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1172506

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to (a) reduce the number of assessments undertaken by people with disabilities and (b) ensure adequate support for those people.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Holly Mumby-Croft
uin	900416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>We have made improvements to reduce assessments for Work Capability and Personal Independence Payment. This includes reducing review frequency for pensioners and people with severe or progressive conditions. We are also exploring our manifesto commitment to ensure a minimum award review duration for PIP awards. The planned Green Paper will continue to look at how we can further improve the experience for people with health conditions and disabilities.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 15:44:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4867 label Biography information for Holly Mumby-Croft

1172507

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Justice to reduce the waiting time for welfare benefit tribunal appeals.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	900404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>DWP is working with the Ministry of Justice to develop a new digital system with a view to enabling swifter processing of appeals and a better service for all parties to the proceedings. Personal Independence Payment, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit claimants can now submit their appeal online.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 15:52:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

1172552

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward legislative proposals for the introduction of statutory targets to (a) reduce and (b) end child poverty.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to action that delivers a sustainable long-term solution to child poverty, including reforming the benefits system so that it supports employment and higher pay. Universal Credit is designed to help people move into work faster, stay in work longer and spend more time looking to increase their earnings and, when fully rolled out, we expect Universal Credit will boost employment by 200,000, lifting people out of poverty and generating £8 billion in economic benefits every year.</p><p>The child poverty targets introduced in 2010 were replaced with two statutory measures of parental employment and children’s educational attainment, the two areas which can make the biggest difference to children’s long-term outcomes. We have no current plans to reintroduce a target-based approach that focuses on income alone.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/01/2020 17:56:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172555

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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 in the intensive work search regime that were (a) in and (b) out of work have been sanctioned in each month in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	6733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>However, the member may find it useful to check the UC Sanction Rates tables published on the Stat-Xplore website at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Specifically, those available on the intensive work regime that have received a sanction.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available 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> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 27/01/2020 17:39:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1172605

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: North West
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 her Department has made of the number of claimants of legacy benefits who will naturally migrate to universal credit without transitional protection before the process of managed migration as a whole starts in (a) the North West, (b) Wirral and (c) Wallasey.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	6609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>Claimants who naturally migrate to Universal Credit will do so because they will have had a significant change in their circumstances which previously would have led to a new claim to another existing benefit. In these situations, it has always been the case that the assessment of their new benefit will be based on their new circumstances and under the rules of their new benefit without regard to their previous entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has delivered a number of improvements to support claimants during their first assessment period, such as removing waiting days and paying those claimants moving from Housing Benefit to Universal Credit a two-week run-on. We are also introducing a two-week run-on for eligible claimants of Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance from July 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Data surrounding Universal Credit caseload growth at national, regional and constituency level is published at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk </a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available 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> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/01/2020 17:59:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1172607

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Severe Disability Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect on a claimant's (a) mental health and (b) financial situation of the roll-out of universal credit on people in receipt of the severe disability premium.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	6611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>Universal Credit is simpler and fairer than the legacy system, is designed to target resources at those that need them most and to provide support for people who can’t work or need help moving towards the labour market. We have trained work coaches in how to support claimants with mental health conditions, and claimants who enquire about their Severe Disability Premium (SDP) transitional protections are connected with Specialised SDP Agents. Our work coaches all undertake a robust training process which includes a focus on health conditions and disabilities, how to tailor service delivery according to needs, and has specific content on requirement setting for people with mental health conditions.</p><p>A gateway was introduced from 16 January 2019 to prevent those claimants entitled to the SDP as part of their legacy benefit from claiming Universal Credit. Additionally, a commitment was made for monthly transitional payments to be made to eligible former SDP claimants who have already moved to Universal Credit due to a change in circumstances and to provide a lump sum arrears payment, where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Positive progress has been made and caseload growth has now slowed, however, in the event a new case is discovered payments will be in place quickly. It is not possible to estimate when we will have paid everyone who is entitled as some people become entitled to these payments retrospectively, and therefore the caseload is not a fixed number.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 17:09:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1172616

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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: Computers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many computers are available for public use in Jobcentres in (a) each region of England and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	6616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is detailed below and is from internal DWP data which is correct at the time of this response.</p><p> </p><p>a) English regions</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of devices</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southern England</p></td><td><p>1380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London &amp; Home Counties</p></td><td><p>1128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central</p></td><td><p>1214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern England</p></td><td><p>2096</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>b) UK</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region (total)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of devices</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>5818</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ul><li>The project that led on delivering our new PCs instructed offices to place the number of devices they have for replacement. However, some offices ordered a reduced number of devices based on capacity in the office and the need of customers at that time.</li><li>We closed a number of offices between 2017 and 2019. In the past twelve months, we have closed a further 9 sites and completed 7 co-locations and where those offices were co-located, DWP devices were not installed because PCs for public use were provided by the Local Authority or Third Party.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We also have improved access to our Wi-Fi services in all jobcentres, allowing customers to use their own personal devices to access internet services.</p><p> </p><p>We also constantly review the number of PC’s available for customers and have capacity to increase the number of devices quickly, if the need arises.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 27/01/2020 17:44:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1172651

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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, how much was spent by the Access to Work scheme in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales, (c) England and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	6752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Access to Work scheme is only available to those living in England, Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Please see below the Access to Work expenditure seen in Table 11 and Table 11a of the official statistics broken down in terms of Scotland, Wales and England.</p><p> </p><p>The Access to Work official statistics can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/access-to-work-statistics-april-2007-to-march-2019</a></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Nominal Terms)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Country not recorded*</p></td><td><p>£369,000</p></td><td><p>£403,000</p></td><td><p>£417,000</p></td><td><p>£516,000</p></td><td><p>£636,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£85,852,000</p></td><td><p>£85,764,000</p></td><td><p>£91,987,000</p></td><td><p>£98,362,000</p></td><td><p>£114,441,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>£4,121,000</p></td><td><p>£3,816,000</p></td><td><p>£4,204,000</p></td><td><p>£4,234,000</p></td><td><p>£5,322,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>£6,658,000</p></td><td><p>£6,500,000</p></td><td><p>£7,161,000</p></td><td><p>£7,712,000</p></td><td><p>£8,721,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£96,999,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£96,483,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£103,768,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£110,823,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£129,120,000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Expenditure by country, 2009/10 - 2018/19 (Real Terms, 2018/19 prices)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Country not recorded*</p></td><td><p>£395,000</p></td><td><p>£428,000</p></td><td><p>£433,000</p></td><td><p>£525,000</p></td><td><p>£636,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£91,951,000</p></td><td><p>£91,128,000</p></td><td><p>£95,563,000</p></td><td><p>£100,166,000</p></td><td><p>£114,441,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>£4,413,000</p></td><td><p>£4,055,000</p></td><td><p>£4,367,000</p></td><td><p>£4,311,000</p></td><td><p>£5,322,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>£7,131,000</p></td><td><p>£6,906,000</p></td><td><p>£7,440,000</p></td><td><p>£7,854,000</p></td><td><p>£8,721,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£103,890,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£102,517,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£107,802,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£112,856,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£129,120,000</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Disability Service Client (DiSC) administrative system; Single Operating Platform (SOP) payment system; Provider Referrals and Payments System (PRaP).</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>* ‘Not recorded’ is used throughout the Access to Work publication and denotes the customers where that variable is missing. In this case, it is where information relating to a person’s residence is missing, most commonly their postcode.</p><ol><li>The expenditure data in these statistics covers payments directly to individuals and employers, as well as to assessment providers and the Mental Health Support Service.</li><li>The expenditure data in these statistics does not include DWP’s staffing and operational costs relating to Access to Work.</li><li>Real terms expenditure (where actual spending has been adjusted to remove the effects of general price level changes (inflation) over time using price levels from a base year) has been calculated using the Consumer Prices Index published by the Office for National Statistics. Real terms figures provide a more meaningful measurement of change over time.</li><li>Expenditure figures have been calculated using a methodology consistent with that used in the published Access to Work statistics. Please see the background information and methodology note for more information, in particular the “Weighting” section on pages 8-9. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-statistics-background-information-and-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-work-statistics-background-information-and-methodology</a></li><li>Access to Work expenditure for each country is based on residency of the beneficiary as opposed to place of work.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000 due to the weighting methodology used (see Note 4).</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 17:29:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1172197

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
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	Poverty: Children
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 in Worsley and Eccles South constituency were categorised under section 4 (a) (1)(a), (b) (1)(b), (c) (1)(c) and (d) (1)(d) of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 in each of the last four calendar years.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	6048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>National Statistics on the percentage of children in low income households (relating to Section 4(a) 1(a) and 1(c) of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016) are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. Statistics for the percentage of children in low income households is not available at constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography. Statistics for the North West region can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201718" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201718</a>, “children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2017-18-tables” in tables 4.16ts (for relative low income, before and after housing costs) and 4.22ts (for absolute low income, before and after housing costs)</p><p> </p><p>Data for the percentage of children in low income and material deprivation (relating to Section 4(a) 1(b) of the Act) is not available at constituency level in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. Statistics for the United Kingdom are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201718" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201718</a>, “children-trends-hbai-1994-95-2017-18-tables” in table 4.5tr.</p><p> </p><p>Experimental Statistics on the percentage of children in persistent low income (relating to Section 4(a) 1(d) of the Act) are published annually in the “Income Dynamics” publication. Statistics for the percentage of children in persistent low income households is not available at constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography. Statistics for the North West region can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-dynamics-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-dynamics-2016-to-2017</a> in table 3.2p (on a before housing costs basis) and table 3.8p (on an after housing costs basis).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/01/2020 17:57:11 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1172215

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
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 plans her Department has to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	6070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people in work by 2027.</p><p> </p><p>We help disabled people return to and stay in work through programmes including the Work and Health Programme, the new Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme, Access to Work and Disability Confident.</p><p> </p><p>There were 4.2 million working age disabled people in employment in the UK in Q3 2019. This was an increase of 354,000 since last year (Q3 2018), and an overall increase of 1.3 million since Q3 2013, the earliest comparable figure<em>.</em></p><p> </p><p>We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve the benefits system, opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/01/2020 16:57:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce