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1403826

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Employment and Support Allowance: City of Westminster and Kensington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in (a) Westminster North, (b) Cities of London and Westminster South and (c) Kensington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	106623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19<sup>th</sup> January to question number <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-01-14/104377" target="_blank">104377</a>.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 106756 question first answered 21/01/2022 12:10:57 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1403854

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Diaries
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 publish in full her Ministerial diary for 20 May 2020.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	106885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>Ministers regularly meet with departmental officials and external stakeholders. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found on <a href="http://GOV.UK" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/01/2022 15:41:39 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1403950

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Pensioners: Utilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date in 2021 her Department notified utility suppliers of those (a) in receipt of the Guarantee Element of Pension Credit and (b) in the core group for the Warm Home Discount.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	106676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The warm home discount scheme is the responsibility of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Department for Work and Pensions operates a data match with relevant energy suppliers to ensure customers in receipt of Pension Credit Guarantee Credit (known as the core group) receive an automatic rebate on their energy bill where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The qualifying date to determine warm home discount eligibility for 2021/22 was the 4 July 2021. The department completed this year’s exercise by 9 October 2021.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The department also undertakes a further exercise in mid-November, this is to capture any Pension Credit Guarantee Credit claims that may have been backdated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/01/2022 15:10:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1403969

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Universal Credit: 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 the Answer of 23 October 2017 to Question 107685 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, when her Department stopped collecting data on the number of appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal against its decisions on universal credit that were lapsed or conceded by its decision-makers each year; and for what reason that data collection stopped.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	106819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The Department has not stopped collecting data on Universal Credit lapsed appeals. The information provided in the answer to Question 107685 in October 2017 was internal management information.</p><p> </p><p>That information is still available today but to assess the completeness of its recording and quality assure the data, would incur disproportionate costs. This is necessary because this type of information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/01/2022 14:37:49 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1403970

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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: 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 2 November 2021 to Question 63817 on Personal Independence Payment: Appeals, how many appeals against personal independence payment decisions were lapsed by her Department prior to the hearing at the First Tier Tribunal in Quarter 2 of 2020.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	106820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The information on number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals lapsed during Quarter 2 of 2020 is given below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of PIP appeals lapsed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April – June 2020</p></td><td><p>5,960</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data has been rounded to the nearest 10. Totals are for Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>PIP appeals data taken from the DWP PIP computer system’s management information. Therefore, this data may differ from that held by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for various reasons such as delays in data recording and other methodological differences in collating and preparing statistics.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/01/2022 14:42:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1404010

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions people have been declared fit for work and have then been successful in an appeal of that decision against her Department in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	106729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>National Statistics for Employment Support Allowance Work Capability Assessments (WCA) are published every three months here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment</a></p><p> </p><p>Detailed monthly statistics showing the outcomes of completed initial and repeat WCAs and the outcomes of Mandatory Reconsiderations and Appeals, by various geographical areas, are available on Stat-Xplore at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>The information requested for Universal Credit WCAs is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/01/2022 10:51:05 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1404028

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Manchester Withington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people in Manchester Withington constituency who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits following the transition from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	106756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19<sup>th</sup> January to question number <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-01-14/104377" target="_blank">104377</a>.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 106623 question first answered 21/01/2022 12:10:57 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1404053

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to eradicate child poverty.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	106773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>This Government is wholly committed to supporting low-income families, including through spending over £110 billion on welfare support for people of working age in 2021/22, and by increasing the National Living Wage by 6.6% to £9.50 from April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>With the success of the vaccine rollout and record job vacancies, our focus now is on continuing to support parents into and to progress in work. This is because we know that work, particularly where it is full-time substantially reduces the risks of child poverty and improves long-term outcomes for families and children. Our multi-billion-pound Plan for Jobs, which has recently been expanded by £500 million, will help people across the UK to find work and to boost their wages and prospects.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Universal Credit recipients in work are now benefitting from a reduction in the Universal Credit taper rate from 63% to 55%, while eligible in-work claimants can also benefit from changes to the Work Allowance. These measures represent, for the lowest paid in society, an effective tax cut of around £2.2b in 2022-23 and are now benefitting almost two million of the lowest paid workers by £1,000 a year on average.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that some people require extra support over the winter, which is why vulnerable households across the country can access a new £500 million support fund to help them with essentials. The Household Support Fund provides £421 million to help vulnerable people in England with the cost of food, utilities and wider essentials. The Barnett Formula applies in the usual way, with the devolved administrations receiving almost £80 million.</p><p> </p><p>To support low income families further we have increased the value of Healthy Start Food Vouchers from £3.10 to £4.25, helping eligible low income households buy basic foods like milk, fruit and vitamins, and we are also investing over £200m a year from 2022 to continue our Holiday Activities and Food programme which is already providing enriching activities and healthy meals to children in all English Local Authorities.</p><p /> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 26/01/2022 11:41:16 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1404096

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Departmental Coordination: Disability
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 Part One of the National Disability Strategy published 28 July 2021, when the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work plans to chair the second quarterly meeting of the Disability Ministerial Champions.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	106803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2022 answer text <p>The next quarterly meeting of the Ministerial Disability Champions will be held on 26 January 2022.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 25/01/2022 17:58:17 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1404097

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Employment: Disability
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 Part One of the National Disability Strategy published 28 July 2021, what recent progress her Department has made towards the introduction of a new approach to conditionality for disabled people and people with health conditions, which aims to enable an honest and open conversation between a person and their work coach about what they can do.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	106804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>A staged roll out of a new approach to conditionality for disabled claimants and claimants with health conditions went live in January 2021 and was completed in December 2021. It began with claimants who made a claim to Universal Credit (UC) and/or New Style Employment Support Allowance (NS ESA) between March to July 2020. Thereafter, rolling out to all claimants on the UC health journey, and/or NS ESA.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 31/01/2022 12:15:52 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft