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Written Question
Atos Healthcare
Friday 9th January 2015

Asked by: Austin Mitchell (Labour - Great Grimsby)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what sanctions his Department has imposed on Atos in response to delays in medical examinations in the last 12 months.

Answered by Lord Harper

We have taken a robust approach to managing the contract with Atos Healthcare and have applied financial remedies such as service credits and awarded fees where and when appropriate.

From 1 March 2015, MAXIMUS Health and Human Services will take over the contract to deliver Work Capability Assessments.

Written Question
Atos Healthcare
Friday 9th January 2015

Asked by: Austin Mitchell (Labour - Great Grimsby)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many medical examinations in disability cases dealt with by Atos required a doctor in (a) Grimsby and (b) the rest of England in the last 12 months.

Answered by Lord Harper

In 2014, there were 29,821 assessments completed nationally that required a doctor to undertake a Work Capability Assessment. 121 of these were completed for the Grimsby postcodes DN15 to DN20, DN31 to DN41 and DN55.

Written Question
Atos Healthcare
Friday 9th January 2015

Asked by: Austin Mitchell (Labour - Great Grimsby)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average delay has been in medical examinations of disability cases conducted by Atos in (a) Grimsby and (b) the rest of England in the last 12 months; what the main causes were of such delays; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Lord Harper

Official statistics for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) processing times are not readily available and to provide this information would incur disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Procurement
Tuesday 18th November 2014

Asked by: Austin Mitchell (Labour - Great Grimsby)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts signed by his Department with suppliers of services or consultants include a clause providing that if the contract is abrogated by the Government, the provider or consultant will be compensated for lost income since 2010.

Answered by Steve Webb

This information is not collated centrally. However, since January 2011, as part of the Government’s transparency programme, details of procurement opportunities, tender documents and contracts worth over £10,000 are published online on Contracts Finder (https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder), and the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) also publishes details of its contracts on its web site (http://ccs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/).

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"I absolutely agree with the measures proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr Umunna) in his opening speech. I say that not just to dissipate the impression of disloyalty that I might have created by an article in the Daily Mail this morning, but because those measures …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"If it is any consolation, Madam Deputy Speaker, my clock stopped in 1979. I hope that that qualifies me for an extension of my speaking time.

This kind of society where wealth accumulates and wages and salaries fall as a share of GDP is very undesirable. As Goldsmith put it,

…..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2014
Jobs and Work

"I am not giving way—I am sorry. I am having my time extended as an incentive to carry on next year.

Secondly, we should expand public spending generally. What is the problem with borrowing? In a recession, we need to borrow to stimulate the economy. Keynesian economics still works. Why …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Jan 2013
Atos Work Capability Assessments

"The number of MPs who want to speak today and the passion that has been shown are testimony to the fact that the system has not worked, is not working and ought to be scrapped. I hope that the Minister is listening, because that is clearly a strong concern on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Jan 2013
Atos Work Capability Assessments

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. That was one of my concerns as a member of the Public Accounts Committee and it was to have been part of my passionate penultimate ringing declaration when I intended to ask the Government to tell us how much profit …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Mar 2011
Trawlermen’s Pensions

"I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (Alan Johnson) on securing this debate and on the fight he has put up, and indeed initiated, on behalf of the fishermen. Icelandic fishing finished in 1976, and the middle water fishing that went out …..."
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