Tag: Madeleine Moon

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Madeleine Moon on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the personal independence claims and decision making process.

Mike Penning

We are committed to driving up PIP performance, and I am in regular contact with providers to do this – as you would expect. Unlike DLA, PIP involves a face to face consultation for most applicants. Around 80% of claimants will see a health professional instead of around 6% of DLA.

We acknowledge that claims are currently taking too long and we have taken steps to improve performance. So far we have introduced:

• A dedicated phone service;
• An electronic transfer of information between claimant’s health professional, DWP and assessment providers.
• A new process to enable SRTI decisions to be made in-house with support from health care professionals.
• A streamlined Assessment Report form.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Madeleine Moon on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many foreign and Commonwealth personnel from each country of origin who were made redundant from the armed forces in each year since 2010 were subsequently unable to meet the five-year rule to apply for citizenship; and if he will make a statement.

Anna Soubry

Foreign and Commonwealth personnel with four years service in the Armed Forces service can apply, in the interim, for settlement. This process regularises their immigration status while they qualify and meet the mandated Home Office criteria to apply for citizenship.

The Ministry of Defence has completed an analysis of personnel records and I can confirm that no Foreign and Commonwealth personnel with less than four years service were made redundant since 2010. Therefore redundancy from the Armed Forces would not have prevented personnel from applying for settlement or citizenship.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Madeleine Moon on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recruits of each sex dropped out of training at AFC Harrogate before completing Phase 1 in each year since 2006; and if he will make a statement.

Anna Soubry

The information is shown in the table:

Figures have been rounded to 10; numbers ending in ‘5′ are rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.