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1087149

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	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, what steps his Department is taking to improve information for (a) job seekers and (b) employees on the support available through Access to Work.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	231374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Access to Work continues to undertake targeted marketing and awareness raising activities. For example, the scheme is promoted to benefit claimants through Jobcentre Plus and to a range of business leaders through the Disability Confident scheme. We have also worked with a variety of stakeholder organisations to market Access to Work to their clients, including sharing information about how individuals can apply for support.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently testing a number of communication activities to raise awareness of Access to Work among Jobcentre Plus staff in Greater Manchester, in order to equip work coaches with the knowledge to have conversations with customers who may require in work support. We will evaluate the most successful methods before a national roll-out.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work is also reviewing the content and formats of its existing information channels, including considering how to achieve more effective use of alternative formats such as British Sign Language videos.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/03/2019 14:38:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1088520

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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, what deadline is to implement the new online system to submit Access to Work signed claim forms with invoices.
	tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
	tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
	uin	231984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Access to Work is in the process of transforming its digital processes, from application through to payment. We do not yet have a timetable for completion of this work. We are currently evaluating a range of digital options for Access to Work claim form and receipt/invoice submissions and we will be able to develop delivery timetables for that aspect of the transformation once this analysis has been completed.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 11:44:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

1088765

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the gross weekly income thresholds for each child maintenance rate of pay were last updated.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	232605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012 introduced a new gross weekly income threshold for child maintenance, for those earning between £800 and £3000 a week.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 14:19:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1087208

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	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	Christmas Bonus
	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 in receipt of (a) personal independence payment and (b) disability living allowance were (i) entitled to the £10 Christmas bonus and (ii) received that Christmas bonus in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	231471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The Christmas Bonus is a one-off tax-free £10 payment paid to claimants who receive certain qualifying benefits including Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA). To qualify, the claimant must be in receipt of the qualifying benefit in the qualifying week which is normally the first full week of December. If a DLA or PIP claimant receives another qualifying benefit their bonus may be attached to that benefit rather than to their PIP or DLA award.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes a range of detailed statistics for PIP and DLA on Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>. These statistics include monthly caseloads (claims in payment) to August 2018 for DLA and to October 2018 for PIP. Caseloads for December 2018 have not yet been published.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of claimants, regardless of qualifying benefit, who received the Christmas Bonus in 2017/18 can be found in Table 1c of the “Outturn and forecast: Autumn Budget 2018 (XLS)” spreadsheet in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2018" target="_blank">2018 Benefit Expenditure and Caseload tables. </a> Outturn figures for 2018/19 will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/03/2019 13:47:16 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1087210

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	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	Christmas Bonus: Non-payment
	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 have contacted her Department since 1 December 2018 on non-payment of the 2018 Christmas bonus.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	231472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The Christmas Bonus was first paid in 1972 as a result of The Pensioners and Family Income Supplement Payments Act 1972 and was introduced as a means of providing additional financial support to customers in receipt of a pension or qualifying benefit.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Both Pensioners and working age customers in receipt of certain benefits receive the tax-free £10 Christmas Bonus and payments are usually automatically generated based on receipt of a qualifying benefit.</p><p> </p><p>For the 2017/2018 qualifying period (latest data available) 15,922000.00 (fifteen million, nine hundred and twenty two thousand) DWP customers received the Christmas Bonus.</p><p> </p><p>DWP does not retain information relating to the number of customers who contacted the Department to report non-payment of the Christmas Bonus as it does not have a business requirement to do so. Therefore, this information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/03/2019 14:43:36 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1088513

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Disability: Cost of Living
	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 the report entitled the Disability Price Tag 2019, published by Scope in February 2019, what steps she plans to take to made additional funding available to cover potential extra costs incurred by disabled people; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	232032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department provides a range of benefits to support people with long term health conditions and disabilities, including benefits which contribute towards the extra costs they may face. Benefit provision is in addition to the wide range of additional support people with health conditions and disabilities may receive including from Local Authorities or the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, spending on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions has increased by £8.4 billion (18%) in real terms. This year it will be over £54 billion, and next year it will rise to over £55 billion – over 2.5 per cent of GDP and 6 per cent of Government spending. And since 2010 spending on extra-costs disability benefits, which have been increased by inflation and have been protected from the benefits freeze, has increased by £5 billion (25%) in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>As the Secretary of State recently announced, we also plan to commission independent research to understand the needs of disabled people and how health and disability benefits can better support them.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 232033 question first answered 19/03/2019 12:32:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1088514

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Disability: Cost of Living
	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 the report entitled the Disability Price Tag 2019, published by Scope in February 2019, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people can afford the same standard of living as non-disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	232033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department provides a range of benefits to support people with long term health conditions and disabilities, including benefits which contribute towards the extra costs they may face. Benefit provision is in addition to the wide range of additional support people with health conditions and disabilities may receive including from Local Authorities or the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, spending on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions has increased by £8.4 billion (18%) in real terms. This year it will be over £54 billion, and next year it will rise to over £55 billion – over 2.5 per cent of GDP and 6 per cent of Government spending. And since 2010 spending on extra-costs disability benefits, which have been increased by inflation and have been protected from the benefits freeze, has increased by £5 billion (25%) in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>As the Secretary of State recently announced, we also plan to commission independent research to understand the needs of disabled people and how health and disability benefits can better support them.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 232032 question first answered 19/03/2019 12:32:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1088753

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	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	Disability: Cost of Living
	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 the Scope report entitled Disability Price Tag 2019, what steps she is taking to reduce the extra costs faced by disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	232508
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department provides a range of benefits to reduce the financial pressure on disabled people and those with long term health conditions. Local Authorities and the National Health Service provide a wide range of additional services.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, spending on extra-costs disability benefits has increased by £5billion in real terms. These benefits have been increased with inflation and were protected from the benefit freeze.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are working closely with private industry to better recognise the needs of disabled people and ensure they are fully included in society. Initiatives led by the Department, such as Sector Champions, and those led by the private sector and supported by the Department, such as Purple Tuesday, aim to work with businesses to recognise the benefits of ensuring they are accessible and inclusive for disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>As I have recently announced, we plan to commission independent research to better understand the needs of disabled people and how health and disability benefits can better support them.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 15:05:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1087269

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	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	Down's Syndrome
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what research her Department has conducted on life for people with Down's Syndrome in the 21st century.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	231432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>This department undertakes research into people’s experience of support into work schemes, including the experiences of disabled people. The Department has not conducted or commissioned research on life experiences for people with Down’s Syndrome in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century.</p><p> </p><p>Equal rights for disabled people, including people with Down’s Syndrome, are provided for under the reasonable adjustments provisions in the Equality Act and the Public Sector Equality duty. Each Government Department and public authority is under a duty to make adequate provision for disabled people including people with Down’s Syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Disability in the UK is mainstreamed. This means that every department is ultimately responsible for considering disability in the development and implementation of its policies and services.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 14:57:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1087162

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which budget is being used to rectify underpayments of employment and support allowance is being drawn.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	231501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The cost of administrative activity is drawn from the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit budget and payment of arrears from the Resource Annually Managed Expenditure budget.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 10:40:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray