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1656462

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many visits he has made to Wales since his appointment.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	196313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Since his appointment, the Secretary of State has not visited Wales in his capacity as Secretary of State. However, in this time period, the wider DWP Ministerial team has made 3 visits to Wales on departmental business.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/09/2023 16:47:14 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1656526

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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 estimate with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the number of people in paid employment in (i) England, (ii) Northern Ireland, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Wales who have been diagnosed with lupus.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	196353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by the Government.<strong><em>  </em></strong></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 13:48:02 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1657468

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Carer's Allowance: Uprating
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 had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of increasing the level of carer's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	197032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>There is a statutory annual review of benefit and pensions undertaken in the Autumn. The level of Carer’s Allowance is protected by up-rating it each year in line with the Consumer Prices Index. Since 2010, the rate of Carer’s Allowance has increased from £53.90 to £76.75 a week, providing just under an additional £1200 a year for carers through Carer’s Allowance.</p><p>The outcome of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions’ review for 2023 will be announced later this year, following the publication of the relevant indices by the Office for National Statistics, and the new rates will enter into force from April 2024.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 15:31:40 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1657469

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on replacing the Work Capability Assessment.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	197033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>As we committed to in Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, we are actively engaging with disabled people and people with health conditions and our stakeholders as we develop our proposals.</p><p> </p><p>We set out the intention to transform the benefits system for the future so that it focuses on what people can do, rather than what they cannot. We will legislate to remove the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) so that in future there is only one health and disability assessment – the PIP assessment. This will mean that there will be no need to be found to have limited capability for work and limited capability to prepare for work to get additional income-related support for a disability or health condition. The degree of change in our proposals will require primary legislation, which we will aim to take early in a new parliament, when parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/09/2023 10:52:58 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1657470

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Unemployment: Newport West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the number of people in Newport West constituency out of work due to (a) sickness and (b) disability since outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	197034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Individuals who are out of work will be either economically inactive (where a person is not in work, nor looking for, or available for, work) or unemployed (not in work, but actively seeking work). Whilst data is held on a person’s main reason for being inactive, data on the main reason for being unemployed is not readily available. Therefore, no assessment of trends in the number of people in Newport West who are out of work due to sickness or disability since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has been made.</p><p> </p><p>However, data on the number of people who are economically inactive and state long-term sickness as their main reason is available. Between April 2022 and March 2023, there were an estimated 2,900 and 5,500 people in Newport West who were economically inactive and gave long-term sickness as the main reason. This compares to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (April 2019 to March 2020), when the corresponding estimate was between 2,200 and 4,300 people.</p><p> </p><p>In general, there is a higher degree of uncertainty around estimates for parliamentary constituencies because at this granular level sample sizes are small, and historic trends can be volatile. Resultantly, differences in the figures for Newport West over time may not be statistically significant (which is the case for the figures quoted above), and therefore any change may be reflective of chance or the variable nature of the sample, and not represent actual change.</p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/lmp/wpca/1929380389/subreports/einact_time_series/report.aspx" target="_blank">Labour Market Profile - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (nomisweb.co.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 14:41:47 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1657471

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made on publishing its Disability Action Plan.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	197035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Disability Action Plan will set out the Government’s ambition to improve the lives of disabled people with immediate and practical measures, while laying the foundations for longer term change.</p><p> </p><p>The Disability Action Plan Consultation Document was published on 18 July and will remain open for responses until 6 October 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation document sets out a number of proposals and consultation questions - informed by the experiences of disabled people, research and the current policy landscape - as an initial step to make sure policy development direction is correct.</p><p> </p><p>We are hosting a series of consultation events for stakeholders, including roundtables focused on the proposed areas of action included in the document. Both general stakeholders and subject matter experts will be attending these. There will also be general forums to encourage discussion on broader disability policy areas; and stakeholder-hosted meetings for members of the public to attend.</p><p> </p><p>The findings of this consultation will inform the published Disability Action Plan.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 14:45:23 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1605456

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
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	Chemicals: Regulation
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 publish her Department's Regulatory Management Options Analysis on the four substances it was considering for inclusion on UK’s Substances of Very High Concern Candidate List; and if he will take steps to review the new entries to the EU’s Substances of Very High Concern Candidate List in (a) 2022 and (b) January 2023 for potential inclusion on the UK Candidate List.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	169435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>All Regulatory Management Options Analyses (RMOAs) produced by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are published on HSE’s website following agreement with the Appropriate Authorities. HSE will review new entries to the EU’s SVHC candidate list as part of their work programme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/03/2023 16:24:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1605460

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
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	Chemicals: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Regulatory Management Options Analyses on potential substances for inclusion on the Substances of Very High Concern Candidate List does the Health and Safety Executive have the capacity to conduct per year.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	169439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>The number of Regulatory Management Options Analysis (RMOA) that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will progress each year depends on a number of factors. These include the information available to HSE on chemicals of concern, the likely impact of HSE’s actions, wider strategic priorities within the REACH framework for risk management activity and available capacity. HSE plans to undertake 5 RMOAs during 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/03/2023 16:26:43 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1601253

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of the disability employment gap.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	903887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the disability employment gap was 29.6 percentage points in October to September 2022. This is an increase of 0.6 percentage points on the year and an overall decrease of 4.2 percentage points since the same quarter in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/labourmarketstatusofdisabledpeoplea08" target="_blank">A08: Labour market status of disabled people - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/03/2023 16:14:30 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1600779

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
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	Chemicals: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) staffing and (b) other costs were incurred by the Health and Safety Executive for work relating to UK REACH in the (i) 2021-22 financial year and (ii) 2022-23 financial year to 31 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	157039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>Please see the table below for costs relating to UK REACH.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff </strong>(£M)</p></td><td><p><strong>Other </strong>(£M)</p></td><td><p><strong>Total </strong>(£M)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/2022</p></td><td><p>£2.94</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£2.94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/2023 (to Jan 31)</p></td><td><p>£3.2</p></td><td><p>*£0.04</p></td><td><p>£3.24</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*£40,000, relate to payroll and expenses costs for members of the REACH Independent Scientific Expert Pool who advise HSE on its UK REACH work.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 07/03/2023 17:26:37 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones