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1170939

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2020
	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	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, how many and what proportion of unsuccessful claims for personal independence payments were overturned at the mandatory reconsideration stage in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>Statistics on the numbers and proportions of unsuccessful claims for Person Independence Payment (PIP) following an initial PIP assessment where the award was changed at the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) stage in the last 12 months are found in data Table 5C ‘PIP experimental statistics by period of initial decision, for initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment, MRs and appeals’ of the quarterly statistical publication ‘Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to October 2019’ published by the Department for Work and Pensions and available here:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/01/2020 11:28:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1171644

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2020
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Torfaen
	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 in Torfaen constituency were refused personal independence payment in (a) 2018 and (b) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	4763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The latest available data (to October 2019) on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims which have been disallowed (refused) at initial decision can be found in the PIP clearances table at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>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/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/01/2020 11:07:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1171640

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2020
	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	Employment: 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 employers are signatories of her Department's Disability Confident scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	4762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The latest published figures show that, as of 31 December 2019, 15832 employers were signed up to Disability Confident.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/01/2020 17:35:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1171442

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	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	Occupational Health: Fringe Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on making (a) early intervention mental health support and (b) physiotherapy provided by employers non-taxable benefits-in-kind.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	4356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The government is exploring a range of policy options aiming to reduce ill-health related job loss. The consultation ‘Health is Everyone’s Business: Proposals to Reduce Ill Health-related Job Loss’ closed in October 2019.</p><p>It set out proposals to boost Government support available to employers to support employees who are managing health conditions in work and to manage sickness absence more effectively. It included proposals to encourage employers to take early, sustained and proportionate steps to support a sick employee to return to work, reform Statutory Sick Pay, improve occupational health availability and improve the provision of advice and support for employers. We have received a good response from a range of stakeholders, which we are reviewing.</p><p> </p><p>We know that being in the right work is good for health and that being out of work can have a detrimental effect on health. In addition to working with employers to help individuals get the support they need, at the right time, to return to work, Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) provides a minimum level of income for up to 28 weeks to employees needing to take time off to recover from short-term illness.</p><p> </p><p>There is limited evidence to suggest that making the tax treatment more generous is the most effective way of incentivising more employers to offer occupational health provision, if the initial cost of provision is the main barrier for them.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 4357 question first answered 22/01/2020 11:56:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1171444

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	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	Occupational Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent comparative assessment she has made of the potential benefits to (a) workers, (b) employers and (c) the NHS of providing workers who have physical and mental health conditions with (i) early access to free clinical support and (ii) 28 consecutive days of absence.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	4357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The government is exploring a range of policy options aiming to reduce ill-health related job loss. The consultation ‘Health is Everyone’s Business: Proposals to Reduce Ill Health-related Job Loss’ closed in October 2019.</p><p>It set out proposals to boost Government support available to employers to support employees who are managing health conditions in work and to manage sickness absence more effectively. It included proposals to encourage employers to take early, sustained and proportionate steps to support a sick employee to return to work, reform Statutory Sick Pay, improve occupational health availability and improve the provision of advice and support for employers. We have received a good response from a range of stakeholders, which we are reviewing.</p><p> </p><p>We know that being in the right work is good for health and that being out of work can have a detrimental effect on health. In addition to working with employers to help individuals get the support they need, at the right time, to return to work, Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) provides a minimum level of income for up to 28 weeks to employees needing to take time off to recover from short-term illness.</p><p> </p><p>There is limited evidence to suggest that making the tax treatment more generous is the most effective way of incentivising more employers to offer occupational health provision, if the initial cost of provision is the main barrier for them.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 4356 question first answered 22/01/2020 11:56:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1171580

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2020
	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	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 mobility payments were awarded following an initial personal independence payment assessment scoring between zero and four points and subsequent (a) mandatory assessment and (b) appeal in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	4705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information for initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment, including the number where the award was changed after a Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) or appeal is published as part of <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/851503/pip-statistics-to-october-2019.pdf" target="_blank">Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to October 2019</a>, in Table 5c of Data tables: “PIP award rates, clearance/outstanding times and tracking of initial decisions following a PIP assessment through to mandatory reconsiderations or appeals, to October 2019”.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019</a></p><p> </p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/01/2020 11:00:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms