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1669216

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
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, what the average time taken was for his Department to respond to enquiries about Personal Independence Payments in the period between June 2023 and September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	1384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>Enquiries relating to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can come through various channels and relate to many different areas of work. An enquiry could be made for a range of reasons and could involve several contacts or multiple requests. For these reasons we are unable to provide an average response time.</p><p> </p><p>For telephony enquiries we operate a service where most enquiries are handled at the point of contact in real time by our Case Workers on the PIP enquiry line. Some enquiries will be forwarded (transferred) to more experienced colleagues or specialists, and in a very small number of cases a call back may be needed.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 21/11/2023 15:04:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1655973

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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 it is his Department's policy to conduct face-to-face interviews for Personal Independence Payment cases.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	195801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Where there is sufficient available evidence, Personal Independence Payment assessments are carried out via a paper-based review, without the need for a formal consultation. Health professionals can also seek additional information from claimants, GPs, or other supporting health professionals, where this might help them complete a paper-based review.</p><p> </p><p>If a consultation is required this can be completed either face-to-face, via telephone, or via video call, and assessment providers will aim to identify claimants who need a specific assessment type.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 15:43:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1656515

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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 and what proportion of personal independence payment reassessments due to take place in 2022 were outstanding on 1 September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	196344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Award Reviews cleared or outstanding after April 2023 cannot be released as PIP data after this point is intended for publication at a future date. <strong><em>    </em></strong></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 15:03:01 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1656861

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of PIP descriptors for the assessment of people with fluctuating conditions.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	196550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment criteria account for fluctuations by considering an individual’s ability to undertake 12 specific daily activities over a 12-month period.  It is essential for the assessment to accurately reflect the impact of variations in an individual's level of impairment - this is important for all health conditions and impairments, not only those which more typically fluctuate. For each activity, if a descriptor applies more than 50 per cent of the time, that descriptor should be chosen.</p><p> </p><p>All health professionals are required to assess individuals in line with the statutory requirements, including: whether an individual can complete each of the 12 activities; the manner in which they can do it; and whether they can complete each activity “safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly and in a reasonable time period”.</p><p> </p><p>Many of the changes set out in Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper aim to improve our assessment of fluctuating conditions, such as the way we use medical evidence, and developing the capability of our assessors. We will also explore options for introducing a new way of gathering evidence of fluctuation in a person’s condition before their assessment.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 197202 question first answered 07/09/2023 15:05:45 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1656875

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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 people stopped receiving the Personal Independence Payment in each month between April 2022 and August 2023.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	196563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2023 answer text <p>Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) cases after April 2023 cannot be shared as the information is intended for publication at a future date. The department does not make any indication of the statistics public ahead of release.</p><p> </p><p>Table (a) below shows the number of people who stopped receiving PIP in each given month from April 2022 to April 2023.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table (a) – people who stopped receiving PIP by month</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-22</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>11,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-22</p></td><td><p>11,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-22</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-22</p></td><td><p>11,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-22</p></td><td><p>11,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-22</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-22</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-22</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-23</p></td><td><p>13,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-23</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-23</p></td><td><p>17,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-23</p></td><td><p>17,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Source:</strong> PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS)</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and may be subject to future revision;</li><li>Figures are for England and Wales only;</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 1000;</li></ul><ul><li>Claims are classed as ceased where they were on the caseload on the last day of the previous month but are not on the caseload at the end of the stated month;</li><li>These data include claimants whose claim ceased as the result of an Award Review, Change of Circumstances or the claimant’s death as well as for other reasons. Claimants may see their PIP claim reinstated at a later date as a result of a mandatory reconsideration or appeal;</li><li>PIP data includes claimants awarded both under normal rules and special rules for terminally ill claimants;</li><li>Claimants receiving PIP include those whose claims are in payment and those whose payment is suspended or part-suspended.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/09/2023 10:24:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1656882

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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, what the legal basis is for the requirement that a Personal Independence Payment claimant must have fluctuating symptoms present for 50% of a month to receive financial support.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	197204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Regulation 7 of the PIP 2013 regulations sets out the legal requirements relating to assessments for those with a fluctuating condition; this is reflected in the PIP Assessment Guide.</p><p> </p><p>For each activity, if a descriptor applies on more than 50 per cent of the days in a 12-month period, that descriptor should be chosen. In general, health professionals should record function over an average year for conditions that fluctuate over months, per week for conditions that fluctuate by the day, and by the day for conditions that vary over a day.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 14:37:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1656903

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the backlog in Personal Independence Payment reviews.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	196571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring people can access financial support through Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in a timely manner. We prioritise new claims, while ensuring</p><p>claimants awaiting award reviews remain in payment until we can make a decision.</p><p> </p><p>We always aim to make an award review decision as quickly as possible, considering the need to review all available evidence, including that from the claimant.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, and in order to improve the service across all PIP activities, we are also:</p><p> </p><ul><li>using a blend of phone, video and face-to-face assessments to support customers and deliver a more efficient and user-centred service;</li><li>increasing case manager and assessment provider health professional resource;</li><li>making decisions on award reviews where it is safe to do so, without the need to refer the review to an Assessment Provider.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Claimants are asked to contact us if their condition changes so their review can be looked at more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 196346 question first answered 07/09/2023 14:39:21 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1648472

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
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 made a recent assessment of the (a) effectiveness of systems and (b) potential pressures on his Department's phonelines during summer 2023 of requirements to notify his Department of trips abroad by claimants of the Personal Independence Payment.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	191600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>Claimants are expected to contact the DWP if their circumstances change, including notification of periods abroad. Periods abroad may affect a claimant’s entitlement to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), so we need to know the date a claimant is leaving the country, how long they are planning to be out of the country, which country they are going to, and the purpose of the visit.</p><p> </p><p>We have record levels of demand for PIP, and in turn this has increased pressure on the PIP Helpline. To meet this additional demand, significant recruitment activity has been taking place which is having a positive impact on calls answered and wait times.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 04/07/2023 09:52:05 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1644138

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
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 his Department has made a recent equality impact assessment on the Personal Independence Payment in the context of the ethnicity of people who have been awarded that payment.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	189325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>The Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) places a legal duty on the DWP to consider how its decisions impact differently on different people and in particular those with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. While an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is not a legal requirement of the PSED, it is one of the ways a department can demonstrate consideration of, and compliance, with its duty.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to the introduction of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), an EIA, including against ethnicity, was completed which can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-living-allowance-reform-equality-impact-assessment" target="_blank">Disability Living Allowance reform – equality impact assessment - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. EIAs are carried out in relation to significant proposals or changes to PIP, the most recent of which was in 2022. The Family Resources Survey, published annually, also contains ethnicity data by benefit, including PIP.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/06/2023 11:29:39 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1641389

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2023 to Question 125421 on Personal Independence Payment, in what ways elements of the Personal Independence Payment claims process have been adapted to provide further support for this group.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	187379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>Where claimants are considered to require additional support, elements of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims process are adapted to provide further support. This includes help filling in the form and protections for failing to return the questionnaire, or for failing to attend an assessment. Claimants who require additional support to engage with the PIP application process are guaranteed to have an assessment if they fail to return their PIP2 questionnaire.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/06/2023 13:30:05 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft