Maria Miller: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response. Letter from Noel Shanahan In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, the Secretary of State promised...
Maria Miller: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response. Letter from Noel Shanahan In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, the Secretary of State promised...
Maria Miller: The Department does not hold statistics on how many people have had an award of disability living allowance which was determined by an appeal tribunal and subsequently withdrawn. A decision of a first-tier tribunal cannot simply be withdrawn by the Department. Where the Secretary of State believes a first-tier tribunal's decision to be wrong in law, he can apply for leave to appeal to the...
Maria Miller: I have met a range of organisations, including ACPO as well as ministerial colleagues on the matter of disability hate crime. We know from research that disability hate crime is hugely under-reported. Figures published by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in 2010 show that 1,569 disability hate crimes were recorded. This is an increase of 21% compared to reports made in 2009....
Maria Miller: Motability have not advised the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith), how many Motability adapted cars have been repossessed while people are awaiting the outcome of their disability living allowance appeal. This information is not held by the Government as Motability are an independent charitable...
Maria Miller: Personal independence payment will be introduced for young people from age 16 as we believe this is the age at which young people should make a claim in their own right and be assessed against adult criteria. This reflects the present situation under DLA. The assessment criteria are being designed to meet the needs of people aged 16 or over, and assessors will be well equipped to deal with...
Maria Miller: We are currently working through the details of the development of personal independence payment and we have every intention of being sensitive to the needs of young people and will ensure processes are designed with their needs in mind. Processes will be informed by consultation with disabled young people and representative organisations. A sub-group of the Implementation Development Group,...
Maria Miller: Through personal independence payment we want to focus support on disabled people who face the greatest barriers and costs to participating in society. As such entitlement to the benefit will not be based on the nature of an individual's health condition or impairment but on the impact that these have on their day to day lives. As with DLA, PIP is a benefit to support those with long term...
Maria Miller: The criteria for personal independence payment have not been designed to cover all areas of everyday life, or include all of the activities where disabled people face barriers or cost. Doing so would create a very lengthy and complicated assessment. They are instead intended to, as a whole, act as an overall proxy for the impact of impairments, allowing us to identify and focus support on...
Maria Miller: Entitlement to personal independence payment will be based on the extent to which an individual's health condition or impairment affects their day to day lives, not on the nature of the health condition itself. The assessment for PIP will consider individuals' ability to carry out a series of key everyday activities. Priority in the benefit will be based on how well people can carry out these...
Maria Miller: Following our first consultation on the initial draft of the PIP assessment criteria we made a series of changes. One of these was adding the additional activity “social engagement”. This was introduced to focus on individuals' ability to interact with others in an appropriate manner, establish relationships and understand body language. Although the assessment is designed to take into...
Maria Miller: The assessment for personal independence payment is being developed in collaboration with an independent group of specialists in health, social care and disability, including disabled people. We are designing the assessment to target support on those disabled people who are most impacted by their health condition or impairment. Entitlement will not be based on the nature of the impairments...
Maria Miller: Entitlement to personal independence payment will be based on the extent to which an individual's health condition or impairment affects their day to day lives, not to focus on the nature of the health condition itself. The assessment for PIP will consider individuals' ability to carry out a series of key everyday activities. Priority in the benefit will be based on how well people can carry...
Maria Miller: Departmental Ministers and officials have regular discussions with our counterparts in the Department of Health on policy and operational matters, including on disability living allowance and employment and support allowance. Under a long-standing agreement, NHS hospitals are obliged to provide factual reports and other supporting evidence to the Department, free of charge, to support...
Maria Miller: Following the Government’s review of non-departmental public bodies and the passage of the Public Bodies Act 2011, and using powers contained within this Act, I will be laying an order later today to abolish the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) and transfer its functions to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The public consultation on the transfer of CMEC was...
Maria Miller: The Government fully recognise the importance of child care in helping parents—not just mothers—to move into or stay in work. Under universal credit, we will for the first time extend help with child care costs to those working under 16 hours, benefiting some 80,000 families who previously had no such support.
Maria Miller: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response. Letter from Noel Shanahan In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply...
Maria Miller: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions. Tackling unemployment is a priority. There is no single ethnic group where one type of support fits all. That is why we have introduced personalised support, through the Work programme, the Youth Contract and Get Britain Working. More flexibility for providers and Jobcentre Plus means that unlike the prescriptive...
Maria Miller: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response. Letter from Noel Shanahan In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply...
Maria Miller: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response. Letter from Noel Shanahan In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, the Secretary of State promised...