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1087193

	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	Universal Credit: Disability
	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 her Department has made of the effect of the introduction of universal credit on disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	231543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Most disabled people are better off under Universal Credit than the legacy system.</p><p>More severely disabled people will receive higher payments under Universal Credit, with around 1 million disabled households gaining on average around £100 more per month.</p><p>Disabled claimants have the biggest work allowance of any group, and benefit from the unified taper and removal of rules such as ‘permitted work’ that put a cap on how much money disabled people can earn. Universal Credit also, for the first time, helps people with a disability or health condition who are already in work to remain there and progress.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/03/2019 11:23:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1087194

	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	Universal Credit: Disability
	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 she has made of the effect of natural migration to universal credit on severely disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	231544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Our Regulations will ensure that eligible claimants in receipt of Severe Disability Premium are only moved to Universal Credit as part of a managed migration process, and through that process will see their payments protected. We are spending over £3 billion on Transitional Protections for 1.1 million households, to ensure that no one loses out at the point of transition. We have also made provision for those eligible claimants who have already naturally migrated to Universal Credit to be considered for Severe Disability Premium transitional payments. These will be made as on-going monthly payments and an additional lump-sum to cover the period since they moved to Universal Credit.</p><p>Over £2.4 billion in benefits are currently unclaimed and Universal Credit ensures that vulnerable claimants receive the money they are entitled to. More severely disabled people will receive higher payments under Universal Credit, with around 1 million disabled households gaining on average around £100 more per month.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/03/2019 14:22:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1087197

	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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
	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 she has made of the effect of benefit (a) sanctions and (b) conditionality on disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	231546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The department has not made an assessment of the effect of imposing sanctions and conditionality on disabled claimants.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/03/2019 13:54:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1087195

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the cumulative impact of social security changes from 2010 on disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	231545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The Treasury, along with other relevant departments, carefully considers the impact of its decisions on those sharing protected characteristics - including at Budgets and other fiscal events - in line with both its legal obligations and with its strong commitment to promoting fairness. The Treasury regularly publishes detailed analysis of trends in income and the impact of policy decisions on tax, welfare and public spending on households of different incomes.</p><p>We spend over £50 billion a year on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions, and the number of working age disabled people in employment has increased by 930,000 since 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 15/03/2019 08:21:44 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney