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1046014

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	Social Security Benefits
	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 October 2018 to Question 184858, if she will place in the Library a copy of the brief for the quantitative longitudinal research by the National Centre for Social Research into the impact of the Benefit Cap and the qualitative case studies of local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	211075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department intends to publish this research in Spring 2019. The research publication will include all topic guides and questionnaires used in the research, and an overview of the original research brief.</p><p>The quantitative survey of claimants carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (Natcen), an independent research agency was delivered over two waves, to explore how claimant responses to the cap had changed over time. Wave one was conducted approximately seven months after implementation of the new cap, with 1,900 claimants interviewed. The sample included claimants affected by the cap under both legacy benefit and Universal Credit arrangements, across Great Britain. Wave two was conducted approximately six months later, with over 800 of those same claimants. The survey included questions on the following topics:</p><ul><li>Awareness of the cap and current cap status</li><li>Impacts of the cap on employment and employment related behaviour</li><li>Impacts of the cap on claimants housing and housing related behaviour</li><li>Awareness and use of Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs)</li><li>Barriers faced by claimants regarding employment and housing changes</li><li>Broader impacts of the cap (including upon health, relationships and finances)</li><li>Use of available advice and support services</li></ul><p>For the qualitative, case study strand Natcen invited people working at a range of Local Authorities, Jobcentre Plus and local advice and support organisations to take part in research interviews. Local organisations included family support charities, financial charities and credit unions, housing and homelessness support organisations, housing associations, information and advice providing services, women’s charities, food banks and legal charities. The focus of these interviews was on experiences of the introduction of the lower, tiered Benefit Cap and the impacts it had on the services they delivered, and upon claimants affected by the cap. Forty-two interviews were conducted across the six case study areas.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2019 15:15:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1046015

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	Discretionary Housing Payments
	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 2 November 2018 to Question 184856 on Housing Benefit, if he will publish the methodology that will be used to determine the allocation of discretionary housing payment funding to local authorities for people affected by the benefit cap in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	211076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>We will publish the methodology used to determine the benefit cap funding stream for Discretionary Housing Payment Government allocations for 2019/20. We have consulted local authorities about the methodology and will be publishing individual allocations shortly.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2019 14:55:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1046016

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her policy that there will be transitional protection for claimants entitled to the severe disability premium of a legacy benefit who move on to universal credit from 16 January 2019; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	211077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>We set out our position on transitional protection and transitional payments for claimants in a Written Statement <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-01-11/HCWS1243/" target="_blank">HCWS1243</a> on 11 January 2019 and in the revised sets of regulations which were laid on 14 January 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Since 16 January 2019 claimants who are in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium (SDP) or who have been entitled to an award of an existing benefit that included SDP in the previous month, and who have continued to meet the SDP eligibility conditions, have been prevented from moving onto Universal Credit if they experience a change in circumstances. Instead, these claimants will continue to claim legacy benefits until DWP move them onto Universal Credit where transitional protection will be available, thereby safeguarding their existing benefit entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>The draft regulations also make provision so that eligible claimants who had previously been in receipt of Severe Disability Premium but who moved onto Universal Credit before 16 January 2019, following a change in their circumstances, will be considered for a ‘SDP transitional payment’. Eligible claimants will receive an on-going monthly payment and an additional lump-sum payment, where appropriate to cover the period since they moved onto Universal Credit. These regulations will be debated and voted on this year.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 211087 question first answered 30/01/2019 16:36:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1046018

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	Independent Case Examiner
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Too ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to allow complainants to ask their Member of Parliament to refer their complaint to the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman if the Independent Case Examiner has not reached a substantive decision on their complaint within six months.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	211078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>It is open to Members of Parliament to refer complaints to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman at any time they choose, regardless of whether the Independent Case Examiner’s process has been exhausted. The decision as to whether to accept them without an Independent Case Examiner’s investigation rests with the Ombudsman’s office.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2019 14:47:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1046087

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	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	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 oral contribution of the Minister for Employment, 8 January, Official Report, column 174 on Universal Credit: Managed Migration, whether it is her policy that claimants who were previously in receipt of severe disability premium of legacy benefits but lost that premium when they made a claim for universal credit will be identified and have that premium reinstated.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	211087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>We set out our position on transitional protection and transitional payments for claimants in a Written Statement <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-01-11/HCWS1243/" target="_blank">HCWS1243</a> on 11 January 2019 and in the revised sets of regulations which were laid on 14 January 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Since 16 January 2019 claimants who are in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium (SDP) or who have been entitled to an award of an existing benefit that included SDP in the previous month, and who have continued to meet the SDP eligibility conditions, have been prevented from moving onto Universal Credit if they experience a change in circumstances. Instead, these claimants will continue to claim legacy benefits until DWP move them onto Universal Credit where transitional protection will be available, thereby safeguarding their existing benefit entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>The draft regulations also make provision so that eligible claimants who had previously been in receipt of Severe Disability Premium but who moved onto Universal Credit before 16 January 2019, following a change in their circumstances, will be considered for a ‘SDP transitional payment’. Eligible claimants will receive an on-going monthly payment and an additional lump-sum payment, where appropriate to cover the period since they moved onto Universal Credit. These regulations will be debated and voted on this year.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 211077 question first answered 30/01/2019 16:36:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1046777

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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	Severe Disability Premium
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of (a) employment support allowance, (b) job seeker's allowance and (c) income support received the severe disability premium on (i) 31 December 2016, (ii) 31 December 2017 and (iii) 31 December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	211629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of recipients of Employment and Support Allowance receiving the severe disability premium is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Recipients of ESA receiving SDP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 December 2016</p></td><td><p>451,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 December 2017</p></td><td><p>512,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The data for recipients of Employment and Support Allowance on 31 December 2018 has not previously been published and is due to be published later in 2019.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information required to answer your question with regards to Jobseekers Allowance and Income Support is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost - data on recipients of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support receiving the severe disability premium is only readily available for the quarters ending November 2016, November 2017 and November 2018 and can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/people-on-income-related-esa-and-enhanced-or-severe-disability-premium-or-both" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/people-on-income-related-esa-and-enhanced-or-severe-disability-premium-or-both</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/01/2019 14:32:30 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 97896 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1046778

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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	Independent Case Examiner
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Independent Case Examiner (ICE) is requesting an updated form of authority from people whose advocate submitted a current form of authority when first escalating the complaint to ICE but whose complaint has not been investigated because of the 40-week average time period to allocate cases to an investigator.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	211630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>In order to ensure that the personal information of complainants is only divulged to current, authorised advocates, the Independent Case Examiner’s Office undertake routine checks to ensure that the advocate retains authority to act on the complainant’s behalf, at the point the complaint is allocated for investigation. The only cases that are not subject to such checks are those referred by Members of Parliament.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2019 17:16:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1092274

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of universal credit claimants affected by the benefit cap who will face over payment recovery action because of a delay in applying the cap to their initial monthly payments.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	234664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The department does not readily hold the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>As Universal Credit simplifies the benefits system, all of the necessary information to decide whether or not to apply the benefit cap is held in one place. Therefore, the benefit cap calculation is not in practice being backdated, rather it is encompassed in the overall Universal Credit assessment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 234665 question first answered 26/03/2019 14:25:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1092275

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the benefit cap for universal credit claimants is backdated to the date of the original claim rather than applied from the date of notification as with people whose housing benefit is subject to the benefit cap.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	234665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The department does not readily hold the data requested.</p><p> </p><p>As Universal Credit simplifies the benefits system, all of the necessary information to decide whether or not to apply the benefit cap is held in one place. Therefore, the benefit cap calculation is not in practice being backdated, rather it is encompassed in the overall Universal Credit assessment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 234664 question first answered 26/03/2019 14:25:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1092276

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	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 Justice, how many of the 5,238 personal independence payment appeals to the First Tier Tribunal in (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2018 that were cleared without a hearing were (i) withdrawn by the appellant, (ii) conceded by the Department for Work and Pensions, (iii) struck out and (iv) superseded.
	tabling member constituency	Westminster North
	tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
	uin	234666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Information about outcomes for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures (to December 2018) indicate that since PIP was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made, and of these 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>The data requested which are available (HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not record a “conceded” outcome) are set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Benefit </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Outcome Type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Oct 18 <sup>p</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nov 18 <sup>p</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Dec 18 <sup>p</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>Personal Independence Payment <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Withdrawn</p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>351</p></td><td><p>246</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Struck out</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Superseded</p></td><td><p>1647</p></td><td><p>1501</p></td><td><p>1154</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Payment Claims (Reassessments).</p><p> </p><p><strong><sup>p</sup></strong> Provisional data subject to change.</p><p><em>An SSCS appeal may be captured more than once as a hearing or non-hearing should the original decision be overturned, set aside or an Upper Tribunal re-hearing is granted.</em></p><p><em>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available.</em></p><p><em>The data provided are the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information. </em></p><p><em>Data are taken from a live management information system and can change over time. Data provided are internal Management Information and are not published</em></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/03/2019 17:47:36 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck