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1349464

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Absent Voting: Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his planned timescale is for a review of the postal voting system to ensure that system is fully accessible for blind and partially sighted people.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	38144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that elections are accessible for all those eligible to vote.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To that end, the Government has introduced a number of measures to support the accessibility of elections in the recently introduced Elections Bill, such as removing restrictions on who can act as a companion to support voters with disabilities and placing a broader requirement for Returning Officers to consider the needs of all disabled voters when providing equipment for polling stations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Specifically on issues related to sight loss, we were pleased to be able to carry out some testing of accessible voting solutions for blind and partially sighted electors with the RNIB and Broadland District Council at the recent elections in May, and we are currently considering our next steps. We will continue to work with the RNIB and other interested groups in taking this forward and have already talked with RNIB about looking at the postal vote system to see how and where that can be improved to support engagement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We also continue to work with the members of the Accessibly of Elections Working Group, including the Electoral Commission, the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and the Association of Electoral Administrators. The Association of Electoral Administrators provides training and guidance for Returning Officers and their teams to further improve the support provided to enable disabled electors to participate in future elections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 38145 41351 41352 question first answered 10/09/2021 13:38:36 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1310244

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many care home residents have died of covid-19 since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	183079
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have, therefore, asked the Authority to respond.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/04/2021 16:05:24 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name UKSA's final response to PQ183079.pdf title UKSAs response to PQ183079
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1304644

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ministers: Codes of Practice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent representations he has received on the adequacy of the Ministerial Code.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	172894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office receives correspondence on a broad range of subjects. Responsibility for the Ministerial Code rests with the Prime Minister.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 30/03/2021 16:20:13 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1366353

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2021
	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, if she will make an assessment of the (a) impact and (b) financial impact on claimants of (i) the three month waiting period for the limited capability for work-related activity element of universal credit for people with severe health issues and (ii) the decision not to backdate payments for the three month waiting period.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	70230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2021 answer text <p>Where the claimant is determined to have limited capability for work and work-related activity (LCWRA), an additional amount of Universal Credit (UC) may be awarded. However, before the additional amount is payable, a UC claimant must serve the ‘relevant’ period to establish that they have a long-term health condition. This approach replicates the 13-week assessment period which is applied in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claims.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to assess the impact of the relevant period or current backdating rules. Where an additional amount of UC is payable, this is backdated to the start of the assessment period following the assessment period in which the relevant period ends.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the period before the award of the LCWRA addition, claimants will receive the applicable standard allowance plus any additions, reflecting the claimants’ personal circumstances, for example for children, housing costs, childcare costs. They may also be eligible for support through PIP.</p><p> </p><p>There are exceptions to serving the relevant period in UC, including where someone accesses benefits via the Special Rules for Terminal Illness. Where a claimant deemed to have LCWRA in ESA moves to UC, and those claims are continuous, the relevant period does not apply. An exception also applies in relation to claimants whose award ended in the previous six months as a result of their earnings exceeding their entitlement. Where that claimant’s previous award included the LCWRA addition, they do not, on reclaiming, have to serve the relevant period again.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 30/11/2021 16:58:54 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1349465

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voting Methods: Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to work with blind and partially sighted people to produce more accessible voting options.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	38145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that elections are accessible for all those eligible to vote.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To that end, the Government has introduced a number of measures to support the accessibility of elections in the recently introduced Elections Bill, such as removing restrictions on who can act as a companion to support voters with disabilities and placing a broader requirement for Returning Officers to consider the needs of all disabled voters when providing equipment for polling stations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Specifically on issues related to sight loss, we were pleased to be able to carry out some testing of accessible voting solutions for blind and partially sighted electors with the RNIB and Broadland District Council at the recent elections in May, and we are currently considering our next steps. We will continue to work with the RNIB and other interested groups in taking this forward and have already talked with RNIB about looking at the postal vote system to see how and where that can be improved to support engagement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We also continue to work with the members of the Accessibly of Elections Working Group, including the Electoral Commission, the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and the Association of Electoral Administrators. The Association of Electoral Administrators provides training and guidance for Returning Officers and their teams to further improve the support provided to enable disabled electors to participate in future elections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 38144 41351 41352 question first answered 10/09/2021 13:38:36 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth