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418274

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date	10/09/2015
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether, on the enactment and coming into force of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, the Government plans for people with an existing condition who are reassessed for the employment and support allowance work-related activity group to be classified as new applicants.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no plans to treat existing ESA claimants as new applicants when they are reassessed for employment and support allowance following the enactment of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 13:01:15 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418275

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mental health champions are employed by Maximus in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK as part of the employment and support allowance work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), a MAXIMUS UK subsidiary, currently employs 28 mental health function champions. A telephone service is provided by these mental health function champions due to the large number, and varying size of Assessments Centres across England, Scotland and Wales. These staff provide the service across all parts of the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 13:02:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418276

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evaluation he has made of the effectiveness of the role played by mental health champions in the work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no formal performance measures around the role of the mental health champion.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:55:43 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418278

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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	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, when he plans to commence the review of the work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Work on reviewing how assessments can be better geared towards helping to get people prepared for and into work, if and when they are ready for that, has already begun following the Secretary of State’s speech on 24 August.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:57:42 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford