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1060567

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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	Personal Independence Payment: Blackpool
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 of waiting times for personal independence payment appeals on the wellbeing of claimants in Blackpool.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	220795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and DWP are very sensitive to the needs of people who may be affected by waiting times for tribunal hearings. Tribunal staff and judicial office-holders are trained accordingly, with HMCTS’ reasonable adjustments policy and practice applied where appropriate. Guidance on the policy is published on GOV.UK. If an expedited hearing is sought, or where the tribunal identifies a case which might benefit from an expedited hearing, a judge or caseworker will make a decision on the issue, taking all the circumstances of the case into account.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is appointing additional judges and panel members and generally taking forward initiatives with the potential to increase the capacity and performance of the tribunal, including listing more Personal Independence Payment appeals into each session. In the North West specifically, closer case management of cases ready to list has allowed many cases to be dealt with in advance of a hearing.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, DWP is reviewing its decision making and Mandatory Reconsideration processes with a view to reducing the number of appeals that need to be made. It is also working closely with HMCTS as it develops a new digital system which will enable speedier processing of appeals.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 15:59:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1060703

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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	Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness
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 12 February 2019 to Question 218200, how many personal independence payment assessments where a claimant had a diagnosis of a mental health disorder have resulted in no award in (a) the North-West and (b) England; and how many of those assessments were overturned at a mandatory reconsideration or appeal.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	220796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants with a primary disabling condition of psychiatric disorders – April 2013 to September 2018</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>North West</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disallowed post-referral to the Assessment Provider due to failing the assessment</p></td><td><p>309,110</p></td><td><p>49,310</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of these:</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change of award at Mandatory Reconsideration</p></td><td><p>17,470</p></td><td><p>2,650</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Decision overturned at appeal</p></td><td><p>29,710</p></td><td><p>4,120</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Since PIP was introduced 3.7m decisions have been made in Great Britain for all health conditions up to September 2018, of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned.</p><p>There are strands of work in progress to drive continuous improvement in the decision making process. This has included the deployment of approximately 150 Presenting Officers, who are presenting DWP’s case in a number of PIP and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) appeals.</p><p>Presenting Officers have a role in gaining valuable insight into Tribunals’ view of the Department’s processes - both at the original decision stage and at mandatory reconsideration - and why decisions may be overturned.</p><p>Their feedback is being directed to the relevant parts of the business in order to drive long term improvements to the claimant journey.</p><p>DWP is also running a series of tests exploring the different ways evidence could be gathered, and the quality of decision making.</p><p>The data has been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and covers new claims and DLA reassessment claims.</p><p> </p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</p><p>The geography relates to the origin of the claim (i.e. derived from claimant’s postcode).</p><p>The appeals may include decisions which are changed at MR, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal.</p><p>Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</p><p /><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 15:43:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1060827

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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	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, how frequently her Department re-assesses entitlement to personal independence payments (PIP) mobility element in cases where the individual has previously won their appeal against refusal to award PIP mobility element.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	220791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Reviews are a key part of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and ensure that not only do awards remain correct where needs may change but that we also maintain contact with the claimant.</p><p> </p><p>A PIP award, which can be paid at one of eight rates, will be reviewed periodically. Importantly, the length of an award is based on an individual’s circumstances and can vary from nine months to an ongoing award, with a light touch review at the ten-year point.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 15:53:33 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1059745

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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: Multiple Sclerosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people affected by multiple sclerosis in Scotland will be moved over from other benefits to universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	220184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The data requested is not available at this time.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 16:02:12 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1059746

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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: Multiple Sclerosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people affected by multiple sclerosis in Scotland claim universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	220185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 15:34:17 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1059762

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Work Capability Assessment: Dundee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average length of time is for a claimant to be referred to a work capability assessment by the Dundee service centre.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	220284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 15:30:50 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

1059830

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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	Natural Gas: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Annual Report of the Cross Government Group on Gas Safety and Carbon Monoxide will be published on the HSE website.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	220319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>HSE aims to publish the Annual Report of the Cross Government Group on Gas Safety and Carbon Monoxide on its website by the end of March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 14:39:34 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

1059893

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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: 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 proportion of universal credit claimants in the last 12 months had to complete a Work Capability Assessment as part of their application.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	220055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Statistics on Work Capability Assessments for Universal Credit are intended for publication in the near future as Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 220056 question first answered 18/02/2019 15:48:57 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1059894

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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: 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 the average waiting time is for universal credit applicants required to complete a Work Capability Assessment for that assessment to be carried out.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	220056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>Statistics on Work Capability Assessments for Universal Credit are intended for publication in the near future as Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 220055 question first answered 18/02/2019 15:48:57 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1057032

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
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	Personal Independence Payment: Blood Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claims where (a) the main disabling feature is haemophilia and (b) the claimant has been affected by contaminated blood received nil points or low points in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	218780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>With regards to (a), the Department publishes data on clearances (whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn), which can be broken down by month and by Main Disabling Condition (which includes Haemophilia A and Haemophilia B) in the PIP Clearances table at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore is here:</p><p><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><strong> </strong></p><p>Data on clearances is available from the date PIP was introduced in April 2013 to October 2018 and only those who attend an assessment will have a Main Disabling Condition recorded for them. Please note, contaminated blood is not a disabling condition on <br>Stat-Xplore but can be the cause of other disabling conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested on point scores (b) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/02/2019 16:08:53 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas