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1700681

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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: Parkinson's Disease
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide targeted financial support for people with long-term conditions such as Parkinson’s disease during the cost of living crisis.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gale
uin	HL3739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living, including people with Parkinson’s disease. Over recent years, the government has demonstrated its commitment to supporting the most vulnerable with one of the largest support packages in Europe. The total support over 2022- 2025 to help households and individuals with higher bills amounts to £108 billion – an average of £3,800 per UK household.</p><p> </p><p>We provided a Disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 in June/July 2023 to people in receipt of certain disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Disability Living Allowance (DLA). This is in addition to the £150 payment paid in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that nearly 60 per cent of individuals who received an extra costs disability benefit would have received the means-tested benefit Cost of Living Payments, worth up to £900. Over 85 per cent would have received either or both of the means-tested and the £300 Pensioner Cost of Living Payment.</p><p> </p><p>We also increased extra costs disability benefits by 10.1 per cent from April 2023 and by 6.7% from April 2024 in line with the Consumer Price Index.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 24/04/2024 16:01:15 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	2503 label Biography information for Baroness Gale

1698970

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
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: Parkinson's 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 meet with Parkinson’s UK and the hon. Member for Bootle to discuss the experience of people with Parkinson’s in the social security system.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	20662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) assesses individuals against a set of descriptors to determine how their health condition or disability affects their ability to work. The WCA takes into account the functional effects of fluctuating and degenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s. A key principle is that the WCA considers the impact that a person’s disability or health condition has on them, not the condition itself.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with the most severe health conditions and disabilities whose condition is unlikely to ever improve are no longer routinely reassessed.</p><p> </p><p>From 2025, we are reforming the WCA to reflect new flexibilities in the labour market and greater employment opportunities for disabled people and people with health conditions, whilst maintaining protections for those with the most significant conditions. Claimants who currently have no work-related requirements, except in some very limited circumstances, will not be reassessed or lose benefit because of these changes.</p><p> </p><p>When making decisions on changes to the WCA, we carefully considered over 1300 consultation responses, including from disabled people, people with health conditions, and the organisations that represent and support them. We also engaged directly with clinical experts, employer groups and disability organisations across the country.</p><p> </p><p>With these changes to the WCA criteria, 371,000 fewer people will be assessed as having limited capability for work and work-related activity by 2028-29 and will receive personalised support to help them move closer to employment. A further 29,000 individuals will be found fit for work by 2028-29 and will receive more intensive support to search for and secure work than would be the case under the current WCA rules. These figures are not based on specific conditions. This is because the WCA considers the impact that a person’s disability or health condition has on their ability to work, not the condition itself.</p><p /><p>The department routinely engages with a wide range of organisations that represent and support disabled people and people with health conditions, including people living with Parkinson’s disease.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 20626 20627 20661 question first answered 16/04/2024 15:51:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1698990

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
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: Parkinson's 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 hold discussions with (a) the hon. Member for North Tyneside and (b) Parkinson's UK on the potential impact of the social security system on people living with Parkinson's disease.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	20627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2024 answer text <p>The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) assesses individuals against a set of descriptors to determine how their health condition or disability affects their ability to work. The WCA takes into account the functional effects of fluctuating and degenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s. A key principle is that the WCA considers the impact that a person’s disability or health condition has on them, not the condition itself.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants with the most severe health conditions and disabilities whose condition is unlikely to ever improve are no longer routinely reassessed.</p><p> </p><p>From 2025, we are reforming the WCA to reflect new flexibilities in the labour market and greater employment opportunities for disabled people and people with health conditions, whilst maintaining protections for those with the most significant conditions. Claimants who currently have no work-related requirements, except in some very limited circumstances, will not be reassessed or lose benefit because of these changes.</p><p> </p><p>When making decisions on changes to the WCA, we carefully considered over 1300 consultation responses, including from disabled people, people with health conditions, and the organisations that represent and support them. We also engaged directly with clinical experts, employer groups and disability organisations across the country.</p><p> </p><p>With these changes to the WCA criteria, 371,000 fewer people will be assessed as having limited capability for work and work-related activity by 2028-29 and will receive personalised support to help them move closer to employment. A further 29,000 individuals will be found fit for work by 2028-29 and will receive more intensive support to search for and secure work than would be the case under the current WCA rules. These figures are not based on specific conditions. This is because the WCA considers the impact that a person’s disability or health condition has on their ability to work, not the condition itself.</p><p /><p>The department routinely engages with a wide range of organisations that represent and support disabled people and people with health conditions, including people living with Parkinson’s disease.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 20626 20661 20662 question first answered 16/04/2024 15:51:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

886211

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Parkinson's Disease
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 take steps to ensure that people with Parkinson's disease who undertake therapeutic exercise are not disadvantaged (a) when applying for and (b) if they are in receipt of employment and support allowance or personal independence payments.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	136406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is designed to treat people as individuals, considering the impact of their impairment or health condition on their everyday life and how each claimant has personally adapted to living with a disability. The assessment considers all available evidence, including whether an activity can be performed safely to an acceptable standard repeatedly and in a reasonable time period. This principle applies to all claimants, including claimants with Parkinson’s Disease.</p><p> </p><p>Entitlement to Employment and Support Allowance is not based on an individual’s diagnosis or the nature of their particular disabling condition, but rather on the way that condition limits their ability to function. The Work Capability Assessment assesses the effects of a person’s condition on their ability to carry out a number of everyday activities.</p><p> </p><p>ESA has been designed to take full account of progressive conditions such as Parkinson’s. If an individual has a progressive health condition, the Health Care Professional takes this into consideration when providing advice to the Decision Maker.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/04/2018 11:33:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

850054

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Parkinson's Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when Ministers of his Department last met with Parkinson's UK to discuss support provided to people with Parkinson's disease; and what the outcome of those discussions was.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	129622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>I met with the Disability Benefits Consortium, which includes representation from Parkinson’s UK, on 17<sup>th</sup> January 2018.</p><p> </p><p>At that meeting we discussed a wide range of topics which broadly covered Personal Independence Payments, the Work Capability Assessment, and Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>I have asked my officials to continue our dialogue with the Consortium, in order to look more closely at the matters they raised with me.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/03/2018 15:16:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

598328

registered interest
date	10/10/2016
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: Parkinson's Disease
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 with Parkinson's disease and who are in receipt of disability living allowance are waiting reassessment for personal independence payments; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	47801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <p>As at February 2016 (the latest data available), I estimate there were about 4,600 working age people in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) whose main disabling condition is recorded as Parkinson’s disease on the DLA computer systems, and who will be invited to apply for Personal Independence Payment in the future, or may have been invited to claim within the past 6 months.</p><p>As at July 2016, there were 1,300 claimants in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) who have been reassessed in the last three years, having previously been in receipt of DLA, and whose main disabling condition is recorded as Parkinson's disease or Parkinson's syndrome on the PIP computer systems.</p><p>The length of a PIP award is based on an individual’s circumstances. For some of the most severely disabled claimants, a review could be as long as ten years after the initial award, at which point only a light-touch review, rather than a face-to-face assessment, will be necessary.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 47802 question first answered 13/10/2016 16:52:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

598331

registered interest
date	10/10/2016
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: Parkinson's Disease
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 with Parkinson's disease have been transferred from long-term disability living allowance to personal independence payment in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	47802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <p>As at February 2016 (the latest data available), I estimate there were about 4,600 working age people in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) whose main disabling condition is recorded as Parkinson’s disease on the DLA computer systems, and who will be invited to apply for Personal Independence Payment in the future, or may have been invited to claim within the past 6 months.</p><p>As at July 2016, there were 1,300 claimants in receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) who have been reassessed in the last three years, having previously been in receipt of DLA, and whose main disabling condition is recorded as Parkinson's disease or Parkinson's syndrome on the PIP computer systems.</p><p>The length of a PIP award is based on an individual’s circumstances. For some of the most severely disabled claimants, a review could be as long as ten years after the initial award, at which point only a light-touch review, rather than a face-to-face assessment, will be necessary.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 47801 question first answered 13/10/2016 16:52:47 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

519368

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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: Parkinson's Disease
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 with Parkinson's disease have been transferred from long-term disability living allowance to personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	37129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>The available information is in the table below and shows the number of people with Parkinson’s disease who were in receipt of disability living allowance and have successfully claimed personal independence payment (PIP). Full PIP roll out began from July 2015 and is due to take several years to complete. This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Claims in payment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parkinson's disease</p></td><td><p>550</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parkinson's syndrome / Parkinsonism</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The source of the data is the PIP computer system.</li><li>Figures are correct as at 31st January 2016 and have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Figures are for DLA reassessment claims only and include normal rules claims and claims under the special rules for terminally ill people.</li><li>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</li><li>Figures are for Great Britain.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/05/2016 10:57:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

348151

registered interest
date	02/06/2015
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: Parkinson's Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many citizens of other EU member states with Parkinson's disease receive disability living allowance or personal independence payments.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not collect information on the EU citizenship status of claimants for Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 947 question first answered 10/06/2015 11:02:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman