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1355106

registered interest
date	13/09/2021
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, what assessment her Department has made of whether there has been a change in the average time taken to process Access to Work payments in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	48133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2021 answer text I refer to my response to <a href="https://dwp.ecase.co.uk/view_case?case_ref=PQN/21-22/2021/73119" target="_blank">PQN/21-22/2021/73119</a>21-<p> </p><p>Access to Work aim for customers to be paid within 10 days of receipt of claims and all supporting evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Following postal delays during July and August, we are seeing payment clearance times returning to normal levels.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/09/2021 14:59:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1353853

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
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, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken for beneficiaries to receive their Access to Work payments.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	45038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2021 answer text <p>Access to Work aim for customers to be paid within 10 days of receipt of claims and all supporting evidence. During July and August postal delays held up payment claims being received into DWP.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced scanning of all claims on day of receipt improving payment times, and Access to Work are also developing a digital claim portal which will allow customers to submit their claim online and upload any supporting information. We expect to start testing this with some customers in December 2021.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/09/2021 15:30:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1352997

registered interest
date	06/09/2021
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, what the average length of time is for beneficiaries to receive Access to Work Payments in each of the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	43384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2021 answer text <p>The average length of time for beneficiaries to receive Access to Work Payments in each of the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/09/2021 14:02:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1348632

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Carer's Allowance
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 currently receive carers allowance.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	36512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>As of November 2020, there were 937,000 people claiming Carer’s Allowance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2021 16:46:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1348634

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people currently eligible to claim carers allowance.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	36513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of people that (a) have an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance and (b) receiving a payment for Carer’s Allowance by Parliamentary constituency is published and available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2021 16:52:06 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1346297

registered interest
date	13/07/2021
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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who would be eligible to claim carers allowance if the hours of care requirement are reduced from 35 hours to (a) 30 hours, (b) 25 hours and (c) 20 hours.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	32281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p>The threshold of providing at least 35 hours care a week has been in place since Carer’s Allowance (CA) was first introduced in 1976, and has been maintained by successive Governments as a reasonable point at which many carers would find it difficult to combine their caring responsibilities with a full-time job.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made any estimates of how many additional people would become entitled to CA if the number of hours of care required to be provided were reduced.</p><p> </p><p>There is support for those caring for less than 35 hours a week in the benefit system - including Carer’s Credits and changes to jobsearch requirements in Universal Credit which can be tailored to reflect caring responsibilities. (Carer’s Credits can be awarded to those providing care for over 20 hours a week, helping carers maintain their National Insurance records, thereby protecting their State Pensions, regardless of whether or not they are also working.)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/07/2021 12:56:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1248458

registered interest
date	03/11/2020
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	Carer's Allowance
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 are (a) entitled to receive and (b) receiving carer's allowance, in the latest period for which data is available, by Parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Ed Davey
uin	110722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2020 answer text <p>As of February 2020, there were around 1070 carers in the Kingston and Surbiton constituency that were receiving Carer’s Allowance and in 2019/20 we spent approximately £3.8 million on Carer’s Allowance there. A further 310 carers had a claim to an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on the number of people that (a) have an underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance and (b) receiving a payment for Carer’s Allowance by Parliamentary constituency is published and available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p><p /><p>The latest information on benefit expenditure by parliamentary constituency including Carer’s Allowance is also published and available at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920543/benefit-expenditure-by-parliamentary-constituency-2019-20.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/920543/benefit-expenditure-by-parliamentary-constituency-2019-20.xlsx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/11/2020 14:26:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey