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62528

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 14 May (WA 522), why they do not intend to ring-fence monies identified by the Independent Living Fund as needed to meet the critical and substantial needs of recipients.
tabling member printed	Baroness Uddin
uin	HL457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Government's position on how local authorities manage their finances is clear; local authorities need to be allowed to meet their statutory responsibilities in a flexible and responsive way and the ring-fencing of funding prevents this. Allowing local authorities the flexibility to manage their budgets locally means they can respond to local needs and priorities to deliver more efficient services and better outcomes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 23/06/2014 14:24:52 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1827 label Biography information for Baroness Uddin

62744

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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 applications for personal independence payments were made by individuals diagnosed with a terminal illness in each of the three months to June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	201248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave him on 18 June, Official Report, column 629W. Information on clearance times is not currently available. Statistics on clearance times are intended for future publication.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 201249 201251 question first answered 23/06/2014 16:32:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

62745

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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 decisions on applications for personal independence payments from individuals diagnosed with a terminal illness were made in each of the three months to June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	201249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave him on 18 June, Official Report, column 629W. Information on clearance times is not currently available. Statistics on clearance times are intended for future publication.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 201248 201251 question first answered 23/06/2014 16:32:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

62747

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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	Universal Credit
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 started to receive universal credit in March 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	201242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Statistics on how many people started Universal Credit in March 2014 can be found at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/06/2014 16:50:09 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

62748

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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, when the contracts for personal independence payments assessments were awarded to Atos and Capita; and how many applications they were forecast to have processed by (a) March 2014 and (b) March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	201250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The start date for both ATOS and Capita contracts was the 31st July 2012.</p><p> </p><p>No forecast figures are available for numbers of applications processed.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/06/2014 16:33:58 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

62750

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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 the average duration has been of the assessment period for each claim for personal independence payment from a person diagnosed with a terminal illness in each of the three months to June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	201251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Rt. Hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave him on 18 June, Official Report, column 629W. Information on clearance times is not currently available. Statistics on clearance times are intended for future publication.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 201248 201249 question first answered 23/06/2014 16:32:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

62761

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2014, Official Report, column 176W, on work capability assessment, if he will make it his policy to set a target timescale for employment and support allowance and incapacity benefit reassessment work capability assessments in order to monitor and reduce the waiting times for those assessments.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	201308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are committed to completing Work Capability Assessments as quickly as possible so that eligible claimants receive the appropriate rate of benefit.</p><p>However it is important to get assessments right rather than setting an artificial timescale for completion. We are working with the existing supplier to improve processing times and reduce waiting times. In addition, we are seeking a replacement supplier to undertake Work Capability Assessments.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime we continue to rigorously monitor and manage the existing contract to ensure that both quality and performance are maintained as part of our drive to improve the quality of decision making and process claims more quickly.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/06/2014 15:05:01 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

62783

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensions are paid to British citizens resident overseas.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	201378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Figures for the pension caseload are published on the DWP Tabulation tool here:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/ccgor/ccsex/a_carate_r_ccgor_c_ccsex_nov13.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/sp/ccgor/ccsex/a_carate_r_ccgor_c_ccsex_nov13.html</a></p><p> </p><p>No information is available on the nationality or citizenship of State Pensions recipients. However, in November 2013 there were approximately 1.21 million State Pensions paid outside of Great Britain. Not all of these will necessarily be to British citizens but may be to anyone who has built up an entitlement to a State Pension, regardless of nationality.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/06/2014 14:47:02 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

62393

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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 claimants for personal independence payments who require a home consultation have waited longer than (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five and (f) six or more months for such a consultation.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	201021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information you have requested is not currently available.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/06/2014 14:37:20 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

62394

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Bradford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases in Bradford are awaiting mandatory reconsideration of employment and support allowance decisions.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	201009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/06/2014 16:48:30 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward