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93373

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
	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 stopped claiming employment and support allowance (ESA) in 2013 after gaining insufficient points in a Work Capability Assessment; and how many such people were claiming jobseeker's allowance within four weeks of their ESA claim ending.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>It is possible to qualify for ESA through the application of Regulations 29(2)(b) and 35(2)(b) where insufficient points have been allocated in a Work Capability Assessment. It is thus not possible to answer the first part of this question.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested in the second part is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/10/2014 10:40:27 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

92326

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2014
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
	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 applicants for employment and support allowance who have had their benefit stopped for failing to attend a work capability assessment and who claim not to have received an appointment letter from Atos; and how many such cases have been submitted to a tribunal.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	209588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not hold the information described and therefore I cannot provide an estimate.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 15/10/2014 11:12:03 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

93375

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	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	Motability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many scooters have been allocated under the mobility element of personal independence payments in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>Motability is an independent registered charity. The Department works closely with Motability and facilitates the transfer of benefit to Motability on behalf of those claimants who have chosen to join the Motability schemes.</p><p>Responsibility for the charity’s policies and operational strategy falls to the Governors and Director of Motability. Motability is wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme including collating its own management information. Questions about the number of cars and scooters allocated by Motability can be sent to: Declan O'Mahony, Director, Motability, Warwick House, Roydon Road, Harlow, Essex CM19 5PX.</p><p>Information about complaints received about Motability is not available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 210520 210550 question first answered 17/10/2014 10:39:24 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

93376

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	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	Motability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cars have been allocated under the mobility element of personal independence payments in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2014 answer text <p>Motability is an independent registered charity. The Department works closely with Motability and facilitates the transfer of benefit to Motability on behalf of those claimants who have chosen to join the Motability schemes.</p><p>Responsibility for the charity’s policies and operational strategy falls to the Governors and Director of Motability. Motability is wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme including collating its own management information. Questions about the number of cars and scooters allocated by Motability can be sent to: Declan O'Mahony, Director, Motability, Warwick House, Roydon Road, Harlow, Essex CM19 5PX.</p><p>Information about complaints received about Motability is not available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 210519 210550 question first answered 17/10/2014 10:39:24 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

90227

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2014
	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	Social Security Benefits: Greater Manchester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit sanctions on the grounds of (a) not actively seeking employment, (b) refusal of employment, (c) failure to attend a mandatory interview, (d) failure to participate in work-related activity and (e) non-compliance with a Jobseeker's Direction were received by claimants in (i) Denton and Reddish constituency, (ii) Tameside local authority and (iii) Stockport local authority between (A) April 2011 and March 2012 and (B) April 2013 and March 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>The available information as requested is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Number of adverse benefit sanctions applied in Denton and Reddish parliamentary constituency, Tameside Local Authority, Stockport Local Authority by referral reason:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Denton and Reddish</p></td><td><p>April 2011 to March 2012</p></td><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Failure to attend a mandatory interview</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-compliance with a Jobseekers Direction</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not actively seeking employment</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>520</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Failure to participate in Work-related activity</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Refusal of employment</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport</p></td><td><p>April 2011 to March 2012</p></td><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Failure to attend a mandatory interview</p></td><td><p>1,080</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-compliance with a Jobseekers Direction</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not actively seeking employment</p></td><td><p>430</p></td><td><p>920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Failure to participate in Work-related activity</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Refusal of employment</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tameside</p></td><td><p>April 2011 to March 2012</p></td><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Failure to attend a mandatory interview</p></td><td><p>1,240</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-compliance with a Jobseekers Direction</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not actively seeking employment</p></td><td><p>530</p></td><td><p>1,790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Failure to participate in Work-related activity</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Refusal of employment</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source (JSA and ESA): DWP Statistical Services: Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database.</p><p>Source (IS): Income Support Computer System</p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest ten.</p><p>2. Data provided is up to March 2014 which is the latest available.</p><p>3. The number of benefit sanctions applied is the number of sanction or disallowance referrals where the decision was found against the claimant for those in receipt of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) in the work related activity group, or Income Support (Lone Parents).</p><p>4. The following reasons for referral apply to JSA only: Not actively seeking employment; Refusal of employment; Non-compliance with a Jobseekers Direction.</p><p>5. Refusal of employment is defined as follows: Refusal or failure to apply for, or accept if offered, a job which an employment officer has informed him/her is vacant or about to become vacant without good reason.</p><p>6. Failure to attend a mandatory interview includes: Failure to attend a mandatory interview for ESA claimants, failure to attend/participate in a work focused interview for ISLP claimants and failure to attend an adviser interview for JSA claimants.</p><p>7. Failure to participate in Work-related activity applies to ESA claimants in the work related activity group only.</p><p>8. New sanctions rules came into force for JSA from 22 October 2012 and for ESA from 3 December 2012. The number of JSA sanctions applied for the new regime is the number of low, intermediate, and high level referrals where the decision was found against the claimant. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-overview-of-sanctions-rules" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-overview-of-sanctions-rules</a></p><p>9. New regulations for ISLP claimants came into force on 28 April 2014.</p><p>An explanation of the full regulations is provided below can be found at: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1097/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1097/contents/made</a></p><p>10. This information for JSA and ESA sanctions is published at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 09/09/2014 12:36:15 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

89857

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people with mental health conditions may be refused disability benefits on the grounds that their condition does not require the use of aides.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>Eligibility for the two main working age disability benefits – Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) – is assessed through two separate assessments. However, common to both is that they look at disabled people as individuals, and do not label them by their health condition, impairment or disability.</p><p>The PIP assessment considers the impact of an individual’s condition on their ability to carry out some key everyday activities. Similarly ESA looks to determine not what condition an individual has but rather how that condition impacts on the individual’s functional capacity to work.</p><p>Both assessments include descriptors which take account of physical, sensory, mental, intellectual and cognitive impairments. Claimants for either benefit – whether with a mental health condition, physical condition or both – will not be refused benefit simply because they do not require an aide, advocate or appointee.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/09/2014 14:01:20 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

77494

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	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	Mass Media: Subscriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	205350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>(a) Subscriptions to magazines are included within the Department's contracts for journals and newspapers. The Department receives the following titles via these contracts:</p><p> </p><p>.Net</p><p>Able Magazine</p><p>Adviser</p><p>BMJ - British Medical Journal - General Practice Edition - Internet</p><p>Bookseller - Internet</p><p>Business Transfers and Employee Rights</p><p>Butterworths Civil Court Precedents</p><p>Civil Service World</p><p>Community Care</p><p>Common Market Law Review - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Community Care Law Reports</p><p>Credit Collections and Risk</p><p>Credit Today</p><p>Current Law Complete Service A</p><p>Daily Express</p><p>Daily Mail</p><p>Daily Mirror</p><p>Daily Star</p><p>Daily Telegraph</p><p>Disability and Rehabilitation - Full Set - Internet &amp; Print</p><p>Disability and Society - Internet</p><p>Economist - Internet &amp; Print</p><p>Encyclopedia of Data Protection and Privacy - Including CD ROM</p><p>Equal Opportunities Review</p><p>Equality Law Reports - E-Mail &amp; Internet &amp; Optional Print</p><p>EU Public Procurement - Law and Practice</p><p>European Journal of Social Security - Internet</p><p>European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Financial Times</p><p>Freedom of Information Journal - E-Mail</p><p>Gazette - Law Society London</p><p>Guardian</p><p>Health and Safety Bulletin</p><p>Health Service Journal</p><p>Housing Studies - Internet</p><p>Housing Theory and Society - Online Archive Incl Current Year - Internet</p><p>Human Rights Practice</p><p>IDS Pensions Law Reports</p><p>In House Lawyer</p><p>Independent</p><p>Independent on Sunday</p><p>Inside Housing</p><p>International &amp; United Kingdom Report - Privacy Laws and Business</p><p>International Journal of Housing Policy - Internet</p><p>Journal of Community Care Law</p><p>Journal of Social Security Law</p><p>Journal of Welfare Benefits Law and Practice</p><p>Judicial Review</p><p>Juncture - Internet</p><p>Kemp and Kemp - Quantum of Damages</p><p>Legal Action - Legal Action Group</p><p>Mail on Sunday</p><p>Medical Law Reports - Academic - Internet &amp; Print &amp; Bound Volume</p><p>Mental Health Law Review</p><p>Modern Law Review - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Money Marketing - London</p><p>NAPF Pension Legislation Service - including CD ROM</p><p>National Institute Economic Review - Internet</p><p>New Law Journal</p><p>New Statesman</p><p>Newsweek</p><p>Observer</p><p>Occupational Pensions</p><p>Oxford Economic Papers – Internet</p><p>Pensions Management</p><p>Pensions Expert</p><p>Pensions World</p><p>Private Eye</p><p>Professional Pensions - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Public Private Partnership and PFI</p><p>Records Management Journal - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Renton and Brown - Criminal Procedure</p><p>Renton and Brown - Criminal Procedure Legislation</p><p>SEN Magazine</p><p>Social Care Law Today</p><p>Social Policy and Society &amp; Journal of Social Policy - Print &amp; Internet</p><p>Solicitors' Journal</p><p>Spectator</p><p>Sun</p><p>Sun on Sunday</p><p>Sunday Express</p><p>Sunday Mirror</p><p>Sunday People</p><p>Sunday Telegraph</p><p>Sunday Times</p><p>Sweet and Maxwell's Law of Pension Schemes</p><p>Time Magazine</p><p>Times</p><p>Tolley's Pensions Law Service</p><p>Tolley's Social Security and State Benefits</p><p>Transfer of Undertaking</p><p>Vacher's Quarterly</p><p>Welfare Rights Bulletin</p><p>Work and Stress - Internet</p><p>Work Employment and Society - Print &amp; Backfile Lease - Internet</p><p>Working Brief - PDF - E-Mail</p><p> </p><p>(b) This information is not centrally collated and could not be provided without incurring disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 17/07/2014 16:28:13 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

90225

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2014
	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	Carer's Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people currently claiming carer's allowance who care for more than one person.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Administrative data shows that there are 664,610 people in receipt of a Carer's Allowance payment. This data does not provide details of how many people are being cared for.</p><p>Family Resources Survey (FRS) data shows that between 8% and 16% of Carer's Allowance recipients care for more than one person.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/09/2014 13:58:06 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

89883

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	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	Atos Healthcare: Gloucestershire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many medically qualified staff have been employed by Atos in (a) Gloucestershire and (b) Gloucester in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Atos Healthcare has an Assessment Centre in Gloucester undertaking ESA/IBR assessments for those claimants living in Gloucestershire.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst there are a small number of medically qualified personnel permanently based at Gloucester Assessment Centre, other medically qualified personnel also regularly complete assessments at this site.</p><p> </p><p>The number of medically qualified personnel undertaking ESA / IBR assessments at Gloucester Assessment Centre in each of the last five years is as follows:-</p><p> </p><p>Sept 09 to Aug 10 - 24</p><p> </p><p>Sept 10 to Aug 11 – 41</p><p> </p><p>Sept 11 to Aug 12 – 24</p><p> </p><p>Sept 12 to Aug 13 – 25</p><p> </p><p>Sept 13 to Aug 14 – 16</p><p> </p><p>The reason the number of medically qualified personnel undertaking ESA/IBR assessments at Gloucester Assessment Centre in each of the last five years has reduced is due to there now being a regular team of 4 practitioners based in Gloucester, which has meant fewer practitioners travelling from other Centres to conduct assessments in Gloucester.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 05/09/2014 13:55:17 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

89849

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	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	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 with Parkinson's disease (a) have applied for personal independence payments (PIPs), (b) are receiving PIPs and (c) have been refused PIPs.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast East
	tabling member printed	Naomi Long
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Available data does not provide the number of people with Parkinson's disease who have (a) applied for Personal Independence Payment (b) are receiving Personal Independence Payment (c) have been refused Personal Independence Payment. However, published statistics show that at February 2014 there were 2,831 people entitled to PIP for Neurological Conditions, which would include those who have Parkinson's disease.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/09/2014 14:26:48 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	3920 label Biography information for Naomi Long