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1660032

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times (a) the Secretary of State and (b) each Minister in his Department has visited a (i) Government Hub and (ii) ministerial office outside of London in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	199043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally collated and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/09/2023 13:46:32 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1660141

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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: Parkinson's 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 he is taking to ensure that Personal Independent Payment assessors receive training on the (a) symptoms of Parkinson's disease and (b) effects that Parkinson's disease has on people's lives.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Health Professionals (HPs) delivering Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments receive comprehensive training in assessing functional capability relating to physical and mental health conditions. They also have access to a wide range of clinical resources to research any conditions presented. Both PIP providers have condition specific information on Parkinson’s disease, which has been quality assured by relevant external experts.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Understanding the effects of health conditions and impairments on the claimant’s daily life is fundamental. PIP providers ensure HPs are experts in disability analysis, focusing on the effects of health conditions and impairments on the claimant’s daily life.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 18/09/2023 14:35:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1659442

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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	Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Act 2023
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 will the Child Support Collection Act 2023 enter into force.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	198582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>Preventing domestic abuse within CMS remains a key priority for the department and we want to work at pace to tackle it. The Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Act 2023 requires secondary legislation before it can come into force. We will engage widely with stakeholders and other government departments to ensure the changes made are right.</p><p> </p><p>The department has already commenced a single caseworker pilot where there are cases of Domestic Abuse within CMS. The evaluation of this pilot will take place early next year. We have also implemented mandatory training for all CMS staff in how to respond to cases of domestic abuse and rolled out a complex needs toolkit which provides caseworkers with clear steps to follow where there are cases involving domestic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/09/2023 16:21:16 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1659481

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to uprate social security benefits in line with inflation in April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	198604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is required by law to undertake an annual review of benefits and the State Pension, and this review will commence shortly.</p><p> </p><p>The outcome of the review will be announced in the Autumn – and therefore it would not be appropriate to pre-judge the outcome.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/09/2023 11:48:27 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1659517

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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	Long Term Unemployed People
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 help ensure support for people who have experienced long-term unemployment and experiencing difficulty with reintroduction to the workforce.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	198671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Restart supports long-term unemployed people who have been out of work for nine months or more. Restart providers support participants to break down their employment barriers by developing a bespoke action plan built on understanding their employment history, skills and needs to help them to move into sustained work.</p><p> </p><p>Additional support for 50+ long term unemployed (LTU) customers was announced in September 2022 as part of the Growth Plan Since SR21 and the Growth Plan in September 2022. This will provide access to additional intensive support for long-term unemployed jobseekers in jobcentres across Great Britain.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/09/2023 11:51:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1659551

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to confirm what the average answering time is on the Pension Service Helpline.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	198719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows data from the Pension Service lines, Pension Credit and State Pension. The metrics include Average Speed to Answer as requested for the last complete calendar month.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Product Line</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Speed to Answer</strong> <strong>(hh:mm:ss)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-23</p></td><td><p>Pension Credit</p></td><td><p>0:06:08</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-23</p></td><td><p>State Pension</p></td><td><p>0:03:08</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Average</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0:04:22</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note this information is derived from the Department’s management information designed solely for the purpose of helping the Department to manage its business. As such, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. As DWP holds the information internally, we have released it. However, it is possible information held by DWP may change due to operational reasons and we recommend that caution be applied when using it.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 18/09/2023 14:30:05 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1659629

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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 children were living in households subject to Universal Credit sanctions in each Parliamentary constituency for the most recent month for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	198769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/09/2023 10:47:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1659660

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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: Freedom of Information
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 his Department's publication entitled DWP statistical FOI releases, published on 16 November 2017, whether he plans to publish new figures for his Department's FOI releases.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	198800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has an established programme of publication and publishes a large amount of data per year. Overall, the Department complies with the FOI Act and the Cabinet Office Code of Practice and will keep under consideration its approach to process and publication of information. However, it is not a requirement to publish all FOI responses.</p><p> </p><p>You may be interested to know that all FOI requests that are submitted by the ‘WhatDoTheyKnow.com’ website are automatically published on that website<em>. </em></p><p> </p><p>The Departments figures for FOI releases are published by the Cabinet Office on a quarterly and annual basis and they can be accessed <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">here.</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/09/2023 11:23:49 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1659680

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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: Disability
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 ensure that people transferred onto the Adult Disability Payment while awaiting his Department's decision to increase their mobility rate who are subsequently deemed by Social Security Scotland to be eligible for an enhanced mobility rate receive a backdated payment for the period following their notifying his Department of their change in circumstances and their transition to Adult Disability Payment.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	198820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>These are matters for the Scottish Government.</p><p /> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/09/2023 10:49:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

1659681

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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: Deductions
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 7 September 2023 to Question 196260 on Universal Credit: Deductions, what the (a) total and (b) average sum of Universal Credit deductions was for households with children; and what proportion of those sums was deducted to repay advance payments in each Parliamentary constituency in the most recent month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	198821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>The requested information is provided in the separate spreadsheet and are subject to the following caveats:</p><p> </p><p>1. For low level geography: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1,000 and average amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1. For totals at GB level: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100,000, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1,000,000 and average amount has been rounded to the nearest £1. Proportions have been rounded to the nearest percent.</p><p>2. The sum of individual low level geographies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.</p><p>3. Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties which are reductions of benefit rather than deductions.</p><p>4. Children are defined here as being people who are declared as living in the same household as the UC claimant(s) and who are under the age of 20. The number of children may not be equal to the number of dependent children in the household who are eligible for child element for various reasons. This includes children over the age of 16 in non-advanced full-time education, looked-after children and, other young people living in multigenerational households whose parents are not the claimant. Those affected by the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children may also have a larger number of children compared to the number of children entitled to the child element in their household.</p><p>5. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>6. The ‘unknown' parliamentary constituency equates to 0.2% of all households and relates to households for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information.</p><p>7. Data for May 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</p><p>8. Claim numbers and number of children on UC will not match official statistics caseloads due to methodological differences.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/09/2023 11:11:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name Spreadsheet.xlsx title Spreadsheet
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham