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349702

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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	Disability Living Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what medical conditions disability living allowance can be awarded to applicants indefinitely.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	1957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Entitlement to DLA is not based on the diagnosis of a disease or whether a person has a degenerative medical condition. DLA is awarded to people who have care and/.or mobility needs because of severe disability. Award lengths are set according to the extent that care and/or mobility needs may change over time. For those with a degenerative condition fixed term awards allow the Department to periodically review, and where necessary, increase the levels of financial support should care/mobility needs have increased.</p><p> </p><p>Claims to DLA are dealt with by DWP decision makers, who refer to Departmental guidance <em>the Children’s A-Z of Medical </em>Conditions which sets out the main care and mobility needs likely to arise from different disabling conditions. If necessary, further information is gathered from health professionals dealing with the claimant, or in the case of a child, from their school.</p><p> </p><p>DLA can be awarded indefinitely to any claimant depending on their individual circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1955 question first answered 16/06/2015 15:12:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349757

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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	Disability Living Allowance: Batten Disease
	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 bring forward proposals to ensure that people diagnosed with Batten disease receive the higher rate of disability living allowance from the point of diagnosis.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	1857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>We have no plans to change current arrangements for dealing with claimants with Batten disease. As Batten disease is a progressive condition this means that care and mobility needs will change over time and it is in the interests of the child that we periodically review their claim to ensure the appropriate level of support is always available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1858 question first answered 16/06/2015 14:23:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349740

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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	Disability Living Allowance: Batten Disease
	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 bring forward proposals to ensure that people diagnosed with Batten disease who have successfully applied for disability living allowance receive that allowance indefinitely without any need to renew their application.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	1858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p> </p><p>We have no plans to change current arrangements for dealing with claimants with Batten disease. As Batten disease is a progressive condition this means that care and mobility needs will change over time and it is in the interests of the child that we periodically review their claim to ensure the appropriate level of support is always available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1857 question first answered 16/06/2015 14:23:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349700

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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	Disability Living Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on requiring applications to renew disability living allowance for people with degenerative medical conditions; and what evidence is used by assessors to confirm the degenerative nature of those conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	1955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Entitlement to DLA is not based on the diagnosis of a disease or whether a person has a degenerative medical condition. DLA is awarded to people who have care and/.or mobility needs because of severe disability. Award lengths are set according to the extent that care and/or mobility needs may change over time. For those with a degenerative condition fixed term awards allow the Department to periodically review, and where necessary, increase the levels of financial support should care/mobility needs have increased.</p><p> </p><p>Claims to DLA are dealt with by DWP decision makers, who refer to Departmental guidance <em>the Children’s A-Z of Medical </em>Conditions which sets out the main care and mobility needs likely to arise from different disabling conditions. If necessary, further information is gathered from health professionals dealing with the claimant, or in the case of a child, from their school.</p><p> </p><p>DLA can be awarded indefinitely to any claimant depending on their individual circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1957 question first answered 16/06/2015 15:12:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349734

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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: Batten Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received from people with Batten disease or their representatives; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	1855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We have interpreted the question to mean how much correspondence the department has received relating to Battens Disease. The department does not record correspondence received by nature of Disease and so is unable to provide this information.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/06/2015 14:41:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349701

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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	Disability Living Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received on requiring parents with multiple children diagnosed with the same medical condition to fill in a disability living allowance application for each child; and if he will bring forward proposals to require such parents to fill in only one application for all their children.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	uin	1956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Our central records do not show that any representations have been made that parents should only have to fill in one application form for their children, Claims to benefits are individual, need may be different for different children at different stages of their illness. We have no plans to change current arrangements.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 14:00:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349829

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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	Pensions: Widowed People
	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 ensure that reforms to the pensions system do not unfairly affect widows who have relied on their husband's earnings and have not themselves made a sufficient contribution.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	1973
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The new State Pension will be based on an individual’s own National Insurance contributions. This reflects the fact that, in contrast to earlier generations of women, most people of working age today are able to gain sufficient qualifying years to qualify for a state pension in their own right.</p><p> </p><p>We have put arrangements in place to ensure that certain women who elected to pay National Insurance contributions at the married women and widows’ reduced rate are not affected by withdrawing access to derived basic State Pension. Widows who qualify under these arrangements will be able to get a pension of about the same as the basic pension they could have got in the current scheme plus any additional State Pension they built up themselves by April 2016, if that is more than they would get under the new rules on their own contributions.</p><p> </p><p>We are also protecting the additional State Pension (also known as SERPS or S2P) a surviving spouse or civil partner would have been able to inherit under the current rules, if their deceased partner had either died or reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016. Where both members of the couple are in the new State Pension system, the surviving member may inherit half of any “protected payment” (the amount, if any, by which a person’s state pension valued under current rules exceeds the full rate of the new State Pension at 2016). These arrangements will apply where the marriage or civil partnership had begun before the new scheme starts.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/06/2015 15:57:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett