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1105758

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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, what assessment she has made of whether Maximus is meeting the SC12 and SC13 targets in schedule 2.2 of the Health and Disability Assessment Services contract; and whether the Government collates data from individual assessment centres on those targets.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	237797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The supplier aims to deliver quality assessments as efficiently as possible. Our priority is to ensure that claimants who attend an assessment centre are seen and the supplier is achieving the SC1<ins class="ministerial">3</ins><del class="ministerial">2</del> target which measures the percentage of claimants sent home unseen. Currently, more people are waiting longer in assessment centres than we would like; the supplier is currently just below the SC1<ins class="ministerial">2</ins><del class="ministerial">3</del> target level which measures waiting times in assessment centres. SC12 and SC13 are national contractual service levels, but the Department does monitor performance at assessment centre-level. We are working closely with the supplier to improve waiting times for more claimants while ensuring the length of the assessment meets the individual claimant’s needs and claimants who attend for an assessment are seen.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/04/2019 13:46:25 question first ministerially corrected 29/04/2019 16:36:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 112078 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1105543

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Working Links
	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 26 Match 2019 to Question 235316 on Working Links, if he will meet with supply chain partners in Easington constituency effected by the collapse of Working Links (Employment) Ltd.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	237676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Supply chain partners effected are encouraged to engage with commercial officials to help identify lessons learnt to feed into our future employment contracting strategy.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/04/2019 16:24:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1105560

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to restore inflation-linked up-rating to working age social security benefits.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	237624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 froze the majority of working-age benefits for four tax years from 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant provisions will lapse in 2020 and the pre-existing statutory arrangements will come back into force.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/04/2019 15:50:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1105561

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Independent Food Aid Network report, published in March 2019, that found in Scotland between April 2017 and September 2018, more than double the number of food parcels were given out than previously estimated.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	237731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>We welcome any research aimed at improving our understanding of the nature and extent of food bank use. We recognise the data limitations in this area and that is why the Department for Work and Pensions has been working with a number of food security experts, the Office for National Statistics and the Scottish Government to introduce a new set of food security questions into the Family Resources Survey (FRS) from April.</p><p> </p><p>In the short term we are exploring how we can build on current good practice to make it as easy as possible for food banks to identify and refer back to the local Jobcentre any customers who may, for a variety of reasons, not be receiving the full formal support to which they are entitled.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to a strong safety-net for those who need it; we spend over £95 billion a year on welfare benefits for people of working age including a well-established system of hardship payments, benefit advances and budgeting loans as an additional safeguard for those who need it.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 14:37:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1105562

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment support allowance (ESA) claimants were in receipt of the assessment rate on (a) 31 March 2016, (b) 31 March 2017 and (c) 31 March 2018 while awaiting a decision on their appeal to the First Tier Tribunal against the disallowance of ESA following a work capability assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
	uin	237580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The analytical datasets used to produce the ESA (WCA) Official Statistics only hold information on completed appeals and do not hold the date an appeal is lodged. Consequently, information on the rate of ESA paid whilst a first tier tribunal is in progress, is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/04/2019 13:35:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1105563

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2018 to Question 142517 on employment support allowance, which Minister authorised revisions to the wording of ESA65B letters to claimants’ GPs.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
	uin	237581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department routinely works with the Cabinet Office, other government departments and stakeholders to ensure its claimant communications are as clear as possible. The final wording in such communications is authorised by DWP Ministers or officials acting on their behalf.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 237582 237583 question first answered 05/04/2019 12:25:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1105564

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2018 to Question 142517, whether the Cabinet Secretary has issued any further ministerial requirements in relation to the ESA65B letters to employment support allowance claimants’ GPs after the initial requirement in November 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
	uin	237582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department routinely works with the Cabinet Office, other government departments and stakeholders to ensure its claimant communications are as clear as possible. The final wording in such communications is authorised by DWP Ministers or officials acting on their behalf.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 237581 237583 question first answered 05/04/2019 12:25:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1105567

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2018 to Question 132727, for what reason the revised wording of the ESA65B letters to employment support allowance claimants’ GPs was implemented by a ministerial requirement issued by the Cabinet Secretary instead of the Permanent Secretary of her Department; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
	uin	237583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department routinely works with the Cabinet Office, other government departments and stakeholders to ensure its claimant communications are as clear as possible. The final wording in such communications is authorised by DWP Ministers or officials acting on their behalf.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 237581 237582 question first answered 05/04/2019 12:25:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1105581

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter from the hon. Member for Edinburgh East of 14 January 2019 and response from the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, of 12 March 2019, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a moratorium on benefits assessments for individuals involved in the Infected Blood Inquiry for the duration of that inquiry.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	237736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>It is important that claimants are reassessed at appropriate intervals to ensure that their benefit entitlement is correct, as a person’s health condition and its impact on their capacity to work can change.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not therefore consider it appropriate to suspend assessments for individuals involved in the Infected Blood Inquiry for the duration of that Inquiry.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/04/2019 16:45:06 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1105606

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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: Appeals
	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 cost to her Department is to process a mandatory reconsideration for personal independence payment.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	237620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The average DWP unit costs for Mandatory Reconsiderations for Personal Independence Payments for the latest full financial year 2017/18 are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Full year average 2017/18 – Operating costs level unit costs</p></td><td><p>£</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PIP Claims Mandatory Reconsiderations</p></td><td><p>61.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PIP Reassessments Mandatory Reconsiderations</p></td><td><p>53.66</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Costs are provided separately for Mandatory Reconsiderations relating to PIP Claims and PIP Reassessments as these are separate activities with costs gathered separately for each.</p><p> </p><p>The average unit costs that have been provided are taken from the DWP’s Activity Based Models at an Operating Costs level which includes direct costs relating to staff undertaking the activities (staff, and local non-staff costs only). They do not include higher level support costs such as management and corporate overheads relating to PIP administration activities.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/04/2019 13:41:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick