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993765

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claimants of employment and support allowance that were underpaid, had their income reduced when they were transferred from incapacity benefit.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	182882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>No-one suffered a cash loss when they were converted from incapacity benefits to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because, where the amount of ESA they were entitled to was lower than the previous incapacity benefit award, it was ‘topped up’ to match their previous award by a transitional addition.</p><p> </p><p>A Written Statement and Frequently Asked Question document was deposited in the House of Commons Library on Wednesday 17<sup>th</sup> October which can be found at <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/</a>. Ad hoc statistics can also be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/10/2018 10:44:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

993766

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the repayments to claimants that were underpaid employment and support allowance will include interest.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	182883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We will be reviewing all those cases potentially affected and paying any arrears of past payments that are due. Our focus is on paying arrears to claimants in line with the primary legislation.</p><p> </p><p>A Written Statement and Frequently Asked Question document was deposited in the House of Commons Library on Wednesday 17<sup>th</sup> October which can be found at <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/</a>. Ad hoc statistics can also be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esa-underpayments-forecast-numbers-affected-forecast-expenditure-and-progress-on-checking</a>.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 26/10/2018 10:49:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

984395

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	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 the funding allocated to Citizens Advice for universal support services will include support for a claim for universal credit after that claim has been made.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	177384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>As part of our new partnership announced earlier this month, Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland will help claimants with making and managing their claims, and will help to identify whether any other support is needed. This partnership will ensure our claimants get the best possible support to claim Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Until March 2019, Citizens Advice will be developing their support alongside the support currently offered by local authorities. The Department will work with Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland between now and April to ensure that Universal Support is accessible across the country, and is ready to deliver a consistent and reliable service from 1 April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 177385 question first answered 17/10/2018 16:52:21 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

984396

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
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	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 assessment she has made of the adequacy of access to universal support in areas without Citizens Advice services after April 2019.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	177385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>As part of our new partnership announced earlier this month, Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland will help claimants with making and managing their claims, and will help to identify whether any other support is needed. This partnership will ensure our claimants get the best possible support to claim Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Until March 2019, Citizens Advice will be developing their support alongside the support currently offered by local authorities. The Department will work with Citizens Advice and Citizens Advice Scotland between now and April to ensure that Universal Support is accessible across the country, and is ready to deliver a consistent and reliable service from 1 April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 177384 question first answered 17/10/2018 16:52:21 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

982610

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Home Care Services: Disability
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 Government’s response to recommendation 45 (c) in its follow up report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Concluding Observations, what steps the Government plans to take to tackle the wide variations in local authority support for disabled people to live independently as a result of the (a) closure of the Independent Living Fund, and (b) decision not to provide ring-fenced funding to local councils when responsibility was devolved.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	176674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Living Fund (ILF) was transferred to local authorities and devolved administrations in 2015. When the Department transferred responsibility to the local authorities and devolved administrations it provided extensive support and committed to monitor the impact. The review was published in January 2017.</p><p>The Department of Health has responsibility for on-going ILF policy through the Care Act, which regulates Adult Social Care; The <em>Ministry</em> of <em>Housing</em><strong>, </strong><em>Communities and Local Government</em> decide how much funding local authorities receive.</p><p>To ensure that these new responsibilities were handled in a way which was appropriate to the local context, the transference of responsibility did not stipulate a national framework, nor was there any mandatory ring-fencing of the funds. Local authorities and devolved administrations therefore adopted different approaches to manage the transition within a local context.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 16/10/2018 13:29:16 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

982612

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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: Mental Illness
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 January 2018 to Question 124308 on Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness, what the timeframe is for the completion of the review; and what estimate she has made of the number of claimants affected by that review.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	176675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>As outlined in the Written Statement of 25 June 2018 (HCWS793) my Department has begun carrying out an administrative exercise to identify anyone who may be entitled to more support under Personal Independence Payment (PIP) as a result of the MH and RJ judgments.</p><p> </p><p>We have estimated that approximately 200,000 claimants will gain as a result of the MH judgment by 2023-24 and will be monitoring the outcomes of the exercise.</p><p>In regard to timing, we absolutely understand the urgency of this work, but we are also committed to carrying it out safely and correctly to ensure claimants receive the payments they are entitled to. I have committed to keeping the House updated and a statement on progress of the exercise will be tabled in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 16/10/2018 12:00:55 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

982613

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Disability: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government’s response to Recommendation 57 (a) to the report by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Concluding Observations, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the regular publication of data on the disability pay gap.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	176676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>In the November 2017 publication <em>Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability, </em> Government committed to publishing annual statistical updates to monitor progress towards our goal to see 1 million more disabled people in work. These will be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently developing further plans to consider transparency and reporting and details will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 16/10/2018 16:55:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

982614

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	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, with reference to the Government’s response to recommendation 57 of the report of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Concluding Observations, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on the the Access to Work cap of (a) the development of an effective employment policy for persons with disabilities and (b) the duty set to ensure that adjustments and support necessary to access work are provided.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	176677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The evidence suggests that our employment policies and support are proving effective. The number of disabled people in work in the UK increased by almost 600,000 in 4 years to reach around 3.5 million in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Our response to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Concluding Observations lists many of the initiatives that comprise our strategy to enable one million more disabled people into work by 2027. Access to Work is part of this strategy and helps disabled people to be able to take up work or stay in work. This is why in 2015 we reformed the scheme to enable it to continue to help as many people as possible, and to provide incentives for customers and employers to make the best use of taxpayer funding. Access to Work goes well beyond recommendation 57c of the UNCRPD report on ensuring that reasonable adjustments are in place.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work provides help above reasonable adjustments. Access to Work awards can have a very significant value, up to the cap of £57,200 per person per year which came into full effect from April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>DWP is continuing to monitor the Cap’s impact. Overall levels of approvals have remained stable over recent years and there is no evidence of divergence from this trend since the Cap was introduced in 2015. Although DWP has not formally assessed its impact on wider employment policy for persons with disabilities, the data available so far do not suggest that the Cap has adversely affected the development of effective employment policy, nor failed to satisfy the duty to ensure that adjustments and support necessary to access work are provided.</p><p> </p><p>More recently, an update to the 2015 equality analysis for reforming the Access to Work scheme was published on 9 May 2018. This update provides a full analysis and may be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-access-to-work-an-update-to-the-may-2015-equality-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-access-to-work-an-update-to-the-may-2015-equality-analysis</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 16/10/2018 13:24:48 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

982615

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	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, pursuant the Government’s response to recommendation 59 (e) to the report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Concluding Observations, whether her Department will publish its continuous review of conditionality and sanction policies.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	176678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department continously reviews conditionality requirements and sanctions policies as part of business as usual activity.</p><p> </p><p>Employment and Support Allowance will be phased out as part of managed migration to Universal Credit, commencing in 2019. The Department therefore have no plans to carry out a comprehensive review of conditionality and sanctions policies for Employment and Support Allowance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 176679 question first answered 23/10/2018 14:54:08 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

982616

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant the Government’s response to recommendation 59 (e) of the follow-up report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ Concluding Observations, whether the Government has plans to undertake a comprehensive review of the conditionality and sanctions regimes for Employment and Support Allowance.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	176679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Department continously reviews conditionality requirements and sanctions policies as part of business as usual activity.</p><p> </p><p>Employment and Support Allowance will be phased out as part of managed migration to Universal Credit, commencing in 2019. The Department therefore have no plans to carry out a comprehensive review of conditionality and sanctions policies for Employment and Support Allowance.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 176678 question first answered 23/10/2018 14:54:08 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova