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1137226

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to increase support for parents who care for disabled children at home.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	273782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>Child Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a benefit for children under the age of 16 who, due to a disability or health condition, have mobility issues and/or require substantially more care, attention and supervision than children their age normally would. If a parent or carer is claiming Child Tax Credits (CTC) and their child is in receipt of DLA, they are also eligible for additional premiums on their award and for childcare support. Parents of disabled children may be also able to claim Carer’s Allowance.</p><p>Universal Credit is designed to ensure that work pays and the most vulnerable in society are protected, making the system fair for claimants and those who are able to support themselves solely through work. The increased work allowance in Universal Credit from April 2019 is assisting 2.4 million working families, with children or with a disability, to become better off by £635 per year.</p><p> </p><p>The government is committed to protecting and supporting the most vulnerable in society. It is for that reason the government has continued to uprate disability and carer benefits by inflation, including the disability elements of tax credits.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/07/2019 09:55:45 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1136682

registered interest
date	03/07/2019
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	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to co-ordinate cross-government policy on disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	272879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance leads on policy for children and families within DWP. To fulfil this role, the DWP works with a range of other departments to ensure the policy we deliver for children and families is effective. This role does not extend to coordinating children and families’ policy across government.</p><p> </p><p>On Tuesday 25 June, the Government launched a new cross-government approach on disability. This is guided by a vision where disabled people can participate fully in society and that recognises the contributions that disabled people make.</p><p> </p><p>To drive forward this approach, government will establish a new cross-departmental disability team in the Cabinet Office, and the Office for Disability Issues will be incorporated into the team. This move recognises that disabled people face barriers across a wide range of aspects of their lives and across the whole of the life course, including throughout childhood, and that coordinated cross-government action is therefore vital.</p><p> </p><p>The new Cabinet Office disability team will sit in the new Equalities Hub alongside the Government Equalities Office and the Race Disparity Unit. Together they will be better equipped to understand that people are often affected by multiple discriminations and disadvantages and to drive meaningful progress on equality.</p><p> </p><p>The team will work closely with disabled people, disabled people’s organisations and charities to take forward this new approach to disability, with their views and experiences at the forefront of any new policy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, part of the role of the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work is to work across government to encourage the development of policies to tackle the barriers disabled people face to realising their full participation in society. Whilst disability policy is the responsibility of all Departments, by working together we can improve disabled peoples’ participation, for which we are jointly responsible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/07/2019 13:01:48 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1131065

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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	Disability: Children
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 recent Scope report Now is the Time 2018, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential merits of a cross-departmental approach to support the families of disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	262453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s vision for disabled children and young people is the same as for everyone else – to enable them to fulfil their potential, achieve well in education, and to live happy and fulfilled lives. To support this aim, the Disability and Society Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) was set up last year to drive forward action across Government to tackle the barriers disabled people face to realising their full participation in society. Whilst disability policy is the responsibility of all Departments, by working together we can improve disabled people’s participation, for which we are jointly responsible.</p><p>We are also committed to working with a wide and diverse range of people and organisations to shape and improve government's approach. We announced our new Regional Stakeholder Network in December 2018, which will bring the views of disabled people, local disability organisations, disabled people led organisations, and organisations that represent disabled people closer to government.</p><p>The UK Government has some of the strongest equalities legislation in the world and we will continue to ensure that these rights are protected, just as we will continue to develop policies to tackle the barriers faced by disabled people.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/06/2019 15:51:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

1131067

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the role of the Minister for Disabled People is in co-ordinating children and families policy across Government.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	262454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance leads on policy for children and families within DWP – including the delivery of the Reducing Parental Conflict programme, the Child Maintenance Service, Maternity benefits and the Family Test which was developed to ensure that potential impacts on family relationships and functioning are considered in advice put to Ministers. To strengthen implementation of the Family Test, we are currently working across government with a newly created Family Test Network.</p><p> </p><p>To fulfil this role DWP works with a range of other departments to ensure the policy we deliver for children and families is effective, but it does not coordinate children and families’ policy across government.</p><p> </p><p>Part of the role of the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work is to work across government to encourage development of policies to tackle the barriers disabled people face to realising their full participation in society. Whilst disability policy is the responsibility of all departments, by working together we can improve disabled people’s participation, for which we are jointly responsible.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/06/2019 15:50:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

1125417

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
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	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what financial assistance her Department provides to parents who leave work to undertake full-time care for a child with a disability.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	251986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department recognises that carers provide invaluable support for relatives, partners and friends who may be ill, frail or disabled. As such, there is an additional amount of benefit payable in Universal Credit to support carers who provide care of 35 hours or more each week for a severely disabled person. For claimants who meet these requirements an additional 160.20 per month is included in their Universal Credit entitlement for caring.</p><p> </p><p>Carer’s Allowance is also available to provide a measure of financial support for those who give up full-time employment to care for a severely disabled person for at least 35 hours a week. The rate of Carer’s Allowance has increased from £53.90 in 2010 to £66.15 a week, meaning an additional £635 a year for carers since 2010.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/05/2019 12:49:54 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1059854

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to tackle the funding shortfall for health and social care services for disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	220316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The commissioning of health and social care services for children with disabilities is the responsibility of clinical commissioning groups and local authorities respectively. Local commissioners are best placed to assess the needs of the local population and allocate funds accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014, the Government introduced a new statutory framework requiring local authorities and clinical commissioning groups to commission jointly services for children with special educational needs and disability, across health, social care and education. Since 2014, £327 million has been given to local areas to support implementation of these new arrangements, in addition to the high needs budget for placements for pupils with complex special educational needs which is over £6 billion this year, the highest it has ever been.</p><p> </p><p>The 2015 Spending Review made available more than £200 billion until 2020 for councils to deliver services to local communities, including for provision of social care services for disabled children. The Government is conducting a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities which will develop a robust, up-to-date approach to distributing funding across all local authorities in England at Local Government Finance Settlements, including for children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for the National Health Service will grow on average by 3.4% in real terms each year from 2019/20 to 2023/24; by 2023/24 the NHS budget will increase by over £20 billion a year in real terms compared with today.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/02/2019 17:55:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1050083

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the quality of health and social care services for disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	213463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan set out a range of actions to improve health outcomes for disabled children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>Over the next three years, autism diagnosis will be included alongside work with children’s mental health services to test and implement the most effective ways to reduce waiting times for specialist services.</p><p> </p><p>By 2023/24 children and young people with a learning disability or autism, with the most complex needs will have a designated keyworker.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will work with partners to allow hearing, sight and dental checks for children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both in special residential schools.</p><p> </p><p>Over the next five years, we will see the national learning disability improvement standards implemented across all services funded by the National Health Service, and by 2023/24, a digital flag in electronic patient records will ensure staff know the reasonable adjustments needed by a person with a learning disability or autism.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019/20, we will continue to fund sports and activity prostheses for children who have suffered limb loss or who have a limb deficiency.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continue to work with the Department for Education to ensure health services and social care services work together locally to deliver the best outcomes for children with a disability.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/02/2019 17:13:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1011502

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the quality of health and social care services for disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	194150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2014, the Government introduced a new statutory framework requiring local authorities and clinical commissioning groups to commission jointly services for children with special educational needs and disability, across health, social care and education. Since 2014, £327 million has been given to local areas to support implementation of these new arrangements, in addition to the high needs budget for placements for pupils with complex special educational needs.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to their role inspecting providers, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission are jointly inspecting every local area’s arrangements. The inspections assess the effectiveness of joint arrangements by commissioners of health, education and social care to support children with special educational needs, with written statements of action required where improvement is needed.</p><p> </p><p>Improving wheelchair access for children has been included as a ‘must do’ in NHS England’s planning guidance for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for 2017/18 – 2018/19, which was issued in September 2016. Each CCG is required to set out improvement plans showing how they would halve the number of children waiting 18 weeks by Q4 2017/18 and eliminate 18 week waits for wheelchairs by the end of 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2018, we announced investment of £1.5 million in child sports prostheses across 2018/19 and 2019/20 for the provision of child sports protheses and research.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019 we will be consulting on introducing mandatory learning disability training for health and care staff.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/11/2018 14:19:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1002241

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to analyse (1) those elements of health and social care which need to be strengthened, and (2) those aspects of entitlements for disabled children and their families and carers which need to be clarified; and what consequent action they are taking.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL11262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The commissioning of health and social care services for children with disabilities is the responsibility of clinical commissioning groups and local authorities respectively. Local commissioners are best placed to assess the needs of the local population and which areas may need strengthening. Clinical commissioning groups must ensure that they secure health services to meet the needs of disabled children to a reasonable extent.</p><p>Children’s social care is the responsibility of the Department for Education. All disabled children are regarded as children ‘in need’ under the Children Act 1989 and may receive social care from the local authority. The Children and Families Act 2014 placed a duty on local authorities to assess whether a parent carer in their area has needs for support.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2018 16:20:38 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

937584

registered interest
date	09/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of health and social care services for disabled children.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	162031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>The commissioning of health and social care services is the responsibility of clinical commissioning groups and local authorities respectively. Local commissioners are best placed to assess the needs of the local population, and commission accordingly. While waiting times for accessing some individual services for children are reported, there is no overall waiting time measure for access to services for disabled children.</p><p> </p><p>Information is collected on wheelchair services; the latest published data for quarter four 2017/18 shows 82% of children whose episode of care was closed in that period received their equipment in 18 weeks or less. NHS England is working with clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to understand what is contributing to waits above 18 weeks, and consider what actions will help to reduce these.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014, the Government introduced a new statutory framework requiring local authorities and CCGs to commission jointly services for children with special educational needs and disability, across health, social care and education. Since 2014, £327 million has been given to local areas to support implementation of these new arrangements, in addition to the high needs budget for placements for pupils with complex special educational needs which is £6 billion this year – the highest it has ever been. Every local area’s arrangements are being inspected jointly by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission, in addition to their role inspecting providers.</p><p> </p><p>The 2015 Spending Review made available more than £200 billion until 2020 for councils to deliver services to local communities, including for provision of social care services for disabled children. The Government is conducting a review of the relative needs and resources of local authorities that will develop a robust, up-to-date approach to distributing funding across all local authorities in England at Local Government Finance Settlements, including for children’s services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 162032 162033 question first answered 17/07/2018 11:19:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson