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418523

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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: Disqualification
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 increase the frequency of the publication of statistics on sanctions for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance claimants.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	10015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We release them every 3 months. The Department has no plans to increase the frequency of the publication of statistics on sanctions for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance claimants.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 18/09/2015 12:24:07 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418274

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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, whether, on the enactment and coming into force of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, the Government plans for people with an existing condition who are reassessed for the employment and support allowance work-related activity group to be classified as new applicants.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no plans to treat existing ESA claimants as new applicants when they are reassessed for employment and support allowance following the enactment of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 13:01:15 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418275

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mental health champions are employed by Maximus in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK as part of the employment and support allowance work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), a MAXIMUS UK subsidiary, currently employs 28 mental health function champions. A telephone service is provided by these mental health function champions due to the large number, and varying size of Assessments Centres across England, Scotland and Wales. These staff provide the service across all parts of the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 13:02:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418276

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evaluation he has made of the effectiveness of the role played by mental health champions in the work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no formal performance measures around the role of the mental health champion.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:55:43 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418277

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many assessors employed by Maximus under their contract to conduct work capability assessments in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK have a mental health qualification.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The holding of specific mental health qualifications is not a DWP requirement for healthcare professionals conducting assessments. The information requested is therefore not readily available. However, the comprehensive training provided to all healthcare professionals includes the functional effects of a wide range of mental health conditions.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:53:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418278

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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, when he plans to commence the review of the work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Work on reviewing how assessments can be better geared towards helping to get people prepared for and into work, if and when they are ready for that, has already begun following the Secretary of State’s speech on 24 August.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:57:42 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

417808

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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: Disqualification
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 statistics his Department holds on sanctions applied to claimants of (a) job seeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance where the claimant is also in receipt of carer's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 11:31:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

416577

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Parents: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the rate at which small businesses can recover statutory maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave pay.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Small employers, defined as those who have paid £45,000 or less in gross national insurance in the preceding tax year, can recover all of the Statutory Maternity, Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Pay they pay out plus an additional amount in compensation for the employer’s share of the National Insurance Contributions (NICs) due on the statutory payments.</p><p> </p><p>The current rate of compensation paid to small employers is 3%. The Statutory Maternity Pay (Compensation of Employers) and Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations 1994 set out how compensation is calculated and, in addition, require it to be assessed annually which is done alongside the annual uprating of benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The rate derived for Statutory Maternity Pay is also applied to Statutory Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Pay.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/09/2015 15:54:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

416578

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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, with reference to his Department's document, Suicide and Self Harm Declarations - Appendix 2 (Six Point Plan), when that document was first issued to staff of his Department based in Glasgow and Bolton who are directly involved in the rollout of universal credit; how many times since that document was issued such staff contacted emergency services about a claimant according to the procedure set out in that plan; and how many times since that document was issued managers have conducted a review of an incident with such staff as stipulated by the Six Point Plan.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Operational Staff are specially trained to assist vulnerable individuals, including those with mental health issues; they are trained to look for signs of mental health issues and can refer individuals to our specialist staff and offer more information on available support on request. Staff are periodically reminded of the Suicide and Self-Harm policy that has been in place since April 2011 for all staff across the Department, including those Universal Credit staff at Glasgow and Bolton.</p><p> </p><p>Bolton Service Centre has contacted the emergency services twice with regards to Universal Credit claimants. Glasgow has contacted the emergency services zero times.</p><p> </p><p>As per the guidance, both Bolton incidents were reviewed and recorded appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/09/2015 13:30:21 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

416579

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Welfare Reform and Work Bill
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 conduct a cumulative impact assessment of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill for (a) carers, (b) women and (c) people in receipt of tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	8613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. These are available on the Parliament website.</p><p><a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html" target="_blank">http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/09/2015 15:59:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford