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994668

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department have any plans to amend the qualifying criteria for the home work capability assessment for people suffering from mental health concerns.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	183993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Work is ongoing with the Work Capability Assessment provider to fully review their process for dealing with requests for a home visit. This review will consider all aspects of the process, including how claimants requiring a home visit can be identified more effectively at the beginning of the process, the ease with which a claimant can request a visit, and how we can make more efficient use of existing evidence to support the decision on whether a home visit is required.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/10/2018 10:50:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

810301

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Work Capability Assessment: 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 20 December 2017 to Question 118979, what estimate he has made of the proportion of clients undergoing work capability assessments who are suffering from mental ill health.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested on Work Capability Assessments is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available information to June 2017 on the number of completed Work Capability Assessments by International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) groupings can be found in Table 7 of the Employment and Support Allowance Outcomes of Work Capability Assessments quarterly statistics published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-december-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/01/2018 14:34:20 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

810303

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Work Capability Assessment: 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 20 December 2017 to Question 118979, what assessment he has made of his Department's ability accurately to assess clients against the mental functional descriptors of the work capability assessment; and if he will review his Department's policy of not employing psychologists and psychiatrists to adjudicate in such assessments.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>All Healthcare Professionals who undertake Work Capability Assessments are registered healthcare professionals, doctors, nurses, physiotherapists or occupational therapists, with a minimum of two years broad - based post registration experience, although this can be waived in exceptional circumstances by the Department. They are subject to a thorough recruitment process that includes formal interview and all are required to pass a competency based assessment. Once recruited, they undertake a comprehensive new entrant training programme.</p><p> </p><p>All healthcare professionals then have 100% of their work audited until it is demonstrated that their work meets the required standards. At this stage, the Assessment Provider make a recommendation to the DWP that the healthcare professional should be formally approved. All practitioners are then subject to a programme of case reviews and audit.</p><p> </p><p>They are not required by DWP to hold specialist qualifications or specific previous experience in mental health conditions. As part of the induction Healthcare Professionals receive training in mental health issues and are required to read evidence based protocols on mental health conditions. In addition, they are required to engage in a programme of continuing medical education which includes modules on mental health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Work Capability Assessment is a functional assessment which focuses not on a claimant’s condition but on the functional effects of that condition. It looks at a range of different activities related to physical, mental, cognitive and intellectual functions and certain additional criteria that do not directly measure function to determine capability for work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/01/2018 14:31:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

425007

registered interest
date	29/10/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made in piloting reasonable adjustments to the work capability assessment for people with mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	14051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department has been working closely with its new provider, the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA) to develop and test new processes for obtaining further evidence as part of the Work Capability Assessment. An initial test of these new processes should start by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 05/11/2015 16:07:29 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

418275

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mental health champions are employed by Maximus in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK as part of the employment and support allowance work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA), a MAXIMUS UK subsidiary, currently employs 28 mental health function champions. A telephone service is provided by these mental health function champions due to the large number, and varying size of Assessments Centres across England, Scotland and Wales. These staff provide the service across all parts of the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 13:02:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418276

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evaluation he has made of the effectiveness of the role played by mental health champions in the work capability assessment process.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no formal performance measures around the role of the mental health champion.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:55:43 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

418277

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
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	Work Capability Assessment: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many assessors employed by Maximus under their contract to conduct work capability assessments in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK have a mental health qualification.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
uin	9876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The holding of specific mental health qualifications is not a DWP requirement for healthcare professionals conducting assessments. The information requested is therefore not readily available. However, the comprehensive training provided to all healthcare professionals includes the functional effects of a wide range of mental health conditions.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 15/09/2015 10:53:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford