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1314900

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce the backlog of assessments for universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	1334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>For the purposes of this response, I have assumed the Honourable Member is referring to Work Capability Assessments (WCAs) used to assess the health entitlement in Universal Credit when referring to “assessments.”</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic following the suspension of face to face Work Capability Assessments (WCAs) to protect the health of our customers and staff, we continued to assess people on paper evidence whenever possible and introduced telephone assessments from May 2020, doing so in a cautious and evidence-based way, in order to reduce the risk of incorrect benefit outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>Our priority was and continues to be to get our customers into payment as soon as possible. Therefore, telephone assessments initially focused on claimants who were most likely to benefit from having an assessment i.e. those who were likely to have limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA), with this being the only outcome available. Using a test and learn approach, we expanded the range of outcomes available in telephone assessments during the course of the pandemic and, from February 2021, the full range outcomes have been able. This is enabling us to provide a further telephone assessment to those customers who didn’t get an outcome from their first one. We are also, in parallel, doing a small number of Video Assessments.</p><p> </p><p>We have continuously improved our guidance and processes to minimise the number of customers for whom a telephone assessment is not suitable because of their health condition. Now only a small proportion of customers are unable to undertake a telephone assessment. These customers will be prioritised for a face to face assessment following their resumption this month.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/05/2021 12:48:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1307958

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Personal Independence Payment: Benefits Rules
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the extension to personal independence payment awards to allow time for renewal claims to be submitted is still in place; and whether that policy incorporates awards that are won at appeal.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	179256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2021 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants given an award without a review, whether following an appeal or not, were extended due to the pandemic to ensure renewal claims did not have to be made at that time and awards would not go out of payment.</p><p> </p><p>We have now returned to a business-as-usual process.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/04/2021 12:45:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1168988

registered interest
date	06/01/2020
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	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 he will issue guidance to ensure that claimants of benefits are aware that they have the right to record work capability assessments.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2020 answer text <p>The letter that is sent to claimants advising when they need to attend a face-to-face assessment (known as an AL1C) makes it clear that claimants can request audio recording.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/01/2020 14:49:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

999619

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of welfare and benefits fraud committed by serious and organised criminals in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	187088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/11/2018 10:20:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

523153

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff in his Department were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	39393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The information is provided in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of payroll staff (%) </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of non-payroll staff (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>99.4</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>99.7</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>99.9</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>99.9</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>99.9</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>99.9</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Of the 520 non-payroll staff in the latest year the majority were employed to develop the technology for our major welfare reforms.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/06/2016 10:32:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

523154

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in his Department are paid through limited companies.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	39408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>No Civil Servants in the Department for Work and Pensions are paid through limited companies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/06/2016 10:33:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

523158

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
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 on non-payroll staff in his Department in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	39480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The spend on non-payroll staff in Department for Work and Pensions in 15-16 will be published in the Departments Annual Report and Accounts on 30<sup>th</sup> June 2016 following completion of the audit and Permanent Secretary and Comptroller and Auditor General sign-off.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/06/2016 10:25:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

521677

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
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	Housing Benefit: Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidelines his Department issues on continued payment of housing benefit when a person remains in hospital for longer than 52 weeks.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	38575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>Guidance for local authority staff about temporary absence from home is contained in the Housing Benefit Manuals on GOV.UK. The guidance for absences of up to 52 weeks is covered in paragraphs 3.530 – 3.534 of Chapter A3.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/236950/hbgm-a3-liability-to-make-payments.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/236950/hbgm-a3-liability-to-make-payments.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/06/2016 12:26:19 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

521678

registered interest
date	25/05/2016
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	Disability Living Allowance: Payment Methods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact assessment has been conducted on the change in the method of payment of Disability Living Allowance to being solely into a bank account.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	38576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>There has been no change to the method of payment policy in relation to benefit and pension payments.</p><p>DWP is committed to battling financial exclusion and helping more people to move towards, and benefit from, mainstream banking. Direct Payment into a bank, building society or credit union account is the most efficient, secure and reliable way of making payments and is the preferred way to make benefit payments. Government paying departments would like all of their customers to benefit from the advantages of a mainstream account.</p><p>Although the majority of benefit and pension payments are paid into a bank account we do recognise that some customers remain unable to access such services. Arrangements are in place to ensure those customers can access their money.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/06/2016 10:54:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

518451

registered interest
date	10/05/2016
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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have decreased their working hours in order to remain eligible for the carers allowance since the introduction of the National Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	36994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>I have made no such estimate and I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to her on the 25 April 2016 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-04-20/34752/" target="_blank">UIN34752</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/05/2016 07:25:10 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh