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944661

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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: Asperger's Syndrome
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the replacement of Aspergers with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in the fifth edition of the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders on the ability of people with Aspergers to claim personal independence payment and employment support allowance as a result of being required to secure a new diagnosis when proving that their condition affects their daily living.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	166213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has had no impact on the eligibility criteria for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) or for Personal Independence Payment (PIP).</p><p> </p><p>The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is designed to determine an individual’s eligibility for ESA. It assesses individuals against a set of functional physical and mental health descriptors to assess how their health condition or disability affects their ability to work.</p><p> </p><p>Entitlement for PIP is assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability, not the health condition or the disability itself.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/07/2018 16:12:51 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

944830

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department provides to people fleeing abuse from their home where they have a financial interest such as a mortgage and are therefore unable to claim the housing benefit element of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	166214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>DWP has a range of measures designed to support people who flee abusive or violent households. These include easements to benefit conditionality to give claimants the space and time needed to stabilise their lives, special provisions in both Housing Benefit and Universal Credit housing support when a claimant is temporarily absent from their home through fear of violence, and exemptions from Child Maintenance fees. Work Coaches may also signpost and refer domestic violence victims to organisations that can provide further support.</p><p> </p><p>In particular, a claimant who leaves a mortgaged home due to domestic abuse or violence can continue to receive a support for mortgage interest (SMI) loan in respect of that property for up to 52 weeks, where they intend to return to the property, and were receiving an SMI loan at the time they fled the property.</p><p> </p><p>If the claimant has fled to a refuge, support for the rental costs is available from Housing Benefit, or if the claimant has fled and rented a general needs home, support for the housing costs is available from Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>In Universal Credit, support for housing costs is available for victims who take a new rent liability for up to 52 weeks, as the capital value of the home they have fled from is disregarded; or in Housing Benefit for those who have fled to a refuge, if the former home is occupied by a partner from whom the claimant is estranged, the capital value from the home is disregarded for up to 26 weeks.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/07/2018 16:09:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

943852

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Catalonia: Sovereignty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Spanish counterpart on an independence referendum for Catalonia.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	165621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The issue of Catalan independence is a matter for Spain.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 24/07/2018 07:48:31 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan previous answer version 71463 answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

943066

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons her Department uses shared care bands when calculating reductions to child maintenance payments; and what her Department's rationale was in deciding what those bands should be.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	165064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Where there is shared care an adjustment may be made to the maintenance calculation to take account of the overnight care a paying parent is expected to have over a twelve month period.</p><p> </p><p>Bands are used to allow for simpler calculations and to reduce the need to consider small changes. Child maintenance is calculated at a weekly rate so the reduction is applied in ratios of sevenths to reflect how the number of nights per year relates to a weekly amount.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/07/2018 11:18:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

943068

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons her Department is mandating paying parents to continue paying maintenance under the Child Maintenance Service when they have shared care for their child for more than 50 per cent of the year.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	165065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>In most cases where care of a child is shared by parents, one parent tends to take a greater share of responsibility for that child. In such cases, it is right that the other parent remains financially liable for supporting their child, although the care they are providing will often result in a low maintenance liability.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Where there is equal day to day care, there will be no requirement to pay maintenance. This reflects the fact that, in these circumstances, both parents are meeting their obligations to their children equally, so there is no need for one to make additional payments of child maintenance.</p><p> </p><p>Parents may choose to make a family based arrangement that works for their individual circumstances without any Child Maintenance Service involvement.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/07/2018 11:20:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

943074

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that survivors of abusive and violent relationships and their new partners can register to vote without being traced by their ex-partner.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	165066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>In March this year, Parliament passed government proposals for changes to the anonymous voter registration system. The changes will make it easier for an estimated 12,000 survivors of domestic abuse living in refuges to register to vote anonymously, as well as those living elsewhere.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/07/2018 09:09:38 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

937741

registered interest
date	10/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Construction Industry Training Board: Glaziers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference the Industrial Training (Construction Board) Order 1964 (Amendment) Order 1992, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the scope of the Construction Industry Training Board to include glaziers.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	162592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Matters of extending the scope to include glazers would be for the Construction Industry Training Board to determine.</p><p>It is important Industry Training Boards (ITBs) are able to both keep up with developments in their industries and help them to modernise and improve productivity. This may mean that the scope of the ITBs (which determines whether employers are liable to pay the levies and who may claim grants) needs to evolve.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 16/07/2018 16:35:14 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

931874

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Cooperatives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to support and grow the cooperative sector as part of the Industrial Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	158275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s ambitious, modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long-term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. It sets out how we are building a Britain fit for the future – how we will help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs in every part of the UK with investment in the skills, industries and infrastructure of the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Government fully recognises the social and economic contribution of the co-operative and social enterprise sector and remains receptive to exploring opportunities to help it realise its potential, as we set out recently in our response to the Law Commission’s report on pension funds and social investment.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 158276 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:26:18 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

931877

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Cooperatives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to expand the role of his Department's Industrial Strategy in supporting and growing the cooperative sector.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	158276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s ambitious, modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long-term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. It sets out how we are building a Britain fit for the future – how we will help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs in every part of the UK with investment in the skills, industries and infrastructure of the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Government fully recognises the social and economic contribution of the co-operative and social enterprise sector and remains receptive to exploring opportunities to help it realise its potential, as we set out recently in our response to the Law Commission’s report on pension funds and social investment.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 158275 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:26:18 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

931516

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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: Kidney Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance and support her Department (a) is providing to and (b) has mandated from agencies managing assessments for (i) personal independence payments and (ii) employment support allowance for people with renal failure.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	157789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Guidance for Health Professionals carrying out Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments is provided in the PIP Assessment Guide for Health Professionals.</p><p> </p><p>The PIP assessment is designed to treat people as individuals, considering the impact of their disability or health condition on their everyday life and how each claimant has personally adapted to living with a disability, rather than the disability itself. Therefore the PIP Assessment Guide takes account of the functional impacts of all conditions, including renal failure.</p><p>The PIP Assessment Guide can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-assessment-guide-for-assessment-providers" target="_blank">Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment guide for assessment providers - GOV.UK</a></p><p> </p><p>For Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Health Professionals also have access to the Work Capability Assessment <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/work-capability-assessment-handbook-for-healthcare-professionals" target="_blank">Handbook</a> which sets out circumstances when a claimant can be treated as having limited capability for work which includes if they are undergoing regular treatment including haemodialysis for chronic renal failure.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 02/07/2018 11:15:08 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows