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1124572

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	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 26 July 2018 to Question 165571 on employment and support allowance, if she will take steps to include the cost of NHS prescription charges and school meals incurred by affected claimants in the underpayment review as recommended in paragraph 2.15 of the National Audit Office report, Investigation into Errors in Employment and Support Allowance, HC 837, published on 19 March 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	250469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>We are engaging with a number of authorities who are responsible for passported benefits to raise awareness of the ESA underpayment exercise and the potential issues arising from it. This will enable Departments to understand the impacts on passported benefits they administer.</p><p>DWP does not hold information on what people may or may not have claimed. Our focus is on making sure people receive the arrears of ESA they are entitled to.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/05/2019 15:23:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1124574

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	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, with reference to the Written Statement of 21 February 2019, HCWS1348, whether her Department has notified local authorities of the details of the 58,000 employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants identified as having wrongly been awarded contribution-based ESA and not income-based ESA after being moved from incapacity benefit so that their entitlement to council tax support can be reassessed.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	250471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text As part of the ESA underpayment exercise we are informing Local Authorities of any new, past awards of income-related ESA in line with our business as usual procedures. This will support local authorities to consider further any possible impacts of the ESA underpayment exercise. answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/05/2019 15:23:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1124575

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	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, with reference to the Written Statement of 21 February 2019, HCWS1348, how many additional claimants have been identified since 11 February 2019 as having been wrongly awarded contribution-based employment and support allowance (ESA) and not income-based ESA after being moved from incapacity benefit; and how much in ESA arrears has been paid to date.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	250472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department will be publishing an update of progress on checking cases potentially affected by underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) on conversion from previous incapacity benefits on the 16 May 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This publication has been pre-announced here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/esa-underpayments-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/esa-underpayments-progress-on-checking</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 250473 question first answered 09/05/2019 15:03:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1124576

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	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, with reference to the Written Statement of 21 February 2019, HCWS1348, how many employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants who have been reassessed for that benefit after being identified as having been wrongly awarded contribution-based ESA and not income-based ESA after being moved from incapacity benefit have been reassessed as not entitled to that benefit; and how many people have not yet been reassessed.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	250473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department will be publishing an update of progress on checking cases potentially affected by underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) on conversion from previous incapacity benefits on the 16 May 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This publication has been pre-announced here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/esa-underpayments-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/esa-underpayments-progress-on-checking</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 250472 question first answered 09/05/2019 15:03:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1121933

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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 8 April 2019 to Question 239928 on Employment and Support Allowance, when she plans to complete her update of the ESA65B letter.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	245846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the right honourable member to Parliamentary Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=242946" target="_blank">242946</a> answered on 15<sup>th</sup> April 2019.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/04/2019 12:51:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1121934

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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 8 April 2019 to Question 239928 on Employment and Support Allowance, which medical organisations she is consulting to advise on the updating of the ESA65B letter.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	245847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department is consulting the British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners on the revised wording of the ESA65B letter.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/04/2019 12:35:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1121966

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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 142518 on Employment and Support Allowance, whether any subsequent changes have been made to the ESA65B letter to inform doctors that they should continue to provide fit notes for claimants if they are appealing a decision or their condition worsens.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	245887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the right honourable member to Parliamentary Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=239928" target="_blank">239928</a> answered on 8<sup>th</sup> April 2019.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/04/2019 13:26:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1122045

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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, how many ESA65B letters her Department has sent to GPs in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	245962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The ESA65B letter is sent to GPs when an Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimant has been found fit for work following a Work Capability Assessment (WCA), to inform them of the outcome of the WCA and advise them that fit notes are no longer required for ESA purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The ESA65B is computer generated and the action of sending it out is a ‘business as usual’ process. As a result, we do not hold the information required to calculate the number of staff used to issue this type of letter.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, due to the volumes of different letters issued by the Department to claimants and third parties, we are unable to provide a figure for how many ESA65B letters were sent to GPs in 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 245963 245964 question first answered 25/04/2019 11:59:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1122046

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of her Department posting ESA65B letters to GPs in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	245963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The ESA65B letter is sent to GPs when an Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimant has been found fit for work following a Work Capability Assessment (WCA), to inform them of the outcome of the WCA and advise them that fit notes are no longer required for ESA purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The ESA65B is computer generated and the action of sending it out is a ‘business as usual’ process. As a result, we do not hold the information required to calculate the number of staff used to issue this type of letter.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, due to the volumes of different letters issued by the Department to claimants and third parties, we are unable to provide a figure for how many ESA65B letters were sent to GPs in 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 245962 245964 question first answered 25/04/2019 11:59:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1122047

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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, what estimate she has made of the number of staff hours that were used by her Department to issue ESA65B letters to GPs in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	245964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The ESA65B letter is sent to GPs when an Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimant has been found fit for work following a Work Capability Assessment (WCA), to inform them of the outcome of the WCA and advise them that fit notes are no longer required for ESA purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The ESA65B is computer generated and the action of sending it out is a ‘business as usual’ process. As a result, we do not hold the information required to calculate the number of staff used to issue this type of letter.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, due to the volumes of different letters issued by the Department to claimants and third parties, we are unable to provide a figure for how many ESA65B letters were sent to GPs in 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 245962 245963 question first answered 25/04/2019 11:59:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran