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928005

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, whether her Department has identified errors in its calculation of personal independence payments in the last three months.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	155812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department takes our responsibility for the prevention of error very seriously. We understand that the need to make sure payments are correct as incorrect payments will have implications for benefit claimants.</p><p>We ensure the accuracy and quality of payments through internal assurance processes. This enables the Department to identify and correct error and to focus on those points in the customer journey where there is a risk of error occurring.</p><p>When a benefit is reviewed the consequential impacts on other benefits are also reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 155813 155814 155835 155836 155838 155840 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:40:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

928006

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, what steps she has taken to ensure the accuracy of the calculation of personal independence payment entitlements.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	155813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department takes our responsibility for the prevention of error very seriously. We understand that the need to make sure payments are correct as incorrect payments will have implications for benefit claimants.</p><p>We ensure the accuracy and quality of payments through internal assurance processes. This enables the Department to identify and correct error and to focus on those points in the customer journey where there is a risk of error occurring.</p><p>When a benefit is reviewed the consequential impacts on other benefits are also reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 155812 155814 155835 155836 155838 155840 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:40:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

928007

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, what steps she has taken to ensure the accuracy of the calculation of benefit entitlements that are consequential on personal independence payment entitlements.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	155814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department takes our responsibility for the prevention of error very seriously. We understand that the need to make sure payments are correct as incorrect payments will have implications for benefit claimants.</p><p>We ensure the accuracy and quality of payments through internal assurance processes. This enables the Department to identify and correct error and to focus on those points in the customer journey where there is a risk of error occurring.</p><p>When a benefit is reviewed the consequential impacts on other benefits are also reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 155812 155813 155835 155836 155838 155840 question first answered 25/06/2018 15:40:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

928008

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the calculation of personal independence payment entitlements.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	155815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment is discussed regularly across Government, including the calculation of entitlement.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/06/2018 13:55:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

927774

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, pursuant to the answer of 6 June 2018 to Question 150695 on Personal Independence Payment, where that information is collated.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	155824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on informal observations and their use in reaching a decision is not collected centrally. To establish an estimate would require a manual examination of each individual assessment report form and decision.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 155825 question first answered 25/06/2018 14:30:34 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

927776

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, pursuant to the answer of 6 June 2018 to Question 150695 on Personal Independence Payment, what information her Department holds on the number of personal independence payment assessment reports that (a) have included consideration of informal observations and (b) used informal observations to come to a decision in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	155825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on informal observations and their use in reaching a decision is not collected centrally. To establish an estimate would require a manual examination of each individual assessment report form and decision.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 155824 question first answered 25/06/2018 14:30:34 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

927777

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, what additional (a) resources and (b) funding her Department has been allocated to process back-dated claims for personal independence payments.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	155826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>As outlined in the Written Statements of 19<sup>th</sup> January 2018 (<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-01-19/debates/18011939000006/Welfare" target="_blank">HCWS414</a>) and 15<sup>th</sup> June 2018 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-06-15/HCWS767/" target="_blank">HCWS767</a>), my Department will be carrying out administrative exercises to identify anyone who may be entitled to more as a result of the judgments.</p><p> </p><p>The administrative cost will depend on a number of factors, including the number of cases identified.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/06/2018 14:44:33 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

927778

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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	Employment and Support Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what additional (a) resources and (b) funding her Department has been allocated to process back-dated claims for employment support allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	155827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The report published by the National Audit Office, published March 2018, clearly sets out what resources and funding we have allocated to this process. The relevant information can be found at paragraphs 2.17 and 2.19:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/report/investigation-into-errors-in-employment-and-support-allowance/" target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk/report/investigation-into-errors-in-employment-and-support-allowance/</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 28/06/2018 16:44:46 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

927779

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 15 June 2018 on Personal Independence Payments HCWS767, if she will publish the terms of reference for the review.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	155828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>As outlined in the Written Statement of 15<sup>th</sup> June 2018 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-06-15/HCWS767/" target="_blank">HCWS767</a>), the department will be conducting an administrative exercise to identify claimants who may be affected by the Upper Tribunal judgment in LB.</p><p> </p><p>My Department are now working at pace and taking all steps necessary for this administrative exercise to take place later in the year.</p><p> </p><p>This administrative exercise to identify claimants who may be affected by the judgment will include all those who were in receipt of PIP or received a PIP decision during the period between the date of the LB judgment (28 November 2016) and the date of the March 2017 amendments (16 March 2017). It will include claimants currently assessed as needing support to manage medication or monitor a health condition.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/06/2018 15:25:20 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

927780

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2018
	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, what estimate she has made of the number of people who will receive a back-payment for personal independence payment.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	155829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The estimated number of claimants affected by the Personal Independence Payment Upper Tribunal judgments LB and RJ can be found in the following Written Statements, published on 15<sup>th</sup> June 2018 (<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-06-15/HCWS767/" target="_blank">HCWS767</a>) and 2<sup>nd</sup> November 2017 (<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-11-02/debates/17110233000008/SocialSecurity" target="_blank">HCWS218</a>). For the Upper Tribunal judgment in MH, the estimated number of affected claimants can be found in the Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in March 2018, p.136 <a href="http://cdn.obr.uk/EFO-MaRch_2018.pdf" target="_blank">http://cdn.obr.uk/EFO-MaRch_2018.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/06/2018 14:12:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray