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834849

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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: English Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants for (a) jobseekers’ allowance and (b) universal credit have been (i) referred for an assessment of their English language skills and (ii) mandated to undertake English learning in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	126271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The number of referrals for assessment of a claimant’s English language skills is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Universal Credit Live Service claimants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>10,559</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>4,659</p></td><td><p>207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p>2,773</p></td><td><p>312</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The number of referrals for claimants to undertake English learning are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Universal Credit Live Service claimants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>5,187</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>2,577</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p>1,222</p></td><td><p>95</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>We are unable to indicate how many of the referrals for English learning were the result of mandating. Such information is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p>Jobseeker’s Allowance - Department for Work and Pensions Labour Market System (LMS).</p><p>Universal Credit Live Service - Department for Work and Pensions Work Services Platform (WSP).</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>Information is not currently available to indicate the volume of referrals for English Language assessments or learning for Universal Credit Full Service claimants</li><li>The Management Information (MI) contained within this document does not form part of any official statistics and is intended for Department for Work and Pensions internal use only and not published externally.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 06/02/2018 11:46:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

834850

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of claimants of (a) jobseekers allowance and (b) universal credit have been sanctioned as a result of a failure to attend mandated English lessons.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	126272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and Universal Credit (UC) sanction decisions by referral reason, is published every quarter and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p><p>For JSA, failure to attend English lessons would be included in the general referral reason ‘Other Employment Programmes’ under the sub-category reason of ‘Failure to attend a place on a training scheme or employment programme without good reason’. For UC, failure to attend English lessons would come under the general referral reason ‘Employment Programmes’ under the sub-category reason of ‘Failure to participate in an employment programme’.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 09/02/2018 11:24:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

834778

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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: Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting from application to a decision being made was for people with cancer who applied for (a) employment support allowance and (b) personal independence payments in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	126200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>(a)</p><p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>(b)</p><p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants assessed under normal rules waited an average of 12 weeks from the point of registration to a decision being made for new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessments respectively.</p><p>For claimants assessed under Special Rules, the average was 6 and 5 working days for new claims and DLA reassessment claims respectively.</p><p>This data includes cases on which a decision was made between 1<sup>st</sup> November 2016 and 31<sup>st</sup> October 2017, the latest full year for which data is available.</p><p>Information on clearance times split by normal rules and special rules claims and new claim or DLA reassessment claims can be found in the data tables, “Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to October 2017” within tables 5A-B here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2017</a>.</p><p>Source: PIP Computer System claimant records.</p><p>Notes to (b):</p><p>1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest whole number of weeks.</p><p>2. Data includes normal rules and special rules as recorded at the point of the DWP decision, in accordance with the measure. It is possible for claims to transition between normal/special rules and new claims/reassessments during the course of the claimant journey.</p><p>3. The figures are the average (median) clearance time of claims cleared between 1<sup>st</sup> November 2016 and 31<sup>st</sup> October 2017.</p><p>4. The median time is the middle value if you were to order all the times within the distribution from lowest value to highest value. The median is presented here instead of the mean because the mean can be unduly affected by outlying cases (e.g. cases were the person has been hard to reach due to being in prison, hospital, failed to attend the assessment on numerous occasions etc.)</p><p>5. The 'Registration to DWP decision (end to end)' clearance time is measured as the average time between the date of registration of the claim and the date of the DWP decision to either award or disallow the claim. It does not include claims that were withdrawn by the claimant or claims that were disallowed by DWP pre-referral to the Assessment Providers (e.g. for failure to meet basic eligibility criteria or failure to return the Part 2 form within the time limit).</p><p>6. A claimant may have multiple disabling conditions but only the primary condition is recorded on PIP systems.</p><p>7. Cancer defined here is any condition falling under “Neoplasms (C00 - D48)” in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) summary codes, as recorded on the PIP Computer System.</p><p>8. This is unpublished data and it should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</p><p>9. ICD summary codes are based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, published by the World Health Organisation. For reporting purposes, the disability conditions as recorded on the PIP IT system have been mapped to reflect as closely as possible the appropriate ICD10 code</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/02/2018 17:48:57 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

834591

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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: Witham
	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 make an estimate of the number of unemployed people claiming benefits in Witham constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	903746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The claimant count in Witham was 530 in December 2017. This is a fall of over 800, or more than 60%, since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/02/2018 16:10:45 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

834700

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether resources for the Independent Case Examiner have been ringfenced or increased to deal with cases regarding the state pension age for women born in the 1950s.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	126147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Case Examiner Office has received no additional resource to deal with cases regarding the state pension age for women born in the 1950s, but a team of Investigation Case Managers was set up at the beginning of October 2017 to investigate this group of complaints.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2018 11:29:00 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

834699

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints relating to changes to the state pension age for women born in the 1950s the Independent Case Examiner's Office has (a) received and (b) reviewed in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	126146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Details of the number of complaints (a) received and (b) reviewed by the Independent Case Examiner’s Office relating to changes in state pension age for women born in the 1950s in each reporting year since 2010 is detailed in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reporting Year</strong> <strong>(April to March)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Received</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Accepted for examination</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Reviewed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>246</p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18 (April 2017 to January 2018)</p></td><td><p>2,112</p></td><td><p>1,577</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2018 11:47:17 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

834698

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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	Independent Case Examiner
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases the Independent Case Examiner has reviewed in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	126145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Details of the number of cases the Independent Case Examiner’s Office has reviewed (examined and cleared) in each reporting year since 2010 is detailed in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong> <strong>(April to March)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases reviewed (examined and cleared)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>1390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1338</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>1297</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>763</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>873</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18 (April 2017 to January 2018)</p></td><td><p>757</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2018 11:36:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

834808

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124527, whether people living in the UK who are not of pensionable age who then move to an EU country will have their pension uprated.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	126230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>A UK national resident in the UK on the specified date who then seeks to move to an EU27 MS after the specified date is in scope of the Withdrawal Agreement for the purpose of state pension uprating if they have been subject to the legislation of an EU27 MS prior to the specified date.</p><p> </p><p>We will want to discuss in future talks state pension uprating for individuals who are not covered by the Withdrawal Agreement.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/02/2018 11:25:01 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

834774

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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: Motor Neurone Disease
	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 with motor neurone disease were awarded personal independence payment at (a) the enhanced rate for daily living and mobility, (b) the standard rate for daily living and the enhanced rate for mobility, (c) the standard rate for mobility and the enhanced rate for daily living and (d) the standard rate for daily living and mobility between 6 April 2016 and 5 April 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	126196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of people awarded Personal Independence Payment (PIP) with motor neurone disease, as recorded on the PIP Computer System, that were awarded either one or both of the Mobility and Daily living rates of PIP between 6th April 2016 and 5th April 2017.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Table showing number of people awarded PIP by award level between 6th April 2016 and 5th April 2017 with main disabling condition recorded as Motor Neurone Disease.</em></p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>PIP Daily Living Award Type</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>PIP Current Mobility Award Type</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mobility Award - Enhanced</p></td><td><p>Mobility Award - Standard</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Living - Enhanced</p></td><td><p>650</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Living - Standard</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p><p>Source: PIP Computer System.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>Figures are based on the first outcome recorded for each case and include both new claims and DLA reassessment claims assessed under both normal rules and special rules.</li><li>Data has been rounded to the nearest 10 cases; totals less than 5 but greater than 0 are indicated by “#”.</li><li>This is unpublished data and it should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</li><li>Data is based on main disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</li><li>Data taken from the PIP computer system’s management information.</li><li>Figures are for Great Britain only.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 09/02/2018 11:22:52 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

834832

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of personal independence payment claimants in (a) Wales and (b) Newport East constituency whose claims will have to be reassessed as part of the Government's review of all personal independence payment claims.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	uin	126254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the statement made by myself, <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-01-30/debates/F35E85CB-FF67-467E-AD63-1C13EB1EC32B/PIPBackPayments" target="_blank">Official Report</a>, 30 January 2018, Column 703.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/02/2018 17:43:38 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden