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1347369

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2021
	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: 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 her Department has received about the access to work scheme in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	33986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department has received 621 complaints about Access to Work scheme in each of the last five years, comprising of:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>16/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>17/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>19/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>20/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>621</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note, this data is for internal use and is not within the public domain.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/07/2021 14:41:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1182352

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2020
	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: Hearing Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support more deaf young people into employment.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	24384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people, regardless of their disability, in work between 2017 and 2027. <strong>The DWP has a range of programmes and support to help disabled people, including deaf people. </strong></p><p> </p><p>These include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The <strong>Work and Health Programme</strong> which is designed to help people, particularly people with disabilities, who need extra tailored support to find employment. It will help 275,000 people over 5 years, including 220,000 disabled people.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The <strong>Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme</strong> which is a new, voluntary, contracted employment provision designed to help disabled people, who have complex needs or barriers and who want to work.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>Access to Work</strong> which offers eligible disabled people a grant of up to £59,200 per year to fund support above the level of reasonable adjustments, to ensure that their health condition or disability does not hold them back in the workplace. People who are deaf and hard of hearing are the largest group of users of Access to Work, and in 2018/19 Access to Work grants totalled £129m, of which £45.8m was in respect of this group.</li><li>Jobcentre Plus: Our Jobcentres offer tailored support from Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers, backed by the Personal Support Package which is a 4 year, £330 million package of employment support targeted at claimants with disabilities and health conditions.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In addition, through the <strong>Disability Confident scheme</strong>, we are also working with employers to change attitudes and create employment opportunities by enabling businesses to recruit and retain disabled people in their workplace. There are already over 16,500 employers signed up to Disability Confident scheme, and their number continues to grow.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/03/2020 15:58:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1138075

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2019
	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
	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 8 July 2019 to Questions 272897 and 272898, what assessment she has made of whether the feedback of Presenting Officers has led to (a) an increase in successful mandatory reconsiderations for claimants, (b) more correct decisions resulting in fewer successful appeals and (c) fewer claims reaching appeal stage.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	275796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>Feedback from Presenting Officers has contributed to our new approach which includes contacting claimants, where appropriate, to see if there is information that would enable us to change the decision ourselves. To support this, we are investing additional time for communication, evidence gather and review. This approach supports our aim - to make the right decision as early as possible - so claimants don’t need to progress to the Appeal stage.</p><p> </p><p>It is still too early to assess the full impact of this approach. However initial feedback has been positive and the recently published PIP Official Statistics up to April 2019 showed an increase in the proportion of decisions changed at the Mandatory Reconsideration stage since the approach was implemented.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/07/2019 13:17:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1136548

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how feedback from presenting officers in personal independence payment tribunals is used to inform future decision making on personal independence payment cases.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	272897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The helpful feedback from Presenting Officers (POs), has resulted in decision makers, appeals writers and POs themselves, reviewing their approach to the weighing of evidence, including taking a more considerative view of existing evidence. Changes have also been made to how decisions are being explained to claimants and in the paperwork prepared for appeal tribunals. Further, it has fed into our new approach for PIP cases where we contact claimants, where appropriate, to see if there is information that would enable us to change the decision ourselves at Mandatory Reconsideration or at the appeal stage.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 272898 question first answered 08/07/2019 15:39:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1136550

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2019
	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
	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 the feedback received from presenting officers on personal independence payment tribunals.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	272898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>The helpful feedback from Presenting Officers (POs), has resulted in decision makers, appeals writers and POs themselves, reviewing their approach to the weighing of evidence, including taking a more considerative view of existing evidence. Changes have also been made to how decisions are being explained to claimants and in the paperwork prepared for appeal tribunals. Further, it has fed into our new approach for PIP cases where we contact claimants, where appropriate, to see if there is information that would enable us to change the decision ourselves at Mandatory Reconsideration or at the appeal stage.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 272897 question first answered 08/07/2019 15:39:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

516005

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Hove
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average distance is travelled by residents of Hove for face-to-face personal independence payment assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	35712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Atos Healthcare does not hold or retain information about customer journey times to attend assessments. Should a customer foresee a problem with travelling to their assessment they are asked to contact Atos to discuss their circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/05/2016 09:42:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

416816

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
	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 received assessments for both employment and support allowance and personal independence payment in (a) 2014 and (b) the first six months of 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	9060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p /> <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 09/09/2015 13:58:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

416817

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost of an individual assessment for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment was in the last period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	9061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department considers this information to be commercially sensitive and release would prejudice the interests of service providers and the Department’s future dealings with them.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/09/2015 14:03:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

390875

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2015
	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	Pensions: Self-employed
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of self-employed people made regular pension contributions in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	7655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>DWP’s Family Resources Survey (FRS) collects information on the income and circumstances of private households in the United Kingdom. Findings from this survey (2010/11 to 2013/14) have reported the following proportions of self-employed individuals participating in some form of pension provision for each of the years asked:</p><p> </p><p>a) 2010/11 – 21%</p><p>b) 2011/12 – 20%</p><p>c) 2012/13 – 18%</p><p>d) 2013/14 – 17%</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/07/2015 16:13:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle