Access to Work, which already offers support to disabled people undertaking a number of opportunities that help them to prepare for paid employment, including work experience, apprenticeships, supported internships and traineeships.<\/li><\/ul>"}
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Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity to support people to progress in work and we are currently developing the evidence base on how best to do this.<\/p>
<\/p>
Building on our existing suite of trials, which includes a large scale Randomised Control Trial on in-work progression, we have committed an additional £8m to testing different approaches to supporting people to progress.<\/p>"}
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At 15th March 2018, DWP has sent an estimated 460,000 individual items of correspondence to SMI claimants and made 370,000 telephone calls to claimants regarding the conversion of Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) into a loan. Data is not broken down by region so is not available specifically for Scotland.<\/p>"}
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There have been no such discussions.<\/p>"}
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The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Assessment Guide makes it clear that the list of health conditions requiring additional support is not exhaustive, rather it provides examples of conditions that may mean the claimant could struggle to engage with the claims process. Claimants with or recovering from a brain tumour who require additional support are therefore included.<\/p>
<\/p>
More information can be found in Part 1, section 1.12, of the PIP Assessment Guide: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment guide for assessment providers - GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the recommendation in the Brain Tumour Charity\u2019s report entitled The Price You Pay, published in March 2018, on including brain tumours in the list of health conditions requiring additional support in the personal independence payment assessment guide.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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DWP and Scottish Government continue to share information on split payment policy to ensure a successful implementation, equivalent to the close working relationship DWP and Scottish Government successfully established to implement Scottish Choices in 2017. As this is the subject of on-going policy development between DWP and the Scottish Government, the Department is not in a position to share information it has been provided with.<\/p>"}
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Under the equalities legislation a woman can be treated no differently to men with regards to Universal Credit.<\/p>"}
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As at August 2017, the most recent date for which figures are available, there were 649,564 women aged between 60 and 65 years of age (inclusive) in receipt of State Pension. The average weekly amount received by these women was £136.37. Of these, 582,226 received a State Pension based on their own National Insurance contributions; either a Category A pension under the pre-2016 system, or from April 2016 under the new State Pension (nSP).<\/p>"}
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