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1659056

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in the context of married women who reach state pension age prior to 6th April 2016, whether it is his Department's policy for a woman who draws a category A state pension prior to her husband reaching pension age and who is widowed after her husband reaches pension age and draws his pension should be automatically assessed at the point of being widowed for a backdated category BL pension in the case where her category A pension is lower than the Category BL rate; and whether a woman over pension age with no entitlement to a category A state pension, and who is widowed after her husband reaches pension age and draws his pension should automatically be assessed at the point of being widowed for a deferred Category BL pension, with her date of claim treated as the date when her late husband first drew his pension.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	198410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>For married women who reach State Pension age prior to 6th April 2016 the Department’s policy is as follows.</p><p> </p><ul><li>For those in receipt of a Category A state pension based on their own National Insurance contributions and whose husband became entitled to his state pension on or after 17th March 2008, a Category BL pension will be paid automatically by the Department. There is a LEAP exercise currently underway to identify and correct some historical cases where this did not happen.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>For those in receipt of a Category A pension and whose husband became entitled to his state pension before 17th March 2008, including where someone is widowed, a claim is required in order for the Department to be able to assess entitlement to any Category BL pension.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Women who have not made a claim for and are not receiving a state pension at the point they are widowed must also make a claim to become entitled to a state pension based on their late husband’s National Insurance contributions. If it is their preference, they can get any Category BL pension backdated for a maximum of 12 months before their claim. They may also be entitled to a deferral payment (one-off lump sum or an additional weekly amount) for the time they have deferred their Category BL pension. <strong><em> </em></strong></li></ul> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 13/09/2023 11:10:00 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1659113

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Attendance Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the requirement for people to wait six months following the onset of invalidity before they can claim Attendance Allowance.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
uin	198418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>Entitlement to Attendance Allowance is based on the on-going need for frequent personal care and attention, or supervision to ensure personal safety, rather than on the individual’s medical condition. The six-month qualifying period helps establish that the disability and the resulting care or supervision needs are of a long-term nature, and ensures the benefit goes to those for whom it is intended. Claims made under the Special Rules for those with less than 12 months to live do not have to satisfy the six-month qualifying period.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 13/09/2023 11:29:18 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1659142

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps they are taking to help ensure that their Department (a) gives sufficient attention to long term strategic challenges, (b) does not allow current events to slow down work on long term strategic issues and (c) consistently undertakes horizon scanning.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	198442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department ensures it gives sufficient attention to long-term strategic issues through its Departmental Board, chaired by the Secretary of State, which brings together the Ministerial Team, the Executive Team and senior non-executive members from outside of government. The Board supports and advises ministers and the Department on strategic issues linked to the development and implementation of the Government’s objectives.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Outcome Delivery Plan sets out how we plan to deliver outcomes for customers in the short term – responding at pace to emerging risks – and the long term regardless of current events. Our aims include maximising employment and in-work progression, improving people’s quality of life and delivering excellent services for citizens and taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>As we deliver our aims in the Outcome Delivery Plan, one of the tools we apply is horizon scanning across the Department and with other government departments. The Departmental Board scans for emerging issues, monitoring performance and overseeing the management of risks – setting the overall strategic direction for the Department in the long term in light of ministerial priorities and our Departmental Plan.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/09/2023 11:41:22 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1659152

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Work Capability Assessment: Selby
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for a Work Capability Assessment in Selby and Ainsty constituency in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Selby and Ainsty
tabling member printed	Keir Mather
uin	198450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>DWP publishes Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessment (WCA) national <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment" target="_blank">processing times for initial claims</a> on GOV.UK. We are currently unable to provide Universal Credit (UC) WCA processing statistics as these could only be provided at disproportionate cost. <strong><em>   </em></strong></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/09/2023 11:12:21 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4993 label Biography information for Keir Mather

1658599

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Stress
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people who have experienced work-related stress are helped to re-engage with work without delay.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	198141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government delivers an extensive programme of initiatives to support disabled people and people with health conditions, including work-related stress, to start or speedily return to work, as well as to stay, and succeed, in work. These include:</p><ul><li>Initiatives to support and encourage employers to support their staff, including those who have experienced work-related stress, to stay in, or return to, work, including: <ul><li>The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service (MHSS) providing up to 9 months of personalised, non-clinical support for people who need mental health support while in employment;</li><li>Disability Confident, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and health, and to take positive action to address the issues disabled employees face in the workplace;</li><li>An online Information Service called <a href="https://www.support-with-employee-health-and-disability.dwp.gov.uk/support-with-employee-health-and-disability" target="_blank">“Support with Employee Health and Disability”,</a> providing better integrated and tailored guidance on supporting health and disability in the workplace;</li><li>Increasing access to occupational health, including the testing of financial incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises and the self-employed;</li><li>Access to Work grants helping towards extra costs of working beyond standard reasonable adjustments;</li></ul></li><li>Increased Work Coach support in Jobcentres for disabled people and people with health conditions receiving Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance;</li><li>Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres offering advice and expertise on how to help disabled people and people with health conditions into work;</li><li>Work in partnership between DWP and the health system, including:<ul><li>Employment Advice in NHS Talking Therapies, which combines psychological treatment and employment support for people with mental health conditions which includes support to return to work following mental health-related absences, and;</li><li>The Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care (IPSPC) programme, a Supported Employment model (place, train and maintain) delivered in health settings, aimed at people with physical or common mental health disabilities to support them to access paid jobs in the open labour market.</li></ul></li><li>The Work and Health Programme and Intensive Personalised Employment Support, providing tailored and personalised support for disabled people.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/09/2023 13:32:59 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1658653

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Cost of Living: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of increases in the cost-of-living on private pension funds.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	198164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The latest data shows private pension opt out and stopping saving rates remain low.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 13/09/2023 10:41:21 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott previous answer version 93671 answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1658677

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Childcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of trends in the level of accessible school-aged childcare on the number of parents returning to the workforce.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	198170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made by this department.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that childcare can affect parents’ decisions to take up paid work or increase their working hours. That is why, as announced at the Spring Budget, we are investing billions in additional childcare support for parents of toddlers, investing in wraparound childcare in schools, and increasing financial support for, and expectations of, parents claiming Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/09/2023 11:37:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1658122

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the State Pension above the level prescribed by the triple lock.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	197720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to ensuring that older people can live with the dignity and respect they deserve, and the State Pension is the foundation of state support for older people.</p><p> </p><p>In April, the State Pension saw its biggest ever rise, increasing by 10.1%. The full yearly amount of the basic State Pension will be over £3,050 higher, in cash terms, than in 2010. That’s £790 more than if it had been uprated by Prices, and £945 more than if it had been uprated by earnings (since 2010).</p><p> </p><p>The Government also provides additional support to older people, which includes the provision of free bus passes, free prescriptions, and Winter Fuel Payments, with Cold Weather Payments for those in receipt of Pension Credit.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 13/09/2023 11:06:53 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1658132

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 5 of the British Medical Journal article entitled Impact of Universal Credit in North East England, published in 2019, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that article's findings on the impact of Universal Credit deductions on (a) incidences of self-harm, (b) suicidal ideation, (c) alcohol and substance-use, (d) debt and (e) use of foodbanks in the North East of England.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	197724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 13/09/2023 11:03:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1658134

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to prevent (a) payment delays and (b) incorrect fluctuations in monthly payments for Universal Credit claimants in the North East.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	197790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has a dedicated performance team in Universal Credit working with our teams nationally to continually level up caseloads/workloads to ensure timely and accurate payments to customers.</p><p> </p><p>Our current payment performance shows we paid 92.1% of all new claimants to Universal Credit accurately and on time. In addition, we paid 97.1% of all other customers their Universal Credit entitlement accurately and on time.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit payment timeliness statistics for new claims are published in Table 6 in the Households on Universal Credit section on Stat-Xplore. These figures can be filtered by different geographies and can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 13/09/2023 16:39:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah