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931343

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Employment: 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 her Department is taking to ensure that adequate support is provided to people who develop disabilities to help them return to work.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	157804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>As set out last year in the Improving Lives: the future of work, health and disability paper, we are committed to help those with health conditions and disabilities move nearer to the labour market and, when ready, into work by building more personalised tailored employment and health support.</p><p>For example, we are:</p><ul><li>Investing in a wide range of employment support measures, such as the Work and Health Programme, to ensure support is available for a large, diverse group;</li><li>Expanding the support available through existing initiatives like Access to Work, which now has a dedicated ‘Tech Fund’ to incentivise employers and customers to consider assistive technology support that is more flexible and more economic than other potential solutions;</li><li>Continuing to build the capability of work coaches and strengthen our engagement with claimants;</li><li>Working with employers through Disability Confident to create an inclusive environment and enable them to offer more job opportunities to these groups, and;</li><li>Continuing to build our evidence base to understand what works.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/07/2018 10:59:38 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

931459

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence payment appellants have served in the armed forces.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	157676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Service personnel and veterans who are entitled to a Guaranteed Income Payment of 50% or higher through the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme are eligible for <em>Armed Forces Independence Payments (AFIP). </em>This is an alternative payment to PIP. The numbers currently receiving AFIP are in the link below at page 12:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/719200/20180625_-_AFCS_Nat_Stat_-_Bulletin.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/719200/20180625_-_AFCS_Nat_Stat_-_Bulletin.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/07/2018 16:37:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

931462

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants of employment and support allowance have served in the armed forces.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	157677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department only collects data which determines benefit entitlement or which contributes to the good management of a claim.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/07/2018 16:40:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

931464

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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 the average time taken is for an appeal to be brought against a personal independence payment decision in (a) the UK, (b) Wales and (c) the Arfon constituency.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	157678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publish UK wide information on appeals clearance time (from appeal lodgement to appeal being cleared) published in the quarterly bulletin “Tribunals and gender recognitions certificates statistics quarterly: January to March 2018”. The relevant information can be found in table T3 of the Main Tables document.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>The average time to clear an appeal against a Personal Independence Payment decision is 25 weeks. (Latest data Jan – Mar 2018)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested for the average length of time for an appeal to be heard for (b) Wales and (c) the Arfon constituency could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>MoJ provides a CSV file which contains information on clearance times broken down by tribunal venue. The CSV file can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716015/tribunals-q4-2017-2018-csvs.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716015/tribunals-q4-2017-2018-csvs.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/07/2018 11:11:33 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

931466

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
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 time taken is for an appeal to be brought against an employment and support allowance decision in (a) the UK, (b) Wales and (c) the Arfon constituency.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	157679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publish UK wide information on appeals clearance time (from appeal lodgement to appeal being cleared) published in the quarterly bulletin “Tribunals and gender recognitions certificates statistics quarterly: January to March 2018”. The relevant information can be found in table T3 of the Main Tables document.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>The average time to clear an appeal against an Employment Support Allowance decision is 23 weeks. (Latest data Jan – Mar 2018)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested for the average length of time for an appeal to be heard for (b) Wales and (c) the Arfon constituency could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>MoJ provides a CSV file which contains information on clearance times broken down by tribunal venue. The CSV file can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716015/tribunals-q4-2017-2018-csvs.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716015/tribunals-q4-2017-2018-csvs.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 04/07/2018 11:17:43 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

930978

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Plastic Surgery
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 made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of disability benefit payments paid to people for injuries as a result of negligent cosmetic surgery procedures.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	157071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>No such estimate is available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Personal Independence Payment is based on the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability and does not consider causation.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 03/07/2018 10:32:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

930980

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department offers families in receipt of universal credit to meet the cost of childcare deposits.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	157204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>DWP continues to continuously improve the Universal Credit experience for claimants and to ensure that they are supported throughout their journey. For those with children, this includes ensuring that help with up front childcare costs is available for Universal Credit households with a low income.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with a firm job offer can claim Universal Credit Childcare costs up to 1 month prior to starting work to enable their children to settle into a new routine. We also offer extra support to enable parents to pay upfront childcare costs or deposits: for example, claimants may be eligible to receive an advance of their future Universal Credit entitlement, which is interest free. Work coaches and claimants work together to ensure that, where this is taken up, repayments are affordable and manageable.</p><p> </p><p>If a budgeting advance is not appropriate, the Flexible Support Fund may also provide assistance. Payments from this fund are non-repayable, and are managed locally to provide tailored and targeted support for claimants to move into work.</p><p> </p><p>From February 2018, Universal Credit claimants have been able to upload digital copies of their childcare cost receipts or invoices through their online Universal Credit account: most claimants reporting their in-month childcare costs are not asked to provide further evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 157205 157206 157617 157618 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

930981

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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 financial support her Department provides to families in receipt of universal credit to meet the costs of childcare deposits.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	157205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>DWP continues to continuously improve the Universal Credit experience for claimants and to ensure that they are supported throughout their journey. For those with children, this includes ensuring that help with up front childcare costs is available for Universal Credit households with a low income.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with a firm job offer can claim Universal Credit Childcare costs up to 1 month prior to starting work to enable their children to settle into a new routine. We also offer extra support to enable parents to pay upfront childcare costs or deposits: for example, claimants may be eligible to receive an advance of their future Universal Credit entitlement, which is interest free. Work coaches and claimants work together to ensure that, where this is taken up, repayments are affordable and manageable.</p><p> </p><p>If a budgeting advance is not appropriate, the Flexible Support Fund may also provide assistance. Payments from this fund are non-repayable, and are managed locally to provide tailored and targeted support for claimants to move into work.</p><p> </p><p>From February 2018, Universal Credit claimants have been able to upload digital copies of their childcare cost receipts or invoices through their online Universal Credit account: most claimants reporting their in-month childcare costs are not asked to provide further evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 157204 157206 157617 157618 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

930984

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to reduce the waiting time for the reimbursement of upfront childcare deposits for families in receipt of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	157206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>DWP continues to continuously improve the Universal Credit experience for claimants and to ensure that they are supported throughout their journey. For those with children, this includes ensuring that help with up front childcare costs is available for Universal Credit households with a low income.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with a firm job offer can claim Universal Credit Childcare costs up to 1 month prior to starting work to enable their children to settle into a new routine. We also offer extra support to enable parents to pay upfront childcare costs or deposits: for example, claimants may be eligible to receive an advance of their future Universal Credit entitlement, which is interest free. Work coaches and claimants work together to ensure that, where this is taken up, repayments are affordable and manageable.</p><p> </p><p>If a budgeting advance is not appropriate, the Flexible Support Fund may also provide assistance. Payments from this fund are non-repayable, and are managed locally to provide tailored and targeted support for claimants to move into work.</p><p> </p><p>From February 2018, Universal Credit claimants have been able to upload digital copies of their childcare cost receipts or invoices through their online Universal Credit account: most claimants reporting their in-month childcare costs are not asked to provide further evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 157204 157205 157617 157618 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

931030

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Independent Case Examiner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, from what acceptance date the Independent Case Examiner's Office is currently allocating complaints to an investigation case manager.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	157243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Case Examiner’s Office is currently allocating complaints to investigation case managers that were accepted for examination between March and May 2017. The time it takes to allocate complaints for investigation has been impacted by the on-going Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) complaints campaign.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/06/2018 16:44:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden