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Westminster Hall
Disability Benefits: Assessments - Mon 04 Sep 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) Petition 593296 reads:“People with a lifelong illness should not be subject to regular reviews for eligibility - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) They included people with lifelong conditions and people with experience of the use of medical evidence - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) 20 days to return ESA and universal credit forms and a month for PIP forms, and of course they have to - Speech Link
4: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) box often called for by the assessments for PIP and ESA. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Disability Benefits Assessments - Tue 01 Feb 2022
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None awards for people with lifelong illnesses, and e-petition 549906, Review the Personal Independence Payment - Speech Link
2: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) frameworks for both ESA and PIP are not fit for purpose. - Speech Link
3: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) needed, but the merger of payments and assessments for PIP and ESA is not the answer. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) for both PIP and ESA had contributed to a lack of trust in both of those benefits, and undermined confidence - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ten Years of the Work Capability Assessment - Wed 24 Apr 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Laura Pidcock (LAB - North West Durham) had committed “grave and systematic violations” of the rights of people with disabilities. - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) that work with the casework team to ensure that people who are going through the ESA and PIP system - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Disability Assessment Services - Wed 13 Mar 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) around PIP and ESA processes. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I have seen people with serious illnesses being turned down for PIP.I have a constituent with a long - Speech Link
3: Paul Masterton (CON - East Renfrewshire) allow those applying for ESA, universal credit and PIP to undergo just one assessment rather than two - Speech Link
4: Sarah Newton (CON - Truro and Falmouth) There has been recruitment of a lot of staff, and there is a new online resolution service for PIP, which - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 11 Feb 2019
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Sarah Newton (CON - Truro and Falmouth) of life, of people with learning disabilities and autism. - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) Many companies today are looking for people with that sort of quirky talent in the tech industries and - Speech Link
3: Sarah Newton (CON - Truro and Falmouth) Gentleman’s passion and enthusiasm for speaking up and out for people with autism, who do have many special - Speech Link
4: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) people of Wales, particularly with regards to claiming online and the needs of Welsh speakers? - Speech Link
5: Sarah Newton (CON - Truro and Falmouth) Safeguarding the dignity and wellbeing of people with the most severe lifelong conditions is of paramount - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit and Welfare Changes - Thu 21 Jun 2018
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) When I made the decision—along with the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. - Speech Link
2: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) I specifically mention the introduction of video recording for work capability and PIP assessments. - Speech Link
3: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) and with the difference in working life for people who have caring responsibilities for children and - Speech Link
4: David Drew (LAB - Stroud) PIP and 30 weeks for ESA in the Gloucestershire area. - Speech Link
5: Esther McVey (CON - Tatton) We obviously need to ensure that that happens for PIP, for ESA and, should we need it, for UC. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welfare Reform and Work Bill - Tue 27 Oct 2015
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Owen Smith (LAB - Pontypridd) I have looked high and low for any Minister of any stripe with whom to discuss it, and they have been - Speech Link
2: David Anderson (LAB - Blaydon) These members of my family were dependent on the state for help with the costs of medication and of care - Speech Link
3: Neil Coyle (IND - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) a statistical report on registrations, clearances and awards of PIP, which indicates how many people - Speech Link
4: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) taxpayers who paid for it, and certainly did not support people trapped in a system of welfare, with - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welfare Reform (Sick and Disabled People) - Thu 27 Feb 2014
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) into work for sick and disabled people; and further calls on the Government to end with immediate effect - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) into work for sick and disabled people; and further calls on the Government to end with immediate effect - Speech Link
3: Anne Begg (LAB - Aberdeen South) Of course, it is disabled people and those with health problems. - Speech Link
4: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) The largest share of adult social care users—older people, people with physical disabilities and people - Speech Link
5: Jim Sheridan (LAB - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Morris) and all those responsible for securing this debate, which deals with the concerns of real people - Speech Link
6: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) The replacement of the DLA with PIP also comes with a 20% budget cut, leaving disabled people and their - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 - Wed 13 Feb 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None Making it tougher to get this rate of PIP would mean people with Parkinson’s, most of whom are on the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thomas of Winchester (LDEM - Life peer) of replacing DLA with the new territory of PIP—I declare an interest in that I receive DLA— and I am - Speech Link
3: None The internal and external reviews of PIP that have been announced are very welcome, but Atos and Capita - Speech Link
4: None With that, I wish PIP well and will keep my fingers crossed for its success. - Speech Link
5: Lord Touhig (LAB - Life peer) A tiered approach to PIP would help make it fairer and more accurate for people with autism and other - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Welfare Reform Bill - Tue 17 Jan 2012
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) in emphasis between DLA and PIP—is that PIP is trying to take account of people with mental health problems - Speech Link
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (CB - Life peer) I am also concerned and gravely worried for a huge number of disabled people. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Browning (CON - Life peer) But Asperger’s syndrome and those people on one end of the spectrum of autistic spectrum disorders are - Speech Link
4: Countess of Mar (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I am concerned not just for people with ME but for those who can almost function normally and will not - Speech Link
5: None such as MS and ME, and also for people with mental health problems. - Speech Link