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453852

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
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	Welfare Reform and Work Bill: Social Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the provisions of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on social mobility.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	27677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government has carefully considered the impact of the tax and benefit reforms introduced in the Summer Budget, including those in the Bill, and are committed to improving social mobility.</p><p> </p><p>The Bill itself proposes a reform to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission to ensure its focus on this important issue. The new provisions on life chances recognise the crucial role of education in this respect, and the objectives of our welfare reforms are to promote employment, ensure people have the skills and the opportunities they need, make sure that work always pays, and allow people to keep more of what they earn.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 01/03/2016 16:25:13 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

453864

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
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	Work Capability Assessment: Staff
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) junior doctors, (b) consultants, (c) nurses and (d) healthcare assistants have been employed to undertake work capability assessments in each year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	27691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Data on Healthcare Professionals’ backgrounds has been recorded for statistical purposes since March 2015. The background of Healthcare Professionals has been recorded as either: Nurse; Physiotherapist; Doctor, or; Occupational Therapist.</p><p>From March 2015 to January 2016, CHDA employed 612 nurses; 66 physiotherapists and 147 doctors on average each month. Occupational therapists have been recruited from July 2015 and the average number employed each month to January 2016 was 10.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 01/03/2016 17:44:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

447950

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Severe Disability Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the financial effect on local authorities of removal of the severe disability premium.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	24311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>The fact that the severe disability premium does not feature within the structure of Universal Credit (UC) has no financial effect on Local Authorities. Under UC, the most severely disabled claimants will receive more targeted support.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/01/2016 10:25:03 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

423620

registered interest
date	23/10/2015
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of the delays in state pension payments to British citizens living abroad.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	13218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2015 answer text <p>Over 90% of International State Pension customer claims or change of circumstances are cleared within target. Those that are not cleared within these timescales reflect unavoidable delays that are a consequence of international postal services, additional work to ensure that evidence submitted is appropriate and robust and requirements to liaise with international authorities.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/10/2015 14:41:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

417823

registered interest
date	08/09/2015
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many representations he has received from hon. Members from the Conservative Party on the under-occupancy penalty.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	9434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2015 answer text <p>Representations regarding the removal of the spare room subsidy are received from Hon. Members of all parties, interest groups and members of the public.</p><p> </p><p>No central record is kept of the number of representations made, including those specifically made by individuals who identify themselves as members of the Conservative Party.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is therefore not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/09/2015 15:19:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

384886

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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	Statutory Sick Pay
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 made of savings accruing to the Exchequer from changes to the percentage threshold scheme for statutory sick pay scheme introduced on 6 April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The savings from the abolition of the Percentage Threshold Scheme (PTS) of £52M 2014/15 were reinvested to set up Fit for Work and provide a tax exemption of up to £500 per year per employee for medical treatments recommended by Fit for Work or an employer arranged occupational health service. This was based on an independent review[1] into sickness absence which found that PTS provided little incentive to tackle the causes of sickness absence and recommended the new approach.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Dame Carol Black and David Frost conducted an independent review in November 2011 of sickness absence in the UK</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181060/health-at-work.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181060/health-at-work.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 17:05:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

385164

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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 proportion of decisions on employment and support allowance applications have been overturned (a) at the mandatory reconsideration stage and (b) by tribunal in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on mandatory reconsiderations of benefit decisions was released on 17<sup>th</sup> December 2014. This was an ad-hoc release of experimental statistics on MR requests made between 28<sup>th</sup>October 2013 and 31<sup>st</sup> October 2014. It gives an overview of mandatory reconsideration requests across all benefits recorded on DWP’s operational systems, and a focused summary on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). This data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mandatory-reconsiderations-of-dwp-benefit-decisions-data-to-october-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mandatory-reconsiderations-of-dwp-benefit-decisions-data-to-october-2014</a></p><p> </p><p>DWP statisticians are looking to include statistics for the entire ESA Work Capability Assessment (WCA) process into the existing regular statistical publication, including information on Mandatory Reconsiderations outcomes. However before DWP is able to do this statisticians need to make sure that the data is accurate and fit for purpose and develop a robust methodology. When a decision has been made on improvements to the ESA WCA regular statistical publication we will pre-announce the improvements in accordance with the UKSA release protocols.</p><p> </p><p>The latest appeal statistics available, published by the Ministry of Justice, which includes data on ESA appeals received and cleared, can be found here at Tables 1.4 &amp; 2.7:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 16:20:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

385171

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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, what the average waiting time is for a claimant to receive repayment of benefits following a successful (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) appeal at tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	3912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information as requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2015 15:36:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

381915

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
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, with reference to the Fifth Report of the Work and Pensions Committee Session 2014-15, Benefits sanctions policy beyond the Oakley Review, HC 814, whether his Department plans to undertake a broad and independent review into benefit conditionality and sanctions.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	2975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 03 June 2015 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-05-27/170/" target="_blank">UIN 170</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 22/06/2015 14:33:44 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

350035

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
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, if he will (a) remove the two-week waiting period for non-vulnerable people to receive a hardship payment and (b) suspend sanctions for claimants with children and claimants with mental ill health.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	2075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In respect of (a), I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 9 June 2015 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=QuestionsWithAnswersOnly&amp;house=commons,lords&amp;dept=29&amp;uin=1243" target="_blank">UIN 1243</a></p><p> </p><p>In respect of (b), I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 5 June 2015 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=QuestionsWithAnswersOnly&amp;house=commons,lords&amp;dept=29&amp;uin=176" target="_blank">UIN 176</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 17/06/2015 15:49:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders