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Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Wednesday 7th November 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the health condition of fatigue is assessed by the personal independence payments assessment.

Answered by Sarah Newton

With the exception of claims made under special rules for the terminally ill, the assessment for Personal Independence Payment is on the basis of the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability, not the health condition or disability itself.

Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Cancer
Tuesday 6th November 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) leukaemia, (b) myeloma ,(c) hodgkin’s lymphoma and (d) non-hodgkin’s lymphoma are in receipt of personal independence payments.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The Department publishes a range of detailed statistics for Personal Independence Payment (PIP on Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

These statistics include monthly caseloads (claims in payment) for claimants of PIP broken down by disability including leukaemia, myeloma, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Notes

  • The category “Leukaemia” includes 6 categories under the DLA computer system - Leukaemia - myelogenous (myeloid) acute, Leukaemia - lymphoblastic – acute, Leukaemia - myeloid - chronic, Leukaemia - lymphocytic – chronic, Leukaemias - Other / type not known, Cancer and Leukaemia.
  • The PIP Reassessment outcome in Table 1 shows the outcome of the first DWP decision on each reassessment claim (i.e. prior to any reconsideration, appeal action and award review), where that decision was made between 1st January 2015 and 31st October 2017.
  • DLA Entitlement is the DLA award at the time of PIP reassessment registration.
  • Reassessment outcomes are for individuals who were aged 16 to 64 on 8th April 2013
  • Data includes PIP claims made under both Normal Rules and Special Rules for the Terminally Ill. However, under DLA a claimant can be recorded as “Terminally Ill” rather than as having a named disability. Therefore, such cases are excluded from the above figures.
  • The statistics provided relate to DLA award levels so primary disabling condition is reported as recorded on the DLA computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.
  • Primary disabling condition may be recorded differently on the PIP and DLA computer systems.
  • Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
  • # indicates a value of less than 10.
  • Totals may not sum due to rounding.
  • Great Britain only.

Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Cancer
Tuesday 6th November 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) leukaemia, (b) myeloma, (c) hodgkin’s lymphoma and (d) non-hodgkin’s lymphoma have (i) been reassessed from disability living allowance to personal independence payments and (ii) received a reduced rate of award.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The Department publishes a range of detailed statistics for Personal Independence Payment (PIP on Stat-Xplore: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html.

These statistics include monthly caseloads (claims in payment) for claimants of PIP broken down by disability including leukaemia, myeloma, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Notes

  • The category “Leukaemia” includes 6 categories under the DLA computer system - Leukaemia - myelogenous (myeloid) acute, Leukaemia - lymphoblastic – acute, Leukaemia - myeloid - chronic, Leukaemia - lymphocytic – chronic, Leukaemias - Other / type not known, Cancer and Leukaemia.
  • The PIP Reassessment outcome in Table 1 shows the outcome of the first DWP decision on each reassessment claim (i.e. prior to any reconsideration, appeal action and award review), where that decision was made between 1st January 2015 and 31st October 2017.
  • DLA Entitlement is the DLA award at the time of PIP reassessment registration.
  • Reassessment outcomes are for individuals who were aged 16 to 64 on 8th April 2013
  • Data includes PIP claims made under both Normal Rules and Special Rules for the Terminally Ill. However, under DLA a claimant can be recorded as “Terminally Ill” rather than as having a named disability. Therefore, such cases are excluded from the above figures.
  • The statistics provided relate to DLA award levels so primary disabling condition is reported as recorded on the DLA computer system. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.
  • Primary disabling condition may be recorded differently on the PIP and DLA computer systems.
  • Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
  • # indicates a value of less than 10.
  • Totals may not sum due to rounding.
  • Great Britain only.

Written Question
Universal Credit
Wednesday 17th October 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the draft Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of options for an automatic process for migrating claimants from ESA to Universal Credit.

Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)

Our migration processes will be co-designed with stakeholders, to ensure that we have listened and understood claimants’ experiences. We will be introducing processes that work well for everyone.

Written Question
Universal Credit
Wednesday 17th October 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the draft Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018, what process her Department undertook to decide on the period of one month as the default amount of time anticipated between a migration notice and a deadline day for the purposes of managed migration to Universal Credit.

Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)

Our priority during the managed migration process is to ensure a smooth transition with continuous support. That is why we have designed the draft regulations with the flexibility and fail-safes necessary to protect vulnerable claimants.

The draft regulations suggest a minimum one month period between the migration notice and deadline day. However, there is flexibility for a longer period to be given and to extend any given deadline, if it is identified that certain claimants require longer timescales to make a claim.

Similarly, a claimant may request an extension for completing their Universal Credit claim, as long as they have a good reason for doing so. There is no limit on the number of times that a claimant may ask to extend the deadline for making the UC claim providing they have a good reason for doing so.

Written Question
Universal Credit
Wednesday 17th October 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department will develop new guidance for officials in her Department on the application of good reason to requests to extend the deadline day for the purposes of managed migration.

Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)

As with other legislative changes, the Department will be publishing guidance for staff on the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018. This guidance will include advice on the application of the good reason provision.

Written Question
Children: Maintenance
Friday 9th February 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has read the report by Gingerbread published on 12 January 2018 which states that the majority of single parents do not receive child maintenance payments.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

Officials have read Gingerbread’s report and continue to work closely with a range of external stakeholders when developing policy. The analysis of child maintenance payments referred to in the report is based on data collected in 2011/12, so predates the introduction of the reformed child maintenance scheme in 2013. We want to ensure that children from all separated families have an effective maintenance arrangement. Child Maintenance Options provides free and impartial information to support parents to make arrangements that work for them.

Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health
Tuesday 6th February 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, of 30 January 2018, Official Report, column 703 on PIP back payments, whether there will be a new form setting out descriptors.

Answered by Sarah Newton

We will undertake all the necessary steps to implement the Upper Tribunal judgment in MH in full.

Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Presidents Club
Wednesday 31st January 2018

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any Ministers in her Department attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educatonal Trust in an official capacity.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

No current Minister in her Department has attended the Presidents Club Charity Dinner run by the Meller Educational Trust in their official capacity.

Written Question
Employment: Harassment
Tuesday 19th December 2017

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the status is of the Government’s response to the International Labour Organisation’s Questionnaire on the proposed Convention on Ending Violence and Harassment Against Women and Men in the World of Work.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

The Government welcomes the International Labour Organisation’s initiative to address violence and harassment against women and men in the world of work. The Government submitted a formal response to the ILO questionnaire in October 2017.