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756073

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department has (a) received and (b) investigated in the last 12 months in each region from women born in the 1950s and affected by changes in state pension age; what criteria are used to determine whether a complaint is investigated; how many such investigations have been completed; and what the anticipated (i) timescale and (ii) cost is of each such investigation under way.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of complaints received and investigated from August 2016 to August 2017 is 3782.</p><p> </p><p>All complaints are investigated. We are unable to attribute the complaints to Region due to limitations of data recording.</p><p> </p><p>DWP contact the customer within 15 working days to tell them of the outcome or when they can expect a response, if it will take longer.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not hold cost figures for such investigations and these complaints are handled within the normal business of the department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/09/2017 16:25:59 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756094

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: Females
	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) staff are deployed to respond to complaints received from women born in the 1950s affected by the change to the state pension age and (b) additional staff have been employed to respond to those complaints in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The responses to complaints received are being handled within normal business activities.</p><p> </p><p>No additional staff have been employed to respond to these complaints.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/09/2017 09:57:20 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756095

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date his Department opened an investigation into complaints made by women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to the state pension age; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Department investigate each complaint received.</p><p> </p><p>The first formal complaint relating to women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to the state pension age was received on 16 August 2016.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/09/2017 16:06:04 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756087

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Parkinson's Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with Parkinson's disease have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 with specific conditions is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/09/2017 14:34:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756089

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many completed repeat assessments there have been of people with (a) Parkinson's disease, (b) multiple sclerosis, (c) motor neurone disease, (d) rheumatoid arthritis and (e) cystic fibrosis, by year of repeat assessment, since the introduction of personal independence payments in 2013; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>To answer this question, “repeat assessments” has been interpreted to mean Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessments. The table below gives statistics on the number of completed DLA reassessments to PIP by year of DLA reassessment for people with (a) Parkinson's disease, (b) multiple sclerosis, (c) motor neurone disease, (d) rheumatoid arthritis and (e) cystic fibrosis.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: reassessments for Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Motor neurone disease, rheumatoid arthritis and cystic fibrosis by year of reassessment (April 2013 to October 2016)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parkinson's disease</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>420</p></td><td><p>1,490</p></td><td><p>1,980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Multiple sclerosis</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>1,950</p></td><td><p>7,710</p></td><td><p>10,160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motor neurone disease</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rheumatoid arthritis</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1,130</p></td><td><p>3,860</p></td><td><p>9,930</p></td><td><p>14,920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cystic fibrosis</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>460</p></td><td><p>650</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1,170</p></td><td><p>6,510</p></td><td><p>19,800</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>October 2016 is the latest published data available. Later data is available but has been withheld as will be published as part of official statistics in December 2017.</p><p>We recognise that claimants in the ESA Support Group and UC Limited Capability for Work Related Activity with the most severe health conditions or disabilities who have conditions that are unlikely to improve, and are unlikely to ever be able to move closer to the labour market and into work, are having to go through a very lengthy, stressful and bureaucratic process to claim their benefits.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with our assessment provider, medical professionals and other stakeholders, to develop a set of criteria that will help us identify those with the most severe health conditions or disabilities, for whom ESA reassessments can be stopped unless there is a change of circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Reviews of PIP are a key part of the benefit and ensure that not only awards remain correct where needs may change and that we also maintain contact with the claimant, both features missing from its predecessor Disability Living Allowance. PIP recognises that for the most severely disabled claimants, the award review process could seem unnecessarily intrusive. Existing PIP claimants with the most severe, lifetime disabilities, whose functional ability has remained the same, are more likely to have their evidence reviewed by a DWP Decision-Maker and will not need to have another face-to-face assessment with a healthcare professional.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 12/09/2017 16:36:41 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756090

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: Chronic Illnesses
	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 (a) cystic fibrosis, (b) rheumatoid arthritis, (c) motor neurone disease, (d) multiple sclerosis and (e) Parkinson's disease have qualified for (i) income-related employment and support allowance and (ii) income-related jobseeker's allowance since 2008; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 12/09/2017 12:43:07 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756093

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: 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 had employment and support allowance cancelled after 12 months without undergoing a work capability assessment; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Between October 2008 and September 2015 there were fewer than 50 individuals, whose main disabling condition was recorded as Parkinson’s disease, who stopped receiving Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) after twelve months and did not have a completed Work Capability Assessment.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><ol><li>An individual may have made more than one ESA claim and had more than one assessment in the time period shown. These individuals will only be counted once.</li><li>The primary medical condition recorded on the claim form does not itself confer entitlement to ESA. So, for example, a decision on entitlement for a customer claiming ESA on the basis of Parkinson’s disease would be based on their ability to carry out the range of activities assessed by the work capability assessment.</li></ol> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 12/09/2017 12:31:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756132

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Mobility: Terminology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which conditions are included within the movement disorders disability category Stat-Xplore sub group; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the list below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>List 1: Breakdown of ‘movement disorders’ disability category for primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Detailed Medical Condition for ‘Movement disorders’</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blepharospasm</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essential tremor - benign</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Huntington's disease</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parkinson's disease</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parkinson's syndrome / Parkinsonism</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Torticollis</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tourette's syndrome</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Writer's cramp</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Movement disorders - Other / type not known</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the assessment is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</p><p> </p><p>All health conditions are coded on DWP systems using the high level “block” codes, consisting of a letter and two numbers in the range A00 to Z99, of the International Classification of Diseases, 10<sup>th</sup> Edition, published by the World Health Organisation.</p><p><a href="http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2016/en</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that we are not able to break this data down to the four-character subcategories specified by the codes using decimal points.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 12/09/2017 13:39:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

756091

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Bridgend
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women over the age of 60 claim jobseeker's allowance at (a) Bridgend Jobcentre and (b) Porthcawl Jobcentre; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>There were 30 female Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants over the age of 60 in the county borough of Bridgend, which includes Porthcawl, as of July 2017.</p><p> </p><p>This information is published by NOMIS and available at <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp</a>&gt; and can be accessed by choosing the Jobseekers Allowance Age and Duration dataset and selecting “local authorities: county / unitary (as of April 2015) (Oct 2004 onwards)”, age, sex and date.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp</a>&gt;.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/09/2017 10:58:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

755763

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Dogs: Smuggling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to improve measures to prevent the illegal importation of underage puppies after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>While the United Kingdom remains in the European Union we remain signed up to the Pet Travel Scheme and the rules by which dogs and puppies are imported into the United Kingdom.</p><p>Since December 2015 the Animal and Plant Health Agency teams have been working in partnership with the Dogs Trust, Kent County Council and Kent Police on a pilot to identify and seize non-compliant dogs at Dover and Folkestone. To date over 600 dogs have been seized the majority being under the minimum age permitted to enter the UK.</p><p>Leaving the EU provides us with an opportunity to develop gold standard policies on animal welfare. We are determined to get a good EU exit deal for Britain and we have been absolutely clear we will maintain and enhance our world-leading animal welfare standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2017 15:31:47 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon