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Written Question
Personal Independence Payment
Thursday 7th September 2017

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 44265, if the Government will respond to the second Independent review of the personal independence payment assessment, published on 30 March 2017.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

Yes.

We are currently considering Paul Gray’s latest set of recommendations and plan to respond later this year.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 28 Feb 2017
Intergenerational Fairness

"Does not my right hon. Friend agree that the fundamental core of this issue is that there are people in our society who will succeed because they have assets? However, someone who is talent-rich but asset-poor is unlikely to succeed in life, in terms of getting into the school they …..."
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Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Hove
Thursday 7th July 2016

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants living in Hove constituency were reimbursed for travel to Brighton Assessment Centre in 2015.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

122 people from Hove (the BN3 postcode) made travel expense claims for attending assessments at Brighton Assessment Centre between 1 January and 19 November 2015.

Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance: Hove
Monday 27th June 2016

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance claimants in Hove have been reimbursed for travel to the Lewes Assessment Centre since November 2015.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

162 Employment and Support Allowance claimants living in Hove (the BN3 postcode) have been assessed at Lewes and claimed travel expenses for doing so.

Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Hove
Wednesday 4th May 2016

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average distance is travelled by residents of Hove for face-to-face personal independence payment assessments.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

Atos Healthcare does not hold or retain information about customer journey times to attend assessments. Should a customer foresee a problem with travelling to their assessment they are asked to contact Atos to discuss their circumstances.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2016
Welfare

"I welcome the Secretary of State to his post. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper) pointed out, page 26 of the Red Book commits the Government to £3 billion of cuts to meet the welfare cap. Is this not what his predecessor …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Nov 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"According to the Department’s own figures, pension contributions by the self-employed have fallen year on year for the past five years. What is the Secretary of State going to do to reverse that trend?..."
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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Brighton
Monday 12th October 2015

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received an assessment for both employment and support allowance and personal independence payment in (a) 2014 and (b) the first six months of 2015 in Brighton and Hove local authority area.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
Wednesday 9th September 2015

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost of an individual assessment for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment was in the last period for which figures are available.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The Department considers this information to be commercially sensitive and release would prejudice the interests of service providers and the Department’s future dealings with them.

Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
Wednesday 9th September 2015

Asked by: Peter Kyle (Labour - Hove and Portslade)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received assessments for both employment and support allowance and personal independence payment in (a) 2014 and (b) the first six months of 2015.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.