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837231

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to ensure that personal independence payment assessments are undertaken fairly and efficiently.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	903749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring claimants receive high quality, objective assessments. The Department holds regular performance meetings with Assessment Providers at local and senior levels. Assessments are independently audited and Departmental clinicians periodically observe assessments. Both providers have increased personalised clinical support to all Health Professionals. PIP Assessment Providers cost less than 4% of the total annual benefit spend on PIP.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2018 17:25:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

834367

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what feedback mechanisms for reporting errors relating to personal independence payments assessments are in place between the courts and healthcare assessment providers.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	125987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The fact a tribunal comes to a different conclusion does not mean there has previously been an error. DWP decisions are most often overturned because of new written evidence that the claimant has not provided to DWP to consider previously or because of the claimant’s oral evidence.</p><p>Over the past year the department has recruited over 150 Presenting Officers. These are being used at PIP and ESA hearings and are now providing direct feedback to decision makers and the assessment providers. Where appeals progress to the Upper Tribunal and the courts, the decisions and judgments handed down are used, where appropriate, to review existing decision making guidance, including that relating to PIP assessments.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2018 12:11:50 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

834368

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to provide personal independence payments (PIP) claimants with an accompanying list of functional descriptors used to assess PIP claims and the points each descriptor carries.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	125988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to her previous Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-01-16/123022/" target="_blank">UIN 123022</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2018 17:09:43 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

833850

registered interest
date	30/01/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timetable is for the upcoming review of all personal independence payment claims.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	125608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 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 02/02/2018 13:37:30 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

830528

registered interest
date	25/01/2018
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Personal Independence Payment assessors who are asked by claimants what professional qualifications they hold are obliged to inform those claimants.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
uin	HL5127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>There is no requirement for Health Professionals to inform claimants of their qualifications when they first meet and introduce themselves. If asked about qualifications it would be at the Health Professional’s discretion whether or not to disclose this information.</p><p>All Health Professionals undertaking PIP assessments must be registered with the appropriate professional body such as the General Medical Council or Nursing and Midwifery Council and have at least 2 years post full-registration experience. Details of any Health Professional’s primary qualifications are publically available on the websites of the relevant governing body.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 08/02/2018 12:34:01 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

830060

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people who had a lifetime award for disability living allowance have had a reduction in the amount they are entitled to as a result of transferring to personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	124765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 29/01/2018 17:27:06 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

830175

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
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
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 were refused personal independence payment in 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	124839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The figures requested are given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Initial claims made in 2016-17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of people refused PIP</p></td><td><p>390,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of whom:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration</p></td><td><p>28,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had a decision changed at a tribunal appeal</p></td><td><p>32,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Figures are for Great Britain.</p><p>Appeal figures are based upon appeals against mandatory reconsideration decisions. Initial decisions cannot be appealed until a claimant has gone through the mandatory reconsideration process.</p><p>Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 124840 124841 question first answered 05/02/2018 17:28:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

828941

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her oral contribution of 23 January 2018, what the evidential basis is for her statement that the Government is spending more on personal independence payments than it did on disability living allowance.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	124547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon Friend, the Secretary of State, made clear in her statement that the figures she referred to applied to the main disability benefits: Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment. These figures are taken from the latest release of the benefit expenditure and caseload tables available from here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 29/01/2018 14:47:43 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

824405

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy for all claimants to receive a copy of their personal independence payment assessment report.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	123206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s response to recommendation 4a from the second independent review of the Personal Independence Payment assessment, published on 18 December 2017 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessment-second-independent-review-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessment-second-independent-review-government-response</a>), sets out the Government’s position in relation to providing assessment reports to claimants. The response made clear that claimants can request a copy of their report at any time following their assessment, that we would not provide the reports to all claimants automatically, but we will consider how we can improve our communications so that claimants know they can request a copy of their assessment report.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/01/2018 14:27:51 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

823503

registered interest
date	16/01/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of personal independence claims were (a) rejected, (b) appealed and (c) went to tribunal in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	122974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) cleared claims that were disallowed can be found via Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>The relevant data can be found in Table 2 – PIP Clearances by Clearance Type.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of Mandatory Reconsiderations (MRs) can be found in the DWP published statistics “Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to October 2017”. The relevant data is in “Table 7A_Recons_Registrations” in Data tables.</p><p> </p><p><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> </p><p>The number of PIP appeals cleared at hearing is available quarterly and the last published data was released in December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>This data can be found in Table SSCS.3 of the quarterly bulletin published by the Ministry of Justice “Tribunals and gender recognition certificate statistics quarterly – July to September 2017”.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/01/2018 14:27:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West