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982607

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2018 to Question 171381 on Employment and Support Allowance, what estimate she has made of the cost of providing information on how many people flowed off Employment and Support Allowance whose date of death was at the same time, and who had a Work Capability Assessment decision of fit for work between March 2014 and February 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	176672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However the Department does monitor requests we receive for statistics and consider whether we can produce and release analysis that will helpfully inform public debate. The Department is therefore looking at this with a view to providing statistics on this issue in the future.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 31/10/2018 16:07:54 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 77742 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1110649

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2019
	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	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, with reference to her letter of 4 April 2019, in what time frame she will complete updating the current ESA65B letter with input from medical organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	242946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>We expect the revised version to be delivered by Summer 2019.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/04/2019 10:39:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

993766

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2018
	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, whether the repayments to claimants that were underpaid employment and support allowance will include interest.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	182883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We will be reviewing all those cases potentially affected and paying any arrears of past payments that are due. Our focus is on paying arrears to claimants in line with the primary legislation.</p><p> </p><p>A Written Statement and Frequently Asked Question document was deposited in the House of Commons Library on Wednesday 17<sup>th</sup> October which can be found at <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/</a>. Ad hoc statistics can also be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/10/2018 10:49:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1079382

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2019
	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	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, whether she has made an estimate of the number of people who went into (a) rent arrears and (b) council tax arrears following the underpayment of their employment and support allowance; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	227169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The information is not available.</p><p> </p><p>DWP are engaging with a number of authorities, including those responsible for Council Tax, to raise awareness of the ESA underpayment exercise and the potential issues arising from it. This will help them to assess possible impacts on these areas.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the ESA underpayment exercise we will inform local authorities Housing Benefit departments of new awards of income-related ESA as part of our business as usual procedures. As Housing Benefit is available to contributory only ESA claimants, those on low incomes could still receive full Housing Benefit if assessed by their Local Authority as entitled.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/03/2019 14:53:22 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

794278

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	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, whether a claimant in receipt of the employment and support allowance Work-Related Activity Group addition of £29.05 per week, living in a universal credit full service area and takes but subsequently loses a job within 12 weeks, will receive restored entitlement to the £29.05 addition.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	115251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>If the return to work was agreed as permitted work, then the ESA award will not be affected.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 01/12/2017 10:03:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

964776

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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 procedures her Department has put in place for a submission of a Permitted Work 1 form by a disabled benefit claimant in the Support Group of Employment and Support Allowance to result in the issue of an ESA50 form and a call up for a Work Capability Assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	169882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The permitted work rules are intended to provide encouragement and help to enable people to make a gradual move into full-time work. Anyone claiming Employment and Support Allowance can do permitted work for fewer than 16 hours per week and earn up to £125.50 per week, for an indefinite period, without it affecting their benefit entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>There is no procedure in place which automatically links a request for permitted work to a Work Capability Assessment referral.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 11/09/2018 12:11:09 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

793974

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	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 estimate he has made of the proportion of new Employment and Support Allowance claimants who have moved into work as a result of the removal of the Work-Related Activity Group Addition of £29.05 per week in April 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	115063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The latest information to May 2017 on the number of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants by phase of claim is published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/11/2017 10:06:37 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

868477

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	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	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 assessment she has made of the effect of the removal of the work-related activity component for employment support allowance on the incomes of claimants in the work-related activity group.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	133697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>There are no cash losers among those in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and the Universal Credit equivalent prior to April 2017, including those who temporarily leave ESA to try out work and then return.</p><p> </p><p>New claimants from April, who are capable of preparing for work, receive a rate of benefits on a par with Jobseeker’s Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its assessment of the impacts of the change to the work-related activity component on 20 July 2015. <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 03/04/2018 15:37:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1079381

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2019
	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	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, pursuant to her Written Statement of 21 February 2019 on Employment and Support Allowance, Official Report HCWS 1348, which work streams the 1,200 staff working on underpayment cases have been taken from; and how many of those staff have been (a) moved from other areas of her Department and (ii) newly recruited.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	227168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Over the course of 2018/19, across the Department we increased our resources by 4,209 FTE to manage all demands including LEAP exercises. This included the recruitment of an additional 400 staff, on a fixed term appointment basis, directly to support the ESA underpayment exercise. The remainder of the 1,200 staff were deployed onto the exercise as a result of reducing demand on ESA and JSA benefits. This approach has meant that we have not had to stop or deprioritise other customer activity in order to complete this review.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/03/2019 10:58:03 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

982616

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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, pursuant the Government’s response to recommendation 59 (e) of the follow-up report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Concluding Observations, whether the Government has plans to undertake a comprehensive review of the conditionality and sanctions regimes for Employment and Support Allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	176679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department continously reviews conditionality requirements and sanctions policies as part of business as usual activity.</p><p> </p><p>Employment and Support Allowance will be phased out as part of managed migration to Universal Credit, commencing in 2019. The Department therefore have no plans to carry out a comprehensive review of conditionality and sanctions policies for Employment and Support Allowance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 176678 question first answered 23/10/2018 14:54:08 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova