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1178032

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2020 to Question HL 457 on universal credit, whether her Department plans to evaluate in the Move to universal credit pilot the effect of the managed migration process on disabled people and people with health conditions.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	1180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department has already committed to undertaking an evaluation of the Move to UC pilot process. This will include an assessment of how the process works for groups of claimants including those with disabilities and health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>We will be publishing the evaluation strategy for the Move To UC process in Spring 2020.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 28/02/2020 15:25:00 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1247972

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2020
	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: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the money students receive through maintenance loans from Student Finance is being deducted from universal credit payments.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	110288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>Students cannot normally satisfy the entitlement conditions for Universal Credit (UC). Exceptions are made where students have additional needs that are not met through the student support system. Primary financial support for students comes from this student support system which is designed for their needs, unlike the social security system. It is important that UC does not duplicate this support and UC broadly mirrors the treatment of most of the legacy benefits it replaces. This safeguards fairness whilst also ensuring simplification of the benefit system. Eligible claimants receiving legacy benefits whose circumstances remain the same will be considered for transitional protection to protect entitlement at the point of transition to UC.</p><p> </p><p>Where UC is paid to a student, any student loan or grant paid to meet living costs is subject to a £110 disregard in each Assessment Period where student income is taken into account, equivalent to that provided under Legacy Benefits. Any reduction is only for living costs as loans or grants for other things, such as tuition fees or books, are fully disregarded<em>. </em>Any Special Support loan/grant is also fully disregarded as this specifically covers the costs of the course</p><p> </p><p>Whilst it is acknowledged that maintenance loans are to be paid back, if they were not treated as income and were disregarded this would result in UC (and most legacy benefits) duplicating support already provided through the student finance system.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/11/2020 16:30:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1540575

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when will he respond to the correspondence of 21 October 2022 from the hon. Member for North Durham.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	82199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The department issued a response to correspondence from the Hon. Member for North Durham on Wednesday 9<sup>th</sup> November 2022.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/11/2022 14:53:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1544160

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2022
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has plans to means test Personal Independence Payments.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	92126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 November 2022 to Question UIN <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-11-07/80882" target="_blank">80882.</a></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/11/2022 11:21:45 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

100826

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	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	Job Evaluation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the procedure is in his Department for assessing grade boundaries and job roles; and how often such assessments take place.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	211827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>DWP uses two job evaluation schemes, which are widely utilised across the Civil Service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. Job Evaluation and Grading Support (JEGS), an analytical points-based system which is used by trained evaluators to rank roles from AA to Grade 6. This also incorporates Grading Guidance which provides an analytical matching of posts based on JEGS, a good level of assurance and is less resource intensive than a full evaluation.</p><p> </p><p>2. Job Evaluation for Senior Posts (JESP) which is similar to JEGS but used to evaluate posts in the Senior Civil Service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DWP evaluates all new roles and roles where there has been a fundamental or material change in job content using one of these schemes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on JEGS, including use of grading guidance, is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/job-evaluation-and-grading-support-jegs-for-civil-servants" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/job-evaluation-and-grading-support-jegs-for-civil-servants</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on JESP is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/job-evaluation-for-senior-posts-good-practice-guide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/job-evaluation-for-senior-posts-good-practice-guide</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 28/10/2014 14:19:49 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1010314

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Parkinson's Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Parkinson’s who were awarded 10 points or lower for the moving around activity of personal independence payment were previously in receipt of the highest rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	192787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/11/2018 14:05:21 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1038492

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	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: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people claiming personal independence payment who at the point of the original decision scored points by satisfying descriptor b under Activity 9 (engaging with other people face to face) who have (a) anxiety and depressive disorders - mixed, (b) depressive disorder, (c) schizophrenia, (d) bipolar affective disorder (Hypomania/Mania), (e) personality disorder, (f) post traumatic stress disorder, (g) psychotic disorders/other/type not known, (h) alcohol misuse, (i) anxiety disorders/other/type not known, (j) generalised anxiety disorder, (k) agoraphobia, (l) schizoaffective disorder, (m) obsessive compulsive disorder, (n) cognitive disorders/other/type not known, (o) mood disorders/other/type not known, (p) drug misuse, (q) panic disorder, (r) anorexia nervosa, (s) cognitive disorder due to stroke, (t) phobia-social, (u) psychiatric disorders of childhood/other/type not known, (v) eating disorders not otherwise specified, (w) conduct disorder (including oppositional defiant disorder), (x) bulimia nervosa, (y) stress reaction disorders/other/type not known, (z) dissociative disorders/other/type not known, (aa) body dysmorphic disorder, (ab) phobia specific, (ac) somatoform disorders/other/type not known and (ad) conversion disorder (hysteria).
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	206752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/01/2019 15:21:59 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

930978

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	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: Plastic Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of disability benefit payments paid to people for injuries as a result of negligent cosmetic surgery procedures.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	157071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>No such estimate is available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Personal Independence Payment is based on the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability and does not consider causation.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 03/07/2018 10:32:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1229295

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	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	Cosmetics: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government takes to ensure that face painters use paint that is compliant with the CE standards required under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	81596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>Cosmetic products, including face paints, must comply with Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products and must be safe before they can be placed on the market. Local Authority Trading Standards have responsibility for enforcement of these regulations.</p><p> </p><p>In the workplace, health and safety laws apply only to those who offer face painting services commercially (employing organisations, those they employ and the self-employed). The requirements do not apply to members of the public or to those who carry out face painting on a voluntary, non-commercial basis e.g. at a community fete.</p><p> </p><p>Employers and the self-employed have general responsibilities under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSWA) to manage the risks presented by their business to ensure, so far as is reasonably practical, the safety and health of members of the public affected by their business. Whilst HSWA does not specify the standard of face paint to be used in meeting these legal duties, commercial face painters would be expected to ensure that the paints used on clients meet the relevant standards and are safe for use eg that they do not cause harmful skin reactions.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) holds the national policy lead for the leisure and beauty industries, responsibility for enforcing health and safety legislation at individual work premises in these sectors rests primarily with the Local Authority Environmental Health Department where the premises are located. HSE would enforce where a peripatetic commercial face painter carries out their work in domestic premises e.g. at a children’s party.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities and HSE take a risk-based approach to targeting their regulatory activities and in terms of occupational health and safety, face painting would generally be deemed as low risk. However, where there is evidence that risks are not being properly managed e.g. as a result of concerns being raised or incidents reported, the appropriate enforcing authority is able to intervene and take appropriate enforcement action to ensure that employees and customers are protected.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/09/2020 16:01:12 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1642251

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2023
	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	Health: Working Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the implementation of health checks on a regular basis by employers of night workers in the context of the Working Time Regulations; and what guidance his Department holds on the interpretation of what a regular basis constitutes to in carrying out these checks.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	187914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is responsible for the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/contents/made" target="_blank">Working Time Regulations (WTR) 1998</a> which place duties on employers in respect of health assessments for night workers. <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/7/made" target="_blank">Regulation 7</a> requires employers to ensure that each night worker employed by them has the opportunity of a free health assessment at regular intervals. It is not mandatory for workers to take up this offer.</p><p> </p><p>There is no prescribed procedure for conducting a health assessment, but as a minimum, employers should construct a screening questionnaire compiled with guidance from a qualified health care professional. HSE <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/001-099/1_6-apendices/index.htm" target="_blank">online guidance</a> does not define the term “regular basis” but states that “the requirements in Regulation 7 complement the duty in the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 reg.3 to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of employees.” The frequency of the health assessment should therefore be guided by an assessment of the specific risks to each individual worker. HSE would review health assessments on a case-by-case basis as required.</p><p> </p><p>HSE <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg256.htm" target="_blank">guidance</a> on shift working supports employers by outlining their legal duties. Where workers are concerned about risks to their health and safety, they can raise this with HSE via its website.</p><p> </p><p>Employers should seek specialist advice from a suitably qualified health care professional, when devising and assessing the results of health assessments. If a worker suffers from health problems that are caused or made worse by night work, the employer should, where possible, transfer the employee to day work.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/06/2023 15:44:46 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish