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837561

	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Tumours
	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 with a brain tumour their main disabling condition have (a) applied for and (b) received Employment and Support Allowance in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	126680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Brain tumours can commonly refer to a range of different conditions depending on the type of tumour. They are also grouped with other central nervous system tumours when being recorded. As such it is not possible for us to isolate brain tumours as a separate recorded condition. The available information held relating to this condition is shown in the following tables:</p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of individuals making an initial claim to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) whose main disabling condition was recorded as relating to Brain or Central Nervous System Tumours, by year of claim start Jan 2010 to Mar 2017: Great Britain</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year of ESA </strong> <strong>claim start</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Initial ESA<br> claims</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 (Jan - Mar)</strong></p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Number of individuals assigned to the ESA Support Group or the ESA Work Capability Group following their Work Capability Assessment (for initial, repeat or IB reassessment claims), whose main disabling condition was recorded as relating to Brain or Central Nervous System Tumours, by year of claim start or IB reassessment referral, Jan 2010 to Mar 2017: Great Britain</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year of ESA claim start</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Initial ESA<br> claims</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Repeat ESA<br> assessments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>IB<br> reassessments</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017 (Jan - Mar)</strong></p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source for Tables 1 and 2:</strong> Application data is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by the Healthcare Provider.</p><p><strong>Notes for Tables 1 and 2:</strong></p><ol><li>The figures are rounded to the nearest 100. “–” denotes figures that are zero or less than 50.</li><li>The information for 2017 is provided up to March 2017 only; this is the latest data available at time of request.</li><li>National roll-out of IB reassessments began in March 2011. As a result, the 2011 figures for IB reassessment in Table 2 cover the period from March to December.</li><li>An individual may have made more than one ESA claim or assessment in any given year. These individuals will only be counted once in each of the figures provided.</li><li>The following groupings have been included in this analysis:</li></ol><p>a. Malignant Neoplasm of Brain</p><p>b. Benign Neoplasm of Meninges</p><p>c. Benign Neoplasm of Brain and other parts of central nervous system</p><p>d. Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of brain and central nervous system</p><p>6. The primary medical condition recorded on the claim form does not itself confer entitlement to ESA. So, for example, a decision on entitlement for a customer claiming ESA on the basis of Malignant Neoplasm of Brain would be based on their ability to carry out the range of activities assessed by the work capability assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/02/2018 14:39:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

837562

	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	Personal Independence Payment: Tumours
	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 with a brain tumour as their main disabling condition have (a) applied for and (b) received personal independence payments in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	126681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Brain tumour is not recorded as a separate category in the main disabling condition list as recorded on the PIP computer system.</p><p>Information is published in relation to primary disabling conditions where available, this can be found on Stat-Xplore: <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><p>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 published statistics.</p><p>In the application process, claimants’ main disabling condition is only recorded for collation by the Department at assessment. It is not recorded at the point of application. The Department does not therefore hold data on the number of applicants to PIP with particular conditions. Only those who have a disability assessment determination decision will have a main disabling condition recorded for them.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/02/2018 15:39:06 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1005834

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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	Universal Credit: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many home assessments have been provided for universal credit claimants in the (a) London borough of Lewisham and (b) Lewisham Deptford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	190507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/11/2018 17:43:52 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1005835

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many home assessments have been provided for personal independence payment claimants living in the (a) London borough of Lewisham and (b) Lewisham Deptford constituency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	190508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/11/2018 17:24:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1037233

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Universal Credit: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures her Department has put in place to ensure that disabled individuals do not lose their severe disability premium when they are moved onto universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	205976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Our draft Regulations will ensure that eligible claimants in receipt of Severe Disability Premium are only moved to Universal Credit as part of a managed migration process, and through that process will see their payments protected. We are spending over £3 billion on Transitional Protections for 1.1 million households, to ensure that no one loses out at the point of transition. We have also made provision for those eligible claimants who have already naturally migrated to Universal Credit to be considered for Severe Disability Premium transitional payments. These will be made as on-going monthly payments and an additional lump-sum to cover the period since they moved to Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Published data shows that of the 42,000 people who were on ESA and started a claim on Universal Credit (Full Service) within one month of closing their ESA claim between May 2015 and February 2018, 4,000 were in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 205977 question first answered 15/01/2019 15:24:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1037235

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Universal Credit: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of individuals who have lost their severe disability premium when moved onto universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	205977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Our draft Regulations will ensure that eligible claimants in receipt of Severe Disability Premium are only moved to Universal Credit as part of a managed migration process, and through that process will see their payments protected. We are spending over £3 billion on Transitional Protections for 1.1 million households, to ensure that no one loses out at the point of transition. We have also made provision for those eligible claimants who have already naturally migrated to Universal Credit to be considered for Severe Disability Premium transitional payments. These will be made as on-going monthly payments and an additional lump-sum to cover the period since they moved to Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Published data shows that of the 42,000 people who were on ESA and started a claim on Universal Credit (Full Service) within one month of closing their ESA claim between May 2015 and February 2018, 4,000 were in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 205976 question first answered 15/01/2019 15:24:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1041366

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	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	Carer's Allowance: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of applications for carer's allowance by individuals whose dependent has no recourse to public funds which have not been approved in (a) Lewisham Deptford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Lewisham and (c) London in each year of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	208359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>One of the eligibility conditions for Carer’s Allowance is that the disabled person being cared for is receiving a qualifying disability benefit. A list of qualifying disability benefits can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/eligibility" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/eligibility</a>. If the person being cared for is not getting one of the qualifying disability benefits because they have no recourse to public funds, then Carer’s Allowance would not be payable. We do not hold administrative data where we could identify that a Carer’s Allowance application has been unsuccessful for this reason.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/01/2019 17:47:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

824711

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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: 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 claimants who did not qualify for Employment Support Allowance made successful appeals in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	123512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The latest available information on Employment and Support Allowance Work Capability Assessments appeal outcomes can be found in tables 3 and 17 of the ESA Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments quarterly statistics published here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/01/2018 11:39:58 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

824713

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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: Appeals
	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 were successful in appeals for Employment Support Allowance were (a) evicted or (b) threatened with eviction in the period between the original assessment and the appeal decision.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	123514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p><p> </p><p>If a Local Authority considers that a claimant requires further financial assistance towards their housing costs (including rent in advance, deposits and supporting tenants through the transition to welfare reforms), they can award a Discretionary Housing Payment, in addition to welfare benefits.</p><p> </p><p>This may enable Housing Benefit or Universal Credit claimants to stay in their properties, but non-payment of rent isn’t the only reason why evictions take place in. Tenants are also be evicted because of anti-social behaviour or criminal activities.</p><p> </p><p>Social landlords in particular design their policies to ensure that any evictions are carried out only after other options have been exhausted, tenants have failed to engage with their landlord or tenancy management remedies have proved ineffective.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/01/2018 10:30:56 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

872342

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	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: Autism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that personal independence payment assessors understand autism and its effect on claimants’ lives.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	134256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment is not a medical assessment requiring the assessor to diagnose a condition and recommend treatment options. The focus is on ensuring Health Professionals are experts in disability analysis, focusing on the effects of health conditions and impairments on a claimant’s daily life.</p><p> </p><p>All Health Professionals undertaking PIP assessments must be registered practitioners who have also met requirements around training and competence. They must be an occupational therapist, level 1 nurse, physiotherapist, paramedic or doctor and must also be fully registered and have at least 2 years post full-registration experience, although this can be waived in exceptional circumstances by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>All Health Professionals receive training on a wide range of conditions including autism as part of their initial new entrant training. This includes detailed modules covering all aspects of autism and learning disabilities, as well as simulated assessments to enable Health Professionals to understand how these conditions impacts on a person’s ability to undertake the activities in the PIP assessment. This is followed by on-going professional training and support which continues for the duration of their employment in the role.</p><p> </p><p>Both Assessment Providers employ specialist practitioners who have clinical experience in either a mental health or learning disability role, who provide advice and support to Health Professionals on particular conditions including autism, and can be referred to at any point during the assessment process. In addition, the Assessment Providers engage with a range of stakeholders including the National Autistic Society, to strengthen, review and update their training programmes.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/04/2018 15:28:15 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft