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1052330

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December to Question 193360, how many of the 23,510 people who had an Access to Work Element approved in 2016-17 received no payment because the adjustments needed cost less than £1000.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	215068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>As stated in the Answer of 31 January 2019 to Question 213164, we do not routinely collect data on the reasons why payments may not have been made.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2019 17:14:02 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1052255

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Child Maintenance Service: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the expected response time from the Child Maintenance Service to enquiry from an hon. Member of 15 working days includes the quality assurance process.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	215250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>When responding to members of parliament, as part of the DWP’s complaint process, we always aim to make a full response within 15 days. This is a target on which the department is measured and includes the response being quality assured. Where a full response cannot be made with in 15 days, we have agreed to contact the MP or the customer to let them know and to arrange / agree a date when the full response will be made. Again, any agreed date will include the response being quality assured. The 15 day timescale and the above process, is applicable to all departments of DWP and forms part of the tiered complaints process.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/02/2019 15:30:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1052257

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Child Maintenance Service: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timescale allocated by the Child Maintenance Service to the Quality Assurance team is for finalising and issuing responses to hon. Members.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	215252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The complaints process is not prescriptive as to when Quality Assurance should be completed. However all responses are quality assured during the 15 day timescale for response.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/02/2019 14:59:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1051296

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what response time her Department has set for correspondence from Members of the Scottish Parliament on constituent cases in relation to welfare matters.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	214596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has the same target response times for correspondence from Members of the Scottish Parliament as it does for hon. Members of this House. The target response time for correspondence addressed to Ministers is 20 working days. The target response time for correspondence addressed to officials is 15 working days.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/02/2019 15:38:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

1050304

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Trade Associations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which regulatory functions imposed by legislation for which her Department has responsibility are currently undertaken by trade associations; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	213192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions has identified no arrangement in which a trade association has agreed to deliver regulatory functions created by legislation. However, whilst it is not a trade body, the Department for Work and Pensions has a contract with Citizens Advice Bureau.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/02/2019 14:45:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1052195

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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: Multiple Sclerosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with multiple sclerosis in receipt of employment support allowance are in the (a) support and (b) work-related activity group.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	215189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 215191 question first answered 05/02/2019 17:21:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1050003

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	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	Fairgrounds: Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many accidents have occurred at funfairs and amusement parks in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	213367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The figures in the table below provide the number of reported injuries in Great Britain to (a) workers and (b) members of the public, notified to HSE under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences 2013 (RIDDOR), where the industry activity recorded for the incident is ‘Activities of amusement parks and theme parks’.</p><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has a dedicated National Fairground Inspection Team (NFIT) which enforces health and safety law at fairgrounds and theme parks in Great Britain. NFIT inspectors are located throughout GB and respond to accidents and incidents in their local area. They can also call on support from a range of Specialist Inspectors if necessary. The team also targets proactive inspection of fairground rides with known problems and other areas of higher risk; for the coming year’s inspection plan, 19/20, inflatable devices are identified within it as an area of work.</p><p> </p><p>Online guidance freely available from HSE website has recently been revised and the content of this made known to industry dutyholders via their trade bodies. Local Authority colleagues who also have powers to inspect such devices have been made aware of this information also.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Members of the Public</p></td><td><p>Workers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>446</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>430</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>369</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The following points should be noted:</p><ol><li>Statistics are identified by Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC 2007) class 9321 – Activities of amusement parks and theme parks.</li><li>The term worker includes employees and self-employed persons combined.</li><li>The details provided are for injuries reported under RIDDOR – a single accident may result in more than one injury and more than one report.</li><li>RIDDOR data needs to be interpreted with care because it is known that injuries to members of the public at fairgrounds and theme parks tend to be over-reported in some parts of the industry and under-reported in others. HSE’s analysis of the data for injuries to members of the public at fairgrounds and theme parks in 2014/15 found that upwards of 75% of reported injuries did not meet the criteria for a RIDDOR reportable injury.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2019 17:44:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1052193

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	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	Industrial Health and Safety: Farms
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps have been taken by the Health and Safety Executive to promote its guidance on safety on farms.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	215116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has responsibility for the regulation of health and safety standards on Great Britain’s (GB) farms. All of HSE’s guidance on farm safety is available free of charge via the HSE website (<a href="http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/index.htm</a>). Selected pieces of guidance, with links to the website, are shared widely via partner organisations such as the National Farmers Unions and the members of GB’s Farm Safety Partnerships, are given direct to farmers at HSE’s agricultural compliance events and are subject to wide publicity through a social media campaign linked to HSE’s current farm inspection activity.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2019 17:18:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1050445

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	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	Pension Credit: North West
	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 number of pension credit claimants in (a) Warrington, (b) Warrington North constituency and (c) the North West who have a partner of working age and will be affected by forthcoming changes to the rules on pension credit.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	213950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The changes the government announced on January 14 will ensure that the same work incentives will apply to the younger partner as apply to other people of the same age, and that taxpayer support is directed to where it is needed most.</p><p> </p><p>The changes will not affect mixed age couples who are entitled to Pension Credit and/or pension age Housing Benefit immediately before 15 May, unless their entitlement to both those benefits subsequently ends.</p><p> </p><p>The number of future mixed age couples that are estimated to be affected by forthcoming changes is not available.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 05/02/2019 14:58:03 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 99559 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

1050183

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints were received in relation to the personal independence payment assessment process in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	213466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The total number of complaints received by Assessment Providers in relation to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments in (a) 2017 was 8,900 and in (b) 2018 was 9,400. Both of these figures equate to less than 1% of the total number of assessments carried out that year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2019 15:30:57 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova