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804514

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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	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 providers for personal independence payment assessments have met their minimum contractual performance standards at any point since the beginning of their contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	118716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>PIP assessments are delivered nationally by two Providers, Capita and Independent Assessment Service (IAS). Both contracts include a number of service levels that both Providers are measured on. The service levels include the speed of clearance of cases, telephony calls and written enquiries, claimant satisfaction, quality of assessments, levels of rework and the speed of clearance for rework requests. Contractual targets and provider performance is formally reviewed monthly and actions put in place to improve on any under achievement.</p><p> </p><p>Provider performance against each service level is formally reviewed each month with actions put in place to improve performance where performance has fallen below expectations. Since the beginning of the contract both Providers have consistently met/exceeded some of these each month and have never failed to meet all of them at any one point in time.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/12/2017 13:15:51 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

804513

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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 the providers for ESA assessments have met their minimum contractual performance standards at any point since the beginning of their contract.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	118715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Work Capability Assessments are delivered through the Health and Disability Assessment Services contract delivered by the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA). The requirements set out in the contract are demanding and CHDA are expected to deliver to high standards across all areas of the contract, including volumes, quality and customer satisfaction. Contractual targets and provider performance is formally reviewed monthly and actions put in place to improve on any under achievement. Since the beginning of the contract CHDA have consistently met or exceeded some of these measures each month and have never failed to meet all of them at any one point in time.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/12/2017 13:14:03 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

804401

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department uses key performance measures which set a benchmark of 80 per cent of original decisions being upheld at the Mandatory Reconsideration stage.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	118522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>There has never been a Mandatory Reconsideration target for upholding original decisions.</p><p>The 80 per cent figure, which was used in the answer to a recent Freedom of Information request, was an internal measurement only used to indicate areas where the quality of initial decisions may not be meeting our expected high standards, therefore enabling us to investigate and address if required.</p><p> </p><p>Mandatory Reconsideration is a critical element our process and it is essential that claimants have confidence in it. Given the anxiety and confusion the 80 per cent figure has caused, we will therefore be using different ways of assuring quality going forwards.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/12/2017 13:00:56 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

804507

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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	Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to visit (a) a food bank or (b) a soup kitchen in his capacity as Secretary of State in December 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	118709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>There are no such plans.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/12/2017 15:12:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

804509

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to abolish the seven-day waiting period for a new claim of JSA.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	118711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The government has no plans to abolish waiting days for Jobseeker’s Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 118714 question first answered 14/12/2017 14:43:56 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

804512

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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 he plans to abolish the seven-day waiting period for a new claim of ESA.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	118714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The government has no plans to abolish waiting days for Jobseeker’s Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 118711 question first answered 14/12/2017 14:43:56 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

804453

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Coventry South
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the roll-out of universal credit in Coventry South constituency will not result in an increase in child poverty in that constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	118652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Member to the answer given on 7 December 2017 in response to PQ <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=118269" target="_blank">118269</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/12/2017 13:09:20 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

804516

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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	Child Tax Credit: Housing Benefit
	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 number of households in receipt of housing benefit who were also in receipt of childcare tax credits in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	118718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>Claimants receiving both Housing Benefit and the Childcare Element of Tax Credits - 31<sup>st</sup> August 2015, 2016 and 2017</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Thousands</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>August 2015</strong></p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>August 2016</strong></p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>August 2017</strong></p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/12/2017 15:17:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

804276

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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	Universal Credit: Polygamy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes to benefit entitlement for partners in polygamous partnerships has resulted from the introduction of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	118475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Universal Credit does not recognise polygamous marriages. In Universal Credit, a person who is not party to the earliest existing marriage has to claim as a single person on the basis of their own circumstances, as opposed to being treated as part of a couple. This is a simpler approach that is easier to administer and avoids complexity within the structure of the benefit.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/12/2017 14:38:16 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

804437

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	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: Disability
	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 recent trends in the relative proportion of disabled people in the part-time and full-time work forces; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	118629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the proportion of disabled people among the working age population in full-time or part-time employment in quarter 2 of each year from 2013 to 2017. The table shows that the percentage of people in employment who are disabled increased from 10.1% in 2013, to 11.4% in 2017. There has been a larger increase in the proportion of part-time workers who are disabled, rising from 13.0% to 16.3% over the period, an increase of 3.3 percentage points. This compares to an increase in the proportion of full-time workers who are disabled, which has increased from 9.0% to 9.7%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points. Around two thirds of disabled people work full-time, with one third working part-time.</p><p> </p><p>Overall, 17.4% of working age people were disabled in 2017. The employment rate of disabled people increased by 5.6 percentage points between quarter 2 2013, and quarter 2 2017, to 49.2%.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to seeing one million more disabled people in work over the next ten years. The Government recently published <em>Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability</em> setting out our ten year strategy for helping disabled people to enter and remain in employment.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: proportion of working age people who have a disability, UK, April to June 2013 to 2017</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Proportion of total population with a disability</p></td><td><p>Proportion of people in employment who have a disability</p></td><td><p>Proportion of people in full-time employment who have a disability</p></td><td><p>Proportion of people in part-time employment who have a disability</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>16.5%</p></td><td><p>10.1%</p></td><td><p>9.0%</p></td><td><p>13.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>16.7%</p></td><td><p>10.3%</p></td><td><p>8.8%</p></td><td><p>14.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>17.5%</p></td><td><p>10.9%</p></td><td><p>9.6%</p></td><td><p>14.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>17.4%</p></td><td><p>11.2%</p></td><td><p>9.6%</p></td><td><p>15.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>17.4%</p></td><td><p>11.4%</p></td><td><p>9.7%</p></td><td><p>16.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Q2 data, Labour Force Survey</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Notes on the table:</p><ol><li>In the Labour Force Survey (LFS), respondents are asked to self-classify their main job as either full-time or part-time.</li><li>In April 2013 changes were made to the wording of the disability questions in the Labour Force Survey. This means that estimates from 2013 onwards have been provided, as prior to this, data is not available on a consistent basis.</li><li>Working age includes people aged 16 to 64.</li><li>Missing values were excluded from the data to calculate proportions.</li><li>Percentages have been rounded to one decimal place.</li><li>Estimates from Quarter 2 are used as this is the latest available data for 2017 and this ensures all the data is comparable between years as the data is not seasonally adjusted.</li><li>The disability definition covers people who self-report:</li><li>A health condition or illness lasting or expected to last 12 months or more,</li><li>This condition(s) or illness(es) reduce their ability to carry out day-to-day activities.</li></ol> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/12/2017 13:07:02 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell