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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Personal Independence Payments

"It is good that my right hon. Friend can be answering for two individual claimants and that she has given the background about the increase in disability spending. May I also say, “Thank you,” for saying that we can refer to individual cases? I have a victim of the infected …..."
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Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness
Wednesday 28th March 2018

Asked by: Peter Bottomley (Conservative - Worthing West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the criteria for assessments for personal independence payments for people with mental health problems.

Answered by Sarah Newton

The assessment criteria for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have been developed to take into account the overall impact of a claimant’s physical or mental health condition or impairment on their functional ability, rather than focusing on a particular diagnosis. The inclusion in the assessment of activities around communicating, engaging with others, and planning and following journeys assists with assessing the impact of conditions affecting mental, intellectual, cognitive and developmental functions.

66% of PIP recipients with mental health conditions get the enhanced rate daily living component, compared with 22% who received the highest DLA care component. And 31% of PIP recipients with mental health conditions get the enhanced rate mobility rate, compared with just 10% of DLA recipients.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 22 Jun 2017
Housing and Social Security

"I am intervening, at the suggestion earlier of the Leader of the House, having spent three and a half hours in the Chamber. This debate is largely about housing, but is it possible for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to hold a debate on leasehold? He could …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"No one could have prepared better for this debate than my hon. Friend, and by the end of it I hope we will have set forces in train that lead to a curing of this injustice...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"The House should thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Thanet (Sir Roger Gale) and the hon. Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland) for the way in which they have spoken, and we look forward to the contribution from the Scottish National party. If my friend the Minister …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"I know that that remark may have been addressed to just some of the things we said, but one of the things we said was that what is happening at the moment is not fair, not logical and not right. Is the Minister trying to say that it is fair, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"We understand the limitations on the Minister, and I hope that anything we think will not be taken personally by him or anyone else. I remind him of the Old Age Pensions Bill debate on 10 May 1907, when the Member moving the Bill’s Second Reading said that Chancellors always …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Apr 2017
State Pensions: UK Expatriates

"Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister has been very clear and helpful. If the practice is for such helplines, which are for our constituents rather than for us, to be closed down before Parliament has stopped sitting—before we stop being Members of Parliament—may I suggest, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 17 Jan 2017
Digital Equipment Ltd: Pension Scheme

"I speak because one of my constituents has been in contact with me. I have explained that I cannot stay for the whole debate. Is the hon. Lady essentially saying that it is the older, poorer pensioners who do not get increases, and the younger ones, who earn more, who …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 17 Jan 2017
Digital Equipment Ltd: Pension Scheme

"I apologise in advance: I will not be here at the end because I will be in a meeting with Equitable Life, which was just mentioned by the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford). May I make one positive suggestion, almost as an intervention, open to those pension funds, …..."
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