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Written Question
Universal Credit
Tuesday 9th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of universal credit payments and administration in each year since 2014.

Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)

The table below shows the cost to the public purse of Universal Credit Payments, this information has been published in the Spring Statement in April 2019 and can also be found via this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2019

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

Expenditure by benefit, £ million, nominal terms

6

56

491

1,585

3,322

8,116

The table below shows the estimate of the total cost of Benefit Handling Processes in UC for each financial year from 2014. Benefit Handling Processes are the cost DWP has incurred administering claims to UC and making UC payments.

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

Benefit Handling Processes, £ million

10.6

75.3

142.5

261.8

272.0


Written Question
Universal Credit
Monday 8th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants submitted a DS1500 form during that application process in each year from 2016 to 2018.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The Department takes seriously the need to support vulnerable claimants. We are committed to supporting those with health conditions, and ensuring that terminally ill patients are treated with the utmost sensitivity and care, when making a claim to Universal Credit.

Universal Credit provides enhanced personalised support for all claimants, including those with a terminal illness. We are continuously reviewing and improving the service for vulnerable people who claim Universal Credit to ensure that it is accessible and responsive to their needs. This includes how they are identified and supported, either from our own staff or via referrals from local services.


Written Question
Universal Credit: Terminal Illnesses
Monday 8th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants received universal credit payments through the special rules for terminal illness route in each year from 2016 to 2018.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The Department takes seriously the need to support vulnerable claimants. We are committed to supporting those with health conditions, and ensuring that terminally ill patients are treated with the utmost sensitivity and care, when making a claim to Universal Credit.

Universal Credit provides enhanced personalised support for all claimants, including those with a terminal illness. We are continuously reviewing and improving the service for vulnerable people who claim Universal Credit to ensure that it is accessible and responsive to their needs. This includes how they are identified and supported, either from our own staff or via referrals from local services.


Written Question
Universal Credit
Monday 8th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants who submitted a DS1500 form met with a work coach during that application process.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The Department takes seriously the need to support vulnerable claimants. We are committed to supporting those with health conditions, and ensuring that terminally ill patients are treated with the utmost sensitivity and care, when making a claim to Universal Credit.

Universal Credit provides enhanced personalised support for all claimants, including those with a terminal illness. We are continuously reviewing and improving the service for vulnerable people who claim Universal Credit to ensure that it is accessible and responsive to their needs. This includes how they are identified and supported, either from our own staff or via referrals from local services.


Written Question
Universal Credit
Monday 8th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants who applied for universal credit died within six months of having their application rejected in each year from 2016 to 2018.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The Department takes seriously the need to support vulnerable claimants. We are committed to supporting those with health conditions, and ensuring that terminally ill patients are treated with the utmost sensitivity and care, when making a claim to Universal Credit.

Universal Credit provides enhanced personalised support for all claimants, including those with a terminal illness. We are continuously reviewing and improving the service for vulnerable people who claim Universal Credit to ensure that it is accessible and responsive to their needs. This includes how they are identified and supported, either from our own staff or via referrals from local services.


Written Question
Universal Credit: Terminal Illnesses
Monday 8th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants using the standard application route have been rejected and subsequently applied under the special rules for terminal illness route.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The Department takes seriously the need to support vulnerable claimants. We are committed to supporting those with health conditions, and ensuring that terminally ill patients are treated with the utmost sensitivity and care, when making a claim to Universal Credit.

Universal Credit provides enhanced personalised support for all claimants, including those with a terminal illness. We are continuously reviewing and improving the service for vulnerable people who claim Universal Credit to ensure that it is accessible and responsive to their needs. This includes how they are identified and supported, either from our own staff or via referrals from local services.


Written Question
Employment and Support Allowance
Monday 8th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of employment support allowance in each year since 2010.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

I would like to refer the Hon. Member to the Department’s published benefit expenditure information, which can be found in the public domain:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2019.


Written Question
Universal Credit
Monday 8th July 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of revising her Department's guidance notes for the DS1500 form.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The Department’s recent work to revise the guidance notes section of the DS1500 was completed through DWP standard processes and incurred no additional costs to the public purse.


Written Question
State Retirement Pensions
Monday 24th June 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 May 2019 to Question 256267 on State Retirement Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of cases where a person has received an inaccurate state pension forecast as a result of part of their state pension being contracted out.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Chancellor. State Pension forecasts are based on the individual’s National Insurance record that is held at the time the forecast is produced. There may be subsequent changes to the National Insurance information; additionally for a small percentage of National Insurance records the information may be incomplete. Where this is the case, this may affect the State Pension forecast. For this reason the forecasts make it clear that they are subject to change.

HMRC and DWP continue to work closely to improve our ability to identify and correct inaccuracies as quickly as possible. Where inaccurate or incomplete National Insurance records are identified they are routinely corrected by HMRC. Additionally, HMRC also ensure that any inconsistencies that remain on an individual’s National Insurance record are investigated in the period leading up to State Pension age to ensure the correct amount of State Pension is put into payment.


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses
Monday 10th June 2019

Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer on 30 April 2019 to Question 245707, Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses, what (a) qualifications and (b) training Assessment Providers have to determine whether a special rules case should be rejected for not satisfying the terminally ill definition.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

Healthcare Professionals undertake Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments under the Special Rules for Terminal Illness (SRTI) provisions in accordance with the department’s PIP Assessment Guide. Healthcare Professionals dealing with claims under SRTI are (a) fully qualified in their health discipline and (b) have a broad training in disability analysis. As well as their qualified profession, the Department recognises the importance of ensuring individuals also have sufficient experience, skills and training to undertake assessments and so any health professional undertaking assessments must also have at least two years' experience following registration. Both Assessment Providers conform to a rigorous set of standards regarding staff recruitment and training which are being closely monitored by the department.