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1194161

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2020
	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	Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking through the benefits system to support vulnerable claimants with cancer during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	45198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <ul><li>The Department is committed to ensuring people affected by cancer are supported in a sensitive, fair and appropriate way.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>In Employment and Support Allowance a light touch evidence gathering process exists, to help determine eligibility. Claimants should not delay making a claim because of difficulties in providing supporting medical information. We will continue to process claims and work with customers to gather the best supporting evidence available.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>We’ve suspended award reviews and DLA to PIP reassessment activity and extended existing awards to ensure they don’t go out of payment. We have also suspended all routine award reviews and re-assessments of disability additions in Universal Credit.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Supporting people who are terminally ill remains an absolute priority for the Department and we will continue to fast track terminally ill claimants to higher rates of award.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/05/2020 15:36:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1194164

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Urology: Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the effect of the covid-19 pandemic on the supply chain for (a) urinary catheters and (b) other (i) urology products and (ii) medical devices.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	45201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>As part of our concerted national efforts to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Department is working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to help ensure patients can access the medicines and medical devices and equipment they need, and precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages.</p><p> </p><p>The Department shares regular information about impending supply issues and management plans with the NHS via networks in primary and secondary care and will liaise with relevant patient groups about issues affecting specific medicines, medical devices and equipment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 45202 question first answered 18/05/2020 09:41:18 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1194165

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Incontinence: Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with urinary incontinence have access to (a) urinary catheters and (b) other medical devices during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	45202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>As part of our concerted national efforts to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Department is working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to help ensure patients can access the medicines and medical devices and equipment they need, and precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages.</p><p> </p><p>The Department shares regular information about impending supply issues and management plans with the NHS via networks in primary and secondary care and will liaise with relevant patient groups about issues affecting specific medicines, medical devices and equipment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 45201 question first answered 18/05/2020 09:41:18 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon