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Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Carers
Tuesday 20th February 2018

Asked by: Clive Betts (Labour - Sheffield South East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what account will be taken in the review of PIP entitlements where a person becomes entitled to the upper rate care component and has a living carer and who has previously paid the spare room subsidy to refund that subsidy.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The review of Personal Independence Payment entitlement has no impact on the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy where a person has a carer resident in their accommodation.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Feb 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Government’s proposals are an improvement on their initial proposals, but one element has brought criticism from virtually all providers, and that is with regard to short-term supported housing. My Select Committee has recommended that for emergency very short-term accommodation of around 12 weeks, there should be a ring-fenced grant …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Jan 2018
PIP Back Payments

"As part of this review, will the Government be looking at people who currently have one component of PIP, to see whether they might be entitled to both components, and will they be looking at people on the lower rate of PIP, to see whether they might be entitled to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Oct 2017
Supported Housing

"Like the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Frank Field), I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes) and the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) for their work in chairing the joint …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Oct 2017
Supported Housing

"The hon. Gentleman, who is a member of the Communities and Local Government Committee, makes a very good point. Supported housing is often a global term used to describe a very wide variety of provisions from different providers and different suppliers. When we have a grant system that covers all …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"8. What assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the proposed closure of Jobcentre Plus offices on claimants’ travel times and costs. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Louise Haigh) on the campaign that she has run with the Public and Commercial Services Union and local residents to keep open the Eastern Avenue jobcentre, which serves both our constituencies. Will the Minister confirm that the only reason for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Mar 2017
Housing Benefits (18 to 21-year-olds)

"One of the exemptions in the regulations where housing benefit can still be paid is if

“in the opinion of the Secretary of State it is inappropriate for the renter to live with each of their parents”.

Does the Secretary of State assume that this exemption will automatically apply where …..."
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Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
Friday 24th February 2017

Asked by: Clive Betts (Labour - Sheffield South East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to introduce new rules which will not require reassessments for employment and support allowance for people with severe life-long conditions; and if he will publish the criteria by which severe life-long conditions are defined as such for the purposes of exemption from those assessments.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

This change will come into effect in Autumn 2017 and will apply to those placed in Employment and Support Allowance’s Support Group and the Universal Credit equivalent.

We are currently working with stakeholders to develop the new criteria and, when finalised, the amended guidance will be incorporated in to the next update to the Work Capability Assessment Handbook published on GOV.UK.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jan 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"T2. The Motor Neurone Disease Association and Parkinson’s UK have welcomed Government proposals to scrap reassessment of ESA for people with severe lifelong conditions. The Secretary of State has described that reassessment as pointless, bureaucratic nonsense. Will the Government therefore now agree also to scrap reassessments in the same circumstances …..."
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