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176260

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made to implement the changes announced in December 2014 to provide more information about Short Term Benefit Advances online and in Jobcentres and to update the guidance on Short Term Benefit Advances for Jobcentre advisers.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL4518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Rt. Hon. Iain Duncan Smith, set out on 8 December 2014 (Official Report, column 633) how the Department for Work and Pensions will be doing much to raise awareness of Short Term Benefit Advances (STBAs). This will include providing more information to claimants about STBAs online and in Jobcentres. Staff guidance on STBAs will also be updated and staff reminded of the process for considering an STBA.</p><p> </p><p>The department has already undertaken testing of the posters and messaging with a small number of staff and claimants. We have also asked the Social Security Advisory Committee to review these customer communication products before they are introduced.</p><p> </p><p>Once the products have been introduced we will, of course, closely monitor their effectiveness and impact, including on the number of requests for STBAs.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL4519 HL4520 HL4521 question first answered 04/02/2015 15:06:07 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

175365

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Freud on 22 July 2013 (WS 152) that the Department for Work and Pensions had engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide independent advice in relation to strengthening quality assurance processes across all its health and disability assessments, when the results of that audit will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This was an internal review completed more than a year ago. Since then significant improvements have been introduced. As such, the review is out of date and the Department has no plans to publish the findings.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 29/01/2015 17:37:15 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

175367

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people receiving Personal Independence Payment have undergone an intervention to review their entitlement.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL4370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested regarding interventions is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on claims made to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) broken down by condition is not available. By 21 October 2014, 1,535 people classified as having a movement disorder as their primary condition were in receipt of PIP.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has robust processes in place to assure the quality of Personal Independence Payment assessments and decisions about benefit entitlement, through regular audit and quality checks by specialist teams. We continue to review processes to ensure they remain appropriate and effective.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL4371 HL4372 HL4373 question first answered 29/01/2015 17:37:41 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

175368

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people with Parkinson's receiving Personal Independence Payment have undergone an intervention to review their entitlement.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL4371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested regarding interventions is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on claims made to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) broken down by condition is not available. By 21 October 2014, 1,535 people classified as having a movement disorder as their primary condition were in receipt of PIP.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has robust processes in place to assure the quality of Personal Independence Payment assessments and decisions about benefit entitlement, through regular audit and quality checks by specialist teams. We continue to review processes to ensure they remain appropriate and effective.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL4370 HL4372 HL4373 question first answered 29/01/2015 17:37:42 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

175369

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have (1) to pilot the Personal Independence Payment quality assurance process, (2) to publish an evaluation of the Personal Independence Payment quality assurance process, and (3) to consult on the Personal Independence Payment quality assurance process.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL4372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested regarding interventions is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on claims made to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) broken down by condition is not available. By 21 October 2014, 1,535 people classified as having a movement disorder as their primary condition were in receipt of PIP.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has robust processes in place to assure the quality of Personal Independence Payment assessments and decisions about benefit entitlement, through regular audit and quality checks by specialist teams. We continue to review processes to ensure they remain appropriate and effective.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL4370 HL4371 HL4373 question first answered 29/01/2015 17:37:42 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

175370

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people with movement disorders have applied for Personal Independence Payment.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL4373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested regarding interventions is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on claims made to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) broken down by condition is not available. By 21 October 2014, 1,535 people classified as having a movement disorder as their primary condition were in receipt of PIP.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has robust processes in place to assure the quality of Personal Independence Payment assessments and decisions about benefit entitlement, through regular audit and quality checks by specialist teams. We continue to review processes to ensure they remain appropriate and effective.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL4370 HL4371 HL4372 question first answered 29/01/2015 17:37:42 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

174950

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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	Japan Tobacco: Ballymena
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will support an application to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in respect of job losses in Northern Ireland following the decision of Japanese Tobacco International to close its manufacturing plant in Ballymena.
tabling member printed	Lord Empey
uin	HL4329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) Regulations set out strict criteria and eligibility for potential applicants. It is questionable whether the redundancy situation in this case meets EGF eligibility.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Employment and Learning in Northern Ireland, through its Redundancy Service, offers tailor-made and wide ranging packages of support measures such as those that would be funded through EGF.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government wishes to see real budgetary restraint in the EU in order to avoid unaffordable high costs to the UK. Any successful EGF application would count as a receipt to the UK and would therefore lead to a reduction in the abatement.</p><p> </p><p>Pursuing domestic schemes, such as the Northern Ireland Redundancy Service, would therefore represent better value for money.</p><p> </p><p>Nevertheless, if any bid that were to come forward to my Department, met the criteria and represented value for money, it would receive full consideration.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 02/02/2015 13:04:20 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4216 label Biography information for Lord Empey

174281

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 15 January (HL Deb, col 893), in which he stated that the current backlog of claims for personal independence payment assessments stands at 107,000, what was the source of that data and where it is published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Sherlock
uin	HL4225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lady to the letter my Noble Friend Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth wrote on 21<sup>st</sup> January 2015 to Lord Dubs, a copy of which has been placed in the House Library, and is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 26/01/2015 14:14:21 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name 4225LETTER.pdf title Letter to Lord Dubs
tabling member	4147 label Biography information for Baroness Sherlock

174283

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the position of mesothelioma claimants whose claims have been lodged with the T&N Asbestos Trusts; whether T&N claimants are receiving their legal entitlement; why T&N claimants are excluded from the benefits of the Mesothelioma Act 2014; and why those claimants are treated differently from any other claimant affected by mesothelioma.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>A person with diffuse mesothelioma, or their dependents, may be eligible to apply for the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS) if no one has received damages or a specified payment in respect of the disease or is eligible to receive a specified payment from another source.</p><p> </p><p>Eligibility for, or receipt of, such payments disqualifies an applicant from receiving a DMPS payment. This prevents a person receiving more than one payment for the same condition and ensures that all claimants are treated fairly and with equity.</p><p> </p><p>These specified payments include payments under the Turner and Newall Trusts.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 22/01/2015 14:02:12 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

173571

registered interest
date	14/01/2015
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many recipients of the Winter Fuel Payment are higher rate taxpayers.
tabling member printed	Lord Tyler
uin	HL4131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Eligibility for Winter Fuel Payments is based on female State Pension age. The latest estimates we have show that there are currently around 600,000 higher and additional rate taxpayers in Great Britain in 2014/15 who are above the female State Pension age and therefore qualify for Winter Fuel Payments<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We ask people who want to return their payment to do so by post so that it can be dealt with securely under existing Departmental financial processes and recorded against their Winter Fuel Payment account. We also ask for a covering letter indicating whether or not they wish us to continue to issue payments in future years.</p><p> </p><p>Returned payments should be sent to the address on the issuing letter or to the office that pays the claimant’s benefit.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest estimates we have show that treating Winter Fuel Payments as taxable income would bring in around £250 million a year of additional revenue<sup>2</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. This estimate is based on the 2011/12 Survey of Personal Incomes using economic assumptions consistent with the OBR’s November 2014 economic and fiscal outlook.</p><p>The estimate uses ONS population projections at mid year 2012 adjusted for financial years.</p><p>The estimate is rounded to the nearest 100,000.</p><p> </p><p>2. This estimate is based on DWP modelling using HMRC taxpayer data from November 2012 and Winter Fuel Payment caseload data from Winter 2013.</p><p>This takes into account revenue from Basic, Higher and Additional rate taxpayers.</p><p>Winter Fuel Payment rates are assumed to be £200 per year for recipients under 80 and £300 a year for recipients aged 80 and over.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL4132 HL4133 question first answered 26/01/2015 12:13:04 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	225 label Biography information for Lord Tyler