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date	11/02/2020
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 universal credit claimants have received an advance payment in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Universal Credit is now the main system of working age welfare support across the country. It is available in every Jobcentre, with a caseload of 2.8 million claimants, growing every month, now able to access the additional support and flexibilities it offers.</p><p>Between December 2018 to November 2019, 1,996,000 claimants received an advance payment.</p><p>As the overall Universal Credit caseload grows, we expect the volume and value of advance payments to increase in correlation. This shows that claimants are being made aware of advances and are using it where they need this help.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/02/2020 18:07:01 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1177814

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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: Appeals
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 personal independence payment decisions have been challenged (a) successfully and (b) unsuccessfully at (i) mandatory reconsideration and (ii) tribunal.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Data on Mandatory Reconsiderations (MR) and appeals for initial decisions following a PIP assessment can be found in Table 5A of the “Data tables: PIP award rates, clearance/outstanding times and tracking of initial decisions following a PIP assessment through to mandatory reconsiderations or appeals, to October 2019” available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/02/2020 12:23:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1177815

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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: Medical Examinations
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 an assessment of the potential merits of requiring all personal independence payment assessments to be recorded.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Rt.Hon Member to the answer I gave on 10 February 2020 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons,lords&amp;uin=12293" target="_blank">UIN 12293.</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/02/2020 17:25:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck