Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much each local authority was allocated in Discretionary Housing Payment funding in each of the last three years; and how much each authority has spent from that funding in each such year.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Details of each local authority’s Discretionary Housing Payment funding and expenditure are published for each financial year and can be found on the GOV.UK website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/discretionary-housing-payments-statistics
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time has been for a mandatory reconsideration against a decision on personal independence payments in (a) Scunthorpe and (b) England for the last four periods for which figures are available.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The Department does not hold this information.
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, of those people appealing their personal independence payment assessment and entering an appeal to a tribunal for the higher rate mobility component, how many are being awarded (a) the standard rate, (b) the higher rate and (c) nothing.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The Department does not hold this information.
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, of those people appealing their personal independence payment assessment and entering an appeal to a tribunal for the standard rate mobility component, how many are being awarded (a) the standard rate, (b) the higher rate and (c) nothing.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The Department does not hold this information.
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2017 to Question 64658, on personal independence payments, what options his Department is considering to better support disabled people with Motability vehicles who are waiting in excess of seven weeks for mandatory reconsiderations.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The Government is always exploring new ways to support disabled people, including those making PIP appeals. We have had a range of discussions with Motability and other relevant departments, and any announcement regarding the progress of these discussions will be made publicly by the Government in due course.
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answers of 17 January 2017 to Question 59783 and 59784, on personal independence payment: motability, what the (a) estimated cost was to his Department of answering those Questions, (b) maximum amount his Department will spend on an Answer, (c) average cost to his Department per Answer and (d) maximum and minimum amount spent on answering a Question was in the last 12 months.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
a)
In order to answer the hon. Member’s question 59783, “how many people who were previously in receipt of the enhanced personal independence payment and qualified for the Motability scheme have since been reassessed and lost their Motability vehicle”, would require the linking together of several complex datasets and quality assurance of the results. It is estimated that this would take in excess of 5 working days and would therefore exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.
The information requested by the hon. Member’s question 59784, “how many people who were previously in receipt of the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance and qualified for the Motability scheme, have been reassessed and lost their Motability vehicle”, is not included in datasets underpinning routine publication of benefit statistics. It is estimated that, to access the original datasets and carry out the necessary quality assurance, would take in excess of 5 working days and similarly would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.
b) and c)
The disproportionate cost threshold of £850 and the average cost of written parliamentary questions of £164 were determined by HM Treasury and notified to Parliament by written statement by the Economic Secretary to the Treasury on 8 February 2012. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-02-08/debates/12020833000014/ParliamentaryQuestions?highlight=disproportionate%20cost%20threshold#contribution-12020833000033
d)
The information requested is not held.
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2017 to Question 58948, how many people who were previously in receipt of the higher rate of the mobility component of disability living allowance and qualified for the Motability scheme have been reassessed and lost their Motability vehicle.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2017 to Question 58948, how many people who were previously in receipt of the enhanced personal independence payment and qualified for the Motability scheme have since been reassessed and lost their Motability vehicle.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Nicholas Dakin (Labour - Scunthorpe)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people not previously in receipt of higher-level disability living allowance were awarded the mobility element of personal independence payments by (a) quarter and (b) region in 2016.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has two components: care and mobility. The care component has three payment rates and the mobility component two. There are therefore eleven payment rates in total. It is not clear to what ‘higher-level disability living allowance’ refers.
Various statistics on DLA to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reassessment outcomes are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2016