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101498

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
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 information about how disabled people can make an application to personal independence payment by email or letter is included in all correspondence and publicity about this benefit.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Details of how to claim Personal Independence Payment are included in the PIP leaflet and are also published on GOV.UK. There is not yet a secure facility to allow claims to be made by email but this is part of our future plans.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 15:13:34 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

93870

registered interest
date	16/10/2014
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 have received compensation payments from his Department for delays to assessment and decisions for personal independence payments; and how much his Department expects to pay out in such compensation in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	210907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The reasons for making special payments are not routinely recorded and to provide the requested information would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 23/10/2014 16:37:45 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

91221

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
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 the costs of administering and providing personal independence payment decisions are monitored and value for money reviewed for improvement.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	208739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>We keep the costs under continuous review and this information will be used to support the future development of unit cost benchmarks.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 12/09/2014 10:14:16 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

91223

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
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 estimate he has made of the average cost of a personal independence payment decision, including assessment costs and departmental administration.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	208738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The costs of administering the PIP assessment process were published in the NAO report in February 2014.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 12/09/2014 09:54:14 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

90572

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
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 has taken to ensure that the personal independence payment application process is accessible to deafblind people who are unable to make a claim over the telephone or complete paper forms.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	207966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The claim process for Personal Independence Payment has been developed involving claimants and people who support disabled people:</p><ul><li>·We have met with organisations which represent individuals with sensory impairments on several occasions, including Sense and Deafblind Scotland.</li></ul><ul><li>The Implementation Stakeholder Forum was consulted during the development of the process.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The initial claim will be taken over the telephone. If required someone else can call on the claimant’s behalf to help them make the call. The claimant needs to be present when the call is made.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that for some individuals with sensory impairments, attending a consultation at an unfamiliar location could create an element of anxiety. We have made it very clear that when attending a face-to-face consultation individuals will be able to bring with them a relation, friend or possibly a professional who supports them, in order to support them or help them manage any anxiety they may feel. In some cases we will also carry out consultations in the individual’s home.</p><p> </p><p>Claim forms, the initial contact, paper guidance and general information is available in a range of formats including large print, braille, audio and British Sign Language. Additionally if a specialist interpreter is required we would seek to provide one.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 10/09/2014 13:37:19 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

66224

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
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 10 June 2014, Official Report, column 126W, on personal independence payment, and with reference to the National Audit Office report, Personal Independence Payment: early progress, how his Department plans to recoup the £140 million shortfall in benefit savings estimated in that report while delivering the PIP reassessment programme within its original timescales and budget.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	204224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We still plan to complete the process of having invited all eligible disability living allowance claimants to claim personal independence payment (PIP) by late 2017. Therefore, our overall assessment of the impacts of the introduction of PIP hasn't changed. We are still on course to make savings against earlier forecasts of £2.8 billion by 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/07/2014 16:42:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65800

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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 the contracts for personal independence payment assessment providers include performance related incentives or penalties; whether such measures have been used; and what the financial value of those measure is.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	203930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP's Personal Independence Payment (PIP) contracts are output based contracts which include a range of remedies for underperformance against a range of performance measures, including financial penalties in the form ofservice credits which the Department can apply as appropriate. Service credits have been applied to the contracts. Current details of the value of any service credits applied under the contracts are commercially confidential.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:28:25 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65018

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make legislative proposals to amend the Care Act Part 1 regulations to ensure that the definition of assistance in the eligibility criteria for access to care and support is consistent with the definition of assistance in existing personal independence payment regulations.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	203278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 includes a power to make regulations to set the national eligibility criteria for adult care and support. The national eligibility threshold will provide a similar level of access to care and support when we move from the current system to the reformed system in April 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is currently consulting on the draft regulations and statutory guidance that will support the implementation of the Care Act. This includes the draft eligibility regulations which set the level of the threshold, and your comments will be considered when we finalise the regulations. The public consultation started on 6 June and runs until 15 August 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 08/07/2014 15:09:46 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65094

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
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 specific steps the Department took to reduce the delays to personal independence payment (PIP) claimants using special rules; and when PIP claimants using normal rules will benefit from efforts to reduce waiting times.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	203392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>So far we have introduced:</p><p> </p><p>• A dedicated phone service with specially trained staff;</p><p><br> • An electronic transfer of information between a claimant's health professional, DWP and assessment providers.</p><p><br> • Trialling a new process to enable decisions to be made in-house with support from health care professionals</p><p><br> • Clearer guidance for DWP staff</p><p><br> We are absolutely committed to reducing the delays. By the Autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.&quot;</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 14:00:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65095

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
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 his Department's target time is for people to receive an accurate decision for claiming the personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	203393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>There are no legal requirements to complete action on a claim to PIP within a specified time, but we continue to monitor how long the claimant journey is taking and implement measures to speed up the process.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 14:10:36 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green