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225281

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
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 have been in receipt of (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance since June 2011; and how many such people have been attached to the Work Programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	226402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In response to the first part of the question, statistics on the number of Incapacity Benefit and Employment and Support Allowance recipients, by duration of claim, can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>In response to the second part, information on Work Programme attachments, by payment group, can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/03/2015 17:10:59 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

223706

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department issues to jobcentres on food bank referral for families with disabled children whose benefit applications have not been processed in a timely manner.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	225349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>All available Jobcentre Plus support will be explored and exhausted before considering signposting to other organisations.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 02/03/2015 13:55:12 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

223717

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
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 review the procedures for notifying his Department of a change of circumstances in the event of hospitalisation when the claimant is incapacitated and unable to contact the Disability Benefits helpline.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	225435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department has reviewed its procedures for notifying hospital admissions when the customer is incapacitated and unable to contact us themselves.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken account of the fact that there is no reduction in the Benefit paid for the first twenty eight days following admission, where there has been no previous hospitalisation within the preceding twenty eight days. Also, measures are in place so that the report of the hospital admission may be taken from another person, on the customer’s behalf. We have concluded that the procedures already in place are satisfactory.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/03/2015 14:36:13 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 47472 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

175365

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Freud on 22 July 2013 (WS 152) that the Department for Work and Pensions had engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers to provide independent advice in relation to strengthening quality assurance processes across all its health and disability assessments, when the results of that audit will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL4368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This was an internal review completed more than a year ago. Since then significant improvements have been introduced. As such, the review is out of date and the Department has no plans to publish the findings.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 29/01/2015 17:37:15 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

172448

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
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 Labour Market Statistics, December 2014, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the rise in the number of claimants of employment and support allowance and other incapacity benefits.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	219987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) caseload increased by 1,618,580 between May 2010 and May 2014: <a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/esa/ccdate/esa_phase/a_carate_r_ccdate_c_esa_phase.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/esa/ccdate/esa_phase/a_carate_r_ccdate_c_esa_phase.html</a>.</p><p>During this period we have been reassessing Incapacity Benefit claimants for ESA.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 12/01/2015 12:07:08 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

169624

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
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 take into account the particular effects of different health conditions in implementation of its welfare reform policies.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	218040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Eligibility for disability benefits is assessed based on the functional impact of a claimant’s health condition or disability, rather than the condition or disability itself.</p><p> </p><p>The Department keeps its disability benefits, including Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independent Payment, and the assessments used to determine eligibility for these under review.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 218041 question first answered 16/12/2014 12:31:00 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

101608

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's projected expenditure on (a) disablity living allowance and (b) personal independence payment is in each year up to 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Information on actual and forecast expenditure can be found in the following table “Outturn and forecast: Budget 2014” which can be found via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2014</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 17:27:59 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 25889 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

101507

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in employment and support allowance and personal independence payments on people with progressive conditions such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	212345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>Both Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have been designed to take full account of progressive conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s.</p><p> </p><p>Entitlement to both ESA and PIP is based on the impact of the claimant’s disability or health conditions. If a claimant has a progressive health condition, healthcare professionals will take this into consideration when providing advice to the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Both ESA and PIP are kept under constant review: Dr Paul Litchfield is due to publish the fifth and final statutory review of the Work Capability Assessment before the end of the year and Paul Gray will be publishing the first PIP independent review by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 17:06:52 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 25885 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

101244

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
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 waiting in each parliamentary constituency for (a) a work capability assessment and (b) a decision for a personal independence payment claim on the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested for work capability assessments by parliamentary constituency is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of registrations and clearances of claims to personal independence payment (PIP) has been published and is available on the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2014</a>. There are several stages between registration and clearance of a PIP claim including: the issue and return of the PIP questionnaire; an assessment by a health professional, usually at a face-to-face consultation; and a decision on the claim by a DWP decision maker.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 30/10/2014 14:21:15 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

100916

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support available for people with progressive conditions; and to what extent the assessment process for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payments takes into account the fluctuating and progressive nature of conditions such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and cystic fibrosis.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	211882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Both Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have been designed to take full account of fluctuating conditions and healthcare professionals who undertake assessments are required to fully explore and report any fluctuations in a claimant’s condition(s).</p><p> </p><p>If a claimant has a progressive medical condition, healthcare professionals will take this into consideration when advising the Department as to when the claimant might need to be reviewed.</p><p> </p><p>Entitlement to both ESA and PIP is based on the impact of the claimant’s disability or health conditions.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 29/10/2014 14:56:59 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy