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date	23/01/2023
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an online portal for Personal Independence Payment claims to help improve communication between his Department and claimants.
tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
uin	129779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The Health Transformation Programme is modernising health and disability benefit services. It will create a more efficient service and a vastly improved claimant experience, reducing journey times and improving communications with claimants to increase transparency and build trust in our services and decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The programme is transforming the entire PIP service, including introducing a digital PIP service with the option to apply online.   We are currently operating a small-scale test of this new apply service, taking a small number of claims to begin with, before we gradually and carefully increase the number of people who can use it.</p><p> </p><p>We have already introduced a digital version of the PIP2 health questionnaire, which is now offered to the majority of those making a claim. The full online apply service will offer claimants the option to claim PIP online, including the ability to save and resume and to upload medical evidence.</p><p> </p><p>The programme will be developing the new PIP service carefully and incrementally, designing it around the needs of claimants, making it quicker, simpler and more transparent.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/01/2023 13:45:02 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

1435496

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date	25/02/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Transgender People: Pupils
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what information she holds on the process that was used for the production of planned EHRC guidance for schools on how to support trans children over the past five years; and what plans the EHRC has to publish such guidance in the next year.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	129779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>We recognise that appropriately supporting all children in schools can involve balancing complex and sensitive matters. The Government continues to work across departments and with the LGBT sector to better understand these issues and how best we can support schools. The Secretary of State for Education has recently written to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission to accept her offer of advice as they determine their next steps in this area and other equalities issues for schools.</p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission is the independent regulator for equality law and regularly issues guidance on areas of equality law that span across several sectors.</p><p>It is not unusual for regulators and the Government to engage on relevant issues nor for Government departments to issue guidance relevant to their specific briefs. In this specific instance, that approach will enable Department for Education sectoral expertise, on safeguarding for example, to be taken fully into account in any next steps.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 01/03/2022 14:25:24 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown