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1454878

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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	Pension Credit: North West Norfolk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who are entitled to pension credit in North West Norfolk constituency who are not in receipt of it.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	148406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>Estimates for the number of people eligible for Pension Credit are only available at the Great Britain level.</p><p> </p><p>The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020 and can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/03/2022 12:36:10 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1454880

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the universal credit eligibility requirements for disabled people in education.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	148055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>Most full-time students in higher education do not qualify for Universal Credit because one of the conditions of entitlement is that a claimant must not be in education.</p><p> </p><p>Students, including disabled students and those with health conditions, access fees and living costs support for their higher education courses through various loans and grants funded through the student support system. It is important that Universal Credit does not duplicate this support, which is designed for their needs unlike the social security system.</p><p> </p><p>In some circumstances, people in full-time education are able to claim Universal Credit. These exceptions to the rules generally provide financial help not covered by the student support system or avoid anomalies in cases where one member of a couple is a student.</p><p> </p><p>There is an exception where a person has already been determined to have limited capability for work before entering education and is entitled to Attendance Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Disabled Adult/Child Payment (Scotland) or Armed Forces Independence Payment. The rules for this exception are designed to encourage those already claiming Universal Credit because of disability or ill health to take up education that may help them into work in the future.</p><p> </p><p>As with all policies, we continue to keep the support we offer to disabled students claiming UC under review.</p><p /> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 05/04/2022 16:31:30 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1454903

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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, in the past full year for which figures are available, how many and what proportion of Access to Work renewals have taken longer than 12 weeks to process.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	148243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The information requested about volumes and proportion of Access to Work renewals which have taken more than 12 weeks to process is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 31/03/2022 12:27:08 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1454925

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Appeals
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 people who registered an appeal against their benefit decision were awarded benefit at the first stage of appeal in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	148244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p>Some information regarding volumes and proportions of people who appealed to a tribunal and were awarded benefit can be found in the Tribunal Statistics quarterly main tables published by the Ministry of Justice, available at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#tribunal-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#tribunal-statistics-quarterly</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 148245 question first answered 31/03/2022 12:29:27 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1454927

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Appeals
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 people who appealed to a tribunal against a benefit decision in the most recent 12-month period for which data are available were awarded benefit by the tribunal.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	148245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p>Some information regarding volumes and proportions of people who appealed to a tribunal and were awarded benefit can be found in the Tribunal Statistics quarterly main tables published by the Ministry of Justice, available at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#tribunal-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics#tribunal-statistics-quarterly</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 148244 question first answered 31/03/2022 12:29:27 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1455002

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will detail the losses and special payments valued at under £300,000 for her departmental group as defined by section A4.10.7 in HM Treasury's Managing Public Money for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	148131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 05/04/2022 13:10:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1455021

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made in reducing the disability employment gap in (a) Newport West constituency and (b) Wales in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	148383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2022 answer text <p>The figures for the disability employment gap for Wales and Newport West are available in the public domain here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1054074/employment-of-disabled-people-2021-revised-feb-2022.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1054074/employment-of-disabled-people-2021-revised-feb-2022.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>The data for Wales is available on a yearly basis in table 12. The data for Newport West is only available in 3-year periods, due to small sample sizes, and is available in table 13b.</p><p> </p><p>The latest figures from the Annual Population Survey show that the disability employment gap in Wales was 32.9 percentage points in 2020/21. This is an increase of 1.1 percentage points from 2019/20 and a decrease of 1.3 percentage points from 2014/15. These changes were not statistically significant.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for Newport West are only available in 3-year periods using the Annual Population Survey data. The disability employment gap for Newport West was 33.3 percentage points from 2017 to 2019 and 33.0 percentage points from 2014 to 2016. These changes were not statistically significant.</p><p> </p><p>The Annual Population Survey shows that the disability employment gap in the UK was 27.9 percentage points in 2020/21. This is a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from 2019/20 and a decrease of 3.9 percentage points from 2014/15. The change from 2019/20 was not statistically significant, whilst the change from 2014/15 to 2020/21 was statistically significant.</p><p> </p><p>The government has set a goal to see one million more disabled people in employment between 2017 and 2027. Previously published figures for Q1 2021 showed that, in the first four years of the goal (between Q1 2017 and Q1 2021), the number of disabled people in employment increased by 850,000. This an increase of 14,000 since year three.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have provided specialist employment support remotely and made programmes easier to access. A range of DWP initiatives are supporting disabled people to stay in and enter work. These include the Work and Health Programme, the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, Access to Work, Disability Confident and support in partnership with the health system, including Employment Advice in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 05/04/2022 13:36:15 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1455028

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children under the age of three are in receipt of DLA Care under the special rules.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	148293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>Quarterly statistics for the number and age of children in receipt of the highest rate care award of Disability Living Allowance, with a main disabling condition recorded as Terminally ill, are published on Stat-Xplore here:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 31/03/2022 12:25:06 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1455042

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of assessments for disability living allowance in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	148294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2022 answer text <p>The total cost of assessments for Disability Living Allowance are provided below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>DLA (£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>36.39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>39.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>30.65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>28.22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>23.48</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The following points should be noted:</p><p> </p><ol><li>The figures represent the operational costs of delivering Disability Living Allowance. This is how we have interpreted the request for the “Total Costs of Assessments”.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>The cost figures quoted are estimated DWP level 1 operating costs, including both direct delivery staff and non-staff costs. Non-staff costs are only those costs incurred in local cost centres, relating to direct delivery staff.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>Please note that the data supplied is from the Departmental Activity Based Models. This data is derived from unpublished management information which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standards. It should therefore be treated with caution. The Departmental Activity Based staffing models are a snapshot of how many people were identified as undertaking specified activities as assigned by line managers.</li></ol><p>Appeals are a joint process between DWP and HM Courts and Tribunals Service (part of Ministry of Justice). DWP do not handle tribunals for appeals; the cost of handling appeal tribunals sits with HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) and we do not hold their cost information. The figures quoted therefore exclude these costs.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 04/04/2022 15:59:29 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1455043

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
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	Attendance Allowance: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of assessments for attendance allowance in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	148295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2022 answer text <p>The latest data available for the last five years on the total cost of assessments for Attendance Allowance is provided below:</p><p> </p><p>15/16 £32.38m</p><p>16/17 £27.95m</p><p>17/18 £24.35m</p><p>18/19 £19.68m</p><p>19/20 £21.94m</p><p> </p><p>This data is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standards. It should therefore be treated with caution.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/04/2022 13:50:09 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft