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984512

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date	09/10/2018
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	Universal Credit
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 make TrainingBuild for Universal Credit available to welfare advice centre staff.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	177292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>While the Universal Credit Full Service training platform cannot be released to non-DWP staff for security reasons, there are a range of alternate materials available to inform our stakeholders of our processes and online systems.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our engagement workshops and sessions with external partners, including welfare advice staff, we have introduced a number of materials that show elements of the online service and demonstrate how we use it to manage claims. These cover aspects such as opening accounts, making claims, use of the online journal and reclaims. These are supported by freely available online videos and publications which tell the story of the transition to Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 15/10/2018 16:42:20 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

984513

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the latest projected end date is for the migration from disability living allowance personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	177293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>We continue to review the pace of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessment activity on a regular basis to make sure that we are striking an appropriate balance between inviting eligible claimants to claim PIP in a timely manner and ensuring the system is working as effectively as possible. Children in receipt of DLA when reaching age 16 will continue to be invited to claim PIP at that point.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 15/10/2018 15:47:48 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

984514

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what digital support will be available to universal credit claimants in maintaining their claim.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	177294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>Currently, claimants who are in need of digital support can access this through Universal Support. Earlier this month, we announced a new partnership with Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland to deliver a new approach to Universal Support, initially up to March 2020. Our new partnership will ensure that all those who need to make a claim and need extra support can access it.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, jobcentres across the country have free Wi-Fi, and there are more than 8,000 computers available to support customers who need help with making and maintaining their claim digitally.</p><p> </p><p>DWP work coaches are available to assist anyone who needs help with their claim and we also have a free phone helpline available for people cannot get online. Non-digital support is also available for vulnerable claimants, who cannot use the online service, through other channels such as telephony, face to face or through home visits to ensure they can maintain their claim. Our recently published Universal Credit Claimant Survey found that 98 per cent of claimants did claim online and the majority of those said they found the claim process overall to be easy.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 15/10/2018 16:44:05 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

984515

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	Universal Credit
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 people have had their right to reside overturned in an application for universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	177295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 15/10/2018 16:41:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

982599

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	Social Security Benefits: Terminal Illnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many DS1500 forms have been issued in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	176268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>This information is not collected as DWP do not issue the DS1500 report. GPs and Consultants have direct access to the blank DS1500 report and send the completed report to DWP.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 16/10/2018 12:04:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

982600

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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to publish the updated guidance on reassessments for personal independence payment claimants with severe or progressive conditions requiring high level support.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	176269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 October 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-09-12/174062/" target="_blank">UIN174062</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 16/10/2018 13:33:19 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

982790

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Supply Teachers: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was spent on procuring supply teachers through agencies in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	176270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The amount spent by local authority maintained schools on supply teaching staff and agency supply teaching staff (as well as costs and receipts from supply teacher insurance) is available on the Department’s School and College Performance website here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The amount spent by academies on supply teaching staff and agency supply teaching staff (as well as costs and receipts from supply teacher insurance) can be found in the department’s Statistical First Release ‘Income and expenditure in academies in England’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#academy-spending" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data#academy-spending</a>. Data is available from 2011/12, when they were first collected in this format, up to 2015/16. Data for academies in 2016/17 is also published in a newer format here: <a href="https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources" target="_blank">https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/10/2018 16:44:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

983314

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Drugs: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much freight capacity is used to transport medicines that have been imported to the UK from (a) other EU and EEA countries and (b) the rest of the world.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	176272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the current level of air freight capacity used to import medicines into the United Kingdom or the number of medicines that reach the UK via different routes. We did, however, write to a number of pharmaceutical companies to understand more about their supply chains to allow the Government to effectively plan for a number of different European Union exit scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that through its medicines supply contingency programme for the UK possibly leaving the EU without a deal it is requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical companies. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about a company or a specific medicine into the public domain.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 176273 question first answered 11/10/2018 16:04:11 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

983315

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Drugs: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medicines from (a) other EU and EEA countries and (b) the rest of the world are imported to the UK through (i) sea ports (ii) the Channel Tunnel (iii) air freight and (iv) other routes.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	176273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the current level of air freight capacity used to import medicines into the United Kingdom or the number of medicines that reach the UK via different routes. We did, however, write to a number of pharmaceutical companies to understand more about their supply chains to allow the Government to effectively plan for a number of different European Union exit scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that through its medicines supply contingency programme for the UK possibly leaving the EU without a deal it is requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical companies. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about a company or a specific medicine into the public domain.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 176272 question first answered 11/10/2018 16:04:11 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

983316

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has (a) estimated the cost to medicines suppliers of stockpiling medicines for six weeks and (b) held discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on using the public purse to meet that cost.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	176274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is considering what support it may provide support to suppliers in respect to stockpiling medicines.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that through its medicines supply contingency programme it is requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical companies. To reassure participating companies, we’ve committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about a company or a specific medicine into the public domain.</p><p> </p><p>Prices for branded medicine products are fixed under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme. For other generic medicines products there is a competitive market and prices increase and decrease on a regular basis as a result of market forces. We will continue to monitor prices and respond appropriately to ensure maximum value for money on behalf of the taxpayer is achieved.</p><p> </p><p>In the unlikely event of a no-deal the aim of the Department’s contingency planning is to ensure patients maintain the same access to medicines as they do at present.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 176275 176277 question first answered 11/10/2018 16:10:27 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield