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1701551

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	date	16/04/2024
	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 recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of waiting times to speak to the Disability Service Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	22084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Telephony is our customers’ primary channel to contact us. We continually assess the number of calls we are receiving and the associated waiting times, deploying resources accordingly to support service levels wherever this is possible.</p><p>However, due to recent higher volumes of calls than forecast, from the 24th of April and throughout May, we are deploying dedicated telephony specific resource to the Personal Independent Payment telephony lines which will give better support when dealing with sudden increases in traffic.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/04/2024 13:23:14 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1701552

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	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	Attendance Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing recipients of Attendance Allowance to report a change in circumstances digitally.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	22085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The modernisation of Retirement Services, which includes Attendance Allowance, forms a key part of DWP’s Service Modernisation Programme. A key objective of the programme is to understand how existing services - such as Attendance Allowance - should operate in the future and understand how and whether services, including reporting change of circumstances, can be accessed by citizens more quickly and easily online.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/04/2024 12:31:21 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1690814

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2024
	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 applications to delay migration from tax credits to universal credit have been granted in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	15120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The following table provides information on the number of extension requests granted. The data relating to the proportion of people who requested an extension and then were granted an extension cannot be provided because it is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Tax Credit claimants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Migration Notices sent to individuals</p></td><td><p>of which, extension to Migration Notice period granted</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Month Migration Notice sent</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-23</p></td><td><p>520</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-23</p></td><td><p>960</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-23</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-23</p></td><td><p>4,950</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-23</p></td><td><p>12,880</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-23</p></td><td><p>23,180</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-23</p></td><td><p>26,970</p></td><td><p>220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-23</p></td><td><p>44,500</p></td><td><p>380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-23</p></td><td><p>39,410</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10</p><p>‘..’ indicates nil or negligible</p><p>Migration notices are included only until the end of September to allow households to have reached their deadline, in line with published official statistics to December 2023</p><p>Source: Move to Universal Credit operation system</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/02/2024 15:43:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day