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349903

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure planned changes to entitlements to housing benefit and local housing allowance do not adversely affect (a) young adults, (b) formerly looked after children, (c) pregnant women, (d) couples with children, (e) veterans and (f) disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Any changes to Housing Benefit policy will be subject to a full policy equality assessment to ascertain the impacts on protected groups and ensure compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 11:50:33 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

350020

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Islington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new claims for discretionary housing payments were approved in (a) the London Borough of Islington and (b) Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No information is held on how many new claims for Discretionary Housing Payment were approved in the London Borough of Islington or the Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last five years. In financial year 2013/14, local authorities were asked to report on the total number of Discretionary Housing Payments awards made but it is unknown how many of these were new claims. The Government’s analysis of Discretionary Housing Payment returns for 2013/14 is available at –</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-2013-to-2014</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 13:30:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

350029

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Islington South and Finsbury
	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 in receipt of a Discretionary Housing Payment in Islington South and Finsbury constituency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No information is held on how many people in Islington South and Finsbury constituency were in receipt of a Discretionary Housing Payment in each of the last five years.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 13:07:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

350021

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Islington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of discretionary housing payment claimants in (a) the London Borough of Islington and (b) Islington South and Finsbury constituency are in work.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No information is held on what proportion of Discretionary Housing Payment claimants in the London Borough of Islington or Islington and Finsbury South constituency are in work.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 13:04:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

350088

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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 the implications for his Department's policies are of the ruling in the case of Ms C and Mr W v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others of 8 June 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The Court rejected two of the three legal grounds brought by the claimants, finding that their human rights had not been breached and not awarding damages.</p><p> </p><p>Where the Court found that the historic delay for the two claimants was unlawful, they also ruled that they are not “test cases” and it would be inappropriate to make wider findings.</p><p> </p><p>The Court accepted that the Government had made significant improvements to the Personal Independence Payment process and there are now no inherent failings in the system.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of these improvements, the average time taken for a claimant to be assessed by an assessment provider has more than halved since June 2014. In March 2015, the average claimant wait was 7 weeks for their PIP assessment - well within the 16 week target set by the Secretary of State.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 13:49:24 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

349757

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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 Living Allowance: Batten Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will bring forward proposals to ensure that people diagnosed with Batten disease receive the higher rate of disability living allowance from the point of diagnosis.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	1857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>We have no plans to change current arrangements for dealing with claimants with Batten disease. As Batten disease is a progressive condition this means that care and mobility needs will change over time and it is in the interests of the child that we periodically review their claim to ensure the appropriate level of support is always available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1858 question first answered 16/06/2015 14:23:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349394

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	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	Housing Benefit: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people aged 18 to 21 in Wales receive housing benefit; how many such people (a) have children, (b) are disabled and (c) have previously been in local authority care.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Owen Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	1690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Detailed housing benefit statistics, including those aged 18 to 21 in Wales by number of dependent children, can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on those households receiving housing benefit and containing someone registered as disabled is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested for those who have previously been in local authority care is not collected on the data available for analysis and therefore is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 13:30:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith

350080

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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	Jobcentres: Telephones
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will ensure that all jobcentres provide access to telephones for jobseekers to apply for jobs when no computer is required or the jobseeker is unable to use a computer.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As part of our Jobcentre modernisation programme we have replaced all Customer Access Telephones with computers. Alongside this we provide an assisted service for claimants who require additional support while using the computers.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who require access to a telephone in connection with their benefit or job search will still be given access to a telephone in a Jobcentre.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/06/2015 11:48:32 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

349700

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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 Living Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on requiring applications to renew disability living allowance for people with degenerative medical conditions; and what evidence is used by assessors to confirm the degenerative nature of those conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	1955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Entitlement to DLA is not based on the diagnosis of a disease or whether a person has a degenerative medical condition. DLA is awarded to people who have care and/.or mobility needs because of severe disability. Award lengths are set according to the extent that care and/or mobility needs may change over time. For those with a degenerative condition fixed term awards allow the Department to periodically review, and where necessary, increase the levels of financial support should care/mobility needs have increased.</p><p> </p><p>Claims to DLA are dealt with by DWP decision makers, who refer to Departmental guidance <em>the Children’s A-Z of Medical </em>Conditions which sets out the main care and mobility needs likely to arise from different disabling conditions. If necessary, further information is gathered from health professionals dealing with the claimant, or in the case of a child, from their school.</p><p> </p><p>DLA can be awarded indefinitely to any claimant depending on their individual circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1957 question first answered 16/06/2015 15:12:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

349904

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	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: Scotland
	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 in Scotland are not claiming what value of each benefit and pension entitlement; what proportion of each benefit and pension entitlement is unclaimed by claimants in Scotland; and if he will take steps to transfer the value of unclaimed benefits and pension entitlements to the Scottish Government.
	tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	2275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Estimates of benefit take-up are not available at geographies below Great Britain. This is due to the size of the survey sample they are based on and methods used to generate robust national figures.</p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation at July 2012 on the future on the “Income Related Benefits: Estimates for Take-Up” National Statistics series, DWP are planning to publish Experimental Statistics on benefit take-up rates. Further details are available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-201213-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-201213-experimental</a></p><p> </p><p>In February 2012 the Department for Work and Pensions published the report “Income Related Benefits: Estimates of Take-up in 2009-10”. The full report can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up</a></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/06/2015 11:49:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan