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65018

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make legislative proposals to amend the Care Act Part 1 regulations to ensure that the definition of assistance in the eligibility criteria for access to care and support is consistent with the definition of assistance in existing personal independence payment regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	203278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 includes a power to make regulations to set the national eligibility criteria for adult care and support. The national eligibility threshold will provide a similar level of access to care and support when we move from the current system to the reformed system in April 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is currently consulting on the draft regulations and statutory guidance that will support the implementation of the Care Act. This includes the draft eligibility regulations which set the level of the threshold, and your comments will be considered when we finalise the regulations. The public consultation started on 6 June and runs until 15 August 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/07/2014 15:09:46 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65600

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	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 his Department has taken to deal with backlogs in personal independence payments.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	203681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are continuously looking at ways to increase the number of decisions made and to improve the claims process.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with both assessment providers as part of our plans to speed up the end to end claimant journey. We have introduced improvements in communications to claimants about the type of evidence they can supply to speed up their claim and we are taking action to support the assessment providers in clearing backlogs of work.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:35 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65601

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	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, when he expects personal independence payment backlogs to be cleared.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	203682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>By the Autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:23:46 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65602

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	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, if he will recruit additional staff to help clear personal independence payment backlogs.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	203683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP Operations has a large number of employees at the decision maker grade (EO) and we are constantly reviewing our plans to ensure that we have the right number of people to deliver all of our services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:07:13 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65612

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	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 comparative assessment he has made of the methods used to assess personal independence payment claims with the methods used to assess disability living allowance claims.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	203684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Personal independence payment (PIP) includes a more objective assessment process than for Disability living allowance (DLA), with a face-to-face consultation for most applicants, that enables a more accurate and consistent assessment of individual need. Unlike DLA, eligibility for PIP is not assessed on the type of health condition or impairment an individual may have.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:19:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65800

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	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 the contracts for personal independence payment assessment providers include performance related incentives or penalties; whether such measures have been used; and what the financial value of those measure is.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	203930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP's Personal Independence Payment (PIP) contracts are output based contracts which include a range of remedies for underperformance against a range of performance measures, including financial penalties in the form ofservice credits which the Department can apply as appropriate. Service credits have been applied to the contracts. Current details of the value of any service credits applied under the contracts are commercially confidential.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:28:25 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65808

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	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 his contribution of 30 June 2014, Official Report, column 642, on DWP: performance, what level of service his Department expects to provide to meet his aim of providing a personal independence payment system that works for those most in need; and how he will measure success.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	203900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>By the Autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an asessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p><p>We have committed to two independent reviews of the PIP assessment, the first of which will report to Parliament by the end of this year, and we will carefully consider any recommendations made. The terms of reference for the review are available at:</p><p /> <p /> <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/simplifying-the-welfare-system-and-making-sure-work-pays/supporting-pages/introducing-personal-independence-payment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/simplifying-the-welfare-system-and-making-sure-work-pays/supporting-pages/introducing-personal-independence-payment</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:23:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

65809

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	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 his contribution of 30 June 2014, Official Report, column 647, on DWP: performance, how his Department will demonstrate that no claimant is waiting more than 16 weeks for their personal independence payment by the end of 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	203901
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Statistics on clearance times are intended for future publication and the Department's analysts are currently considering what information will be included in the release.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:42 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

65810

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	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, with reference to the letter of 6 March 2014 from the Minister for Disabled People to Macmillan Cancer Support, for what reason his Department does not consider data on clearance times of personal independence payment normal and special rules claims to be robust enough to be included in the published quarterly statistics.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	203902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Releasing information on clearance times at this stage would give an incorrect representation of the process since the system has not yet reached maturity.</p><p>Professional statisticians determine when a series meets the criteria for publication as official statistics. That stage has not yet in their judgement been reached for this information.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:38:58 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham