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1697128

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	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	Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services
	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 15 March 2024 to Question 17902, how many individual Musculoskeletal Physical Activity Hubs will be created as a result of the £12 million a year allocated as part of the 2023 Spring Budget.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	19407
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The DHSC/DWP Joint Work and Health Directorate is actively exploring opportunities to increase access to, and hence the number of, MSK Physical Activity Hubs in the Community, and enhancing the interventions on offer by embedding vocational support and rehabilitation services. This includes how to maximise access for people with greatest unmet MSK need and people with MSK conditions living in areas of deprivation. We are exploring how to improve referral pathways so where appropriate people with MSK conditions get easier access. This will help inform new models of delivery and our thinking on scale.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently undertaking extensive stakeholder engagement and anticipate publishing our approach over the next few months.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/03/2024 14:12:25 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1697974

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	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	Cancer: Children and Young People
	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 the potential merits of allowing carers of children and young people with cancer to apply for Carer’s Allowance prior to the child or young person being cared for receiving the associated disability benefit.
	tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
	tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
	uin	19990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of delayed applications is not collected and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>It is a long standing principle that Carer’s Allowance can only be awarded once a decision has been made to award the “trigger” disability benefit to the person being cared for, but the award of Carer’s Allowance can be backdated to the date that the disability benefit is payable from.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 19989 question first answered 26/03/2024 14:06:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1697973

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	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	Cancer: Children and Young People
	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 applications for Carer's allowance that have been delayed for people caring for a child with cancer as a result of delayed (a) Personal Independence Payments and (b) Disability Living Allowance for the child or young person being cared for.
	tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
	tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
	uin	19989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of delayed applications is not collected and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>It is a long standing principle that Carer’s Allowance can only be awarded once a decision has been made to award the “trigger” disability benefit to the person being cared for, but the award of Carer’s Allowance can be backdated to the date that the disability benefit is payable from.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 19990 question first answered 26/03/2024 14:06:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1697876

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	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	Disability: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the working age population are disabled in the North East; and how many and what proportion were disabled in 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	19874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The definition of disability changed in 2013 therefore estimates for 2010 and 2022 are not directly comparable.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number and percentage of disabled people aged 16 to 64 by country/region</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Country/ region</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2010</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of disabled people</p></td><td><p>Percentage of disabled people</p></td><td><p>Number of disabled people</p></td><td><p>Percentage of disabled people</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>United Kingdom</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 8,257,200 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>20.5</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,311,800 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>22.4</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North East</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 399,400 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24.0</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 429,500 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>26.4</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>1,012,200</p></td><td><p>22.5</p></td><td><p>1,111,300</p></td><td><p>24.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>738,500</p></td><td><p>21.9</p></td><td><p>818,200</p></td><td><p>24.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>629,200</p></td><td><p>21.8</p></td><td><p>712,500</p></td><td><p>24.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>720,900</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>819,300</p></td><td><p>22.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>729,400</p></td><td><p>19.9</p></td><td><p>790,200</p></td><td><p>20.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>935,500</p></td><td><p>16.9</p></td><td><p>1,092,600</p></td><td><p>17.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>992,100</p></td><td><p>18.3</p></td><td><p>1,144,800</p></td><td><p>20.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>653,600</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p>766,900</p></td><td><p>22.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>469,200</p></td><td><p>24.4</p></td><td><p>506,600</p></td><td><p>26.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>746,500</p></td><td><p>21.9</p></td><td><p>861,200</p></td><td><p>25.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>230,700</p></td><td><p>19.9</p></td><td><p>258,700</p></td><td><p>22.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Annual Population Survey (APS) -<a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/datasets/apsnew" target="_blank">Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (nomisweb.co.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100 and percentages to one decimal place.</li><li>Totals may not always sum due to rounding and the exclusion of missing, unknown and not applicable categories.</li><li>Numbers shown are central estimates and subject to sampling variation. The precision of these estimates will be limited by sample size.</li><li>Annual Population Survey data has not been reweighted to incorporate the latest estimates of the size and composition of the UK population.</li><li>Estimates for 2010 are based on the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) definition of disability. Estimates for 2022 use the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonised Standard definition.</li></ul> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/03/2024 14:04:36 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1697975

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	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	Cancer: Children and Young People
	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 change to annual income that families experience as a result of (a) a child or young person receiving a cancer diagnosis and (b) their associated caring responsibilities.
	tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
	tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
	uin	19991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/03/2024 13:57:25 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1696686

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	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: Armed Forces
	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 13 March 2024, to Question 16599 on Universal Credit: Armed Forces, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of verifying the self-reported armed forces status of universal credit claimants.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	18973
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to change the self-reported armed forces status for universal credit claimants. Our general approach is to trust the information provided to us by individuals and it is unclear what benefits checking this information would bring, particularly as it may place additional burdens on the claimants and departments concerned.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/03/2024 11:43:33 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1697234

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	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, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published on 16 March 2023, what progress his Department has made on the test of the feasibility of sharing assessment reports with Personal Independent Payment applicants before a decision is made; and when he plans to publish the findings.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	19456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>We are currently conducting a test to understand the impact of sharing assessment reports with PIP claimants by default. As part of the evaluation, we will gather insight from claimants to understand whether sharing the assessment report provides them with the opportunity to clarify evidence so that we can make the right decision as early as possible and improve trust and transparency in the decision-making process. Once the analysis of that insight is complete, we will consider next steps.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2024 12:59:55 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1697022

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	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, how many people were waiting for a decision on their Access to Work application on 1 March 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	19403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>As of 1st March 2024, there were 29,871 applications awaiting a decision.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2024 12:26:28 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1696454

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2024
	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: Rents
	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 social housing tenants who receive Universal Credit are not financially affected by the 53-week rent year in the 2024-25 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	18923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>In the financial year 2024-25 social housing tenants will face 52 weekly rent payment days so Universal Credit will make provision for the exact amount of their liability.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit always converts weekly amounts to monthly sums using 52 weeks. This may lead to a slight advantage to the claimant when converting weekly incomes and to a slight disadvantage when dealing with outgoings. The system is used because it is simple to operate and understand. The department has considered alternative options for those with weekly tenancies, but each have their own limitations and disadvantages for claimants and so there are no plans to change.</p><p> </p><p>The legitimacy of this calculation formula in Universal Credit was confirmed by the High Court in 2020 who found it to be neither irrational or discriminatory.</p><p> </p><p>Discretionary Housing Payments can be paid to those entitled to Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs. Since 2011, the government has provided nearly £1.7 billion in Discretionary Housing Payments to local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2024 12:10:36 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1696657

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	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: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to bring homeowner service charge support in Universal Credit in line with Support for Mortgage Interest by (a) removing the zero earnings rule and (b) reducing the nine month qualifying period.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	19031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to amend the support that homeowners receive in respect of service charges.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2024 12:07:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas