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986393

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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
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 12 September 2018 to Question 171398 on Universal Credit, whether the data relating to additional costs to local authorities in excess of those already covered by new burdens and universal support funding has been published; and if she will place a copy of the data which her Department holds in Library.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	178531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>This information has been shared publicly and is quoted in the June 2018 NAO report. We issued a single extra payment totalling £4.7m, distributed across 67 Local Authorities to recognise additional costs in the early stages of roll out prior to October 2017, with a median payment of £35,249.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 13:40:23 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 79249 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

986400

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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: Hearing Impairment
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 with a primary disability of deafness or hearing impairment aged between 16 to 25 applied for personal independence payment in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	178504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>In the application process, claimants’ main disabling condition is only recorded for collation by the Department at assessment. It is not recorded at the point of application. The Department does not therefore hold data on the number of applicants to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) with a primary disability of deafness or hearing impairment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 178374 question first answered 22/10/2018 11:13:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 79250 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

986401

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications her Department has received from deaf people aged 16 to 25 for personal independence payments in the last 12 months; and (a) what the outcome of each claim was and (b) how many of those applicants have requested a mandatory reconsideration or appealed to the social security tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	178505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>In the application process, claimants’ main disabling condition is only recorded for collation by the Department at assessment. It is not recorded at the point of application. The Department does not therefore hold data on the number of all applicants or outcome of all applications to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for people with a primary disability of deafness or hearing impairment.</p><p> </p><p>For those who have undergone a PIP assessment, information on the number of initial decisions in 2017/18, and mandatory reconsiderations and appeals, for people aged 16 to 25 with a main disabling condition of a hearing disorder are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Initial decisions, mandatory reconsiderations and appeals</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Initial Decisions</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Awarded</p></td><td><p>620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disallowed</p></td><td><p>830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Withdrawn</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mandatory Reconsiderations</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Registrations</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clearances</p></td><td><p>400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Decision - Award Changed</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Decision - Award Unchanged</p></td><td><p>340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Decision Not Revised</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Withdrawn/<br> Cancelled</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Appeals</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receipts</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clearances</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Decision overturned</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Decision maintained</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data has been rounded to the nearest 10. Components may not sum to totals due to rounding.</p><p>'#' fewer than 5 decisions in this category.</p><p>The data relates to initial PIP decisions in 2017/18 and any MRs and appeals relating to those initial decisions recorded up to June 2018 (the latest published data on appeals). Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</p><p>PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for both new claims and DLA reassessment claims.</p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</p><p>Appeals data is taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this appeals data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.</p><p>Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.</p><p>Decisions overturned at appeal may include a number of appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal).</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 178375 question first answered 22/10/2018 11:22:24 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 79251 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

986422

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to increase the number of employers that sign up to the disability confident scheme.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	178456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Staff in the DWP Disability Confident team are working constantly to engage with employers, run events and support the scheme. We have recently been working with Jobcentre Plus districts in Devon &amp; Cornwall and South Yorkshire to identify new opportunities to engage with employers. The learning from this is currently being shared across Jobcentre Plus and should lead to a significant increase in employer sign-ups. Over 8,300 organisations are currently signed up to Disability Confident and this number continues to grow substantially.</p><p> </p><p>The Disability Confident Business Leaders Group (BLG), comprising senior leaders from significant British businesses across all sectors, helps to increase engagement with employers and encourage and support them on their Disability Confident journeys. The group promotes the business benefits of disability employment and works with DWP officials to identify any changes or developments that will improve the effectiveness of the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>In the public sector, with all main Government departments now signed up as Disability Confident Leaders we are turning focus on Local Authorities, Police, Fire Authorities and NHS Trusts. 75% of Local Authorities are already Disability Confident.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/10/2018 16:41:39 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

986424

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what budget her Department allocated to the disability confident scheme in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	178457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The DC scheme is delivered internally by DWP, using DWP staff and other internal resources. There is no external resources budget set for it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/10/2018 16:06:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

985635

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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: Hearing Impairment
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 with a primary disability of deafness or hearing impairment aged 16 to 25 applied for personal independence payments in the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	178374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>In the application process, claimants’ main disabling condition is only recorded for collation by the Department at assessment. It is not recorded at the point of application. The Department does not therefore hold data on the number of applicants to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) with a primary disability of deafness or hearing impairment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 178504 question first answered 22/10/2018 11:13:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 78985 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

985636

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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: 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 the outcome was of all applications that deaf people aged 16 to 25 made for personal independence payment; how many of those people (a) requested a mandatory reconsideration or (b) appealed to the social security tribunal; and what the outcome was of those (i) reconsiderations and (ii) appeals in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	178375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>In the application process, claimants’ main disabling condition is only recorded for collation by the Department at assessment. It is not recorded at the point of application. The Department does not therefore hold data on the number of all applicants or outcome of all applications to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for people with a primary disability of deafness or hearing impairment.</p><p> </p><p>For those who have undergone a PIP assessment, information on the number of initial decisions in 2017/18, and mandatory reconsiderations and appeals, for people aged 16 to 25 with a main disabling condition of a hearing disorder are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Initial decisions, mandatory reconsiderations and appeals</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Initial Decisions</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Awarded</p></td><td><p>620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disallowed</p></td><td><p>830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Withdrawn</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Mandatory Reconsiderations</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Registrations</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clearances</p></td><td><p>400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Decision - Award Changed</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Decision - Award Unchanged</p></td><td><p>340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Decision Not Revised</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Withdrawn/<br> Cancelled</p></td><td><p>#</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Appeals</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receipts</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clearances</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Decision overturned</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Decision maintained</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data has been rounded to the nearest 10. Components may not sum to totals due to rounding.</p><p>'#' fewer than 5 decisions in this category.</p><p>The data relates to initial PIP decisions in 2017/18 and any MRs and appeals relating to those initial decisions recorded up to June 2018 (the latest published data on appeals). Claimants who have received benefit decisions more recently may not yet have had time to complete the claimant journey and progress to appeal.</p><p>PIP data includes normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claimants, and is for both new claims and DLA reassessment claims.</p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</p><p>Appeals data is taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore this appeals data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.</p><p>Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.</p><p>Decisions overturned at appeal may include a number of appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal).</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 178505 question first answered 22/10/2018 11:22:24 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 78964 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

985717

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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, with reference to her recent appearance on BBC News at 12.53pm on 11 October 2018, what the evidential basis is for her statement that one million disabled people will get significantly more on universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	178388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>DWP’s internal analysis based on Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) figures, and applied to a fully rolled out position shows that 1 million people will receive an increase of £110 per month from Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Our figures reflect that there are disabled claimants on other benefits or currently receiving no benefit, and also that the final Universal Credit rollout date has subsequently changed since the OBR report.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 13:20:14 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 78973 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

985777

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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: Terminal Illnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has a fast track process to ensure that a claimant who has submitted a DS1500 receives the first Universal Credit payment within seven days; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	178221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department and the Universal Credit Programme have regular meetings with key stakeholders to understand how our policies are working and discuss potential areas for improvement. The design of Universal Credit for terminally ill claimants is based on the well tested processes that have been in place in Employment and Support Allowance, as have the documentation of illness requirements. We will continue to keep these under review to ensure that they work as effectively as possible.</p><p> </p><p>If the claimant does not have a DS1500 but is deemed as terminally ill then we will fast track the Work Capability Assessment process so that the report is provided within 48 hours.</p><p> </p><p>If a claimant has been diagnosed as terminally ill with a prognosis of 6 months or less and been provided with a DS1500 or one has already been provided, Universal Credit will automatically award the Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity element without the requirement to refer this for a Work Capability Assessment decision.</p><p> </p><p>All claimants are able to apply for an advance of their Universal Credit to ensure they do not face financial hardship whilst they are awaiting the assessment of their Universal Credit award.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/10/2018 11:03:36 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 78969 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

985780

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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: Terminal Illnesses
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 who have submitted a DS1500 form have waited (i) two weeks; (ii) three weeks; (iii) four weeks; (iv) five weeks or more to receive their first Universal Credit payment in the most recent twelve month period for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	178222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available, as it is not collated centrally, and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/10/2018 11:08:16 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 78971 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms