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748549

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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: Glasgow South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants in Glasgow South West constituency were refused benefits due to the lack of access to an online resource to complete their claim in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	3148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Claimants are not refused benefits due to lack of access to an online resource with which to complete their claim. DWP offers free access to online resources within all Jobcentres. Where a customer does not have access to an online resource at home, we encourage use of our public access terminals, and also suggest other available free online resources to customers in local libraries or local partner organisations.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 13:08:40 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

748550

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claimants have been sanctioned in Glasgow South West constituency; and for what reasons in each month since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	3196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support and Universal Credit sanction decisions, by parliamentary constituency, is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 13:02:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

748558

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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 undertake a review of the effect of the abolition of the employment and support allowance work-related activity component on claimant poverty.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	3191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>There will be no cash losers among those who are already in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and we have laid regulations to protect existing ESA claimants, including those who temporarily leave the benefit to try out work and then return to ESA.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its assessment of the impacts of the change to the work-related activity component on 20 July 2015. <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/07/2017 10:47:37 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

748559

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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, how many claimants in the Employment and Support Allowance work-related activity group have dependants under the age of two.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	3192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>On 31 May 2015, the latest point at which this information is available, there were 10,600 Employment and Support Allowance claimants in the Work Related Activity Group, who were a parent or guardian to a child under the age of 2 years.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/07/2017 10:11:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

748560

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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, how many claimants in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group are also affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	3193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>At end-November 2016 there were 52,000 claimants in Great Britain in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group who had a deduction from their housing benefit due to the removal of the spare room subsidy. Discretionary Housing Payments are available to support vulnerable claimants requiring additional assistance with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/07/2017 13:59:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

748627

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether payments from the Grenfell Tower residents' discretionary fund are taken into account in calculating benefit entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	3194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>Payments from the Grenfell Tower Residents’ Discretionary Fund do not affect entitlement to any social security benefit.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 10/07/2017 14:03:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

748637

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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: Motor Neurone Disease
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 add motor neurone disease to the list of conditions that exempt a claimant of employment and support allowance from re-testing.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	3028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>There is no condition based entitlement to Employment Support Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with medical professionals and other stakeholders to develop functional criteria that will help us identify those with the most severe health conditions or disabilities, for whom repeat work capability assessments can be stopped.</p><p> </p><p>Rather than a list of specific medical conditions, the criteria will be based on identifying claimants with the most severe health conditions or disabilities where it would be unreasonable to expect the individual to undertake any form or amount of work or work-related activity. This change will only apply to those placed in the Support Group and UC equivalent.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 3077 question first answered 10/07/2017 10:20:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

748643

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Universal Credit: 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 disabled people are in receipt of universal credit in each region of England.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	3218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 3263 question first answered 10/07/2017 15:09:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

748644

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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	Universal Credit: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of disabled people who will be in receipt of universal credit in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	3263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 3218 question first answered 10/07/2017 15:09:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

748723

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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: Motor Neurone Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether claimants of employment and support allowance with motor neurone disease will continue to be subject to health reassessments.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	3077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>There is no condition based entitlement to Employment Support Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with medical professionals and other stakeholders to develop functional criteria that will help us identify those with the most severe health conditions or disabilities, for whom repeat work capability assessments can be stopped.</p><p> </p><p>Rather than a list of specific medical conditions, the criteria will be based on identifying claimants with the most severe health conditions or disabilities where it would be unreasonable to expect the individual to undertake any form or amount of work or work-related activity. This change will only apply to those placed in the Support Group and UC equivalent.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 3028 question first answered 10/07/2017 10:20:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker