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1183380

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of personal independence payment assessors.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Anthony Mangnall
uin	901404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>We set our assessment providers challenging targets, we monitor performance closely and manage contracts robustly. All Health Professionals are subject to on-going quality checks to ensure they continue to deliver high quality assessments. A quality assurance audit process, following the consultation, is in place. The department is continually working alongside assessment providers to further improve the quality of assessments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/03/2020 16:25:55 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4762 label Biography information for Anthony Mangnall

1182674

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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	Occupational Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to respond to the consultation, Health is everyone’s business: proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss, which closed on 7 October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	25150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28 January 2020 to Question 7281 [<a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-01-23/7281/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-01-23/7281/</a>].</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/03/2020 16:07:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1182808

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
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: Medical Examinations
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 February 2020 to Question 12293 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations, when the approach to provide consistency for claimants across audio recording of work capability assessments and personal independence payment assessments will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	25186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Work is ongoing to develop the details of our approach and we will provide an update in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/03/2020 17:26:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1182352

registered interest
date	03/03/2020
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: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support more deaf young people into employment.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	24384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people, regardless of their disability, in work between 2017 and 2027. <strong>The DWP has a range of programmes and support to help disabled people, including deaf people. </strong></p><p> </p><p>These include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The <strong>Work and Health Programme</strong> which is designed to help people, particularly people with disabilities, who need extra tailored support to find employment. It will help 275,000 people over 5 years, including 220,000 disabled people.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The <strong>Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme</strong> which is a new, voluntary, contracted employment provision designed to help disabled people, who have complex needs or barriers and who want to work.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>Access to Work</strong> which offers eligible disabled people a grant of up to £59,200 per year to fund support above the level of reasonable adjustments, to ensure that their health condition or disability does not hold them back in the workplace. People who are deaf and hard of hearing are the largest group of users of Access to Work, and in 2018/19 Access to Work grants totalled £129m, of which £45.8m was in respect of this group.</li><li>Jobcentre Plus: Our Jobcentres offer tailored support from Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers, backed by the Personal Support Package which is a 4 year, £330 million package of employment support targeted at claimants with disabilities and health conditions.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In addition, through the <strong>Disability Confident scheme</strong>, we are also working with employers to change attitudes and create employment opportunities by enabling businesses to recruit and retain disabled people in their workplace. There are already over 16,500 employers signed up to Disability Confident scheme, and their number continues to grow.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/03/2020 15:58:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1182356

registered interest
date	03/03/2020
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the (a) accuracy and (b) efficiency of contracted out health assessments for claimants of (i) employment and support allowance and (ii) personal independence payment with severe hidden disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	24252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>We continually look to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the assessment service by working closely with Providers. We are committed to ensuring individuals receive high quality assessments as part of the suite of evidence used to decide entitlement. Providers are monitored against a range of measures, including through Independent Audit, to improve accuracy of the advice they provide.</p><p> </p><p>Assessment Providers are required to ensure Health Professionals carrying out assessments have knowledge of the clinical aspects and likely functional effects of a wide range of health conditions and impairments, including hidden disabilities affecting both physical and mental health. Health Professionals are also expected to explore and consider the hidden nature of some symptoms, such as fatigue and pain, during their assessments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/03/2020 16:00:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle