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65800

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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 the contracts for personal independence payment assessment providers include performance related incentives or penalties; whether such measures have been used; and what the financial value of those measure is.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	203930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP's Personal Independence Payment (PIP) contracts are output based contracts which include a range of remedies for underperformance against a range of performance measures, including financial penalties in the form ofservice credits which the Department can apply as appropriate. Service credits have been applied to the contracts. Current details of the value of any service credits applied under the contracts are commercially confidential.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:28:25 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65808

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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 his contribution of 30 June 2014, Official Report, column 642, on DWP: performance, what level of service his Department expects to provide to meet his aim of providing a personal independence payment system that works for those most in need; and how he will measure success.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	203900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>By the Autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an asessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p><p>We have committed to two independent reviews of the PIP assessment, the first of which will report to Parliament by the end of this year, and we will carefully consider any recommendations made. The terms of reference for the review are available at:</p><p /> <p /> <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/simplifying-the-welfare-system-and-making-sure-work-pays/supporting-pages/introducing-personal-independence-payment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/simplifying-the-welfare-system-and-making-sure-work-pays/supporting-pages/introducing-personal-independence-payment</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:23:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

65809

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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 his contribution of 30 June 2014, Official Report, column 647, on DWP: performance, how his Department will demonstrate that no claimant is waiting more than 16 weeks for their personal independence payment by the end of 2014.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	203901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Statistics on clearance times are intended for future publication and the Department's analysts are currently considering what information will be included in the release.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:42 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

65810

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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, with reference to the letter of 6 March 2014 from the Minister for Disabled People to Macmillan Cancer Support, for what reason his Department does not consider data on clearance times of personal independence payment normal and special rules claims to be robust enough to be included in the published quarterly statistics.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	203902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Releasing information on clearance times at this stage would give an incorrect representation of the process since the system has not yet reached maturity.</p><p>Professional statisticians determine when a series meets the criteria for publication as official statistics. That stage has not yet in their judgement been reached for this information.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:38:58 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

65599

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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 forecast his Department has made of the length of time each part of the claims process for personal independence payment (PIP) up to provision of accurate and targeted assessments will take; and what guidance his Department uses for a reasonable amount of time for an individual to wait for an accurate targeted assessment for PIP.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	203706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We keep the time taken to process claims under constant review and are absolutely committed to improving performance. We accept that the delays faced by some people are unacceptable, and we are committed to putting that right. By the Autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 15:21:34 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

65600

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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 steps his Department has taken to deal with backlogs in personal independence payments.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	203681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are continuously looking at ways to increase the number of decisions made and to improve the claims process.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with both assessment providers as part of our plans to speed up the end to end claimant journey. We have introduced improvements in communications to claimants about the type of evidence they can supply to speed up their claim and we are taking action to support the assessment providers in clearing backlogs of work.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:35 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65601

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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, when he expects personal independence payment backlogs to be cleared.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	203682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>By the Autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:23:46 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65602

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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, if he will recruit additional staff to help clear personal independence payment backlogs.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	203683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP Operations has a large number of employees at the decision maker grade (EO) and we are constantly reviewing our plans to ensure that we have the right number of people to deliver all of our services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:07:13 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65608

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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 steps his Department is taking to better identify personal independence payment claimaints who could be assessed solely on the basis of written evidence and without the need for face-to-face assessments.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	203696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander), on 2 July 2014, <em>Official Report, </em>column 641W.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/07/2014 16:48:14 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

65612

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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 comparative assessment he has made of the methods used to assess personal independence payment claims with the methods used to assess disability living allowance claims.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	203684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Personal independence payment (PIP) includes a more objective assessment process than for Disability living allowance (DLA), with a face-to-face consultation for most applicants, that enables a more accurate and consistent assessment of individual need. Unlike DLA, eligibility for PIP is not assessed on the type of health condition or impairment an individual may have.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:19:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning