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437971

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have benefitted from the Government's extension of the Access to Work scheme to cover work experience placements in the last two years; and how the £2 million allocated to that initiative has been spent.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	19987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold official statistics to the standard of the National Statistical Authority and so are unable to provide this information.</p><br /><p>Access to Work supported 36,760 disabled people to take up or remain in employment during 2014/15 (up from 35,560 in 2013/14).</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 13:54:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

438094

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	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, for what reasons recipients of personal independence payments are called for reassessment.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	20024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment is designed to ensure decisions on entitlement, award lengths and timing of reviews are appropriate and evidence-based.</p><p>All ongoing awards, regardless of duration, will be reviewed periodically to ensure that the individual continues to receive the correct amount of benefit. Where we have sufficient evidence to do so, we will conduct a paper based assessment without the need for the claimant to attend a face to face assessment.</p><p>The claimant can also ask for a review if the daily living needs or mobility needs arising change.</p><p>Reviews can result in a higher or lower award or no change.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 14:04:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

438095

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	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 reassessments have been carried out for personal independent payments since the introduction of that payment.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	20025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of individuals on Disability Living Allowance that have been reassessed for Personal Independence Payment is available using Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore is available 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><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 14:09:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

438112

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	Assistance Animals
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 suitable training and accreditation for support dogs.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	19997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Standards for assistance dogs are maintained on the basis of a voluntary regulatory framework. There is no specific legislation for the regulation of assistance dogs.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 13:46:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

438113

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	Autism: Assistance Animals
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 extend the eligibility to apply for a registered assistance dog to adults with autism.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	19989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>There is no register of assistance dogs. Assistance dogs are provided by charities and private sector organisations some of which are accredited member organisations of Assistance Dogs International or the International Guide Dog Federation. These organisations are responsible for making decisions on who they supply with an assistance dog.</p><br /><p>Responsibility for deciding what treatment is best for patients rests with the doctors concerned who are required to exercise their clinical judgement, in consultation with the patient and informed by a patient’s medical history.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 13:43:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

438114

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	Housing Benefit
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 is taking to ensure that landlords receive rent from tenants who are in receipt of housing benefit.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	19891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Housing Benefit for claimants living in the social rented sector is paid direct to the landlord. Those renting in the private rented sector normally receive their benefit direct and are responsible for paying this over to their landlord. In certain circumstances the local authority can make direct payments to the landlord including when rent arrears of eight weeks or more have accrued and or when it would be in the best interest of the claimant to do so.</p><br /><p>Authorities are not required to make direct payments to landlords that are not a “fit and proper person” to receive it.</p><br /><p>The arrangements in Universal Credit allow for the housing costs element to be paid direct to the landlord where it is in the claimant’s or their families interests, including where the claimant is in rent arrears of the equivalent of two month’s rent.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 17:29:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

438122

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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	Food Banks
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 10 December 2015 to Question 18925, which visits referred to that (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department made included a visit to a food bank.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	19845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Ministers have conducted visits to food banks in various capacities, including in their roles as Members of Parliament.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 13:51:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

436340

registered interest
date	08/12/2015
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	Food Banks
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 Oral Contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions of 7 December 2015, Official Report, column 693, (a) which food banks he visited and (b) on which dates those visits took place in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	19086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Ministers have conducted visits to food banks in various capacities, including in their roles as Members of Parliament.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 14:36:50 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry