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759453

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	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, if he will make it his policy to maintain the exemptions from conditionality and sanctions accorded to people in the employment and support allowance support group.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	9986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>Currently DWP does not have plans to change its policy on exemptions from conditionality and sanctions, for those people in the Employment and Support Allowance Support Group.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/09/2017 13:49:53 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

759454

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Employment: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to the responses to his Department's consultation entitled, Work, Health and Disability: Improving Lives; and whether he plans to publish a White Paper on that subject.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	9987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>Improving Lives; the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper was published on 31 October 2016 and the consultation closed on 17 February 2017. The Green Paper explored a range of ways to improve the prospects and transform the lives of disabled people by removing barriers that prevent them from working, and helping ensure that they are able to remain in employment. We received around 6000 responses and engaged in a wide range of conversations with stakeholders during the consultation period. We are now carefully considering the consultation responses and next steps for longer-term reform and will set these out in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/09/2017 13:55:50 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

759455

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	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, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of exempting people with long-term progressive health conditions who are in receipt of the higher rate care and mobility personal independence payment components, from reassessment for that payment.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	9988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 25 July 2017 to <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-07-17/5325/" target="_blank">Question UIN 5325</a>.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/09/2017 13:47:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

759456

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
	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 ensure that personal independence payments claimants who suffer from a condition for which there is not yet any medication are not disadvantaged by that fact in their assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	9804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The assessment for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is designed to treat people as individuals, considering the impact of their impairment or health condition on their everyday life and how each claimant has personally adapted to living with a disability, whether or not medication is prescribed or used. The PIP assessment is not a medical assessment, requiring the Health Professional to diagnose a condition or its severity and recommend treatment options; instead it focuses on the claimant’s functional ability.</p><p>There is no automatic entitlement to PIP by virtue of a health condition (except in terminal illness cases), either for new claimants or those claimants who were in receipt of Disability Living Allowance and who are being reassessed under PIP.</p><p>The PIP Assessment Guide for Health Professionals includes guidance on the assessment criteria and how they should be applied. This guidance can be accessed on the gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/547146/pip-assessment-guide.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/547146/pip-assessment-guide.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/09/2017 13:52:59 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

759457

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Access to Work Programme: Taxis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment claimants who no longer receive mobility payment are having taxis paid for under the Access to Work scheme; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	9805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The data requested is not available.</p><p><br>Access to Work support for travel to work is dependent on whether an individual has an inability to use public transport to travel to work, not whether they are in receipt of PIP. Therefore, this information is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/09/2017 16:40:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

759460

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	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 universal credit recipients have waited over six weeks for their first payment.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	9774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Right Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 11 September 2017 to questions <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7328/" target="_blank">7328</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7329/" target="_blank">7329</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-04/7431/" target="_blank">7431</a>, <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-05/8923/" target="_blank">8923</a> and <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-06/9191/" target="_blank">9191</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/09/2017 14:16:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

759214

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	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	Housing
	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 whether there is a correlation between the level of private sector rents in an area and the cost of providing supported housing in that area.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	9940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Developing a workable and sustainable funding model for supported housing is a priority for the Government. We will set out further details on the Government’s plans in the autumn.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/09/2017 09:49:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

759448

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: Behavioural Insights Team
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what services the Government Equalities Office has received from the Behavioural Insights Team since 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	9966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office has contracted the Behavioural Improvement Team (BIT) to carry out research over the period from January 2017 until July 2018 into parental decision-making concerning the sharing of childcare responsibilities and return to work. As part of this project, the BIT is also designing interventions to test which factors encourage parents to equalise the gender balance of work and childcare responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/09/2017 08:10:38 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

759431

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Wales and Borders Rail Franchise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what powers the Welsh Government and Transport for Wales have in the design, content, tendering and award of the next Wales and Borders and Metro franchise.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	9745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>Agreement in principle was reached with the Welsh Government last year that they would be given a combination of statutory executive franchising functions within Wales, and agency powers of the Secretary of State in relation to the English component of the franchise, in order that that they could procure and manage a new franchise of similar geographic scope, while ensuring the Secretary of State’s accountability for rail operations within England.</p><p>In order to facilitate the timely progression of the Welsh Government’s procurement, the Secretary of State entered into the first of a planned series of agency agreements with Welsh Ministers in October last year. Each agreement will set out relevant conditions to protect the Secretary of State’s interests in the English component of the franchise (including the English component of cross-border services). The Government also continues to progress the transfer of functions Order to give effect to the transfer to Welsh Ministers of executive franchising functions in Wales.</p><p>The Department is actively and constructively engaging with Welsh Government to both protect the Secretary of State’s interests and enable them to achieve a successful procurement of the next Wales &amp; Borders franchise from October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 9749 question first answered 14/09/2017 13:19:32 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

759432

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Valley Lines
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether an agreement has been reached on the proposed transfer of ownership of the Valley Lines to the Welsh Government.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	9746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The Welsh Government has been working closely with Network Rail to agree the principles for the proposed transfer of ownership of the Valley Lines. Such transfer is supported in principle by the government, subject to final agreement and recommendation of approval by Network Rail.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/09/2017 13:14:39 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens