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927767

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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 assessment she has made of the validity of the assessment by the National Audit Office of the value for money of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	155940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit delivers value for money. As the business case makes clear, Universal Credit will create net economic benefits of £34 billion over the ten years to 2026-27, for example by helping 200,000 more people into work. 83% of Universal Credit claimants are satisfied with the service that they receive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/07/2018 16:40:17 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

918506

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
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, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the number of disallowed personal independence payments claims that are successfully appealed at tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	150772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>Decisions are overturned at appeal in the main because of the oral evidence provided by the claimant at the hearing; and because of new written evidence not previously seen by the department’s decision makers. Tribunals do of course also reach a different conclusion based on the same evidence. But it should be noted that since PIP was introduced, up until December 2017, of the 3.1m decisions made 4% have been overturned at appeal.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 15/06/2018 13:11:41 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

887266

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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
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 23 February 2018 to Question 128682, for what reasons the claimant service and experience survey does not include personal independence payment claimants whose claims were unsuccessful.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	136830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The claimant Service and Experience Survey (CSES) measures satisfaction with the services provided by DWP and therefore only includes within its sample those that have had contact with DWP in the previous three months to aid recall.</p><p>Historically satisfaction surveys were conducted by separate surveys of each DWP benefit group, some of which included disallowed claimants whist others did not. It was therefore decided to revert to a consistent approach across all benefits from 2015/16 and to focus on service performance rather than outcome.</p><p> </p><p>For all benefits, at the time of drawing the sample, cases are live and in payment. However, between the date on which the sampke is drawn and the date in which a claimant is interviewed, some claimants may have withdrawn their claim, or had it disallowed. Some disallowed PIP claims are included for those that report a change of circumstances. These PIP claimants will still be interviewed.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/04/2018 14:06:55 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

887267

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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: Surveys
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 23 February 2018 to Question 128682, what assessment she has made of the (a) accuracy and (b) value of the Claimant Service and Experience Survey.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	136831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The Claimant Service and Experience Survey (CSES) is an operational tool to inform delivery improvements and measure performance across ten benefits. Claimant satisfaction is measured against four areas of the DWP customer charter (getting it right, keeping you informed, ease of access and right treatment).</p><p> </p><p>CSES is an externally commissioned survey and is conducted by an independent research organisation (selected through an open and rigorous competition). The design of the survey, fieldwork and outputs are extensively quality assured by DWP in line with Government Social Research guidance to ensure high standards of accuracy and robustness.</p><p>The DWP utilises the research in the following ways:</p><ul><li>Performance monitoring of claimant satisfaction with services provided by DWP across benefits, to inform service design and delivery improvements;</li><li>Understanding claimant use of digital services and different communication channels;</li><li>Feeding into DWP annual report and accounts, as well as Cabinet Office equality report.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/04/2018 13:17:44 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

887268

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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: Surveys
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 23 February 2018 to Question 128682, whether the PIP Claimant Experience Evaluation included responses from people whose claims were disallowed.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	136832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>Claimants who applied but did not get a PIP award were purposely included in the evaluation. Consequently the experiences of people with different award outcomes, including those who decided to appeal, are fully reflected in the research findings.</p><p> </p><p>This externally commissioned evaluation is known as the Personal Independent Payment Evaluation. It comprised of three waves of research conducted in 2016-7 and focussed on how PIP processes are working from a claimant perspective.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/04/2018 08:47:35 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

887269

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
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 1 March 2018 to Question 129209, on state retirement pensions: women, if she will estimate the cost to the public purse of transitional arrangement number 23 of Table A of her Department’s response to Freedom of Information request 378/2016.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	136833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>We do not have an estimate of the cost to the public purse of transitional arrangement number 23 of Table A of her Department’s response to Freedom of Information request 378/2016 as the information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/04/2018 15:00:25 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

856187

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
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 February 2018 to Question 125256, for what reasons she will not change this long-standing policy and revoke regulation three of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2017.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	131353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The policy on uprating pensions abroad is a long-standing one of successive post-war Governments. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, however they are up-rated overseas only where there is a legal requirement to do so.</p><p> </p><p>There are two main reasons for not paying annual up-ratings to non-residents. First, up-ratings are based on levels of earnings growth and price inflation in the UK which have no direct relevance where the pensioner is resident overseas. Second, the cost of up-rating state pensions overseas in countries where we do not currently up-rate would increase immediately by over £0.5 billion per year if all pensions in payment were increased to current UK levels.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/03/2018 13:49:26 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

847723

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the number of UK pensioners who live overseas who will return to live in the UK due to the lack of uprating to state pensions.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	129399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The decision to move abroad is voluntary and remains a personal choice dependent on the circumstances of the individual. The policy on up-rating UK state pensions overseas is a long-standing policy of successive Governments. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide without regard to nationality to those people who meet the eligibility criteria and are up-rated for recipients resident abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so. HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions publish information on the effect of moving abroad on the State Pension which is available at: www.gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/03/2018 15:47:19 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

847035

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
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 her Department’s response to Freedom of Information request 378/2016, for what reasons transitional arrangements No. 22 and 23 of Table A have not been costed.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	129209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Table A shows all of the options considered by the Government during the passage of the Pensions Act 2011. At the time the options were prioritised for costing, and those which were less specific in scope were not costed.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/03/2018 15:44:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

832940

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
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 23 January 2018 to Question 123025, if she will revoke regulation 3 of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2017.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	125256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The policy on up-rating UK state pensions overseas is a long-standing policy of successive Governments. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide without regard to nationality to those people who meet the eligibility criteria and are up-rated for recipients resident abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so. The Government has no plans to change this policy.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/02/2018 16:59:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid