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1172507

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Justice to reduce the waiting time for welfare benefit tribunal appeals.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	900404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>DWP is working with the Ministry of Justice to develop a new digital system with a view to enabling swifter processing of appeals and a better service for all parties to the proceedings. Personal Independence Payment, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit claimants can now submit their appeal online.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 15:52:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

1172536

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2020 to Question 3803 on Access to Work Programme, how many people with (a) learning disabilities and (b) autism spectrum disorders received funding in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	6723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>Table 8 of the Access to Work Statistics shows the number of people who have received an Access to Work payment broken down by primary medical condition.</p><p> </p><p>The list of primary medical conditions used is consistent with that used for the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and so includes learning disabilities but not autistic spectrum disorders.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to successful expansion of the list of conditions to include autism in the LFS, we propose to expand the Access to Work list to also include autistic spectrum disorders in future.</p><p> </p><p>The Access to Work Statistics can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 31/01/2020 13:37:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1172607

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Severe Disability Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect on a claimant's (a) mental health and (b) financial situation of the roll-out of universal credit on people in receipt of the severe disability premium.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	6611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>Universal Credit is simpler and fairer than the legacy system, is designed to target resources at those that need them most and to provide support for people who can’t work or need help moving towards the labour market. We have trained work coaches in how to support claimants with mental health conditions, and claimants who enquire about their Severe Disability Premium (SDP) transitional protections are connected with Specialised SDP Agents. Our work coaches all undertake a robust training process which includes a focus on health conditions and disabilities, how to tailor service delivery according to needs, and has specific content on requirement setting for people with mental health conditions.</p><p>A gateway was introduced from 16 January 2019 to prevent those claimants entitled to the SDP as part of their legacy benefit from claiming Universal Credit. Additionally, a commitment was made for monthly transitional payments to be made to eligible former SDP claimants who have already moved to Universal Credit due to a change in circumstances and to provide a lump sum arrears payment, where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Positive progress has been made and caseload growth has now slowed, however, in the event a new case is discovered payments will be in place quickly. It is not possible to estimate when we will have paid everyone who is entitled as some people become entitled to these payments retrospectively, and therefore the caseload is not a fixed number.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 17:09:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1172651

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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, how much was spent by the Access to Work scheme in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) England and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	6752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Access to Work scheme is only available to those living in England, Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Please see below the Access to Work expenditure seen in Table 11 and Table 11a of the official statistics broken down in terms of Scotland, Wales and England.</p><p> </p><p>The Access to Work official statistics can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Nominal Terms)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Country not recorded*</p></td><td><p>£369,000</p></td><td><p>£403,000</p></td><td><p>£417,000</p></td><td><p>£516,000</p></td><td><p>£636,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£85,852,000</p></td><td><p>£85,764,000</p></td><td><p>£91,987,000</p></td><td><p>£98,362,000</p></td><td><p>£114,441,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>£4,121,000</p></td><td><p>£3,816,000</p></td><td><p>£4,204,000</p></td><td><p>£4,234,000</p></td><td><p>£5,322,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>£6,658,000</p></td><td><p>£6,500,000</p></td><td><p>£7,161,000</p></td><td><p>£7,712,000</p></td><td><p>£8,721,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£96,999,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£96,483,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£103,768,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£110,823,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£129,120,000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Real Terms, 2018/19 prices)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Country not recorded*</p></td><td><p>£395,000</p></td><td><p>£428,000</p></td><td><p>£433,000</p></td><td><p>£525,000</p></td><td><p>£636,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£91,951,000</p></td><td><p>£91,128,000</p></td><td><p>£95,563,000</p></td><td><p>£100,166,000</p></td><td><p>£114,441,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>£4,413,000</p></td><td><p>£4,055,000</p></td><td><p>£4,367,000</p></td><td><p>£4,311,000</p></td><td><p>£5,322,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>£7,131,000</p></td><td><p>£6,906,000</p></td><td><p>£7,440,000</p></td><td><p>£7,854,000</p></td><td><p>£8,721,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£103,890,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£102,517,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£107,802,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£112,856,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£129,120,000</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Disability Service Client (DiSC) administrative system; Single Operating Platform (SOP) payment system; Provider Referrals and Payments System (PRaP).</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>* ‘Not recorded’ is used throughout the Access to Work publication and denotes the customers where that variable is missing. In this case, it is where information relating to a person’s residence is missing, most commonly their postcode.</p><ol><li>The expenditure data in these statistics covers payments directly to individuals and employers, as well as to assessment providers and the Mental Health Support Service.</li><li>The expenditure data in these statistics does not include DWP’s staffing and operational costs relating to Access to Work.</li><li>Real terms expenditure (where actual spending has been adjusted to remove the effects of general price level changes (inflation) over time using price levels from a base year) has been calculated using the Consumer Prices Index published by the Office for National Statistics. Real terms figures provide a more meaningful measurement of change over time.</li><li>Expenditure figures have been calculated using a methodology consistent with that used in the published Access to Work statistics. Please see the background information and methodology note for more information, in particular the “Weighting” section on pages 8-9. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-statistics-background-information-and-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-statistics-background-information-and-methodology</a></li><li>Access to Work expenditure for each country is based on residency of the beneficiary as opposed to place of work.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 due to the weighting methodology used (see Note 4).</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 17:29:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1172711

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the disability employment gap for people with epilepsy.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	6791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people in work between 2017 and 2027. We support disabled people, including people with epilepsy, to enter employment and stay in work through a range of programmes such as the Work and Health Programme, Access to Work and the Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme.</p><p> </p><p>To support disabled people to stay in work and progress, we published a voluntary reporting framework on disability, mental ill health and wellbeing in November 2018. This is aimed at large employers (with over 250 employees) and it is recommended that they publically report on the pay and progression of disabled people at regular intervals. The framework can also be used to support smaller employers who are keen to drive greater transparency in their organisation or industry.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2019, Jobcentre Plus introduced an enhanced Disability Employment Adviser and a new Disability Employment Adviser Leader role, putting in place more than 800 staff who support their colleagues to provide high quality services to disabled people and those with health conditions. Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity to support people who are in work to progress and increase their earnings.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs. The health and disability benefit system aspects of the strategy will be considered in a separate Green Paper. This will look at how we can further improve our support for people with disabilities and health conditions, supporting people into work where possible and enabling people to live independent lives.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 6792 question first answered 31/01/2020 14:40:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1172712

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the disability pay gap for people with epilepsy.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	6792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people in work between 2017 and 2027. We support disabled people, including people with epilepsy, to enter employment and stay in work through a range of programmes such as the Work and Health Programme, Access to Work and the Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme.</p><p> </p><p>To support disabled people to stay in work and progress, we published a voluntary reporting framework on disability, mental ill health and wellbeing in November 2018. This is aimed at large employers (with over 250 employees) and it is recommended that they publically report on the pay and progression of disabled people at regular intervals. The framework can also be used to support smaller employers who are keen to drive greater transparency in their organisation or industry.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2019, Jobcentre Plus introduced an enhanced Disability Employment Adviser and a new Disability Employment Adviser Leader role, putting in place more than 800 staff who support their colleagues to provide high quality services to disabled people and those with health conditions. Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity to support people who are in work to progress and increase their earnings.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs. The health and disability benefit system aspects of the strategy will be considered in a separate Green Paper. This will look at how we can further improve our support for people with disabilities and health conditions, supporting people into work where possible and enabling people to live independent lives.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 6791 question first answered 31/01/2020 14:40:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1172713

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Access to Work scheme is adequately funded so that people with epilepsy can access their full entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	6793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>Access to Work is a demand-led discretionary grant scheme that offers up to £59,200 funding per year for in-work support for people whose disability or health condition affects the way they do their job. In 2018/19, the Access to Work expenditure increased to £129.1 million, a new record amount, equating to a 14% increase in real terms expenditure on 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The amount an individual receives from Access to Work is based on their individual in-work support requirements. The latest Access to Work statistics, published in August 2019 and covering the period up to March 2019, show that around 2.5% of people supported by the scheme give ‘Epilepsy’ as their primary medical condition</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 31/01/2020 13:32:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1172714

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people with epilepsy that are in employment.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	6794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>There are around 60,000 working age disabled people with epilepsy in employment in the UK, including around 40,000 who report epilepsy as their main health condition.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Annual Population Survey, April 2018 to March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Data is subject to sampling variation and precision is limited by small sample sizes. Estimates have been rounded to the nearest 5,000 people.</li><li>Figures are for the working age population, comprised of people aged 16 to 64.</li><li>Disability status is defined according to the Government Statistical Service harmonised standard, in line with the Equality Act 2010 core definition.</li><li>'Main health condition' refers to the health condition that the survey respondent considers their main condition</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 31/01/2020 13:42:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1172715

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of employment support available for people with epilepsy, and whether her Department plans to introduce new measures to improve the employment rate of people with epilepsy.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	6795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government supports disabled people, including people with epilepsy, to enter employment and stay in work through programmes such as the Work and Health Programme and Access to Work.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics for The Work and Health Programme were published in November 2019, covering the period up to August 2019. They showed that 73% of starts to the programme were for people with a health condition or disability. The figures are not disaggregated by health condition or disability, so we cannot say how many participants had epilepsy.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Access to Work statistics, published in August 2019 and covering the period up to March 2019, show that around 2.5% of people supported by the scheme give ‘Epilepsy’ as their primary medical condition.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2019 we launched the Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme. This is a new, voluntary, contracted employment provision designed to help disabled people with complex needs or barriers, including those with fluctuating conditions like epilepsy, who want to work but also require specialist support to achieve their goal of sustained employment.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs. The health and disability benefit system aspects of the strategy will be considered in a separate Green Paper. This will look at how we can further improve our support for people with disabilities and health conditions, supporting people into work where possible and enabling people to live independent lives.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 31/01/2020 14:25:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1172215

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	6070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people in work by 2027.</p><p> </p><p>We help disabled people return to and stay in work through programmes including the Work and Health Programme, the new Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme, Access to Work and Disability Confident.</p><p> </p><p>There were 4.2 million working age disabled people in employment in the UK in Q3 2019. This was an increase of 354,000 since last year (Q3 2018), and an overall increase of 1.3 million since Q3 2013, the earliest comparable figure<em>.</em></p><p> </p><p>We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve the benefits system, opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 16:57:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce