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536519

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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	Bakeries: Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what advice and guidance he has received from the Health and Safety Executive on reducing the level of occupational asthma in the baking industry.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	42856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>As the Minister with the responsibility for health and safety, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is focused on improving health outcomes in the food industry by working with stakeholders to implement a five year food manufacturing national strategy (2016-21) and this includes reducing cases of occupational asthma in bakeries and allied premises.</p><p>HSE is also inspecting bakeries and allied food manufacturing premises to determine how effectively worker exposure to flour dust is controlled.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2016 11:29:28 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

536520

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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, for what reason Motability is required to repossess a claimant's vehicle before mandatory reconsideration or appeals related to personal independent payment claim applications.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	42852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>Motability is an independent charitable organisation wholly responsible for the Motability scheme. It is therefore Motability’s decision whether to allow claimants to keep their vehicle during this period.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants are allowed to keep their vehicle for up to seven weeks following a decision that they are no longer entitled to PIP, with Mandatory Reconsiderations normally completed well before this. Most are also eligible for a £2,000 transitional support payment. Those who win their appeal can normally reapply for the scheme immediately, providing they repay this; otherwise, they can re-join after 6 months.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/07/2016 12:12:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

536521

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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	Whooping Cough: Vaccination
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 14 July 2016 to Question 42446, how many people have (a) claimed and (b) received payment under the vaccine damages payment scheme where one of the vaccines cited in the claim was one used for whooping cough.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	42829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>Since the inception of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, 4236 claims have been made where whooping cough is amongst the vaccines cited on the claim form. Of those, 710 resulted in an award. The figures include claims where whooping cough was administered as a single vaccination or as part of a combined vaccine e.g. DTaP/IPV (Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis/Whooping Cough and Polio). As previously advised it is not possible to state how many, if any, of the claims listed above were made specifically in relation to whooping cough.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2016 15:54:20 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

536189

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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 steps his Department takes to ensure that the level of functional impairment is adequately assessed to provide appropriate support for a claimant to obtain employment.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	42659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department introduced the independent audit of Work Capability Assessments in March 2015 in line with the start of the new Health and Disability Assessment Service contract.</p><p> </p><p>Audit has a central role in confirming that independent health professional advice complies with the required standards and that it is clear and medically reasonable. It also provides assurance that any approach to assessment and opinion given is consistent so that, irrespective of where or by whom the assessment is carried out, claimants with conditions that have the same functional effect will ultimately receive the same benefit outcome.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2016 13:22:29 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

536190

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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, if he will publish the evidence base for the choice of descriptors used in work capability assessments.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	42660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>Details of the evidence base and consultative group members involved in the development of the Work Capability Assessment can be found in the Transformation of the Personal Capability assessment reports of September 2006, February 2007 and November 2007.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090605153301/http:/www.workandpensions.gov.uk/welfarereform/pca.asp" target="_blank"><strong>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090605153301/http:/www.workandpensions.gov.uk/welfarereform/pca.asp</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 42709 question first answered 21/07/2016 13:25:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

536192

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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	Fit for Work Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Fitness for Work data his Department receives from GPs, collected under the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Statements of Fitness for Work) Directions 2015, is considered identifiable personal data by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	42639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The data collected under the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Statements of Fitness for Work) Directions 2015 will be non patient identifiable on extraction and anonymous on publication, and will not contain any personal information that can be used to identify individuals. Additional measures such as aggregation of disease codes and small number suppression will also be applied which means that, for published information, any number less than five will be replaced by a star.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/07/2016 16:36:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

536317

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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 assessment he has made of proposed changes to the work related activity group on the effectiveness of the assessment process.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	42665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>The change is not related to the work capability assessment process, which happens prior to a claimant being placed in the work related activity group. Therefore no assessment of the change on the effectiveness of the work capability assessment process has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/07/2016 11:49:09 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

536320

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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, which agents external to his Department (a) supplied and (b) analysed the evidence that his Department used to decide on the descriptors used for the work capability assessment.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	42709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>Details of the evidence base and consultative group members involved in the development of the Work Capability Assessment can be found in the Transformation of the Personal Capability assessment reports of September 2006, February 2007 and November 2007.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090605153301/http:/www.workandpensions.gov.uk/welfarereform/pca.asp" target="_blank"><strong>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090605153301/http:/www.workandpensions.gov.uk/welfarereform/pca.asp</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 42660 question first answered 21/07/2016 13:25:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

536321

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payments (PIP) have been rejected since the introduction of PIP; how many applications for PIP have been rejected in (a) Halton constituency, (b) Cheshire and (c) Merseyside in that period; and how many people in each of those three areas whose PIP applications were rejected successfully appealed against that rejection in that same period.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	42690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) registrations and clearances split by geographical area (local authority and parliamentary constituency) and by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of PIP appeals and their outcomes is published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). A link to the latest national level statistics published on 6 June 2016 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528235/main-tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528235/main-tables.xlsx</a> See table 2.7. However, the data is not published at lower geographical levels.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 42691 question first answered 18/07/2016 16:33:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

536322

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for personal independence payments (PIP) have been rejected since the introduction of PIP.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	42691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) registrations and clearances split by geographical area (local authority and parliamentary constituency) and by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) for both new claims and reassessed claims, can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of PIP appeals and their outcomes is published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). A link to the latest national level statistics published on 6 June 2016 can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528235/main-tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/528235/main-tables.xlsx</a> See table 2.7. However, the data is not published at lower geographical levels.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 42690 question first answered 18/07/2016 16:33:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg