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752828

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
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	Office for Nuclear Regulation: Euratom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Exiting the EU and (b) Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the implications of leaving Euratom for the Office for Nuclear Regulation; and on what dates those discussions took place.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	5156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The nature of future arrangements with Euratom and the EU will be subject to negotiation. Our aim throughout the negotiations with the European Commission will be to maintain our mutually successful civil nuclear cooperation with Euratom and the rest of the world. The scope of these arrangements will determine the cost and will not necessarily consist of an exact replication of the Euratom nuclear safeguards regime.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Exiting the EU to ensure that the Office for Nuclear Regulation will be in a position to take on the role and responsibilities required to meet our international safeguards, and nuclear non-proliferation, obligations.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/07/2017 13:34:58 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

749506

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
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: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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 (a) applied for and (b) received employment and support allowance for inflammatory bowel disease in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	3518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Inflammatory bowel disease is a term commonly used to refer either Crohn’s disease or Ulcerative Colitis. The available information is shown in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of individuals making an initial claim to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) whose main disabling condition was recorded as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, Great Britain, 2014 - 2016</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Year of ESA claim start</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Initial ESA<br> claims</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>2,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 (Jan - Sep)</strong></p></td><td><p>1,800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Number of individuals assigned to the ESA Support Group or the ESA Work Capability Group following their Work Capability Assessment (for initial, repeat or IB reassessment claims), whose main disabling condition was recorded as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, Great Britain, 2014 - 2016</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year of ESA claim start </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Initial ESA<br> claims</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Repeat ESA<br> assessments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>IB<br> reassessments</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 (Jan - Sep)</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Source for Tables 1 and 2:</strong> Application data is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by the Healthcare Provider.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes for Tables 1 and 2:</strong></p><ol><li>The figures are rounded to the nearest 100. – denotes figures that are zero or less than 50.</li><li>The information for 2016 is provided up to September 2016 only; this is the latest data available at time of request.</li><li>An individual may have made more than one ESA claim or assessment in any given year. These individuals will only be counted once in each of the figures provided.</li><li>The primary medical condition recorded on the claim form does not itself confer entitlement to ESA. So, for example, a decision on entitlement for a customer claiming ESA on the basis of Crohn’s disease or Ulcerative Colitis would be based on their ability to carry out the range of activities assessed by the work capability assessment.</li></ol> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 10:23:43 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

749509

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
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: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure employment and support allowance and personal independence payment assessments take greater account of the complexities of inflammatory bowel disease.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	3578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Health Professional is not required to diagnose a condition or to recommend treatment options. Instead it requires the Health Professional to look at the impact the condition or impairment has on a claimants’ daily life. This requires very different skills from those involved in the diagnosis and treatment of their patients, with less need for specialist knowledge on diagnosis and treatment.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Work Capability Assessment is a functional assessment which focuses on what an individual can do, rather than assuming that their health condition or disability automatically means they can’t work.</p><p> </p><p>The assessment for Personal Independence Payment focuses on a claimant’s ability to carry out a range of activities which are fundamental to living an independent life. It is designed to help working age people with the extra costs associated with their disability.</p><p> </p><p>All the assessment providers are committed to continuous improvement to support a more consistent application of the assessment process. In addition, the Providers frequently engage with medical experts, charities and relevant stakeholders to strengthen review and update training programmes for all their assessment staff.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 10:43:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

749510

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
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: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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 (a) applied for and (b) received personal independence payments support from his Department related to inflammatory bowel disease.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	3579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The requested information for the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications for people with inflammatory bowel disease is not available because information on PIP claimants’ disabling conditions is not collected at the initial claim application stage.</p><p> </p><p>The number of people in receipt of PIP with a main disabling condition of inflammatory bowel disease is 5,100, as at the 30<sup>th</sup> April 2017 and has been published at the following link. Please see the tables “Personal Independence Payment: Detailed medical condition, April 2017 caseload” and filter by ‘Inflammatory bowel disease on the subgroup category. This publication is updated quarterly.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2017</a></p><p> </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. Therefore, there may be other claimants in receipt of PIP who have been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease who are not captured in the data.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2017 10:48:10 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

678740

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
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 number of people excluded from auto-enrolment as a result of the introduction of the three-month waiting period in the Pensions Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	61622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>The 2011 Pensions Act implemented workplace pension reform measures from the independent Making Automatic Enrolment Work Review which sought to simplify the automatic enrolment process. One of these measures was the introduction of the option of waiting periods for the automatic enrolment of workers into a workplace pension. This helps to reduce burdens on employers by allowing them the flexibility to postpone automatic enrolment if they have temporary or short-term staff who will stop working within three months, need to align automatic enrolment with their other business processes (e.g., payroll), or for any other business reason, while balancing the risk of individuals being excluded from pension saving for extended periods of time.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note, however, that workers can still ask to join the employer’s workplace pension scheme during the postponement period. Indeed, an IFS study published in November 2016 found evidence of a particularly large increase in workplace pension membership among those who have been with their employer for less than 3 months, of 20 percentage points. <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/research%20summaries/auto_enrolment_1116.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/research%20summaries/auto_enrolment_1116.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/02/2017 15:07:17 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

520951

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	Pensions: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve take-up of the Pension Wise guidance service.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	38024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2016 answer text <p>Since launch, there have been over 2.4 million visits to the Pension Wise website and over 61,000 appointments, with the latest data showing a record number of appointments in March. To drive awareness of the service, Pension Wise has run three national marketing campaigns across TV, radio, print and digital media, the latest of which finished in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, pension providers are required to signpost to Pension Wise when issuing retirement wake-up packs and Pension Wise guiders engage with local businesses and services to further raise awareness of the service.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that people should have the freedom to access information in a way that is suitable to them.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/05/2016 10:37:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

516002

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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	Universal Credit
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 effect of the reduction of work allowances under universal credit announced in the Summer Budget 2015 on the number of children living in relative poverty in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	35664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to working to eliminate child poverty and improve life chances for children. Work remains the best route out of poverty, and Universal Credit is designed to strengthen incentives for parents to move into and progress in work. Early evidence shows claimants move into work significantly faster than under the current system. In addition, Universal Credit now provides for 85% of childcare costs meaning more support for hardworking families.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 04/05/2016 10:15:44 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

444564

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Workplace Pensions
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 number of people who do not qualify to be auto-enrolled into a pension because their qualifying earnings are achieved by income from more than one job.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	22296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s estimate of this figure can be found in <em>Workplace pensions: Update of analysis on Automatic Enrolment</em>, DWP, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/460867/workplace-pensions-update-analysis-auto-enrolment.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/460867/workplace-pensions-update-analysis-auto-enrolment.pdf</a></p><p>Automatic enrolment was designed to help more people save for their retirement, including lower earners and those with more than one job. We want to ensure that as many people as possible have the opportunity to save for retirement, and we have seen great success in this so far. However, we need to strike a balance between ensuring as many people as possible have access to saving, and administrative simplicity for employers.</p><p>Workers earning more than £10,000 a year (£192 a week) and aged between 22 and state pension age must be automatically enrolled by their employer. Workers who do not qualify for automatic enrolment and who are aged between 16 and 75 years can choose to opt-in to a workplace pension scheme; and if the worker earns more than £5,824 a year (£112 a week) they will be entitled to a mandatory contribution from their employer.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/01/2016 14:58:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

433146

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Welfare Tax Credits: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the effect on the income of an existing tax credit claimant in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20 of changes announced to tax credits and the universal credit rollout in the Summer Budget 2015 and the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	18226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>At the summer budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s commitment to move the UK from a high tax, high welfare, low wage society to a lower tax, lower welfare, higher wage society. This remains the case, and Universal Credit (UC) is delivering this.</p><p>UC is a fundamentally different benefit to the legacy benefit system and provides people with support into, and to progress in work.</p><p>Therefore there is no meaningful way of comparing an unreformed Tax Credit system with Universal Credit. The Government has committed to transitional arrangements as we reform the benefits and Tax Credit system. Those transferred by DWP from tax credits to UC will receive Transitional Protection. In addition, estimates of entitlements under UC of the sort requested will vary depending on assumptions on the level of earnings.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 17934 17936 18169 18170 18171 18172 18173 18174 18175 question first answered 08/12/2015 17:37:08 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 33679 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

433149

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Welfare Tax Credits: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the effect on the household income of an existing tax credit claimant family with one earner and three children in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20 of proposed changes to tax credits, assuming they are migrated to universal credit at the start of 2018 and experience a change in circumstance and lose their transitional arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	18172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>At the summer budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s commitment to move the UK from a high tax, high welfare, low wage society to a lower tax, lower welfare, higher wage society. This remains the case, and Universal Credit (UC) is delivering this.</p><p>UC is a fundamentally different benefit to the legacy benefit system and provides people with support into, and to progress in work.</p><p>Therefore there is no meaningful way of comparing an unreformed Tax Credit system with Universal Credit. The Government has committed to transitional arrangements as we reform the benefits and Tax Credit system. Those transferred by DWP from tax credits to UC will receive Transitional Protection. In addition, estimates of entitlements under UC of the sort requested will vary depending on assumptions on the level of earnings.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 17934 17936 18169 18170 18171 18173 18174 18175 18226 question first answered 08/12/2015 17:37:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves