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1124133

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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 and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance her Department issues to GPs on the provision of fit notes for patients who are undergoing an appeal for employment and support allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	249916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department provides  guidance on the benefits system for GPs which is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-short-guide-to-the-benefit-system-for-general-practitioners" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-short-guide-to-the-benefit-system-for-general-practitioners</a>.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/05/2019 13:47:28 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1109157

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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 and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to revise the ESA65B letter to GPs to make it clear that a patient may appeal a fit for work decision made through a work capability assessment and a fit note is needed for the patient to obtain employment and support allowance payments until the appeal is heard.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	239928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department is updating the current ESA65B letter, with input from medical organisations, to clarify when a fit note should be provided for Employment and Support Allowance purposes.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 08/04/2019 16:02:24 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1105562

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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 and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment support allowance (ESA) claimants were in receipt of the assessment rate on (a) 31 March 2016, (b) 31 March 2017 and (c) 31 March 2018 while awaiting a decision on their appeal to the First Tier Tribunal against the disallowance of ESA following a work capability assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
	uin	237580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The analytical datasets used to produce the ESA (WCA) Official Statistics only hold information on completed appeals and do not hold the date an appeal is lodged. Consequently, information on the rate of ESA paid whilst a first tier tribunal is in progress, is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/04/2019 13:35:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1088745

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	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 and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory reconsiderations of employment and support allowance appeals have been successful in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	232645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>An appeal can only be made against a decision which has gone through the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) process. In law it is not possible to revise a tribunal decision.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Statistics on the number of MRs for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) where the initial decision was revised are published in Table 14 of the quarterly statistical publication “ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2019”, available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of ESA appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 232646 question first answered 19/03/2019 10:20:50 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1088746

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	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 and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many reconsiderations of employment and support allowance decisions occurred after her Department had been notified that an appeal had been lodged in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	232646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>An appeal can only be made against a decision which has gone through the Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) process. In law it is not possible to revise a tribunal decision.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Statistics on the number of MRs for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) where the initial decision was revised are published in Table 14 of the quarterly statistical publication “ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2019”, available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of ESA appeals that have been lapsed (which is where DWP changed the decision after an appeal was lodged but before it was heard at Tribunal) is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 232645 question first answered 19/03/2019 10:20:50 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1082623

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	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 and Support Allowance: Appeals
	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 04 March 2019 to Question 226128 on Employment and Support Allowance: Arrears, whether it remains her Department policy that 50 per cent of Presenting Officers attend tribunals.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	229226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>As previously explained, the Department has recruited 150 Presenting Officers (PO) with further recruitment planned. Adding these to existing POs will help the Department increase its attendance across all benefits, with ESA and PIP the priority. However, it is our main objective to ensure that POs attend hearings of those complex cases where their presence will be of most benefit to the tribunal in reaching the right decision.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/03/2019 14:18:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

528163

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	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 page 5 of Employment and Support Allowance Work Capability Assessments: Mandatory reconsideration registrations, decisions and outcomes statistics, published in June 2016, how many of the mandatory reconsideration decisions not received by his Department's decision-maker were appealed at the First Tier tribunal; and how many of those appeals were successful.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	40857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available at this time.</p><p> </p><p>The data is being collated and will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/07/2016 14:26:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

523159

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance appeals his Department conceded prior to their being heard at first-tier tribunals in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
	uin	39455
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The requested information in relation to Personal Independence Payment could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>For ESA the figures for the latest 12 months available are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2016</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3010</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures represent the number of appeals revised and lapsed before the appeal is heard. A decision will be revised at this stage of the decision making process mainly because of new information provided by the claimant in his grounds of appeal.</p><p> </p><p><em>- Figures have been rounded to the nearest ten.</em></p><p><em>- This is unpublished data and, as such, it does not meet the quality standard required for official statistics publication. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</em></p><p><em>- Data taken from the Decision Making and Case Recording system</em></p><p><em>- Figures are for GB only</em></p><p><em>- Figures are correct as at 7 June 2016</em></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 39021 question first answered 13/06/2016 15:51:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

425009

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2015
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals by claimants in the work related activity group of employment and support allowance have resulted in subsequent placement in the support group of employment and support allowance in each quarter since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	14048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <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 grouped question UIN 14049 14055 question first answered 03/11/2015 15:27:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook