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522734

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2016
	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	Access to Work Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has changed the Access to Work policy affecting disabled people who derive some of their income as part-time or full-time professional foster carers.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	39143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>There has been no change to Access to Work guidance specifically relating to foster carers. Access to Work grants are awarded on the basis of meeting the minimum disability related workplace needs of the customer. Like all access to work claims, assessment is made on a case by case basis.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/06/2016 11:04:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

437971

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	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	Access to Work Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have benefitted from the Government's extension of the Access to Work scheme to cover work experience placements in the last two years; and how the £2 million allocated to that initiative has been spent.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	19987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold official statistics to the standard of the National Statistical Authority and so are unable to provide this information.</p><br /><p>Access to Work supported 36,760 disabled people to take up or remain in employment during 2014/15 (up from 35,560 in 2013/14).</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 13:54:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

535322

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to conduct an impact assessment of its proposal to pass responsibility for attendance allowance funding to local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	42341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention”, published 5 July 2016, sets out that the Government will consider giving more responsibility to councils in England to support older people with care needs – including people who, under the current system, would be supported through Attendance Allowance.</p><p>Any new responsibilities would be matched by the transfer of equivalent spending power. Any new policy would not affect existing claimants or any passported support they receive, including those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance due to the special rules in place for the terminally ill. Any localisation proposals would not affect those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance who currently live outside the UK. Those claiming or in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment would not be affected by any change.</p><p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention” closes at 12.00am on 26 September 2016, and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention</a>.</p><p>This is an open consultation and all interested parties are invited to respond. The Government would consult further, including on any models and the impacts associated with them, in good time if any changes are proposed.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 42359 42361 42363 42365 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:01:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

535323

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether disabled people who are over state retirement age and who claim personal independence payment or disability living allowance will be affected by the proposal to transfer attendance allowance funding to councils.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	42359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention”, published 5 July 2016, sets out that the Government will consider giving more responsibility to councils in England to support older people with care needs – including people who, under the current system, would be supported through Attendance Allowance.</p><p>Any new responsibilities would be matched by the transfer of equivalent spending power. Any new policy would not affect existing claimants or any passported support they receive, including those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance due to the special rules in place for the terminally ill. Any localisation proposals would not affect those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance who currently live outside the UK. Those claiming or in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment would not be affected by any change.</p><p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention” closes at 12.00am on 26 September 2016, and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention</a>.</p><p>This is an open consultation and all interested parties are invited to respond. The Government would consult further, including on any models and the impacts associated with them, in good time if any changes are proposed.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 42341 42361 42363 42365 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:01:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

535324

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of transferring attendance allowance funding to councils on older disabled people who live outside the UK and are unable to meet ordinary residence rules.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	42361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention”, published 5 July 2016, sets out that the Government will consider giving more responsibility to councils in England to support older people with care needs – including people who, under the current system, would be supported through Attendance Allowance.</p><p>Any new responsibilities would be matched by the transfer of equivalent spending power. Any new policy would not affect existing claimants or any passported support they receive, including those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance due to the special rules in place for the terminally ill. Any localisation proposals would not affect those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance who currently live outside the UK. Those claiming or in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment would not be affected by any change.</p><p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention” closes at 12.00am on 26 September 2016, and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention</a>.</p><p>This is an open consultation and all interested parties are invited to respond. The Government would consult further, including on any models and the impacts associated with them, in good time if any changes are proposed.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 42341 42359 42363 42365 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:01:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

535325

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will publish any research it holds on attendance allowance claimants and how such claimants use that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	42362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department publishes its research and statistics on Gov.uk, with links to research available on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about/research" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about/research</a>. There are no current plans to publish any further research on Attendance Allowance claimants outside the regular statistical publications it produces.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/07/2016 14:51:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

535326

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Attendance Allowance
	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 plans to take to assess the potential effect of the transfer of attendance allowance to local authorities on the additional, passported support that older disabled people and carers receive as a result of their eligibility for that allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	42363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention”, published 5 July 2016, sets out that the Government will consider giving more responsibility to councils in England to support older people with care needs – including people who, under the current system, would be supported through Attendance Allowance.</p><p>Any new responsibilities would be matched by the transfer of equivalent spending power. Any new policy would not affect existing claimants or any passported support they receive, including those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance due to the special rules in place for the terminally ill. Any localisation proposals would not affect those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance who currently live outside the UK. Those claiming or in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment would not be affected by any change.</p><p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention” closes at 12.00am on 26 September 2016, and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention</a>.</p><p>This is an open consultation and all interested parties are invited to respond. The Government would consult further, including on any models and the impacts associated with them, in good time if any changes are proposed.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 42341 42359 42361 42365 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:01:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

535327

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to his Department has been of administering attendance allowance in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	42364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/07/2016 12:30:31 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

535329

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the transfer of attendance allowance to local authorities on older disabled people who apply for that allowance as a result of terminal illness under special rules currently in place; and whether fast track systems for applicants in similar circumstances will be available under future arrangements for that allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	42365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention”, published 5 July 2016, sets out that the Government will consider giving more responsibility to councils in England to support older people with care needs – including people who, under the current system, would be supported through Attendance Allowance.</p><p>Any new responsibilities would be matched by the transfer of equivalent spending power. Any new policy would not affect existing claimants or any passported support they receive, including those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance due to the special rules in place for the terminally ill. Any localisation proposals would not affect those already in receipt of Attendance Allowance who currently live outside the UK. Those claiming or in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment would not be affected by any change.</p><p>The consultation “Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention” closes at 12.00am on 26 September 2016, and is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/self-sufficient-local-government-100-business-rates-retention</a>.</p><p>This is an open consultation and all interested parties are invited to respond. The Government would consult further, including on any models and the impacts associated with them, in good time if any changes are proposed.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 42341 42359 42361 42363 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:01:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

436350

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the judgment in the case of R v Secretary of State [2015] EWHC 3382 (Admin).
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	19231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is considering the judgment and will set out its position in due course.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/12/2015 17:32:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle