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1107740

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people with acoustic neuroma during the benefits assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	238665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>All Healthcare Professionals carrying out assessments are medically qualified and highly-trained practitioners in their own field and must have at least two years' experience following registration. They are subject to a rigorous recruitment process followed by a comprehensive training programme in disability assessment. The assessment is not a medical assessment requiring the Healthcare Professional to diagnose a condition and recommend treatment options. The focus is on ensuring Healthcare Professionals are experts in disability analysis, drawing on evidence supplied by the claimant and their GP or specialist clinical team, with knowledge of the likely functional effects of a wide range of health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>While preparing to undertake an assessment, Healthcare Professionals can access a wide range of clinical resources to research any conditions presented. This includes evidence based protocols, e-learning modules or case studies as well as keeping knowledge up to date through Continuous Professional Development.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/04/2019 16:23:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1107772

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many advance benefit payments have been made to people in Glasgow in each month from September 2018 to March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	238661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of UC Full Service advance payments made in each month in Glasgow since September 2018 for which data is available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Advance Created</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Advances</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-18</p></td><td><p><strong>110</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-18</p></td><td><p><strong>720</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-18</p></td><td><p><strong>1880</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-18</p></td><td><p><strong>2270</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-19</p></td><td><p><strong>3350</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-19</p></td><td><p><strong>3400</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>The Figures reflect that Universal Credit full service began rollout across Glasgow from September 2018, with the final site rolling out in November 2018. Nationally around 60% of new claims receive an advance.</p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10</p><p>Data is included for Advances paid to UC Full Service Claims made in the constituencies Glasgow North, Glasgow North West, Glasgow North East, Glasgow East, Glasgow Central, Glasgow South, Glasgow South West</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/04/2019 17:00:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1107773

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims for universal credit have been made in each month since September 2018 for (a) Glasgow and (b) Glasgow South West.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	238662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Statistics on Universal Credit claims by postcode can be found under the ‘Claims to Universal Credit’ dataset available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Statistics of those in receipt of UC by parliamentary constituency is also available on Stat-Xplore.</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 Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/04/2019 14:57:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1107806

registered interest
date	29/03/2019
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: Wales
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 29 March 2019 to Question 236387, if she will publish the number of people in each parliamentary constituency in Wales that have waited more than six weeks to receive benefit payments in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	238606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>For Universal Credit New Claims, no claimant has to go six weeks without receiving support, as advances, worth up to 100 per cent of a claimant’s indicative award, are available, if required and a two week ‘transitional housing payment’ is available to those claimants who were receiving Housing Benefit before they moved onto Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>In many cases where full payment is not made on time, it is due to unresolved issues such as: claimants not accepting their Claimant Commitment or passing identity checks, or having outstanding verification issues, such as housing costs and self-employed earnings. In order to support claimants to claim, we have taken steps to improve verification processes. For example, we have listened to feedback and built processes into the system to make it easier and quicker for people to verify their housing costs, for example through the landlord portal.</p><p> </p><p>Our latest published data shows that consistently around 85% of new claimants are being paid in full and on time.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table shows the number and proportion of UC New Claims who waited more than 6 weeks, of the claim being submitted, to receive full payment/part payment.</p><p> </p><p>The data in the table relates to New Claims where the first payment was due in November 2018.</p><p>All Claimants included in this table would have had access to an advance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/04/2019 17:29:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma attachment 1 file name New UC claims in Wales.docx title New UC claims in Wales
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1105833

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Poverty
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their commitment to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, what steps they are taking to ensure that people living more than 50 per cent below the poverty line in the UK are not left behind.
tabling member printed	Baroness Stroud
uin	HL14919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>This government is committed to delivering a sustainable long-term solution to poverty, by building a strong economy and ensuring that the benefit system works with the tax system and the labour market, to support employment and higher pay.</p><p>The Government does not publish data on those living more than 50% below the poverty line as comparisons of household income and expenditure suggest that those households reporting the very lowest incomes may not have the lowest living standards, meaning such a measure is likely to be unreliable.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions, through its Jobcentre Plus network and local delivery partners, provides support for vulnerable customers or those with complex needs to address barriers so that they can move forward with their lives.</p><p> </p><p>A report on progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda will be presented to the UN’s High Level Political Forum in July as part of the UK’s Voluntary National Review. The Department for Work and Pensions is leading work across Government to assess progress against the first of these goals: ‘End poverty in all its forms everywhere’.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 04/04/2019 16:27:51 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4546 label Biography information for Baroness Stroud

1105893

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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: Multiple Sclerosis
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 multiple sclerosis have made a new application for personal independence payments in each year since these payments were introduced; and how many of those people have received those payments in each nation of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	238400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances split by geographical area within Great Britain (region), by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) and by main disabling condition for both new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment claims for each month from the introduction of PIP in April 2013 to the last available data in January 2019, can be found at <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 use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Please note that a PIP claimant’s disability is not recorded until they attend an assessment so the Department does not hold data on how many claimants with a particular condition made an application for PIP. Data on the number of registrations (applications) to PIP each month from April 2013 to January 2019 is available on Stat-Xplore.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is only responsible for benefits in Great Britain. Social security benefits including PIP are a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and your questions regarding PIP in Northern Ireland should be directed at the Department of Communities in Northern Ireland who are responsible for PIP.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 238401 question first answered 04/04/2019 13:56:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1105894

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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: Multiple Sclerosis
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 multiple sclerosis in receipt of disability living allowance have been reassessed for personal independence payment in each year since those payments were introduced; and how many of those people have received those payments in each nation of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	238401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances split by geographical area within Great Britain (region), by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) and by main disabling condition for both new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment claims for each month from the introduction of PIP in April 2013 to the last available data in January 2019, can be found at <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 use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Please note that a PIP claimant’s disability is not recorded until they attend an assessment so the Department does not hold data on how many claimants with a particular condition made an application for PIP. Data on the number of registrations (applications) to PIP each month from April 2013 to January 2019 is available on Stat-Xplore.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is only responsible for benefits in Great Britain. Social security benefits including PIP are a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and your questions regarding PIP in Northern Ireland should be directed at the Department of Communities in Northern Ireland who are responsible for PIP.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 238400 question first answered 04/04/2019 13:56:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1105903

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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: Multiple Sclerosis
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 applications were (a) refused and (b) withdrawn in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	238405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clearances split by type of clearance (i.e. whether the claim was awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) for both new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment claims, each month from the introduction of PIP in April 2013 to the last available data in January 2019 can be found at <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 use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 12:11:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1105906

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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: Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to assess the level of in-work poverty in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	238406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>National statistics on the percentage of working age individuals in working families in low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. Figures on the percentage of working age individuals in working families in low income can be found in the link below, in table 5.11ts for relative low income, and 5.14ts for absolute low income, in the file “workingage-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2017-18-tables.ods”. These are split into before housing costs (BHC) and after housing costs (AHC).</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 14:12:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1105915

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Electronic Government: Dyspraxia
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 received feedback from Dyspraxics on the accessibility of its online platforms.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Universal Credit has been designed with accessibility in mind and we are committed to providing personalised support for all claimants. The Department commissioned an independent accessibility audit of our Universal Credit online service in September 2018 and will receive the final report and accessibility statement this Summer. We continue to provide training and process improvements so that we can maintain an excellent level of accessibility.</p><p> </p><p>Where claimants may struggle to access the Universal Credit online system, face-to-face support in Jobcentres is available to assist them in making and accessing their claim and claimants can also make a claim via the Freephone Universal Credit helpline.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 02/04/2019 14:08:12 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck