Written Question
Thursday 30th March 2023
Asked by:
Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions the Child Maintenance Service requested a death certificate for a paying parent where the cause of death was defined as suicide in each of the last four years; and how many deaths of paying parents were recorded in that period.
Answered by Mims Davies
- Shadow Minister (Women)
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
When notified of a customer death within Child Maintenance, there is a process to be followed to take the appropriate action on the case. This includes verifying the death of the customer. Requesting a copy of the death certificate is one such way of verifying a customer’s death, but if the death has been reported and verified elsewhere then the cross-government computer system called Customer Information System (CIS) will be updated, meaning further evidence is not required for Child Maintenance purposes. We cannot readily identify from data sources whether a copy of a death certificate is held on a case so providing accurate data would involve manually reviewing every case where a customer has died.
Written Question
Wednesday 22nd February 2023
Asked by:
Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people cited vaccine harm as a factor in their claim for a Personal Independence Payment in each year since 2018.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
This information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is based on the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability and causation is not asked for, or recorded centrally, where provided.
Written Question
Thursday 12th January 2023
Asked by:
Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Personal Independence Payments were made in each region in each month of the last five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications can be found on Stat-Xplore. In particular, the ‘PIP Registrations’ dataset includes the number of applications by month, which can be broken down by region. Regions within England and Wales can be found under ‘Geography’, within the ‘DWP policy ownership’ category. Data is currently published up to, and including, October 2022.
You can log in, or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user, which still gives instant access to the main functions, and, if needed, you can access guidance on how to extract the information required.
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