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1056739

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been carried out into (a) the experience that health care professionals carrying out assessments for personal independence payment have of the medical conditions of claimants and (b) other aspects of the suitability of those professionals.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	218201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>Health Professionals that carry out PIP Assessments on behalf of DWP must have the following qualifications and experience:</p><p> </p><ul><li>are an occupational therapist, nurse (level 1), physiotherapist or paramedic. Doctors support assessments as part of the overall clinical assurance process but do not currently undertake any PIP assessments.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>are fully registered with the relevant licensing body (doctors must have a licence to practise).</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The licensing body has not placed restrictions on the healthcare professional’s registration.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>at least 2 years post full registration experience or less than 2 years post full registration experience by individual agreement with the Department.</li></ul><p> </p><p>It is DWP’s policy that Health Professionals who meet this criteria will have appropriate experience to complete a functional assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Assessment Providers are required to ensure Health Professionals have knowledge of the clinical aspects and likely functional effects of a wide range of health conditions and impairments. All Health Professionals employed to conduct PIP assessments are required to complete Continuous Professional Development to keep their knowledge up to date.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Assessment Provides have Mental Function Champions available to provide relevant advice and support to Health Professionals about mental health conditions and cognitive impairments.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 15/02/2019 11:39:03 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 101512 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1055034

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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: Medical Examinations
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 January 2019 to Question 208914 on Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations, what her Department’s definition is of prescriptive.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	217023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The word ‘prescriptive’ is not defined in the Personal Independence Payment audit criteria.</p><p>Where DWP considers that assessment reports are not fit for purpose it may return them to Assessment Providers for rework, which will be carried out at their expense.</p><p>The criteria are that reports will be:</p><ul><li>fair and impartial;</li><li>legible and concise;</li><li>in accordance with relevant legislation;</li><li>comprehensive, clearly explaining the medical issues raised, fully clarifying any contradictions in evidence;</li><li>in plain English and free of medical jargon and unexplained medical abbreviations;</li><li>presented clearly; and</li><li>complete.</li></ul><p>The rework action to be taken by Assessment Providers will vary on a case-by-case basis. Wherever possible, cases should be discussed with the original Health Professional or referred back to them for further action to be taken.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/02/2019 11:07:09 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 100775 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1046893

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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: Medical Examinations
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 assessments carried out by (a) Atos Healthcare and (b) Capita Business Services have been subject to review by client relations medical advisors in the past year as a result of complaints.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	211812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 31/01/2019 15:18:21 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1041702

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether auditors from her Department have the authority to instruct health professionals to make mandatory (a) specific and (b) general amendments to Independent Assessment Service reports.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	208914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The quality assurance audit process following consultation is in place to ensure that the report the Health Professional provides to the Department is of a high standard. This is a very important part of the process to check the information provided is fully explained and justified.</p><p>Where assessments have been graded as either ‘acceptable - report amendment required’ or ‘unacceptable’ the reports are returned to the Assessment Provider for remedial activity. Where possible, this activity should be taken by the Health Professional who carried out the original assessment. DWP is not prescriptive on how changes should be made. The Assessment Provider is responsible for ensuring the returned report is then fit for purpose prior to resubmitting it to DWP.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/01/2019 13:27:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1027363

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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: Medical Examinations
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 percentage of (a) GPs and (b) other medical professionals listed on personal independence payment application forms who are contacted to obtain further medical information in relation to those applications.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	202856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/12/2018 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/12/2018 14:30:22 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1027391

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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: Medical Examinations
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 average waiting time for personal independence payment assessments to be completed from initial assessment to assessment being written up by the assessor in each quarter since January 2015.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	202718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>We have interpreted your reference of ‘initial assessment’ to be the face to face assessment. Specific information relating to the average time a PIP assessment report is completed from the initial assessment is not a formal contractual requirement and PIP Assessment Guidance does not make any specific reference to write up times.</p><p> </p><p>In response to Paul Grays’ second independent review of PIP the DWP agreed that reports should be completed whilst the assessment remains ‘fresh’ in the mind of the health professional who completed the assessment. This allows the opportunity for further follow up work before the assessment report is finalised and sent to the Departmental decision maker.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with both assessment providers to ensure their assessment reports are to the standard that the Department expects, and are completed within an optimum timeframe. High quality and timely assessment reports will continue to be key requirements for PIP contracts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/12/2018 13:59:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1007827

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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: Medical Examinations
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 assessments that have been video-recorded in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	191975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>There is currently no option available for Personal Independence Payment claimants to have their assessments video recorded. However, as part of our commitment to improve the Personal Independence Payment assessment process, we are progressing options to video record PIP face to face assessments. Following comprehensive work over the summer, we are designing a live pilot, due to begin later this year. The pilot will inform any wider full roll out decisions.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/11/2018 14:28:38 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

997295

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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: 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 she will undertake a review of the accuracy of the assessments made by personal independence payment assessors.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	184930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring claimants receive high quality, objective assessments. All Health Professionals who undertake the assessments are subject to on-going audit by our assessment providers to ensure that they deliver high quality assessments. The Department also undertakes independent audit to ensure that the advice provided to the Department’s decision makers is of suitable quality, fully explained and justified.</p><p> </p><p>All Health Professionals undertaking PIP assessments are highly trained practitioners who must have at least 2 years post full registration experience or less than 2 years by individual, prior, written agreement with the Department.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2018 16:38:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

982864

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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: 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 her Department will provide an update on plans to roll-out video recordings of assessments for personal independence payments; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	176453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>As part of our commitment to improve the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment process we are progressing options to video record PIP face to face assessments. Over the summer we have gathered views on video recording from claimants, charities and other representative bodies, and from Health Professionals. These views will inform the design of a live pilot. We are designing a live pilot, due to begin later this year. The pilot will inform any wider full roll out decisions.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 17/10/2018 15:08:43 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

983361

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential basis was for the introduction of the 20-metre rule as a criterion for mobility in the personal independence payment assessment procedure.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	176485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The development of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment has been carried out in an iterative, transparent and consultative manner. It was developed in collaboration with a wide range of experts and through comprehensive public consultation.</p><p>The consultation process confirmed there is no consensus across the health and social care community of the perfect measure of mobility and there is no evidence for one particular distance.</p><p>The 20 metre distance was introduced in PIP to distinguish those whose mobility is significantly more limited than others and who face even greater barriers on a day to day basis – those who have the highest need.</p><p> </p><p>There are 104,000 PIP claimants receiving the enhanced rate of mobility who previously were not awarded the higher rate mobility in Disability Living Allowance in the period April 2013 to October 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 176486 question first answered 23/10/2018 16:45:48 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen