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1258704

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2020
	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	Work Capability Assessment: Coronavirus
	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 feasibility of restarting face-to-face work capability assessments; and what plans her Department has to expedite the backlog of cases waiting for assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
	uin	126162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2020 answer text <p>The health and safety of our claimants and staff is our key priority. We suspended all face-to-face assessments for sickness and disability benefits in March. This temporary suspension, brought in to protect people from unnecessary risk of coronavirus at the outset of the pandemic, remains in place, and is being kept under review in line with the latest public health guidance. Any re-introduction of face-to-face assessments would involve additional Covid-related safety measures, and guidance for claimants and assessment providers to ensure compliance with the relevant public health guidance.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic our immediate focus has been on supporting people impacted by COVID-19 by putting claims into payment as quickly as possible, as well as paying any additional benefit where claimants may be entitled to a higher award. We continue to complete paper based assessments where possible and have introduced telephone assessments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/12/2020 18:11:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1248321

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2020
	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: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has provide financial assistance to clinically vulnerable people in the event that their place of work remains open but they are unable to attend that place work as a result of health concerns during the period of new national covid-19 lockdown from 5 November 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	110926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>BEIS Safer Workplaces guidance advises that workers who can work effectively from home should do so over the winter. If an individual cannot work from home, clinically vulnerable individuals can still attend their workplace as their workplace should be COVID-secure. Employers are required to take steps to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace.</p><p> </p><p>Those who are clinically extremely vulnerable will previously have received a letter from the NHS or their GP informing them of this and may have been advised to shield in the past. Individuals who receive a notification that they need to shield should not go in to work if they are unable to work from home.</p><p> </p><p>Employees who are clinically extremely vulnerable can be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and remain eligible for New Style Employment and Support Allowance, subject to the wider eligibility criteria. Where they are not furloughed, and they cannot work from home, they may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) from their employer.</p><p> </p><p>Where an individual’s income is reduced while off work sick and they require further financial support, they may be able to receive Universal Credit, depending on their personal circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/11/2020 15:51:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1277157

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2021
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Email
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the cost of setting up an email channel for the public to contact her Department in respect of personal independence payment appeals.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	138509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>Once a customer has submitted an appeal to Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) the customer engages with HMCTS from this point to provide information and evidence relevant to their PIP appeal. In most PIP appeal cases, additional evidence provided is then digitally shared with DWP as a party to the appeal, therefore an email address is not necessary.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/01/2021 16:04:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1700526

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Energy: Supply Chains
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her Department has made an assessment of adequacy of local content levels in supply chains for the (a) oil and gas and (b) renewable energy sector.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	21413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) monitors UK content in upstream oil and gas through Supply Chain Action Plans. NSTA reports that, over the last three years, oil and gas related Operating Expenditure consistently delivered UK content above 85%, with Capital Expenditure and Abandonment Expenditure consistently delivering above 75% UK content.</p><p> </p><p>For renewables, the Department requires all large Contracts for Difference applicants to submit Supply Chain Plans, asking for the percentage of UK content of a project. These figures are commercially sensitive and only shared when Supply Chain Plans are published.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/04/2024 12:02:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1255538

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2020
	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	Statutory Sick Pay: Coronavirus
	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 who are clinically extremely vulnerable have registered for statutory sick pay since July 2020 because their workplace was not covid-secure.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	120981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>Employees do not need to register for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). Employers are legally required to pay SSP to eligible employees who are sick or incapable of work, where their employee meets the eligibility criteria. The government does not collect, or require the reporting of, any data on sickness absences from employers and so does not hold data on the number of clinically extremely vulnerable individuals receiving SSP.</p><p> </p><p>In England, shielding was paused nationally from 1 August 2020 to 5 November 2020. During this period, clinically extremely vulnerable individuals were not eligible for SSP on the basis of being clinically extremely vulnerable as they were not advised to shield and were able to go to work if they could not work from home. Clinically extremely vulnerable employees can be furloughed if their employer is eligible to do so.</p><p> </p><p>All employers are required to take steps to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace. If an individual has concerns about their health and safety at work, they can raise them with any union safety representatives, or ultimately with the organisation responsible for enforcement in their workplace, either the Health and Safety Executive or their local authority.</p><p>SSP is available to clinically extremely vulnerable individuals who have been advised to stay at home (known as shielding) and are unable to work as a result. Individuals will receive a notification, advising them on the shielding advice to follow and how long for. This notification may be in the form of a letter from their doctor or from the government.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/11/2020 16:05:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1308008

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	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 the average timescale is for a personal independence payment applicant to receive an assessment for (a) a new applications and (b) a renewal claim.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	179488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p>Data on clearance times for all PIP New Claims to January 2021 (the latest available data) is published in Table 2A of the PIP Statistics tables which can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/969159/tables-pip-statistics-to-january-2021.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/969159/tables-pip-statistics-to-january-2021.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>This data does not distinguish between renewal claims and new applications. Column (iii) ‘Referral to AP to return from AP’ is measured as the average time between the date of referral to the Assessment Provider and the date of return of the Assessment Provider’s recommendation to DWP. This is a proxy for the length of time the claimant has waited for an assessment, because data on the dates that assessments took place is not held by DWP.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/04/2021 13:42:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1275693

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2021
	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 personal independence payment claimants have had their claim accepted at appeal following an initial rejection, in (a) Rother Valley, (b) South Yorkshire, and (c) nationwide in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	136662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2021 answer text <p>The table below provides the information requested for initial decisions following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment for the Rother Valley Parliamentary constituency, the four local authority areas that make up South Yorkshire and Great Britain for all PIP initial disallowance decisions.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment: April 2013 to Jun-20</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>totals</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>GB</p></td><td><p>PIP decision - disallowed following a PIP assessment</p></td><td><p>1,336,740</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Appeal lapsed</p></td><td><p>26,880</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overturned at appeal</p></td><td><p>137,970</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>PIP decision - disallowed following a PIP assessment</p></td><td><p>37,550</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Appeal lapsed</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overturned at appeal</p></td><td><p>3,290</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>Rother Valley</p></td><td><p>PIP decision - disallowed following a PIP assessment</p></td><td><p>2,200</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Appeal lapsed</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overturned at appeal</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Initial decisions: April 2013 to 30th June 2020; appeals: to 30th September 2020</p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>Percentages are to the nearest 1% and based on the total number of initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment reflect outcomes prior to any Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) and appeal action. They do not include Award Review or Change of Circumstance decisions, or decisions prior to an assessment being completed.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal. The volumes of appeals for the more recent periods of initial decision could increase as claimants’ progress to MR and appeal.</p><p>A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at tribunal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The appeal figures will include some decisions which are changed at a Mandatory Reconsideration, where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at appeal.</p><p> </p><p>South Yorkshire data consists of the four local authority areas of Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Rotherham.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/01/2021 13:32:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1700398

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people are recipients of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme in (a) Rother Valley constituency and (b) the rest of the UK as of 16 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	21285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>As at June 2023, there were 1,778 Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme (MPS) members living in the Rother Valley constituency. As at 29 February 2024, there were 116,143 MPS members. These are the latest available figures.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/04/2024 14:03:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1700399

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent discussions she has had with the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme Trustees on the surplus sharing arrangements of that scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	21286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Ministers and Trustees last discussed the surplus sharing arrangements in 2021. The Government has been consistent that it would consider any proposals that the Trustees bring forward.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/04/2024 08:33:10 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1700401

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Coal: Concessions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people receive fuel under the National Concessionary Fuel Scheme in Rother Valley constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	21288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>There are 45 individuals in receipt of solid fuel in Rother Valley constituency postcode areas as of 15<sup>th</sup> April 2024. There are an additional 517 individuals that have selected the cash-in-lieu of fuel alternative available under National Concessionary Fuel Scheme arrangements.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/04/2024 14:01:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford