Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are entitled to the mobility element of personal independence payments.
Answered by Lord Harper
The latest available data for personal independence payment claims, including details on the number of people receiving the mobility component, have been published and are available from the GOV.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2014
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many scooters have been allocated under the mobility element of personal independence payments in the last year.
Answered by Lord Harper
Motability is an independent registered charity. The Department works closely with Motability and facilitates the transfer of benefit to Motability on behalf of those claimants who have chosen to join the Motability schemes.
Responsibility for the charity’s policies and operational strategy falls to the Governors and Director of Motability. Motability is wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme including collating its own management information. Questions about the number of cars and scooters allocated by Motability can be sent to: Declan O'Mahony, Director, Motability, Warwick House, Roydon Road, Harlow, Essex CM19 5PX.
Information about complaints received about Motability is not available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cars have been allocated under the mobility element of personal independence payments in the last year.
Answered by Lord Harper
Motability is an independent registered charity. The Department works closely with Motability and facilitates the transfer of benefit to Motability on behalf of those claimants who have chosen to join the Motability schemes.
Responsibility for the charity’s policies and operational strategy falls to the Governors and Director of Motability. Motability is wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme including collating its own management information. Questions about the number of cars and scooters allocated by Motability can be sent to: Declan O'Mahony, Director, Motability, Warwick House, Roydon Road, Harlow, Essex CM19 5PX.
Information about complaints received about Motability is not available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times in the last three years Ministers in his Department have met executives from Motability.
Answered by Lord Harper
Ministers have regularly met Lord Sterling, the unpaid chairman of Motability. They have also conducted visits to the Motability charity, at which executives were present.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to his Department of the mobility element of personal independence payments.
Answered by Lord Harper
The mobility element of Personal Independence Payment is estimated to account for around 36 per cent of total spending on the benefit.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about Motability have been raised with his Department in the last three years.
Answered by Lord Harper
Motability is an independent registered charity. The Department works closely with Motability and facilitates the transfer of benefit to Motability on behalf of those claimants who have chosen to join the Motability schemes.
Responsibility for the charity’s policies and operational strategy falls to the Governors and Director of Motability. Motability is wholly responsible for the administration of the Motability scheme including collating its own management information. Questions about the number of cars and scooters allocated by Motability can be sent to: Declan O'Mahony, Director, Motability, Warwick House, Roydon Road, Harlow, Essex CM19 5PX.
Information about complaints received about Motability is not available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.