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732533

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the minimum qualification requirements are for people conducting medical examinations on employment and support allowance claimants.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	1068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The information you have requested can be found here <a href="https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/1644334/" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/1644334/</a> in Schedule 2.1, paragraph 46, page 52 of the Health Disability Assessment Service Contract.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/06/2017 10:42:51 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

732534

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints have been made by employment and support allowance claimants after medical examinations.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	1069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Just over 0.6% of all face-to-face Work Capability Assessments carried out in the last twelve months generated a complaint to the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA).</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/06/2017 10:45:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

732608

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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	Jobcentres: Glasgow
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to announce his decision on the future of Maryhill Jobcentre.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	1110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department intends to confirm its plans for the DWP estate, including Maryhill Jobcentre, soon and will make a statement in due course.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 29/06/2017 10:18:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

732353

registered interest
date	23/06/2017
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of the cap on the Access to Work grant on the ability of (a) deaf and (b) other disabled people to enter the workforce.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>In May 2015 the Government published an Equality Analysis of the impact of the reforms to Access to Work, which may be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/426416/future-of-access-to-work-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/426416/future-of-access-to-work-equality-analysis.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>This year the Cap is set at £42,100 per annum, calculated at one-and-a-half times the current annual average earnings figure. Access to Work has set up specialist teams, including dedicated high-value award teams, who are working with employers and customers to support them in making the most efficient and effective use of their awards.</p><p> </p><p>We are monitoring the application of the Cap and consider whether any further flexibilities may be required.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 28/06/2017 15:54:46 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

732381

registered interest
date	23/06/2017
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	Universal Credit: Disqualification
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 who have claimed universal credit received a benefit sanction in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The latest available information on Universal Credit sanction decisions is up to December 2016 and is published 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 on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics cover Universal Credit live service only, more information on these can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-sanctions-statistics-background-information-and-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-sanctions-statistics-background-information-and-methodology</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/06/2017 11:09:27 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

731778

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Disability Living Allowance: : Coventry South
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 are in receipt of disability living allowance payments in Coventry South constituency.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The latest available parliamentary constituency data on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claims in payment can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/06/2017 09:58:49 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

731792

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what level of fines have been levied against husbands or partners who avoided paying child maintenance in each year since the introduction of the Child Support Act 1991; and what other sanctions have been imposed on people in that period.
tabling member constituency	Makerfield
tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
uin	708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The only fines that can be imposed relating to child maintenance are as a result of criminal prosecution for failure to provide information or providing false information for the purposes of calculating the child maintenance liability. These fines are imposed by a court, information about fines is not recorded by my Department for management information purposes, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Within child maintenance enforcement, “sanctions” generally refers to powers used as a last resort, when other enforcement actions have not resulted in successful collection of arrears.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP publish information on enforcement actions.</p><p> </p><p>Information on both civil and criminal enforcement actions undertaken by the Child Support Agency (CSA) is only available from April 2007. This can be found in Table 22 of the latest CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017</a> . This includes information on a variety of enforcement actions, including commitment to prison and disqualification from driving (in the Committals section), along with information on the number of prosecutions that have been undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>Information on civil and criminal enforcement action undertaken by the Child Maintenance Service is published on Table 16 of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics, which contains data between September 2015 and March 2017. The publication can be accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental</a> . These statistics do not include detail on the different types of enforcement action, so do not include the number of sanction actions taken.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/06/2017 09:55:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

731794

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will review the availability of assessments for Personal Independence Payment at weekends.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department is continually reviewing and refining the Personal Independence Payment process in order to improve its efficiency, effectiveness and the claimant experience.</p><p> </p><p>Weekend appointments are utilised when appropriate to improve the customer journey and reduce waiting times for appointments.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/06/2017 13:43:04 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

731803

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Jobcentres: Batley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department did not undertake a consultation into the closure of Batley Jobcentre Plus.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>There was no public consultation on the proposal to close Batley Jobcentre as the proposed move to merge with Dewsbury Jobcentre is approximately 1.9 miles away and 19 minutes by public transport. We committed to a public consultation for offices over three miles and 20 minutes away by public transport.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/06/2017 09:48:23 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

731809

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Fibrous Dysplasia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial support his Department provides for sufferers of fibrous dysplasia.
tabling member constituency	Boston and Skegness
tabling member printed	Matt Warman
uin	760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Claimants with Fibrous dysplasia may be entitled to a wide range of benefits depending on their circumstances, including disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP) if they have needs related to daily living or mobility.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/06/2017 15:00:44 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman