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1506173

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's response on 11 February 2019 to the Work and Pensions Committee's 2018 report on Benefit Sanctions, for what reason her Department has not granted researchers at the University of Glasgow access to data on Universal Credit claims and sanctions histories for Scottish Universal Credit claimants to support their study into the health impacts of benefit sanctions; and if she will take steps to make that data available to those researchers in a timely manner.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department has taken the decision not to proceed with this data sharing project and has communicated this with the University.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 29/09/2022 14:20:08 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506364

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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: Cost of Living Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants were ineligible for the first cost of living payment as a result of having received two paychecks within the assessment period.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify how many households did not receive the Cost-of-Living payment because of the way their wages were paid during the qualifying month.</p><p> </p><p>A claimant may not be eligible to receive a Cost-of-Living payment if they have an increase earnings during the qualifying period. We are unable to distinguish whether this fluctuation is temporary or permanent. This fluctuation could be the result of a household receiving additional earnings due to being paid more frequently or another reason.</p><p> </p><p>There were 464,000 Universal Credit households where earnings reduced their Universal Credit award to £0 for the qualifying period. This was equivalent to 551,000 Universal Credit claimants.</p><p /> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 27/09/2022 09:59:42 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506366

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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: Disqualification
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 publish available data on the number of Universal Credit claimants who received nil payments as a result of a sanction having reduced their payment to £0 for each month of 2022 to date.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of UC claimants who receive nil payment as a result of having their Standard Allowance reduced by a sanction is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 27/09/2022 10:27:04 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506368

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) qualifications and (b) training courses are required to be undertaken to become an Assessor for Work Capability Assessments.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>All Healthcare Professionals (HCP) must have the following qualifications and experience:</p><p> </p><ul><li>they are an Occupational Therapist, Nurse (level 1), Physiotherapist or Doctor</li><li>they are fully registered with the relevant regulatory body (doctors must have a licence to practice)</li><li>the licensing body has not placed restrictions on the healthcare professional’s registration (unless they relate to disability), in individual cases this may be waivered subject to agreement with the department</li><li>they have at least 1 years’ post full registration experience (General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health and Care Professions Council or European Economic Area equivalent) or for non-European Union graduates 1 years’ post full registration experience unless otherwise agreed on an individual basis by the department.</li></ul><p> </p><p>HCPs undergo training in Disability Assessment Medicine which includes three distinct areas:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Generic training - principles of disability analysis, professional standards (including manner and behaviour) and multi-cultural awareness</li><li>Training to undertake benefit-specific assessments - modular training with competency testing at each stage and an approval process</li><li>Scrutiny / file work training - providing advice to the decision maker, theory, and casework exercises, followed by supported individual casework.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The training also includes theory training in a classroom setting, supervised practical training, and a demonstration of understanding as assessed by quality audit.</p><p> </p><p>Before HCPs can carry out assessments, they must go through a formal approval process to ensure they meet the department’s requirements in relation to experience, skills, and competence. Failure to demonstrate that they have reached the necessary standards, or to co-operate with feedback and/or retraining, will result in approval being refused.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 23/09/2022 10:49:11 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506369

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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	Bereavement Support Payment: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the surviving partner of cohabitating couples with children are informed of upcoming changes to the eligibility for Bereavement Support Payments.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>We are working to lay before Parliament the draft Remedial Order extending Bereavement Support Payment and Widowed Parent’s Allowance to surviving cohabitees with dependent children. Should the Order be approved, we plan to use a variety of approaches to raise awareness of this change, including updating GOV.UK and working with external stakeholders to ensure maximum reach.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 23/09/2022 11:06:32 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506370

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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	Bereavement Support Payment: Cohabitation
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 Bereavement Support Payments have been denied because the surviving partner was not married or in a civil partnership with the deceased partner, since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Monthly official statistics for Bereavement Support Payment, including number of decisions disallowed due to not married/ civil partnership and no proof of marriage/civil partnership, between April 2017 and March 2022, are published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 23/09/2022 11:14:09 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506000

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
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: Applications
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 length of time in days was for her Department to process new State Pension claims received by letter in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>DWP holds the average clearance times for State Pension claims as a whole. However, we do not retain separate data for claims received by letter (BR1 claim form). Therefore, this information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 22/09/2022 14:38:13 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506001

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
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: Applications
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 length of time in days is for her Department to process new State Pension claims received online.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>DWP holds the average clearance times for State Pension claims as a whole. However, we do not retain separate data for claims received online (via the Get Your State Pension portal). Therefore, this information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 22/09/2022 14:39:47 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506015

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
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: Cost of Living Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants have been made ineligible for the Cost of Living Payments as a result of deductions or sanctions having reduced their award to zero during the qualifying assessment period.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>Deductions for advances, third party debts and government debts are not a reason for someone to be ineligible for the Cost of Living Payment.</p><p> </p><p>Between the 14 and 20 July, the department processed over 7.2m cost of living payments worth around £2.4 billion. In total, over eight million families will be eligible for this payment, with around one million eligible because they receive tax credits and no other eligible benefits. These families will receive their first instalment from HMRC in the autumn, and the second instalment in the winter. Further information is available at: 7.2 million Cost of Living payments made to low-income families - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>) and at: Cost of Living Payment - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>)</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit households can receive a nil award for various reasons. The majority of nil awards are due to household earnings. Other reasons that can cause or contribute to a nil award include capital, other income, other benefits, sanctions and fraud penalties.</p><p> </p><p>12,200 households containing 12,400 UC claimants had a nil Universal Credit award with an amount deducted for a sanction in the qualifying assessment period, that did not receive the cost-of-living payment. Of these households, there were 6,600 households containing 6,600 claimants where the sanction was the only reason for the nil award. In the remaining households the nil award was due to a combination of the sanction and other reasons.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 22/09/2022 16:30:23 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1506025

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
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	Cost of Living Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) households and (b) people eligible to receive the first Cost of Living Payment have not received it as of 7 September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	49155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>Since the 14th July, the government has processed around 8.4m cost of living payments, worth around £2.7 billion, to eligible claimants who are due to receive the £326 support from DWP or HMRC. There will be some cases – such as those who gained entitlement to the DWP or HMRC cost of living payment at a later date – that will be paid later.</p><p> </p><p>Over 7.2m payments have been processed by DWP and over 1.1m payments have been processed by HMRC. Numbers may not add up due to rounding.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 22/09/2022 16:34:19 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth