Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish statistics for (a) first- and (b) second-time refusals and successful tribunal appeals for (i) employment and support allowance and (ii) personal independence payment claims.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
Information on Employment and Support Allowance decisions can be found at the link below -
Information on Personal Independence Payment decisions can be found at the link below –
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics
Information in relation to Mandatory Reconsiderations - “second-time refusals” - is not available. The Department has plans to look into what it might be possible to publish on Mandatory Reconsiderations in the existing regular statistical publications, including information on outcomes. As each publication is ready, DWP statisticians will pre-announce any changes in accordance with the UKSA release protocols.
Information on appeals is published by the Ministry of Justice and can be found at the link below:
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government spent on legal fees in the case of Mathieson v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The Government’s legal costs have not yet been finalised.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the removal of the work-related activity component of employment and support allowance on disabled people.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Government will set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill in due course.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report, Benefit sanctions policy beyond the Oakley Review, HC 814, published on 24 March 2015.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Department is currently considering the contents of the report and looks forward to working with the new Work and Pensions Select Committee.Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding was allocated to (a) the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and (b) each other London borough in 2014-15 to be spent on local welfare assistance schemes.
Answered by Steve Webb
The funding for Hammersmith and Fulham is shown in the table below. This information and that requested relating to funding for all the London boroughs can be found on pages 35-37 of the “Local welfare provision review”, published on 5th November 2014, which is available in the House Library, as well as on the Gov.uk website.
Local welfare provision review - Publications - GOV.UK
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | ||||
Local Authority | Programme Funding (AME) | Admin Funding (DEL) | Totals | Programme Funding (AME) | Admin Funding (DEL) | Totals |
Hammersmith & Fulham | £588,581 | £124,372 | £712,953 | £588,581 | £114,000 | £702,581 |