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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

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

851618

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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	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, if she will place a copy of the routine oral questions asked during face-to-face medical assessments for (a) personal independence payment and (b) employment and support allowance in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	130381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>There is no set script or bank of questions that Healthcare Professionals ask during face-to-face assessments for Employment and Support Allowance or Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The assessments are conducted in line with the guidance available to the Health Professionals: the PIP Assessment Guide, Part 1 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684001/pip-assessment-guide-part-1-assessment-process.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684001/pip-assessment-guide-part-1-assessment-process.pdf</a>); and the Work Capability Assessment Handbook (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634850/wca-handbook.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/634850/wca-handbook.pdf</a>).</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/03/2018 15:07:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750667

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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, what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to obtain an assessment for employment and support allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>Since the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments took over the contract to carry out assessments in March 2015, they have made a number of improvements to claimants’ experience of assessments, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Increasing the number of Healthcare Professionals by around 70% since the start of the contract, thereby ensuring that claimants go through the assessment process more quickly; and,</li><li>Increasing the number of assessment rooms used so that they can see more people at more locations.</li></ul><p> </p><p>As a result of these improvements, the time taken from referral to the supplier to the claimant receiving a face-to-face Work Capability Assessment has more than halved since the start of the contract.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2017 10:56:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

750670

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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, what the (a) shortest, (b) average and (c) longest waiting time was for an assessment for employment and support allowance in the most recent 12 months for which data are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	4394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available. A programme of work is currently underway to look into what information on ESA waiting times is available to publish as official statistics on the ESA-WCA process. When a decision has been made DWP Statisticians will pre-announce the statistics in accordance with the UKSA release protocols.</p><p> </p><p>The Labour Market statisticians are currently working on producing some published statistics based on the Median clearance times for the initial part of the customer journey.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 17/07/2017 16:31:01 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

919195

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2018
	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	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, whether she plans to issue revised guidance on work capability assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	151092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>Work Capability Assessment (WCA) guidance is available via the WCA Handbook, available on Gov.uk. This document is reviewed regularly and an updated version will be published during Summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/06/2018 09:08:21 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	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

519375

	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, how many people are waiting for a rearranged work capability assessment having had their initial appointment cancelled.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	37213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>On 19 May 2016, there were a total of 28,420 people waiting to attend a rearranged work capability assessment having had their initial appointment cancelled of which 17,019 have a new appointment already allocated.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 24/05/2016 13:09:04 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel previous answer version 228 answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead