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1697883

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
	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 ensure that the use of AI in benefit fraud investigations does not discriminate against vulnerable people.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	19927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not use AI in its benefit fraud investigations.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 26/03/2024 11:55:00 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1687015

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2024
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2023 to Question 3556 on Chemicals: Regulation, for what reason no new additions to the UK’s Substance of Very High Concern waitlist are expected before 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	12825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) work under the agreed 2023-24 UK REACH Work Programme has not identified any substances that are suitable candidates for authorisation under UK REACH, which would need to be included in the Candidate List as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC).</p><p> </p><p>HSE’s work includes both technical assessments of substances candidate-listed in the EU and regulatory management options analyses (RMOAs), which are reviewed in the context of the interim principles for the inclusion of SVHCs on the candidate list (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-reach-approach-to-including-substances-of-very-high-concern-on-the-candidate-list/approach-to-including-substances-of-very-high-concern-on-the-uk-reach-candidate-list" target="_blank">Approach to including substances of very high concern on the UK REACH candidate list</a> – GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>). If suitable substances are identified to go onto the Candidate List from this work, they will be taken forward. RMOAs may, however, also identify that other regulatory approaches are more appropriate than REACH authorisation.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 07/02/2024 12:12:07 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1687016

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2024
	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 recent assessment has he made of the adequacy of the UK’s chemical safety regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	12826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>The UK’s chemical regulations play an important role in protecting human safety and health as well as the environment and wildlife. The Government ensured that an operable regime for chemicals was put in place at the time the UK left the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Following EU exit, the government continues to assess how best to provide ongoing protection in an effective, proportionate and targeted way, taking into account the full range of regulatory options. Several government departments have responsibilities within the UK chemicals regulatory framework<strong>. </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is considering opportunities for legislative reform within their areas of legislative remit.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 07/02/2024 12:15:20 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1684793

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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: Farmers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2024 to Question 9914 on Universal Credit: Farmers, whether he has made an assessment of the potential financial impact of moving from Working Tax Credits to Universal Credit on recipient farmers in the last five years; and if he will undertake an assessment in the next three months.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	11408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>No assessment has been made and there are no plans to make an assessment.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/01/2024 14:15:55 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1682471

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2024
	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: Farmers
	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 he has made of the financial impact of moving from Working Tax Credits to Universal Credit on recipient farmers.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	9914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/01/2024 11:42:17 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1682472

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2024
	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: Self-employed
	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 the potential merits of using alternative methods of calculating monthly Universal Credit rates for self-employed recipients with seasonal income and expenditure patterns.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	9915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/01/2024 11:37:14 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1682473

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2024
	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: Self-employed
	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 the potential merits of using annual income as the basis for Universal Credit rates for self-employed recipients with seasonal income and expenditure patterns.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	9916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/01/2024 11:35:18 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1673297

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	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	War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of payments from the (a) War Pensions and (b) Armed Forces Compensation Scheme are also in receipt of (i) Universal Credit, (ii) Child Tax Support, (iii) Income Support, (iv) Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, (v) Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, (vi) Working Tax Credit and (vii) Pension Credit.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	3914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>The requested information is not held by the department.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/11/2023 12:35:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1672844

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2023
	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	Social Security Benefits: Armed Forces
	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 n assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to disregard compensation offered to wounded (a) service people and (b) veterans under the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation schemes as income from (i) Income Support, (ii) Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, (iii) Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, (iv) Working Tax Credit, and (v) Pension Credit.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	3641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>Universal Credit replaced a number of benefits and tax credits. It was decided that War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Payments would not be taken into account in Universal Credit. Guaranteed Income Payments, Service Attributable Pensions and service-attributable, non-taxable Service Invalidity Pensions are also not taken into account. However, it has never been the intention that the rules around the treatment of income and indeed other rules - should be changed across the legacy and other benefits to align them with Universal Credit.</p><p>Social care payments are the responsibility of the Department of Health and Social Care.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 3642 question first answered 29/11/2023 16:44:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1672845

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2023
	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	Social Security Benefits: Armed Forces
	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 bringing forward legislative proposals to disregard compensation offered to wounded (a) service people and (b) veterans under the (i) Service Invaliding Pensions and (ii) Service Attributable Pensions scheme as income from (A) Universal Credit, (B) Child Tax Credit, (C) Income Support, (D) Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, (E) Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, (F) Working Tax Credit, (G) Social Care payments and (H) Pension Credit.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	3642
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>Universal Credit replaced a number of benefits and tax credits. It was decided that War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Payments would not be taken into account in Universal Credit. Guaranteed Income Payments, Service Attributable Pensions and service-attributable, non-taxable Service Invalidity Pensions are also not taken into account. However, it has never been the intention that the rules around the treatment of income and indeed other rules - should be changed across the legacy and other benefits to align them with Universal Credit.</p><p>Social care payments are the responsibility of the Department of Health and Social Care.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 3641 question first answered 29/11/2023 16:44:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake