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60464

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2014
	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 have made claims for personal independence payment following a stroke in the UK since April 2013; and how many have received a decision from his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The available data on claims to Personal Independence Payment was published on 5 June 2014 and is available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-official-statistics-june-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-official-statistics-june-2014</a>. Information on the numbers of successful new claimants is available against a range of conditions, including neurological conditions which will include those who have had a stroke. The information is published and can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm</a>.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 16/06/2014 15:02:15 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

60465

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2014
	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, what volumetric models have been used to identify where backlogs of personal independence payments might develop in his Department's administration of claims, as recommended by the National Audit Office; and when he plans to publish those models.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>We have no plans to publish any volumetric models.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 16/06/2014 14:56:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

63985

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	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	Independent Living Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department plans to monitor the effect of changes in the Independent Living Fund on individual recipients; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	202311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>As stated in the Equality Analysis published on 6 March, the Department will be developing plans for evaluating the impact of the closure on former users of the Independent Living Fund.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 02/07/2014 12:06:35 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

65800

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	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	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 the contracts for personal independence payment assessment providers include performance related incentives or penalties; whether such measures have been used; and what the financial value of those measure is.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>DWP's Personal Independence Payment (PIP) contracts are output based contracts which include a range of remedies for underperformance against a range of performance measures, including financial penalties in the form ofservice credits which the Department can apply as appropriate. Service credits have been applied to the contracts. Current details of the value of any service credits applied under the contracts are commercially confidential.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:28:25 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

46964

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for applicants for the personal independence payment (PIP) in each region of the UK is between submission of the PIP2 form and the date of receipt of the first payment after an assessment from each assessment provider.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	195169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for <strong>Liverpool</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>West Derby</strong><strong>,</strong> official report, 5 March, column 850W.</p><p> </p><p>In order to manage the gap between Personal Independence Payment go-live and the first release of Official Statistics in Spring 2014, we are assessing whether we can release some further information. If the quality assurance of this information shows that it is sufficiently robust and reliable then we will publish it via ad-hoc statistical releases.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 195168 195170 question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

46965

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for applicants for the personal independence payment (PIP) in each region of the UK is between submission of the DS1500 form and the date of receipt of the first payment after an assessment by each assessment provider.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	195170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for <strong>Liverpool</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>West Derby</strong><strong>,</strong> official report, 5 March, column 850W.</p><p> </p><p>In order to manage the gap between Personal Independence Payment go-live and the first release of Official Statistics in Spring 2014, we are assessing whether we can release some further information. If the quality assurance of this information shows that it is sufficiently robust and reliable then we will publish it via ad-hoc statistical releases.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 195168 195169 question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

46966

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time for applicants for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in each region of the UK is between submission of the PIP2 form and the date of the face-to-face PIP assessment from each assessment provider.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	195168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for <strong>Liverpool</strong><strong>, </strong><strong>West Derby</strong><strong>,</strong> official report, 5 March, column 850W.</p><p> </p><p>In order to manage the gap between Personal Independence Payment go-live and the first release of Official Statistics in Spring 2014, we are assessing whether we can release some further information. If the quality assurance of this information shows that it is sufficiently robust and reliable then we will publish it via ad-hoc statistical releases.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 195169 195170 question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

36515

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	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 are currently awaiting work capability assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	186209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>In May 2010 there were 225,000 cases with Atos Health care and as of 28 February 2014 there were around 766,000 outstanding cases awaiting Work Capability Assessments being completed. This figure does not include cases yet to be referred to Atos or cases referred to Atos but where the claimant has yet to return the claimant questionnaire.</p><p> </p><p>This includes (a) around 371,000 new claimants of Employment and Support Allowance who should be receiving the assessment rate of the benefit; (b) around 293,000 existing recipients of Employment and Support Allowance awaiting a review; and (c) around 102,000 existing Incapacity Benefit recipients awaiting reassessment.</p><p> </p><p>This figure is based on operational management information received from Atos Healthcare and is rounded to the nearest thousand.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

66222

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	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	Access to Work Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people entered the Access to Work scheme in each year since 2004.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	204256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Information on the number of individuals helped by the Access to Work scheme each year are only available back to 2007, and up to Q3 (31<sup>st</sup> December 2013). The requested information is already published from 2007 onwards, and can be found within table 1 on page 8 of the latest publication at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/303353/access-to-work-statistics-april-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/303353/access-to-work-statistics-april-2014.pdf</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/07/2014 14:38:47 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

58185

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	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	Independent Living Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on the abolition of the Independent Living Fund; what discussions he has held with his ministerial colleagues on this issue; and what steps he is taking to monitor the effect of this decision on disabled people at a national and local level.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>My Department is committed to working closely with the ILF and other Government Departments to support the work required to enable an effective transfer for ILF users by 30 June 2015.</p><p>The ILF also has undertaken a dedicated programme of engagement with local authorities and is also engaging directly with all of those authorities who will be involved in the transfer of user care and support in 2015.</p><p>This includes a local authority commitment to the Code of Practice between the ILF and local authorities in England, backed by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and the Local Government Association (LGA).</p><p>DWP is currently developing plans for monitoring the impact of ILF closure on those groups who share protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010, both on former users of the ILF and on disabled people more generally.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/06/2014 16:57:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green