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795436

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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	Employment: Learning Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to where his Department has reallocated funding from the previous Work Programme and Work Choice to increase the employment opportunities of people with learning disability; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	115857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Work and Health Programme, a new contracted provision that will build on lessons learnt from the Work Programme and Work Choice, will start in England and Wales between November 2017 and March 2018. Disabled people, who will be the majority of referrals, can volunteer for the programme at any time.</p><p> </p><p>On Thursday 30 November 2017 we published ‘Improving Lives the Future of Work, Health and Disability’, which sets out details of a lifecourse approach to improving employment opportunities for people with a Learning Disability</p><p> </p><p>In addition:</p><p> </p><ul><li>We are introducing 200 Community Partners into Jobcentres - these are external appointments with experience of disability who will engage with disabled people, Jobcentre Plus staff and local employers to strengthen the support we offer disabled people seeking work, including those with learning disabilities.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Supported Employment “place and train” will be delivered through the Local Supported Employment initiative. A key element of this is the use of Job Carving, which involves working with an employer to create a job which meets the employer’s needs and can be done by a person with a learning disability.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Supported Work Experience proof of concepts will offer young disabled people, including young people with learning disabilities, the opportunity to take part in short work experience placements.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Access to Work has put in place a Hidden Impairment Support Team that aims to give advice and guidance to help employers understand how they can support employees with conditions like a Learning Disability.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>DWP’s Disability Confident campaign has achieved commitments from over 5000 employers. DWP is requiring all its large contractors to be Disability Confident Leaders within 12 months from Jan 2017 and all main Government departments are now signed up to Disability Confident, ensuring that Government’s contracted services become better employers of people with disabilities, including learning disabilities.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/12/2017 12:46:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

828015

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Inflammatory Bowel 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 have (a) applied for and (b) received employment and support allowance for inflammatory bowel disease in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	123975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Inflammatory bowel disease is a term commonly used to refer to either Crohn’s disease or Ulcerative Colitis. The information available is shown in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Number of individuals making an initial claim to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) whose main disabling condition was recorded as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, by year of claim start Jan 2010 to Mar 2017: Great Britain</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year of ESA claim start</p></td><td><p>Initial ESA<br> claims</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 (Jan - Mar)</p></td><td><p>600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 2: Number of individuals assigned to the ESA Support Group or the ESA Work Related Activity Group following their Work Capability Assessment (for initial, repeat or IB reassessment claims), whose main disabling condition was recorded as Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, by year of claim start or IB reassessment referral, Jan 2010 to Mar 2017: Great Britain</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year of ESA claim start</p></td><td><p>Initial ESA<br> claims</p></td><td><p>Repeat ESA<br> assessments</p></td><td><p>IB<br> reassessments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1100</p></td><td><p>1300</p></td><td><p>1300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1600</p></td><td><p>1900</p></td><td><p>2300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1200</p></td><td><p>1200</p></td><td><p>1800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1200</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1200</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1000</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 (Jan - Mar)</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source for Tables 1 and 2: Application data is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by the Healthcare Provider.</p><p> </p><p>Notes for Tables 1 and 2:</p><ol><li>The figures are rounded to the nearest 100. – denotes figures that are zero or less than 50.</li><li>The information for 2017 is provided up to March 2017 only; this is the latest data available at time of request.</li><li>National roll-out of IB reassessments began in March 2011. As a result, the 2011 figures for IB reassessment in Table 2 cover the period from March to December.</li><li>An individual may have made more than one ESA claim or assessment in any given year. These individuals will only be counted once in each of the figures provided.</li><li>The primary medical condition recorded on the claim form does not itself confer entitlement to ESA. So, for example, a decision on entitlement for a customer claiming ESA on the basis of Crohn’s disease or Ulcerative Colitis would be based on their ability to carry out the range of activities assessed by the work capability assessment.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 29/01/2018 16:11:12 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

828016

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Inflammatory Bowel 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 inflammatory bowel disease applied for mandatory reconsideration of their claim for employment support allowance in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	123976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123977 question first answered 29/01/2018 12:34:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

828017

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of people with inflammatory bowel disease who have submitted an appeal for their claim for employment support allowance during the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	123977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123976 question first answered 29/01/2018 12:34:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

830175

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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
	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 were refused personal independence payment in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	124839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The figures requested are given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Initial claims made in 2016-17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of people refused PIP</p></td><td><p>390,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of whom:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration</p></td><td><p>28,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had a decision changed at a tribunal appeal</p></td><td><p>32,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Figures are for Great Britain.</p><p>Appeal figures are based upon appeals against mandatory reconsideration decisions. Initial decisions cannot be appealed until a claimant has gone through the mandatory reconsideration process.</p><p>Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 124840 124841 question first answered 05/02/2018 17:28:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

830177

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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: Appeals
	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 who were refused personal independence payment had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	124840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The figures requested are given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Initial claims made in 2016-17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of people refused PIP</p></td><td><p>390,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of whom:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration</p></td><td><p>28,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had a decision changed at a tribunal appeal</p></td><td><p>32,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Figures are for Great Britain.</p><p>Appeal figures are based upon appeals against mandatory reconsideration decisions. Initial decisions cannot be appealed until a claimant has gone through the mandatory reconsideration process.</p><p>Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 124839 124841 question first answered 05/02/2018 17:28:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

830179

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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: Tribunals
	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 who were refused personal independence payment had that decision changed at Tribunal in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	124841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The figures requested are given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Initial claims made in 2016-17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of people refused PIP</p></td><td><p>390,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of whom:</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had that decision changed at mandatory reconsideration</p></td><td><p>28,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>number of people who had a decision changed at a tribunal appeal</p></td><td><p>32,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Figures are for Great Britain.</p><p>Appeal figures are based upon appeals against mandatory reconsideration decisions. Initial decisions cannot be appealed until a claimant has gone through the mandatory reconsideration process.</p><p>Some decisions which are changed at mandatory reconsideration, and where the claimant continues to appeal for a higher PIP award, are then changed again at tribunal appeal. Therefore the number of people who had a decision changed at mandatory reconsideration and the number of people who had a decision changed at tribunal appeal cannot be added together.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 124839 124840 question first answered 05/02/2018 17:28:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

800691

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability and Sexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to combat hate crime motivated by a victim’s sexuality or disability.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	117312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>This Government abhors all forms of hate crime, including hate crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived sexuality or disability. That is why we are taking a cross-Government approach to tackling the issues through the Hate Crime Action Plan published in July 2016.</p><p>The Government will continue to deliver against the commitments under the action plan which includes recently announced funding for seven new community-led projects, three of which focus specifically on tackling disability hate crime and one which focuses specifically on LGBT hate crime. The Home Secretary has also recently announced funding for the creation of a national online hate crime hub, improving the response to all forms of hate crime.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2017 17:04:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

800692

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability and Homosexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents have been recorded for hate crime against (a) gay and (b) disabled people in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	117313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police, by monitored strand - including sexual orientation and disability. The latest statistics are published in the ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2016 to 2017’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has a strong legislative framework to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2017 17:05:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

828857

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Government has to help reduce nuclear tensions worldwide.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	124478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>​The UK will attend the next Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in April 2018 where we will engage with a wide range of states on how we can together tackle the challenges that we face on non proliferation and disarmament. The DPRK has yet to signal it is ready to abandon its illegal nuclear and ballistic missile programmes which pose an unacceptable threat to the international community and we are working closely with our international partners to exert maximum political and economic pressure on DPRK to change its direction. We are strong supporters of the Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which is successfully curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons programme.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 31/01/2018 14:30:17 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds