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824008

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 20 December 2017 (HL4048), what have been the annual funding levels per capita per universal credit claimant for delivery of universal support for each year since 2013–14 at constant prices.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL4754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The per capita payment for Universal Support has remained unchanged since 2013/14 and is £25.66 per hour.</p><p> </p><p>The allocated time for each claimant varies as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Support Offered</p></td><td><p>Rate per hour</p></td><td><p>Time Allocated</p></td><td><p>Payment per Claimant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assisted Digital Support Live Service</p></td><td><p>£25.66</p></td><td><p>60mins</p></td><td><p>£25.66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assisted Digital Support Full Service</p></td><td><p>£25.66</p></td><td><p>60mins</p></td><td><p>£25.66</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Personal Budgeting Support Live Service</p></td><td><p>£25.66</p></td><td><p>120mins</p></td><td><p>£51.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Personal Budgeting Support Full Service</p></td><td><p>£25.66</p></td><td><p>120mins</p></td><td><p>£51.32</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 23/01/2018 12:55:46 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

824032

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the recruitment of healthcare professionals by third party providers is sufficient to meet the current volume of work capability assessments for disabled people; and what are the minimum qualifications being sought as part of the recruitment process.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
	uin	HL4775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Since the commencement of the Health and Disability Assessment Service contract in March 2015 the supplier, Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), has increased its number of Healthcare Professionals by over 60%. As a result, CHDA are on course to deliver the contractual volumes for work capability assessments.</p><p> </p><p>All Healthcare Professionals who undertake work capability assessments are registered healthcare professionals, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists or occupational therapists, with a minimum of two years broad - based post registration experience.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 23/01/2018 12:58:41 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

824031

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made on meeting their targets on work capability assessments for disabled people.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
	uin	HL4774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) decision makers have no targets that relate to the number of people placed in the Support Group, Work Related Activity Group or found fit for work following a work capability assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The current contractual agreement between the DWP and the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments contains numerous performance targets including throughput, claimant service and work capability assessment report quality, which also contain automatic financial remedies where there is service level failure. There are no targets specifying that certain numbers of people should be allowed or disallowed benefit.</p><p> </p><p>The contractual performance of Centre for Health and Disability Assessments is monitored closely by the DWP. Since Centre for Health and Disability Assessments took on the contract, we have halved work capability assessment waiting times, down from 32 weeks in August 2014 to 16 weeks in March 2017.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 23/01/2018 12:57:20 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

824033

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the quality of Work Capability Assessment assessors.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
	uin	HL4776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>All Healthcare Professionals undertaking Work Capability Assessments are highly-trained practitioners in their own field. They must be registered practitioners who have at least two years post-registration experience. They are subject to a rigorous recruitment process followed by a comprehensive training programme in disability assessment.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring claimants receive high quality, fair and accurate assessments. All Healthcare Professionals are subject to on-going quality audit to ensure they continue to deliver high quality assessments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 23/01/2018 12:59:50 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

823426

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Post Office Card Account
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, why her Department is asking the recipients of state pensions to switch the accounts that their pensions are paid into from the Post Office to a bank, building society or credit union.
	tabling member constituency	Neath
	tabling member printed	Christina Rees
	uin	122905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Direct Payment into a bank, building society or credit union account is the standard way to make all government payments.</p><p> </p><p>The Post Office card account (POca) was introduced in 2003 as a very simple service through which pension and benefits can be paid. It was always intended as a stepping stone into mainstream banking, and financial inclusion, while customers got used to elements of banking.</p><p> </p><p>There are now fewer barriers to prevent people, who do not have an existing account, from accessing and using one. Importantly as most bank accounts can be accessed at the post office it doesn’t need to change how or where they collect their money.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, POca is expensive to administer and as we deal with public funds we have a duty to use the most cost-effective method for issuing customer payments - which is into a bank, building society or credit union account.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/01/2018 17:03:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

825557

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce proposals to up-rate by the rate of inflation payments made by the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme in the 2018-19 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	123691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The 2008 Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payment Scheme will be uprated from 1<sup>st</sup> April 2018. This will be in line with the September CPI rate. The statutory instruments to make this change were laid in Parliament on 15<sup>th</sup> January 2018.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/01/2018 17:01:24 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

825562

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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, when she plans to implement the changes to the Work Capability Assessment set out in the Government's report, Improving Lives: The Future of Health, Work and Disability, Cm. 9526, published in November 2017.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	123696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to assessing people with health conditions and disabilities fairly and accurately, helping people to access the right support. We recognise the importance of getting reform in this area right. We therefore intend to focus on testing new approaches to build our evidence base for future reform. In the Improving Lives: The Future of health, Work and Disability command paper we committed to work with external stakeholders to inform future changes to the Work Capability Assessment.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123695 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:01:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

825561

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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, when she plans to implement the changes to Work Capability Assessment set out in the Government's report, Improving Lives: The Future of Health, Work and Disability, Cm. 9526, published in November 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
	tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
	uin	123695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to assessing people with health conditions and disabilities fairly and accurately, helping people to access the right support. We recognise the importance of getting reform in this area right. We therefore intend to focus on testing new approaches to build our evidence base for future reform. In the Improving Lives: The Future of health, Work and Disability command paper we committed to work with external stakeholders to inform future changes to the Work Capability Assessment.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123696 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:01:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

825449

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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	Support for Mortgage Interest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish the updated terms and conditions of the replacement SMI loan scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
	tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
	uin	123590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The terms and conditions of the loan are set out in The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (<a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/725/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/725/made</a>). A loan agreement has been sent (or will be sent) to all existing customers who wish to take up the offer of a Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loan.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/01/2018 11:31:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald

825453

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of defending decisions made by his Department on employment and support allowance claims taken to tribunal; and what the net gain or loss was in challenging those decisions.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	123594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Department has previously published average costs of PIP and ESA mandatory reconsiderations and appeals, which covers direct staff costs only (see Table 24 of Work and Pensions Select Committee PIP and ESA assessments inquiry: supporting statistics ).</p><p> </p><p>The total that DWP has spent on mandatory reconsiderations and appeals includes high level support costs such as management and corporate overheads. These costs cannot be split out from overall Departmental spending on benefit payments, and therefore total Departmental spend on mandatory reconsideration and appeal is not available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/01/2018 11:40:33 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows