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1082119

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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: Dyslexia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to encourage businesses to offer meaningful employment to people with dyslexia.
	tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
	tabling member printed	Laura Smith
	uin	228674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>Improving employment opportunities for people with learning difficulties, including those with dyslexia, is a Government priority.</p><p> </p><p>When employers sign up to our Disability Confident scheme they are asked to make specific meaningful offers of opportunities for disabled people, such as jobs, apprenticeships, internships, and work experience opportunities. Disability Confident employers who use the Find a Job service to advertise jobs can now add a searchable Disability Confident tag to their vacancies. This allows disabled people to find Disability Confident employers who are offering jobs that match their skills. Over 10,500 employers have signed up to Disability Confident, and their number continues to grow.</p><p> </p><p>Where people with dyslexia require additional support at work above the level of reasonable adjustments, the Access to Work scheme can help. In 2018, 3,440 people whose primary medical condition was recorded as dyslexia had an Access to Work award approved.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/03/2019 15:30:03 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

1082299

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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	Occupational Health
	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 plans to require employers to contract occupational health services; and what assessment she has made of the potential costs to business of implementing such a requirement.
	tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
	tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
	uin	228633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government wants to see employers of all sizes create healthy workplaces where people can thrive and will consult this year on measures to encourage and support all employers to play their part and to improve access to occupational health.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/03/2019 14:50:43 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1082300

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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	Occupational Health
	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 quality of (a) occupational health services and (b) SEQOHS accreditation scheme in measuring the effectiveness of those services in delivering successful returns to work.
	tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
	tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
	uin	228634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment that would specifically address this question.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the Government’s 2017 Command Paper ‘Improving Lives; the future of work, health and disability’ we have commissioned research to better understand occupational health provision. Findings are due to be published in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We have worked with a wide range of stakeholders, including through our Occupational Health Expert Group, to shape measures to improve access to high quality occupational health. We will set out our proposals in a consultation exercise in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 228635 question first answered 13/03/2019 16:05:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1082301

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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	Occupational Health
	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 average cost to an employer of contracting a physician-led occupational health service.
	tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
	tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
	uin	228635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment that would specifically address this question.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the Government’s 2017 Command Paper ‘Improving Lives; the future of work, health and disability’ we have commissioned research to better understand occupational health provision. Findings are due to be published in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We have worked with a wide range of stakeholders, including through our Occupational Health Expert Group, to shape measures to improve access to high quality occupational health. We will set out our proposals in a consultation exercise in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 228634 question first answered 13/03/2019 16:05:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1082302

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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	Occupational Health
	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 potential growth of the occupational health market in the event that all employers contracted occupational health services.
	tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
	tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
	uin	228636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment that would specifically address this question. However, in 2017, the occupational health market was estimated to be worth around £800m a year.</p><p>In 2014, 51% of all GB employees had access to occupational health services provided for by their employer.</p><p>We have worked with a wide range of stakeholders, including through our Occupational Health Expert Group, to shape measures to improve access to high quality occupational health. We will set out our proposals in a consultation exercise in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/03/2019 16:09:15 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1082306

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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	Occupational Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent financial incentives she has introduced to encourage employers to invest in the health and well being of their workforce through the contracting of services designed to facilitate more rapid returns to work by employees at risk of health-related job loss.
	tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
	tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
	uin	228640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The tax incentives available to employers to encourage investment in employee health and wellbeing include relief for employer-funded medical treatment up to £500 where there has been a recommendation from an occupational health professional and the employee has been absent for 28 days.</p><p> </p><p>To inform future policy decisions, the Government is supporting the West Midlands Combined Authority to undertake a pilot study to assess whether and how financial incentives affect SME actions to improve health and wellbeing in the workplace.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will consult this year on measures to encourage and support all employers to reduce health-related job loss, and to improve access to occupational health.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/03/2019 14:45:57 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1082315

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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	Work Capability Assessment
	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 oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People of 22 January 2019, Official Report, column 106WH on the satisfaction ratings of disability benefit claimants, if she will commission independent research on the satisfaction rates of claimants who have recently undergone a work capability assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Kensington
	tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
	uin	228788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>Research with claimants who have recently undergone a Work Capability Assessment is undertaken by a different organisation to the provider delivering the assessments. The telephone survey is voluntary and is based on a set of questions agreed with the department.</p><p>The Department also undertakes its own survey which is designed to monitor claimant satisfaction with the services offered by the department and to enable claimant views to inform improvements to the delivery of benefits and services. This information is published on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/03/2019 15:18:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1082316

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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 the Answer of 30 May 2018 to Question 146988 on the revised wording of the ESA65B letters sent to employment support allowance claimants’ GPs, on what date the meeting took place at which the British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners agreed to that revised wording.
	tabling member constituency	Kensington
	tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
	uin	228789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners agreed to the revised wording of the ESA65B on 4 August 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to ensuring all of its communications are clear, accurate and understandable and we continuously improve our letters. We engage regularly with the welfare benefits advice sector and disability charities and take into account all of the feedback we receive.</p><p> </p><p>We have received comments from a number of sources including MPs, stakeholder organisations and GPs on the current version of the ESA65B letter and will take all of their feedback into account when revising it.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 228790 question first answered 13/03/2019 16:02:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1082318

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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, if her Department will consult the welfare benefits advice sector and disability charities on the wording of the ESA65B letter to claimants’ GPs after a Work Capability Assessment that finds them fit for work.
	tabling member constituency	Kensington
	tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
	uin	228790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>The British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners agreed to the revised wording of the ESA65B on 4 August 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to ensuring all of its communications are clear, accurate and understandable and we continuously improve our letters. We engage regularly with the welfare benefits advice sector and disability charities and take into account all of the feedback we receive.</p><p> </p><p>We have received comments from a number of sources including MPs, stakeholder organisations and GPs on the current version of the ESA65B letter and will take all of their feedback into account when revising it.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 228789 question first answered 13/03/2019 16:02:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1082324

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	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	Occupational Health
	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 contribution of the occupational health market to the economy.
	tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
	tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
	uin	228646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment that would specifically address this question. However, ill health among working age people, which prevents them working, costs the economy around £100bn a year. Occupational health can prevent work-related illness, unnecessary sickness absence, people falling out of work, as well as supporting business productivity and potentially reducing NHS pressures.</p><p>We have worked with a wide range of stakeholders, including through our Occupational Health Expert Group, to shape measures to improve access to high quality occupational health. We will set out our proposals in a consultation exercise in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/03/2019 15:44:51 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers