Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2018 to Question 154724, if she will publish an evaluation of the steps taken by her Department to implement any recommendations made following that investigation into Keith Morgan’s Work Capability Assessment.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Department ensured that Atos Healthcare (now Independent Assessment Services) conducted a thorough investigation into Mr Morgan’s complaint. Following this investigation the Provider took the appropriate management action to address the conduct of the Health Professional in accordance with their serious complaint procedures. The Department was satisfied that Mr Morgan’s complaint had been fully investigated and the findings acted upon by Atos Healthcare.
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the findings of the investigation into Keith Morgan’s Work Capability Assessment in 2012 where he was allegedly offered gay cure therapy by his disability benefits assessor.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Department took this complaint seriously and ensured that Atos Healthcare carried out a full investigation, in accordance with their serious complaints procedure. It is not appropriate to make public results of investigations into individual complaints. Mr Morgan was provided with a full response following this investigation.
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how much has been paid to officials of his Department as an additional incentive for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments, (b) how much has been offered to any individual staff member for a one-off occurrence, (c) how many staff received such incentivised additional payments, (d) from which budgets such payments were made and (e) at which Ministerial or official level the business cases or payment approval for such payments was made in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2016 to date.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department for Work and Pensions does not pay officials additional incentives for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments.
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many terminally ill people were reassessed for (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment and support allowance and (c) attendance allowance in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Claimants are considered to be terminally ill if they have a progressive condition and the person’s death in consequence of that disease can reasonably be expected within 6 months.
The latest information on the number of people who have been assessed as being terminally ill for Personal Independence Payment is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-april-2015
Table 1
The latest information on the number of people who are in receipt of Attendance Allowance and who have been assessed as being terminally ill is available from the DWP Tabulation Tool, which is available here:
http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/100pc/tabtool.html
Information on Employment and Support Allowance and the outcomes of Work Capability Assessments: claims made to Sep 2014 and appeals to Mar 2015 is available here:
Tables: Employment and Support Allowance outcomes of Work Capability Assessments, Great Britain
Table 5
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming attendance allowance did so using a DS1500 form in 2014.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The DS1500 is not a claim form and its use in providing evidential support for claims from people who are terminally ill claiming benefit is not obligatory.
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time was a claimant with a DS1500 form had received (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment and support allowance and (c) attendance allowance on the last date for which figures are available.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The DS1500 is not a claim form and its use in providing evidential support for claims from people who are terminally ill claiming benefit is not obligatory.
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many DS1500 forms were submitted in 2014.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The DS1500 is not a claim form and its use in providing evidential support for claims from people who are terminally ill claiming benefit is not obligatory.