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45165

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date	26/03/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to encourage the Government Procurement Service to adopt (a) UN Global Compact and (b) ILO standards; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	193994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>This Government's procurement policy is to award contracts on the basis of value for money, which means the optimum combination of cost and quality over the lifetime of the project.</p><p>The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 requires commissioners to consider the economic, environmental and social benefits of their approaches to procurement before the process starts, at the pre-procurement stage.</p><p>Wider socio-economic criteria can be taken into account at tender evaluation stage if they relate directly to the subject matter of a contract from the point of view of the contracting authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

43882

registered interest
date	18/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of disability living allowance claims took longer than 40 days to process in each of the last three years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	192527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Please see the table below showing the percentage of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) new claims, for Normal Rules (NR), that took longer than 40 days to process. Claims not yet processed within 40 days, include cases where we are awaiting additional information from the claimant and/or medical evidence.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Volume of Claims Cleared</strong></p></td><td><p>402,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Volume of claims cleared after 40 working days </strong></p></td><td><p>89,678</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>% of </strong><strong>DLA</strong><strong> New Claims (NR) <br /> cleared after 40 working days</strong></p></td><td><p>22.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Prior to 2012/13 the measure reported against was an Actual Average Clearance Time (AACT). This is the cumulative clearance days divided by the number of cleared events within the reporting period.</p><p> </p><p>Please see the table below for 2010/11 and 2011/12: </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Volume of Claims Cleared</strong></p></td><td><p>431,572</p></td><td><p>412,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>AACT (Level 37.7 days)</strong></p></td><td><p>30.3</p></td><td><p>27.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The reported figure only relates to DLA (NR) new claims. NR claims are those where the claimant is not terminally ill and the normal rules of entitlement therefore apply. </p><p> </p><p>The figures above cover the period from 1st April to 31st March and shows the national position including working age and child claimants.</p><p> </p><p>The AACT level (37.7 days) shown in the above table is a measure based on a prior year's performance.</p><p> </p><p>We have not provided data for 2013/14 due to not having a full financial year available at this time. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong></p><p> </p><p>Source: Department for Work and Pensions – RDA 80123 report - DLA Management Information Statistics</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

43918

registered interest
date	18/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the processing time target is for personal independence payment (PIP) claims; and what proportion of such claims took longer than this target time to process since the introduction of PIPs.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Mr Gareth Thomas
uin	192751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>As you will appreciate, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is a new benefit and processes are currently bedding in. There are no time limits or targets on processing times to claims for PIP but we are taking the necessary action to improve the processing times. </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas