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100270

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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	Social Security Benefits
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 3 September 2014 to Question 207337, when his Department's statisticians last assessed whether statistics on mandatory reconsideration meet the standards set out in the UK Statistics Authority's code of practice.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	211322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>DWP statisticians are currently working to collate and quality assure data on Mandatory Reconsideration. The Department has committed to publishing statistics as soon as Departmental statisticians judge that the data meets the standards set out in the UK Statistics Authority’s Codes of Practice. The aim is to release an initial set of official statistics on Mandatory Reconsideration by the end of 2014.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 28/10/2014 17:11:27 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

100280

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014 to Question 207159, whether his Department has any recourse to sanction (a) Atos and (b) Capita in the event that individuals have to wait longer than 16 weeks by the autumn.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	211339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>There is a commitment in place that by the end of the year we expect no one to be waiting for a Personal Independence Payment assessment for longer than 16 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>Appropriate contractual provisions are in place support the achievement of this commitment.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 28/10/2014 17:11:30 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89860

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress has been made on making statistics on mandatory reconsiderations for jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance publicly available.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	207337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>DWP statisticians are currently working to collate and quality assure data on Mandatory Reconsideration for Employment and Support Allowance as a matter of urgency. The Department has committed to publishing the statistics when the Departmental statisticians judge that the data meet the standards set out in the UK Statistics Authority’s Codes of Practice.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/09/2014 14:47:51 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89862

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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 assessment he has made of the comparative performance of Capita and Atos in conducting personal independence payment assessments.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	207332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department's contracts with Atos Healthcare and Capita for the delivery of assessments for Personal Independence Payment include a full set of service level agreements setting out the Department's expectations for service delivery, including quality of assessments and the number of days to provide advice to the Department. We are closely monitoring their progress and are taking action to drive up performance where this does not meet the required standards.</p><p>We are aware that, in many cases, it is taking longer than we would like for claimants to have their assessments with Capita and Atos Healthcare. To ensure they deliver we are working closely with our suppliers to speed up the process for claimants.</p><p>By the autumn, we expect no one to be waiting for an assessment for longer than 26 weeks and by the end of the year, we expect no one will be waiting longer than 16 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 05/09/2014 10:37:22 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89864

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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: 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 personal independence payment (a) registrations and (b) decisions were made in the (i) KA and (ii) PA postcode areas between April 2013 and March 2014.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	207333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Published statistics show that in the KA postcode area there were (a) 2,840 registrations and (b) 1,070 decisions made for the personal independence payment. In the PA postcode area, there were (a) 2,430 registrations, and (b) 680 decisions made for the personal independence payment.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 05/09/2014 11:07:28 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89867

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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 mean length of time between a personal independence payment claim being registered and a decision being made was on (a) claims not made under special rules for terminally ill people and (b) claims made under special rules for terminally ill people where the decision was taken between April 2013 and March 2014.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	207331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Statistics on the time taken to clear cases are intended for future publication and the Department's analysts are currently considering what information will be included in the release.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/09/2014 15:07:36 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89872

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Incapacity Benefit
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 received a reduced rate of incapacity benefit as a result of receiving a pension income of more than £85 in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	207182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The information requested to answer the above two questions is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 207181 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:38:45 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89873

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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
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 received a reduced rate of employment and support allowance as a result of receiving a pension income of more than £85 in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	207181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The information requested to answer the above two questions is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper grouped question UIN 207182 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:38:45 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89877

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
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	Social Security Benefits
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 24 June 2014, Official Report, column 180W, on social security benefits, if he will conduct an estimate of the saving to the public purse generated by the reduction of (a) employment and support allowance and (b) incapacity benefit for individuals in receipt of a pension income of more than £85 per week in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	207081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We have no plans to undertake such an estimate.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 05/09/2014 10:22:22 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

65600

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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 steps his Department has taken to deal with backlogs in personal independence payments.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	203681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>We are continuously looking at ways to increase the number of decisions made and to improve the claims process.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with both assessment providers as part of our plans to speed up the end to end claimant journey. We have introduced improvements in communications to claimants about the type of evidence they can supply to speed up their claim and we are taking action to support the assessment providers in clearing backlogs of work.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:35 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning