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890328

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	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 and Health 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 have enrolled on the Work and Health Programme; and how many of those people are in employment as a result of enrolling in that programme.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	137468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>Information on Work and Health Programme referrals, attachments and employment outcomes is not currently available.</p><p>We plan to publish statistical information for the Work and Health Programme in Autumn 2018, which will be produced in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/04/2018 14:00:14 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

756117

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: Audio Recordings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment in North West England requested that their assessments be recorded in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	7007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of claimant requests for recording Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) assessments is not available. All requests for an ESA assessment to be recorded are handled and delivered by the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA).</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of claimant requests for recording Personal Independence Payment assessments is not available. Claimant requests to record the consultation are permissible so long as they fulfill the conditions set out by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 07/09/2017 16:13:37 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

519375

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	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	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, with reference to the Answer of 9 May 2016 to Question 36280, how many people are waiting for a rearranged work capability assessment having had their initial appointment cancelled.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	37213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>On 19 May 2016, there were a total of 28,420 people waiting to attend a rearranged work capability assessment having had their initial appointment cancelled of which 17,019 have a new appointment already allocated.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 24/05/2016 13:09:04 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 228 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750667

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to obtain an assessment for employment and support allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>Since the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments took over the contract to carry out assessments in March 2015, they have made a number of improvements to claimants’ experience of assessments, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Increasing the number of Healthcare Professionals by around 70% since the start of the contract, thereby ensuring that claimants go through the assessment process more quickly; and,</li><li>Increasing the number of assessment rooms used so that they can see more people at more locations.</li></ul><p> </p><p>As a result of these improvements, the time taken from referral to the supplier to the claimant receiving a face-to-face Work Capability Assessment has more than halved since the start of the contract.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2017 10:56:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750670

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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, what the (a) shortest, (b) average and (c) longest waiting time was for an assessment for employment and support allowance in the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available. A programme of work is currently underway to look into what information on ESA waiting times is available to publish as official statistics on the ESA-WCA process. When a decision has been made DWP Statisticians will pre-announce the statistics in accordance with the UKSA release protocols.</p><p> </p><p>The Labour Market statisticians are currently working on producing some published statistics based on the Median clearance times for the initial part of the customer journey.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2017 16:31:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

851618

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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, if she will place a copy of the routine oral questions asked during face-to-face medical assessments for (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment and support allowance in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	130381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>There is no set script or bank of questions that Healthcare Professionals ask during face-to-face assessments for Employment and Support Allowance or Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The assessments are conducted in line with the guidance available to the Health Professionals: the PIP Assessment Guide, Part 1 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684001/pip-assessment-guide-part-1-assessment-process.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684001/pip-assessment-guide-part-1-assessment-process.pdf</a>); and the Work Capability Assessment Handbook (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634850/wca-handbook.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634850/wca-handbook.pdf</a>).</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/03/2018 15:07:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

919195

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2018
	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, whether she plans to issue revised guidance on work capability assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	151092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>Work Capability Assessment (WCA) guidance is available via the WCA Handbook, available on Gov.uk. This document is reviewed regularly and an updated version will be published during Summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/06/2018 09:08:21 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

647302

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2016
	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	Welfare Tax Credits: Disability
	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 paragraph 6.2 of the Autumn Statement 2016, what the reasons were for the error which resulted in families with disabled children not being in receipt of their full tax credit entitlement.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	55270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2016 answer text <p>To assist claimants, DWP shares information with HMRC to help identify those Child Tax Credits (CTC) claimants entitled to higher rate CTC because of the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) Child award. The clerical process to do this was not working as intended and resulted in a reduced number of clerical referrals from DWP to HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>Referral volumes are now back in line with expectations and there have been no further issues reported. We remain committed to taking all reasonable steps to make the process more robust.</p><p> </p><p>At the Autumn Statement the Government announced HMRC will put this right for claimants affected this year and claimants will receive a lump sum payment to reflect entitlement since 6 April 2016, and an on-going higher award.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 01/12/2016 15:43:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

856909

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	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	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households are in receipt of (a) child tax credit, (b) working tax credit and (c) both those tax credits by income decile.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	131421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Income</strong> <strong>Decile</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Child Tax Credit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Working Tax Credit</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Both Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p>0.5m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td><td><p>0.9m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td><td><p>0.8m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>4</strong></p></td><td><p>0.6m</p></td><td><p>0.4m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td><td><p>0.5m</p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td><td><p>0.3m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td><td><p>0.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>8</strong></p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>0.1m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>3.8m</p></td><td><p>2.2m</p></td><td><p>1.8m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of individuals in receipt of tax credits is based on Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data sourced from the 2015-16 Family Resources Survey (FRS). In the FRS tax credit receipt is based on self-assessment and therefore may be subject to misreporting, and the FRS is known to undercount receipt of certain benefits. The numbers in the table have been corrected for the undercount. They have been produced by scaling the proportion in each decile from HBAI to the overall number of families in receipt of child tax credit, working tax credit and both child tax credit and working tax credit, from administrative data. The tax credit administrative data is available at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2015-to-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>The calculation of income deciles uses disposable household income, adjusted using modified OECD equivalisation factors for household size and composition. All estimates are based on survey data and are therefore subject to a degree of uncertainty. Small differences should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. Numbers of individuals have been rounded to the nearest hundred thousand. Numbers that round to less than one hundred thousand have been suppressed (“-“).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2018 11:31:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

882655

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of expenditure of local authorities on local welfare assistance schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	135717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The reforms to the Social Fund in 2013 have allowed local authorities in England and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales to deliver their own local provision for people who are in need of urgent help. The Government believe that councils are best placed to decide how to target flexible help to support local welfare needs. The Government has no plans to change these arrangements and we have not placed on them any duties, expectations or monitoring requirements in this area.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/04/2018 10:42:35 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead