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770091

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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 Access to Work reassessments have been conducted in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	107705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently published the following statistics on the number of people who have had Access to Work provision approved: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics have been developed using guidelines set out by the UK Statistics Authority and are new official statistics undergoing development. They have therefore been designated as experimental statistics. We plan to publish these statistics on an annual basis and will explore the feasibility of expanding their scope to cover other parts of the Access to Work customer journey such as Access to Work payments. Users are invited to comment on the development and relevance of these statistics at this stage and can send feedback to: <a href="mailto:access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk" target="_blank">access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk</a>. Your questions above will also be considered as part of the development of the statistics.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 107706 107707 107717 question first answered 18/10/2017 09:50:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

770092

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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 people who received support from the Access to Work scheme were assessed but did not receive an element for each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	107717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently published the following statistics on the number of people who have had Access to Work provision approved: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics have been developed using guidelines set out by the UK Statistics Authority and are new official statistics undergoing development. They have therefore been designated as experimental statistics. We plan to publish these statistics on an annual basis and will explore the feasibility of expanding their scope to cover other parts of the Access to Work customer journey such as Access to Work payments. Users are invited to comment on the development and relevance of these statistics at this stage and can send feedback to: <a href="mailto:access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk" target="_blank">access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk</a>. Your questions above will also be considered as part of the development of the statistics.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 107705 107706 107707 question first answered 18/10/2017 09:50:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

770093

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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 awards for Access to Work were (a) stopped and (b) reduced at review in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	107707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently published the following statistics on the number of people who have had Access to Work provision approved: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics have been developed using guidelines set out by the UK Statistics Authority and are new official statistics undergoing development. They have therefore been designated as experimental statistics. We plan to publish these statistics on an annual basis and will explore the feasibility of expanding their scope to cover other parts of the Access to Work customer journey such as Access to Work payments. Users are invited to comment on the development and relevance of these statistics at this stage and can send feedback to: <a href="mailto:access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk" target="_blank">access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk</a>. Your questions above will also be considered as part of the development of the statistics.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 107705 107706 107717 question first answered 18/10/2017 09:50:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

770094

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
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 Access to Work awards was for each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	107706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently published the following statistics on the number of people who have had Access to Work provision approved: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics have been developed using guidelines set out by the UK Statistics Authority and are new official statistics undergoing development. They have therefore been designated as experimental statistics. We plan to publish these statistics on an annual basis and will explore the feasibility of expanding their scope to cover other parts of the Access to Work customer journey such as Access to Work payments. Users are invited to comment on the development and relevance of these statistics at this stage and can send feedback to: <a href="mailto:access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk" target="_blank">access.toworkstatistics@dwp.gsi.gov.uk</a>. Your questions above will also be considered as part of the development of the statistics.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 107705 107707 107717 question first answered 18/10/2017 09:50:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

769764

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) people whose primary medical condition is difficulty in hearing and (b) other recipients of Access to Work grants (i) are still in receipt of awards above £42,800 during the transition period for the cap on awards and (ii) have been given awards at the level of the cap since its introduction in April 2015.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	107411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/10/2017 14:09:53 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

769765

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department has provided to Access to Work recipients whose grants will be reduced in April 2018 due to the end of the transition period for the cap on awards.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	107412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Access to Work customers identified as being affected by the award limit have been contacted each year by specialist advisers to review and discuss their needs and progress towards managing within the cap amount once their transitional protection ends.</p><p>Advisers have promoted workplace assessments and technological solutions; we will also be inviting affected customers to take part in a trial of Personalised Budgets in order to give grant recipients greater choice and control in meeting their needs from their grants.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/10/2017 14:00:39 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

769935

registered interest
date	12/10/2017
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: 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, with reference to the response by the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work of 12 September 2017 to the letter from the hon. Member for Edinburgh East, on stopping of repeated work capability assessments for people who have lifelong, progressive, degenerative or incurable conditions, how that status will be determined; and whether people with such conditions who are already in receipt of employment and support allowance will be required to undergo a further work capability assessment to determine that status.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	107522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>We will consider whether a claimant meets the criteria for stopping routine assessments as part of our existing WCA process, which involves assessing individuals against a set of functional descriptors to determine how their illness or disability affects their ability to work. The criteria are being considered as part of a claimant’s initial or next WCA.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/10/2017 14:07:09 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

769038

registered interest
date	11/10/2017
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, if he will request from the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments the details of how many claimants have requested a recorded employment and support allowance assessment.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	107116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of claimant requests for recording Employment and Support Allowance assessments is not available.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 16/10/2017 13:37:44 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

768205

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
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, what the current mean time is for a claimant to apply, be assessed and receive their first ESA payment.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	106976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The latest available information on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) clearance times can be found in table 18 of the ESA Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments quarterly statistics published here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 16/10/2017 13:41:15 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

768206

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
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, whether he has any plans to review the personal independence payments assessment criteria.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	107039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>There are no current plans to review the Personal Independence Payment assessment criteria.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/10/2017 11:00:42 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock