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1549408

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Pension Credit: Eligibility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will review the threshold to qualify for Pension Credit in the context of the increase in the level of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>Following the conclusion of the Secretary of State’s annual up-rating review, subject to Parliamentary approval, the Standard Minimum Guarantee in Pension Credit will increase by 10.1% from April 2023. This is in line with the increase in prices in the year to September 2022 and it will also extend CPI protection to those who rely on the Standard Minimum Guarantee in Pension Credit at a cost of £700 million above the statutory minimum requirement.</p><p>Other elements of Pension Credit will also increase by 10.1%, including the additional amounts for disabled people and carers, and the threshold for access to the Savings Credit for those who reached State Pension age before April 2016.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/12/2022 16:30:19 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1549411

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Winter Fuel Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that Winter Fuel Payments are made in a timely manner.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>The final batch of Winter Fuel Payments were processed by DWP on 7 December with payments credited to customers’ bank accounts on 12 December 2022. Payment adjustments resulting from customers’ change of circumstances and death arrears will continue to be made over the coming weeks, this includes any new claims for this year's Winter Fuel Payment exercise.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/12/2022 16:27:44 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1549472

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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: Sleep Apnoea
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 sleep apnoea applied for the Personal Independence Payment in the latest period for which data is available; and how many and what proportion of these people were successful in their applications (a) in total, (b) after a mandatory reconsideration and (c) after a tribunal appeal.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	105394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>This response requires analysis of data held by DWP on decision outcomes at different stages of the customer journey. This data covers cases where the initial assessment was completed between April 2013 and, June 2022, in line with published statistics. A Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants main disabling condition is recorded during their assessment and is not centrally recorded prior to this. Therefore, disabling condition information is not available for analysis of claims registered but not yet assessed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Volume and proportion of claimants with sleep apnoea who were successful in their PIP</p><p>application at initial decision, after a mandatory reconsideration, or after a tribunal appeal:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volume of Initial Decisions</p></td><td><p>3,220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Volume of Cases Awarded at Initial Decision</p></td><td><p>1,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Allowance Rate at Initial Decision</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Volume of MRs Changed</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MR Change Rate (% of initial decisions)</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Volume of Appeals Changed</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Appeal Overturn Rate (% of initial decisions)</p></td><td><p>6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Total number and proportion of claimants with sleep apnoea who were successful in their PIP applications throughout the entire customer journey:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Total Successful Claims After Full Customer Journey</p></td><td><p>1,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of Successful Claims</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Note:</strong></p><ul><li>Appeals data is taken from the DWP computer system’s management information. Therefore, this appeal data may differ from that held by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics;</li><li>Volumes have been rounded to the nearest 10;</li><li>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system;</li><li>Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics;</li><li>A change at appeal includes those that were overturned at a tribunal hearing, and those that were lapsed prior to a hearing;</li><li>A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged, but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing;</li><li>An overturn at appeal is when it is revised in favour of the customer at Tribunal.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/12/2022 12:17:27 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1549473

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Sleep Apnoea: Medical Equipment
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 provides financial support to people with sleep apnea who use a (a) continuous positive airway pressure and (b) bilevel positive airway pressure machine for the running of that device.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	105395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The department does not provide financial support for specific items to assist people with a health condition or disability as part of their daily living needs. Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment provide a contribution towards the extra costs faced by people with a long-term health condition or disability. These benefits are assessed on the needs arising from a condition, rather than the condition itself. Claimants in receipt of one of these benefits are free to choose how to use it according to their own priorities and needs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government understands the pressures people, including disabled people, are facing with the cost of living this winter, and has taken further action to support people with their energy bills. The Government's Energy Price Guarantee, running from October 2022 to March 2023, will save a typical British household around £900 this winter. This is in addition to the over £37bn of cost of living support announced earlier this year, which includes:</p><p /><ul><li>the £400 non-repayable discount to eligible households provided through the Energy Bills Support Scheme;</li><li>a Disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 to six million people in recognition of the extra costs they face, including with energy costs;</li><li>up to £650 in Cost of Living Payments for the eight million households in receipt of eligible means-tested benefits;</li><li>a one-off payment of £300 through, and as an addition to, the Winter Fuel Payment from November to pensioner households.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We have also announced further support for 2023-24 to support the most vulnerable households, including £26bn of new cost of living support and the uprating by 10.1% of benefits for working age households and disabled people, as well as the basic and new State Pensions.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/12/2022 16:03:45 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1549495

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Restart Scheme: Disclosure of Information
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 22 November 2022 on Question 86672 on Restart Scheme: Disclosure of Information, when he expects the Department to complete its plan to publish official statistics on the Restart Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	105317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>The department plans to release an ad hoc publication of official statistics for the Restart Scheme today.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/12/2022 15:38:14 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1549530

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Second State Pension Age Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the independent report on the Second State Pension age review.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	105553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>The independent report is currently being considered as part of a wide range of evidence that will inform the second Government Review of State Pension age. The Government Review will be published in early 2023, as announced at the Autumn Statement 2022. The independent report will be published alongside it.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/12/2022 16:35:18 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1549570

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Carer's Allowance and 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 people claim Carer’s Allowance in a household where someone else claims Employment and Support Allowance as of 06 December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	105446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/12/2022 16:56:34 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1549596

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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: Deductions
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 Answers of 6 December to Questions 97727, 97728 and 97729 on Social Security Benefits: Cynon Valley, how many recipients of social security payments were subject to one or more deduction; and what the (a) mean and (b) median monthly deduction was by each parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	105573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The information is provided in the attached spreadsheet, which shows the number of Universal Credit households in August 2022 who were subject to one or more deduction by each parliamentary constituency and the mean and median value of deductions by each parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes accompanying the data provided: </strong></p><p>1) The number of households per constituency are rounded to the nearest 100. The mean and median value of deductions has been rounded to the nearest £1. The sum of individual constituencies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.</p><p>2) Household level figures have been provided.</p><p>3) Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties which are reductions of benefit rather than deductions.</p><p>4) The ‘unknown' parliamentary constituency equates to 3% of all households and relates to households for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information.</p><p>5) August 2022 figures used in line with latest published statistics on Universal Credit Households Statistics.</p><p>6) Figures are provisional and subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>7) The methodology used is different to those used to derive the Official Statistics Household series and therefore, figures may not be comparable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/12/2022 12:24:20 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove attachment 1 file name Table 1.xlsx title Table 1
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1549612

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Carer's Allowance and Income Support
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 claim Income Support and Carer’s Allowance but do not live in a household where someone else claims Employment and Support Allowance as of 6 December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	105454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/12/2022 16:42:36 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1549686

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Pension Credit: Applications
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many claims for Pension Credit have been waiting for more than (1) two, (2) three, (3) four, (4) five, and (5) six, months for approval; and what percentage of applications this comprises.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL4083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott question first answered 21/12/2022 12:13:03 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann