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946780

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken to (a) make the HMRC Gateway service more accessible and (b) enable improved access to Government services for people with no online or digital access.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	167403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2018 answer text <p>(a) DWP are key stakeholders in the development of the new HMRC Government Gateway Service. HMRC are leading on user research around accessibility with DWP participation via Government Departmental Working Groups.</p><p>(b) We are working with partner organisations and with other departments to understand the level of support users of government services need. As part of this programme of work we are looking at the current internet devices we have in our Jobcentre Plus Offices, this includes Digital propensity, Digital Inclusion and the level of support DWP provides. DWP assures all our digital services meet the quality requirements of the Digital Service Standard which, includes both accessibility and assisted digital needs. Face to face appointments’ for claimants and free phone lines are part of the breadth of services we also have available to people without digital access.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 05/09/2018 15:12:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

946793

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	UNUM
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 18 June 2018 to Question 153210 on UNUM, which organisations are authorised to award local contracts under the low value procurement process.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	167163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Low Value Provision (LVP) requires that all providers who wish to be considered for providing LVP training must be registered on a central database within ‘Basware’. When providers register on ‘Basware’, they state the training they can deliver and the locations in which they can deliver.</p><p>A list of fully registered, part registered and those providers whose registration has expired is held centrally and updated each week. There are currently over 9000 providers on the list. UNUM Provident are not currently listed as a local provider. To identify all organisations could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/09/2018 13:53:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

946892

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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: Garston and Halewood
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average number of days is that claimants for universal credit in Garston and Halewood constituency have been sanctioned in the last twelve months for missing appointments.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	167153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on Universal Credit sanction decisions by constituency can be found 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://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>Additionally, the latest benefits sanctions statistics for Great Britain can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-april-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-april-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 04/09/2018 14:02:43 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

946906

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit: Self-employed
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 self-employed individuals are not eligible for injuries disablement benefit.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	167283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) is payable to employed earners who suffer disablement because of an industrial accident or through contracting a prescribed disease as a result of their work. The underlying principle has always been that benefit should be payable to workers employed under a contract of service.</p><p> </p><p>When the Scheme was devised it was accepted that there would be practical difficulties in including self-employed people because the scheme relies on employers to provide evidence that an accident or exposure took place at work. Alongside this practical issue, when the scheme was devised it was decided that self-employed people should do so knowing that it is their responsibility to arrange insurance to cover themselves for financial loss in the event of an industrial injury.</p><p> </p><p>However, if a self-employed person has contracted Diffuse Mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos in the United Kingdom they can still claim a lump sum payment from the 2008 Diffuse Mesothelioma Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The government continually reviews the Scheme to ensure that resources are targeted in the most appropriate way and that the scheme remains relevant in the light of changes in the modern world of work, however there are no plans to change the current position regarding self-employed workers.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/09/2018 16:13:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

946919

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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 4 June 2018 to Question 146980 on State Retirement Pensions: Females, what the average length of time taken was for a complaint in relation to the equalisation of the state pension age to be (a) received and referred to be Independent Case Examiners Office, (b) allocated to a case manager and (c) investigated by the case manager and a response issued to the complainant.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	167406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Case Examiner’s Office can only accept a complaint for examination once the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) complaint process has been exhausted. Final complaint responses from DWP signpost complainants to the ICE Office if they remain dissatisfied with the response to their complaint and tell them they have six months in which to do so.</p><p> </p><p>In response to: (a) we do not collect information about the average time taken by complainants to escalate their complaint to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office, following receipt of DWPs final complaint response; (b) to date, the average time take to allocate complaints about the equalisation of state pension age to an investigation case manager is 47 weeks; and (c) following allocation to an investigation case manager the average time taken to conclude an investigation into this group of complaints is 9 weeks (against a target of 20 weeks).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/09/2018 11:15:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

946920

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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, what recent estimate has she made of the number of women who have seen an increase in the age threshold at which they can claim their state pension as a result of the Government's reforms to the equalisation of the state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	167407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The decision to equalise the State Pension age for men and women dates back to 1995 and has been supported by Coalition, Labour and Conservative governments since then.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics publishes annual mid-year population estimates for the UK and its constituent countries. These detail persons by single year of age and sex. The most recent data is for mid-2017 and was released in June 2018. It can be found at the below link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a></p><p> </p><p>The State Pension age is currently 64 years and 9 months for women and 65 for men. Female State Pension age will reach 65 in November 2018. State Pension age for women and men will then start to increase to reach 66 by September 2020.</p><p>The State Pension age timetable, showing when people with different dates of birth reach State Pension age, is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 04/09/2018 11:24:25 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

946957

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date she plans for claimants of employment and support allowance who have been underpaid to have received all the back-payments due to them.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	167107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Further to the latest Written Statement on Employment and Support Allowance – HCWS877 – made on 18 July, we are currently assessing timescales for completion of this exercise. Our aim is for all claimants to receive the benefit they are due as quickly as practicable.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/09/2018 11:03:06 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

946958

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to extend the maximum length of monthly back-pay recipients of industrial injuries disablement benefit can receive if they are subject to an administrative error by her Department, and will she make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	167349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>If an administrative error occurs when administering Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB), then any benefit due would be paid to the relevant date, there is no specific limit or maximum for this.</p><p> </p><p>There is, however, a statutory limit for the backdating of claims which is 3 months prior to the date of the claim: either date of accident or the onset of the prescribed disease. This limit applies where there has been a delay in claiming and not where an administrative error has occurred.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to extend the 3 month time period for the backdating of IIDB claims.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/09/2018 12:05:33 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

946959

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	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, what her Department’s policy is in taking into consideration awards made by the medical appeals tribunal when deciding on benefit entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	167350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The recruitment of approximately 150 Presenting Officers, who represent DWP at the First-tier Tribunal is providing valuable insight into why decisions are overturned at appeal, and allowing the Department to identify and make improvements to the claimant journey.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/09/2018 11:50:10 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

946960

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money has been spent from the public purse on universal credit complaint resolution since that benefit was established.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
uin	167360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data solely in relation to the cost of Universal Credit complaint resolution.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of resolving these complaints includes support costs, management and corporate overheads. These costs cannot be split out from overall Departmental spending, and therefore an amount spent on complaints is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 10/09/2018 16:46:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley