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1050799

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	29/01/2019
	date tabled	29/01/2019
	ddp created	29/01/2019 21:20:31
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	29/01/2019 21:26:23 12/02/2019 18:28:01
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Housing
	house id	2
	identifier	HL13222
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/02/2019 17:56:53
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to acknowledge and take account of 53 week rent years for recipients of Universal Credit.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL13222
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL13222
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>No year contains 53 weeks. This perceived issue arises where a landlord charges rent weekly on a Monday and, because of the way the calendar falls every 5 or 6 years, seeks 53 rent payments in a year, with the 53rd payment in part covering the tenancy for the first few days of the following year.</p><p>Universal Credit is paid on a monthly cycle. Where a tenant has a weekly rental liability, they will have to make either 4 or 5 rent payments in any one month. This means that claimants are ‘overpaid’ by UC in months where they have to make four rental payments and ‘underpaid’ where they make five. But over time this broadly balances itself out. It is impossible to accurately align weekly and monthly payment cycles at all points in time.</p><p> </p><p>Where a tenant makes a 53rd weekly rent payment on the last Monday of the 2019/20 year, only two days of that payment relates to a liability falling within that year (ie payment covering Monday and Tuesday of that week as Wednesday falls in the new year). Thus, five days of that payment is an advance payment for the following month and that month has only four Mondays and hence four rent payments. The combination of the advance rent payment and the ‘overpayment’ in April 2020 means that the shortfall is immediately recovered.</p><p> </p><p>There is a separate issue with respect to the way the calculation in the Universal Credit regulations converts a weekly liability into a monthly allowance. The conversion is achieved by multiplying the weekly rent by 52 and then dividing by 12. This effectively means one day’s rent a year (two days in a leap years) are not covered by UC. We are currently considering whether this formulation around weekly rents, and potentially other weekly amounts in the UC calculation, should be amended.</p> question first answered 12/02/2019 17:56:53 answering member 3349
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1050804

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	29/01/2019
	date tabled	29/01/2019
	ddp created	29/01/2019 21:20:39
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	29/01/2019 21:26:36 05/02/2019 13:05:03
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Domestic Abuse
	house id	2
	identifier	HL13227
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	05/02/2019 12:33:50
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Buscombe on 14 January (HL12638) and 22 January (HL12887), whether they will now answer the question asked, namely, why they no longer record centrally the information on domestic violence easements provided in the answer of the Minister of State for Employment on 10 February 2015 (HC223651).
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL13227
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL13227
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department still collects centrally information on domestic violence easements for Job Seeker Allowance claimants. However, this data is not considered robust enough to report in Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>Since the introduction of Universal Credit, it has not been possible for the Department to report specific easements applied to individual claimants. This is because this has not been included in the Universal Credit Management Information build. We are committed to gathering better data to support claimants with complex needs and have registered this as part of the wider work programme for the Universal Credit, anything we do will be introduced incrementally and could be broad across complex needs rather than focusing on one particular group.</p> question first answered 05/02/2019 12:33:50 answering member 3349
	creator	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1056654

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:25:34
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	07/02/2019 18:35:29 12/02/2019 17:26:07
	hansard heading	Hearing Impaired
	house id	1
	identifier	218235
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/02/2019 16:54:02
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the provision of deaf support services to (a) constituents in West Lancashire and (b) people throughout Lancashire by (i) Lancashire County Council, (ii) the NHS, (iii) courts, (iv) local authorities and (v) other public agencies.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218235
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218235
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>It is for each Government department and public authority to make adequate provision for deaf support services. Disability in the UK is mainstreamed. This means that whilst I promote disability issues across government, every department is ultimately responsible for considering disability in the development and implementation of its policies and services.</p><p> </p><p>For services provided by the Department for Work and Pensions to customers who are deaf or have hearing loss, we provide the following services:</p><ul><li>Interpretation services such as BSL</li><li>Video Relay Service for BSL users claiming certain benefits</li><li>Videos with BSL translations on certain topics</li><li>Textphone services for customers unable to contact the Department by phone</li><li>Next Generation Text for which users require access to a smart device</li><li>Email as a reasonable adjustment to replace other communication methods</li></ul> question first answered 12/02/2019 16:54:02 answering member 4071
	creator	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1056655

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:25:36
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	12/02/2019 12:45:11 13/02/2019 14:40:02
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Fife
	house id	1
	identifier	218361
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	13/02/2019 14:07:55
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit in Fife on provision of services for lone parents and disadvantaged families by (a) local authorities and (b) third sector organisations.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218361
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218361
	version	4
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit in Fife on provision of services for lone parents and disadvantage families by Local Authorities and third party sector organisations.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to helping parents into work. Childcare is essential in enabling parents to work, although we recognise that this can cause additional financial difficulty.</p><p>Universal Credit claimants are able to claim up to 85 per cent of their childcare costs, compared to 70% on the legacy system. People with an offer of paid work can also get childcare costs paid a month in advance.</p><p> </p><p>On 11 January 2019, Secretary of State Rt. Hon Amber Rudd MP announced measures that will provide increased support for Universal Credit (UC) claimants. This included piloting a more flexible approach to claimants reporting childcare costs, which will allow people to be reimbursed for childcare even when they aren’t able to provide immediate evidence.</p> question first answered 13/02/2019 14:07:55 answering member 4105
	creator	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

1056680

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:26:35
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	07/02/2019 18:36:28 13/02/2019 13:21:16
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	218202
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	13/02/2019 12:49:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library a copy of the results from the Claimant Service and Experience Survey 2017-18 for (a) live service and (b) full service universal credit claimants.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218202
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218202
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Claimant Service and Experience Survey 2017-2018 covered both Universal Credit Live Service and Universal Credit Full Service and has been published on Gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>It is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-claimant-service-and-experience-survey-2017-to-2018</a></p> question first answered 13/02/2019 12:49:01 answering member 4014
	creator	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1056737

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:28:57
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	07/02/2019 18:39:07 12/02/2019 17:56:01
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
	house id	1
	identifier	218199
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/02/2019 17:24:18
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the waiting time from registration for personal independence payment to appeal is in Blackpool.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218199
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218199
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on the clearance time from registration of a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim to appeal in Blackpool could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information is available on the median clearance time from a PIP claim being cleared (when a DWP decision maker has determined whether the claimant should or should not be awarded PIP) to an appeal being cleared for people living in Blackpool Local Authority in April to September 2018 and was 53 weeks.</p> question first answered 12/02/2019 17:24:18 answering member 4071
	creator	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1056738

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:28:59
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	07/02/2019 18:39:09 12/02/2019 17:59:01
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
	house id	1
	identifier	218200
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/02/2019 17:27:28
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment assessments where a claimant had a diagnosis of a mental health disorder have resulted in no award in Blackpool; and how many of those assessments were overturned at a mandatory reconsideration or appeal.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218200
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218200
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Since Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has been introduced, 1,670 people living in Blackpool Local Authority, whose main condition was a psychiatric disorder, have been disallowed after their case was referred to the Assessment Provider. The data the Department holds is up to September 2018. Of the 1,670 cases, 90 decisions resulted in awards being changed at the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) stage, and 130 at appeal.</p><p> </p><p>Since PIP was introduced 3.7m decisions have been made in Great Britain for all health conditions up to September 2018, of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned.</p><p> </p><p>The data has been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p>PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and covers new claims and DLA reassessment claims.</p><p> </p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The appeals may include decisions which are changed at MR, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</p> question first answered 12/02/2019 17:27:28 answering member 4071
	creator	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1056739

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:29:01
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	07/02/2019 18:39:11 15/02/2019 12:12:01
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	identifier	218201
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/02/2019 11:39:03
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been carried out into (a) the experience that health care professionals carrying out assessments for personal independence payment have of the medical conditions of claimants and (b) other aspects of the suitability of those professionals.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218201
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218201
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Health Professionals that carry out PIP Assessments on behalf of DWP must have the following qualifications and experience:</p><p> </p><ul><li>are an occupational therapist, nurse (level 1), physiotherapist or paramedic. Doctors support assessments as part of the overall clinical assurance process but do not currently undertake any PIP assessments.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>are fully registered with the relevant licensing body (doctors must have a licence to practise).</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The licensing body has not placed restrictions on the healthcare professional’s registration.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>at least 2 years post full registration experience or less than 2 years post full registration experience by individual agreement with the Department.</li></ul><p> </p><p>It is DWP’s policy that Health Professionals who meet this criteria will have appropriate experience to complete a functional assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Assessment Providers are required to ensure Health Professionals have knowledge of the clinical aspects and likely functional effects of a wide range of health conditions and impairments. All Health Professionals employed to conduct PIP assessments are required to complete Continuous Professional Development to keep their knowledge up to date.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Assessment Provides have Mental Function Champions available to provide relevant advice and support to Health Professionals about mental health conditions and cognitive impairments.</p> question first answered 15/02/2019 11:39:03 answering member 4071
	creator	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1056806

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:31:39
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	07/02/2019 18:41:40 12/02/2019 18:11:03
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	identifier	218391
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/02/2019 17:39:21
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2019 to Question 204628 on Universal Credit, when he plans to respond to the hon Member for High Peak.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218391
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218391
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>I replied to the hon. Member with the answer to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-12-20/204628/" target="_blank">204628</a> on 11 February 2019.</p> question first answered 12/02/2019 17:39:21 answering member 4014
	creator	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1056837

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/02/2019
	date	07/02/2019
	date tabled	07/02/2019
	ddp created	07/02/2019 18:32:56
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	07/02/2019 18:42:49 12/02/2019 17:14:01
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	identifier	218340
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/02/2019 16:42:09
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her Department's policy to refer claimants of universal credit to foodbanks.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
	tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 218340
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218340
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government spends over £90 billion a year on welfare benefits for people of working age, to ensure a strong safety net for those who need it. This includes a well-established system of hardship payments and benefit advances. We have also introduced a range of measures to help put more money in claimant’s pockets quicker, such as removing waiting days and, from July 2020, introducing a new two-week run on for income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support and income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>Jobcentre managers have discretion to work with a wide range of external partners, including food banks, where they are invited to do so. And there are established arrangements in place which allow local staff to signpost a customer to a foodbank where a customer has expressed an interest in using one, but will only do so once they have exhausted all other routes of support.</p><p /> question first answered 12/02/2019 16:42:09 answering member 4105
	creator	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald