018 15:59:20 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

843928

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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: Multiple Sclerosis and Neurology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the level of knowledge of (a) multiple sclerosis and (b) neurological conditions among personal independence payment assessors; and what steps her Department is taking to improve the knowledge of those conditions and their symptoms among such assessors.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	128044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>The objective of the PIP assessment is to assess the impact that health conditions and impairments can have on an individual’s daily life. The PIP assessment is not a medical assessment requiring the Health Care Professional to diagnose a condition or to recommend treatment options.</p><p> </p><p>All Health Care Professionals complete initial and ongoing training on neurological conditions and multiple sclerosis. They also practise several clinical scenarios involving neurological conditions and multiple sclerosis as part of that training. Health Professionals have access to a range of resources as well as experienced clinicians to support them in assessing claimants with complex conditions. In addition, Assessment Providers frequently engage with medical experts, charities and relevant stakeholders to strengthen, review and update their training programmes.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/02/2018 12:26:23 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

849958

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	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: 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 process will be for upholding the High Court judgment on Personal Independence Payments.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	129526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 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 - 704.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 28/02/2018 16:37:12 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

892142

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2018
	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: Hearing Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the accessibility to deaf claimants of the personal independence payment customer satisfaction surveys that are only carried out by telephone.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	138493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my previous answer on 26 April 2018 to PQ136978. <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-04-23/136978/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-04-23/136978/</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 01/05/2018 14:37:19 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

892143

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2018
	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, how many personal independence payment (PIP) review notice letters were sent out to claimants (a) up to one year and (b) over one year in advance of their PIP award expiry date in the last two years; and how many claimants had their PIP award terminated early in that period.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	138494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of review letters that were sent out to Personal Independence Payments claimants up to one year in advance between January 2016 and January 2018 is 316,610. Of these, 63,200 were disallowed after the review. The Personal Independence Payment Computer Systems are designed to auto-send out notifications on the review date, not before, which is one year before the expiration of the award. As such we have no record of claimants who received notice letters over one year in advance of their PIP award expiry date.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 01/05/2018 10:14:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

837461

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the gross working premium of insurers which was required to fund the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payments Scheme in (a) 2014-15 (b) 2015-16 (c) 2016-17 and (d) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	126580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The Diffuse Mesothelioma Payments Scheme levy as a proportion of the employers’ liability gross written premium for the years specified is estimated as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 - <strong>2.2% </strong></p><p>2015/16 - <strong>1.5%</strong></p><p>2016/17 - <strong>2.5%</strong></p><p>2017/18 - <strong>2.1%.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>The levy year is based on a fiscal year whereas the gross written premium (GWP) is based on the calendar year.</p><p>The proportions quoted above use the most recently available GWP data in any one year. Due to the time taken to collect and verify this data, the GWP figure used to calculate the proportion the levy represents will be two years old.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/02/2018 12:24:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

994654

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	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	Disability: Wrexham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people aged 16 to 64 by category of disability there are in the Wrexham constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	183889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>Table 1 below shows the estimated number of people aged 16 to 64 who have a disability in Wrexham. It also shows the disability prevalence, as well as the equivalent figures for the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates for constituencies are based on small sample sizes and are therefore subject to a margin of uncertainty. Therefore, these estimates should be treated with caution. The “confidence interval” of 4 percentage points means that we can be 95% confident that the true value lies between 13% and 20% (calculated using unrounded figures).</p><p> </p><p>Sample sizes are too small to provide reliable estimates of categories of disability by constituency.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: the number and percentage of disabled people, aged 16 to 64, in Wrexham, and the UK, July 2016 to June 2017</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Number of disabled people</p></td><td><p>Total population</p></td><td><p>Disability Prevalence (%)</p></td><td><p>Confidence Interval (percentage points)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wrexham</p></td><td><p>7,000</p></td><td><p>44,000</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>7,386,000</p></td><td><p>41,081,000</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Annual Population Survey, available at: <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The Annual Population Survey was used to provide a larger sample size to provide constituency breakdowns. Therefore, estimates for the UK will not exactly match estimates from the Labour Force Survey published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in their UK Labour Market statistics bulletin.</li><li>Estimates are provided for the period July 2016 to June 2017 which is the latest period published by ONS without health warnings. More recent estimates remain subject to health warnings while ONS complete their investigations into an unexpected increase in reporting of disability in July to September 2017.</li><li>In summary, the disability definition covers people who report:</li></ol><ul><li>(current) physical or mental health condition(s) or illnesses lasting or expected to last 12 months or more</li><li>the condition(s) or illness(es) reduce their ability to carry out day-to-day activities.</li></ul><ol start="4"><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 1000. Percentages are rounded to one percentage point.</li><li>Estimates are subject to sampling variation and are therefore subject to a margin of uncertainty. The ‘confidence interval’ measures this uncertainty, such that we can be 95% confident that the true disability prevalence falls within that distance of the estimate.</li></ol> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 31/10/2018 10:22:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

867431

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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 Illness
	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 make an assessment of the adequacy of the criteria for assessments for personal independence payments for people with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	133406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>The assessment criteria for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have been developed to take into account the overall impact of a claimant’s physical or mental health condition or impairment on their functional ability, rather than focusing on a particular diagnosis. The inclusion in the assessment of activities around communicating, engaging with others, and planning and following journeys assists with assessing the impact of conditions affecting mental, intellectual, cognitive and developmental functions.</p><p> </p><p>66% of PIP recipients with mental health conditions get the enhanced rate daily living component, compared with 22% who received the highest DLA care component. And 31% of PIP recipients with mental health conditions get the enhanced rate mobility rate, compared with just 10% of DLA recipients.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 28/03/2018 14:22:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1045755

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	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: Fibromyalgia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to update the training module on Fibromyalgia issued by her Department on 18 April 2018; and whether her Department has made an assessment of (a) the level of compliance with the training module by benefits assessors and (b) the effectiveness of the guidance in identifying suffers of Fibromyalgia.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	210666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The training module is due to be reviewed in April 2019 and Fibromyalgia UK will be invited to quality assure the document which they previously reviewed in March 2018. The Department’s Independent Audit Team conducts an audit of a statistically significant sample of the Centre for Health and Disability Assessment reports that includes Fibromyalgia cases. The role of Healthcare Professionals conducting assessments is to provide advice on the functional impact of a condition and not to diagnose or advise on treatment.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/01/2019 13:37:11 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds