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628190

registered interest
date	03/11/2016
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the Green Paper Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability, published on 31 October 2016, does not contain a commitment to aim to halve the disability employment gap by 2020.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	51840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>This Government’s commitment to halving the disability employment gap was set out in our Manifesto. We have seen almost 500,000 more disabled people in employment over the past three years. Over the same time we’ve seen the employment rate for disabled people increase by over 4 percentage points, where it now stands at 48 per cent.</p><p>We want to build on this. We are clear that sustained progress calls for action across the areas of welfare, employment and health. Although the Government has an important role to play in leading the way and facilitating change, everyone needs to play their part. That is why we have just published “<em>Improving Lives: The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper</em>”. It sets out the short-term action we intend to take to bring about change, alongside our intention to work with others to change perceptions and transform the culture around disability, health and work. The aim of the public consultation is to spark a proactive, wide-ranging and challenging conversation and build a consensus for change. It includes questions on proposals for longer-term reform over this Parliament and beyond, so that our systems, sectors and social attitudes all work together to help achieve the ambition of halving the disability employment gap.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/11/2016 15:55:02 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

628193

registered interest
date	03/11/2016
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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for people who successfully appealed their application for personal independence payments to receive a payment before being reassessed.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	51865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>We do not hold the information you have requested and this could only be collected and provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/11/2016 11:54:11 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

626730

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
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	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects that the goal of halving the disability employment gap will be achieved.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	51516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to halving the disability employment gap. We have seen almost 500,000 more disabled people in employment over the past three years. Over the same time we’ve seen the employment rate for disabled people increase by over 4 percentage points, where it now stands at 48 per cent.</p><p>We have a range of activity underway that is focused on the evidence gaps we have identified including access to services and levels of support we should offer. This will help us to develop new models of support to help people into work when they are managing a long term health condition or disability. We want all employers to be as supportive as possible so that everyone can go as far as their talents will take them.</p><p>But we know that there is much more that needs to be done, so that everyone who can work is given the right support and opportunities to do so.</p><p>This is why we have published “Improving Lives: The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper”. It sets out the short-term action we intend to take to bring about change. It also asks questions on proposals for longer-term reform over this Parliament and beyond, so that our systems, sectors and social attitudes all work together to help achieve the ambition of halving the disability employment gap.</p><p>Halving the gap is a long term project and although the Government has an important role to play in leading the way and facilitating change, everyone needs to play their part, which is why we are launching this consultation.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 51517 question first answered 04/11/2016 14:33:22 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

626731

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
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	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 change in the disability employment gap he expects between 2015 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	51517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to halving the disability employment gap. We have seen almost 500,000 more disabled people in employment over the past three years. Over the same time we’ve seen the employment rate for disabled people increase by over 4 percentage points, where it now stands at 48 per cent.</p><p>We have a range of activity underway that is focused on the evidence gaps we have identified including access to services and levels of support we should offer. This will help us to develop new models of support to help people into work when they are managing a long term health condition or disability. We want all employers to be as supportive as possible so that everyone can go as far as their talents will take them.</p><p>But we know that there is much more that needs to be done, so that everyone who can work is given the right support and opportunities to do so.</p><p>This is why we have published “Improving Lives: The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper”. It sets out the short-term action we intend to take to bring about change. It also asks questions on proposals for longer-term reform over this Parliament and beyond, so that our systems, sectors and social attitudes all work together to help achieve the ambition of halving the disability employment gap.</p><p>Halving the gap is a long term project and although the Government has an important role to play in leading the way and facilitating change, everyone needs to play their part, which is why we are launching this consultation.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 51516 question first answered 04/11/2016 14:33:22 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

626736

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
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	Employment and Support Allowance
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 ensure that all claimants suffering from any progressive and incurable condition will be exempt from employment and support allowance medical re-assessment.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	51496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>As announced on 1 October, we will stop requiring people with the most severe, lifetime conditions to be repeatedly assessed for their out-of-work benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Over the coming months we will work with our health assessment provider, medical professionals and other stakeholders to develop a set of criteria to switch off re-assessments for people with the most severe health conditions or disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 04/11/2016 14:22:21 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

626104

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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	Personal Independence Payment: Newham
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 personal independence payment applications from addresses in the London Borough of Newham were accepted at the first stage without submitting a mandatory reconsideration or appeal between April 2015 and October 2016.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	51223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>Breakdowns of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessment claims by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn), at the point of initial decision, are published online at https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk. This includes data on both the total number of PIP awards made and on such awards as a percentage of overall claims. It also includes breakdowns by month and by Local Authority.</p><p>These statistics run until July 2016. Figures are published on a regular basis and statistics for August to October will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 50929 51225 question first answered 03/11/2016 17:32:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

626105

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department's assessment contractors receive any penalty or fine when a claimant has been initially refused (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment and support allowance and is later awarded the relevant benefit on appeal at tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	51158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The role of contracted Assessment Providers is to carry out assessments on behalf of the Department. They do not determine whether a claim to Personal Independence Payment or Employment and Support Allowance is successful. They provide a report to DWP’s decision makers who then determine entitlement to benefit. No targets are in place as to how many applications are successful.</p><p>Where a need for additional support or training is identified, feedback is provided to the assessor and appropriate action taken.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 51156 question first answered 03/11/2016 16:49:18 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

626106

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants with (a) chronic disabilities and (b) illnesses were declared fit to work and had their ESA payments stopped in each month of (i) 2013, (ii) 2014, (iii) 2015 and (iv) 2016 to date.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	51157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p><br>Information in respect of Employment and Support Allowance work capability assessments can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 03/11/2016 16:58:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

626108

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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, whether his Department's assessment contractors received any (a) penalty, (b) bonus and (c) incentive to deny individual claims for (i) personal independence payment and (ii) employment and support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	51156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The role of contracted Assessment Providers is to carry out assessments on behalf of the Department. They do not determine whether a claim to Personal Independence Payment or Employment and Support Allowance is successful. They provide a report to DWP’s decision makers who then determine entitlement to benefit. No targets are in place as to how many applications are successful.</p><p>Where a need for additional support or training is identified, feedback is provided to the assessor and appropriate action taken.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 51158 question first answered 03/11/2016 16:49:18 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

626110

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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, what targets his Department's assessment contractors have for conducting (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment and support allowance assessments.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	51155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>Information on all the contractual targets, payments and penalties for Personal Independence Payment and Employment Support Allowance assessment contractors can be found on the Government’s Contract Finder website:</p><p>Atos Healthcare for PIP assessments in Northern England and Scotland – Lot 1<br>http://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/695721/</p><p>Capita for Central England and Wales assessments – Lot 2 <br>http://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/740844/</p><p>Atos Healthcare for PIP assessments in London, East of England and Southern England – Lot 3<br>http://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/695729/</p><p>Capita for Northern Ireland assessments – Lot 4<br>http://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/762330/</p><p>Health and Disability Assessment Service (ESA)<br>https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk:443/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&amp;lang=en&amp;NoticeId=1644334</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 03/11/2016 17:02:16 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy