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756117

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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	Work Capability Assessment: Audio Recordings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment in North West England requested that their assessments be recorded in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	7007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of claimant requests for recording Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) assessments is not available. All requests for an ESA assessment to be recorded are handled and delivered by the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA).</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of claimant requests for recording Personal Independence Payment assessments is not available. Claimant requests to record the consultation are permissible so long as they fulfill the conditions set out by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 07/09/2017 16:13:37 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

751846

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims have been affected by errors resulting from the real-time information system.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	4800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Real Time Information (RTI) system ensures that we get Universal Credit claims right by providing us with accurate and timely details of earnings and occupational pension payments from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’. The HMRC database holding the PAYE data reported in real time (RTI) receives the data from employers, holds it and passes on relevant data for Universal Credit claimants to DWP.</p><p> </p><p>The system is working well with over 99% of individual employment records now being reported in real time. We don’t collect data on the number of claims affected by errors resulting from the real-time information system. However, only a small proportion of the 1% of remaining cases are referred to HMRC to clarify those earnings with the employer</p><p> </p><p>DWP work closely with HMRC to investigate any risks associated with RTI data, and jointly deal with disputes arising when claimants query their reported earnings. As DWP receives copies of the data submitted by employers the risk of data corruption within HMRC is regarded as minimal. However, DWP and HMRC continually monitor the data and no significant problems have been identified.</p><p> </p><p>A number of processes are in place to deal with inaccurate data from employers. DWP and HMRC analysts monitor the RTI data received, looking for trends, patterns and causes. Both Departments then work together with employers and partners such as software developers and payroll bureaux to improve the quality of the data. This work supplements the BACS payment validation process.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 4801 question first answered 18/07/2017 16:27:18 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

751847

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reliability of real-time information for the purposes of calculating universal credit entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	4801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Real Time Information (RTI) system ensures that we get Universal Credit claims right by providing us with accurate and timely details of earnings and occupational pension payments from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs’. The HMRC database holding the PAYE data reported in real time (RTI) receives the data from employers, holds it and passes on relevant data for Universal Credit claimants to DWP.</p><p> </p><p>The system is working well with over 99% of individual employment records now being reported in real time. We don’t collect data on the number of claims affected by errors resulting from the real-time information system. However, only a small proportion of the 1% of remaining cases are referred to HMRC to clarify those earnings with the employer</p><p> </p><p>DWP work closely with HMRC to investigate any risks associated with RTI data, and jointly deal with disputes arising when claimants query their reported earnings. As DWP receives copies of the data submitted by employers the risk of data corruption within HMRC is regarded as minimal. However, DWP and HMRC continually monitor the data and no significant problems have been identified.</p><p> </p><p>A number of processes are in place to deal with inaccurate data from employers. DWP and HMRC analysts monitor the RTI data received, looking for trends, patterns and causes. Both Departments then work together with employers and partners such as software developers and payroll bureaux to improve the quality of the data. This work supplements the BACS payment validation process.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 4800 question first answered 18/07/2017 16:27:18 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750667

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Work Capability Assessment
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 reduce the time taken to obtain an assessment for employment and support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	4312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>Since the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments took over the contract to carry out assessments in March 2015, they have made a number of improvements to claimants’ experience of assessments, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Increasing the number of Healthcare Professionals by around 70% since the start of the contract, thereby ensuring that claimants go through the assessment process more quickly; and,</li><li>Increasing the number of assessment rooms used so that they can see more people at more locations.</li></ul><p> </p><p>As a result of these improvements, the time taken from referral to the supplier to the claimant receiving a face-to-face Work Capability Assessment has more than halved since the start of the contract.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2017 10:56:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750668

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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
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 new universal credit claims were processed and paid within six weeks in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	4292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>We are intending to publish further data on payment timeliness in due course, but our latest internal data, for week ending 19 June, suggests some 80% of cases were paid in full at the end of the first assessment period.</p><p> </p><p>For the 20% of cases who were not paid in full we estimate around a third have not signed up to their claimant commitment so cannot be paid until they have. The other two thirds have an outstanding verification issue, such as providing bank statements, evidence of childcare costs, or proof of rent. Many of these claimants receive a part-payment where elements of the claim have been verified.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/07/2017 09:21:59 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750669

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to verify the name, address, personal and financial circumstances of new universal credit claimants applying online.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	4293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>DWP take the security of Universal Credit very seriously, including verifying who our claimants are. We continue to work closely with Government Digital Service to support the success of the Verify online system. The high standards of ID verification achieved by Verify are used on our UC Full Service today in addition to a face-to-face alternative approach.</p><p> </p><p>We may also ask for separate documentary evidence, ask biometric questions based on data the department holds, or contact trusted third parties (such as a doctor) in order to verify a claimants identity and establish other personal and financial circumstances necessary for the processing of a Universal Credit claim.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/07/2017 09:46:12 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750670

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) shortest, (b) average and (c) longest waiting time was for an assessment for employment and support allowance in the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	4394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available. A programme of work is currently underway to look into what information on ESA waiting times is available to publish as official statistics on the ESA-WCA process. When a decision has been made DWP Statisticians will pre-announce the statistics in accordance with the UKSA release protocols.</p><p> </p><p>The Labour Market statisticians are currently working on producing some published statistics based on the Median clearance times for the initial part of the customer journey.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2017 16:31:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

747509

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made on the trial of in-work progression for universal credit claimants; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	2379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>National roll-out of the in-work progression randomised control trial is now complete. Recruitment onto the trial ceased on 31 March 2017, and the trial will continue to run until 31 March 2018. We expect to publish the full evaluation report in summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/07/2017 09:17:44 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

732286

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	Benefits Rules
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on rolling out the reformed welfare contract being piloted at Birkenhead Jobcentre Plus.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>This initiative brings together information from energy suppliers and is aimed at helping those who are vulnerable or facing difficulties in meeting energy costs.</p><p> </p><p>Birkenhead Jobcentre continues to offer the information leaflet, which details available support to claimants at appropriate stages of their benefit claim, when they meet with their Work Coach. The leaflet is also on display and available at various points within the Jobcentre. The information is made available to claimants across the full range of unemployment related benefits including Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>We are not able to confirm precise numbers of leaflets offered and taken up; nor on numbers of claimants availing themselves of the support. We can say, however, that claimants give positive feedback to staff.</p><p> </p><p>Following this successful trial the leaflet will be distributed across the wider Jobcentre Plus network.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 03/07/2017 16:48:57 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

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