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519365

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to reply to the letter of 15 March 2016 on wage insurance from the hon. Member for Birkenhead.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	37135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Stephen Crabb) has replied to the Rt. Hon. Member today.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/05/2016 14:45:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

519371

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Carer's Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the rate of take-up of carer's allowance; and what steps he is taking to improve that rate.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	37081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>There are a number of qualifying conditions that have to be met in order for a claimant to receive Carer’s Allowance. These include providing care for 35 hours a week to a disabled person in receipt of a qualifying disability benefit; earning less than £110 net a week; and not being in full time education. There is no basis on which we could accurately make such an assessment on take-up rates given that these and other conditions have to be satisfied to receive Carer’s Allowance, and they can only be tested when an actual claim is made.</p><p> </p><p>Information on Carer’s Allowance is widely available, including on Gov.UK. We have also introduced a new online claiming service for Carer’s Allowance, which was designed using customer insight. This has proved extremely popular with claimants, with around seven out of ten claims now being made that way and customer satisfaction rates of 90 per cent. Performance data is available on Gov.UK at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/performance/carers-allowance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/performance/carers-allowance</a></p><p> </p><p>DWP also works closely with stakeholders to promote Carer’s Allowance, this includes regular engagement with Carers UK; a Carer’s Allowance Unit Outreach Manager who regularly attends events throughout England, Scotland and Wales promoting Carer’s Allowance; and engagement with Carers groups through the DWP National Partnership Team. Further information on Carer’s Allowance is available on Gov.UK at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/05/2016 14:47:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

519376

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Work Capability Assessment
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 Answer of 9 May 2016 to Question 36280, for what reasons work capability assessments have been cancelled.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	37214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>Work Capability Assessments can be cancelled for a wide variety of reasons linked to the need for matching the customer’s own requirements with the availability of all those parts necessary for an assessment to take place. Over half of all cancellations are customer instigated cancellations.</p><p> </p><p>Where the cancellations are instigated by DWP we will rearrange the appointment at a convenient time for the customer.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/05/2016 16:53:00 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

519377

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Members: Correspondence
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 to reply to the letter of 1 March 2016 from the Rt hon. Member for Birkenhead on the recommendations made by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	37215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Stephen Crabb) has replied to the Rt. Hon. Member today.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/05/2016 14:43:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

519378

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pieces of recording equipment are available in each region of the UK for the purposes of recording work capability assessments.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	37212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>Centre for Health and Disability Assessments offer audio recordings to customers who request them in advance, or on the day, and recording machines are now available at every assessment centre. For every 10,000 Work Capability Assessments completed the Department receives an average of 66 requests for an audio recorded assessment.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently 24 audio-recording machines in Scotland and the North East; 43 in North and Central England; 39 in Wales and the West, and; 22 in London and South England, totalling 128 for Great Britain.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>(Source: Centre for Health Disability Assessments)</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/05/2016 16:40:20 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

518417

registered interest
date	10/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Professions: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of replacing the NHS bursary with student loans on the number of healthcare students; and what steps he is taking to (a) maintain and (b) increase the number of such students.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	36985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government assessment undertaken to date is that nursing is consistently one of the most popular courses on University Central Administration Service with 57,000 applicants for around 20,000 nursing places in 2014. Midwifery and Allied Health Professional courses receive higher than average applications as well.</p><p>Health Education England (HEE) funding for healthcare students is currently determined at a local level based on local need and is subject to annual workforce planning. For 2016-17, HEE will fund those commissions set out in the HEE Commissioning and Investment Plan for 2016-17. HEE will set out its plans for 2017/18 training commissions in its next annual Commissioning and Investment Plan or Workforce Plan for England which is expected to be published in December 2016 prior to the start of the financial year.</p><p>We estimate that this reform will enable universities to provide up to 10,000 additional nursing and other health professional training places this Parliament. This reflects estimates on the level of unmet demand for places in the current system where, as an example, for nursing, around two out of three nursing applicants who currently apply for a place are turned down.</p><p>Under the reforms full time students will have access to more upfront living cost support, typically 25% or more.</p><p>A public consultation was published on the 7 April 2016. Preliminary Equalities Impact Analysis and Economic Impact Assessment were published alongside the consultation document.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 12/05/2016 08:28:55 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

518169

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of gross income of the top one per cent income bracket which people in that bracket paid in (a) direct and (b) indirect tax in the most recent financial year for which data is available; and what proportion those sums are of gross national income in that same period.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	36884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>Statistics on the percentage of gross income paid in direct and indirect taxes by household income quintile are produced as part of the Office for National Statistics publication ‘The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Household Income’, which can be found here: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/theeffectsoftaxesandbenefitsonhouseholdincome/2015-06-29" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/theeffectsoftaxesandbenefitsonhouseholdincome/2015-06-29</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest release shows that in the financial year ending 2014, the top household income quintile paid 24% and 11% of gross income in direct and indirect taxes respectively.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify the share of direct and indirect taxes paid by the top 1% of households using this data. However, data on the share of total income tax receipts paid by the top 1% of earners can be found in HM Revenue and Customs’ ‘Income Tax statistics and distributions’ publication, which can be found here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/income-tax-statistics-and-distributions</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 12/05/2016 09:27:20 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

518250

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of introducing cell-free DNA testing on the NHS on the number of women choosing to terminate their pregnancies.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	36742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>There is a long established Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (NHS FASP) that prospective parents can choose whether to participate in.</p><p> </p><p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has recommended that non-invasive prenatal testing for Down’s syndrome should be introduced as an additional test into the NHS FASP as part of an evaluation. Ministers are currently considering this important recommendation from the UK NSC which would give pregnant women and their partners more accurate information and should reduce the number of women having to undergo unnecessary invasive testing which carries a risk of miscarriage.</p><p> </p><p>The UK NSC recommendation does not change the offer to prospective parents of participating in the programme, nor the options and choices available when testing identifies a fetus with Down’s, Edwards’ or Patau’s syndrome.</p><p> </p><p>Existing guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists already makes it clear that women and their partners should receive appropriate information and support from a properly trained multidisciplinary team, who must adopt a supportive and non-judgemental approach regardless of whether the decision is to terminate or continue the pregnancy. This should include referral to other professional experts (including palliative care) and referral for counselling when this can help, as part of a co-ordinated package of care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/05/2016 15:26:58 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

517857

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many harassment warnings each police force in England issued in the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	36661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally. The issuance of Harassment Warning Notices, also known as Police Information Notices (PINs), is an operational matter for Chief Constables. Responsibility for the publication of information relating to PINs rests with Chief Constables.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/05/2016 12:17:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

517250

registered interest
date	03/05/2016
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments have been cancelled or rearranged in each of the last five years; and what the (a) shortest, (b) average and (c) longest period of time was before such an appointment was rearranged.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	36280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Around 55% of all cancelled appointments are customer instigated cancellations.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 March 2015, a new provider took over the Work Capability Assessment contract in which the Department had set a far higher target for face-to-face assessments than that for the previous contract holder. In order to achieve its target the new provider increased the number of assessments undertaken by 29% over that undertaken in the previous year. This led to more people being seen more quickly but with a subsequent rise in the number of cancellations.</p><p> </p><p>Cancelled/Re-arranged Work Capability Assessments in the last five years are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of Cancelled Appointments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 May 2011 to 30 Apr 2012</p></td><td><p>377,122</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 May 2012 to 30 Apr 2013</p></td><td><p>509,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 May 2013 to 30 Apr 2014</p></td><td><p>398,133</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 May 2014 to 30 Apr 2015</p></td><td><p>333,990</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 May 2015 to 30 Apr 2016</p></td><td><p>505,950</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(Source: Centre for Health Disability Assessments)</p><p> </p><p>Information on the shortest, average and longest period of time before appointments are re-arranged is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/05/2016 16:35:11 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead