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1146692

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any distributional analysis has been undertaken by (a) the Government and (b) HS2 Ltd of the passenger benefits that will accrue to towns in each region of the UK from High Speed Two.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	291233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>A distributional analysis of the benefits from HS2 was conducted by HS2 Ltd in 2017 and provided to the Department as part of its ‘Economic Case Advice’. This could be found at Appendix 5 of this advice, and published at the following web address:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/628526/CS866_A_HS2_Phase_2a_Economic_case.pdf#page81" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/628526/CS866_A_HS2_Phase_2a_Economic_case.pdf#page81</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 01/10/2019 12:40:28 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1131835

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Reform
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total spending was on (a) academic research and (b) public consultations undertaken by his Department to inform the HMCTS reform programme in each financial year since 2011-12.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	263790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>HMCTS and the Ministry of Justice have undertaken a number of formal written consultation exercises since the Reform Programme began in 2016. This included the Ministry of Justice consultation on the Reform Programme entitled Transforming our Justice System, which set out the Government’s broad approach to reform and sought views on three specific sets of proposals: the assisted digital strategy; automatic online conviction and statutory standard penalty; and tribunal panel composition.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has spent the following amounts on academic research for evaluation of reform:</p><p> </p><p>2016/17: £220,000 for research on the Citizen user Experience</p><p>2017/18: £50,000 for research on the Professional User Experience</p><p>2017/18: £40,000 for a survey of SSCS appellants digital capability</p><p>2018/19: £49,000 for LSE evaluation of video hearings in tax</p><p>2018/19: £47,976 for research on Flexible Operating Hours</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS undertakes public consultation when reorganising estate or closing a tribunal building. This work is conducted by civil servants alongside other duties and it is not possible to capture an accurate assessment of the time and cost spent on this.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/07/2019 15:36:55 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1174523

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Forests
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the effect of High Speed Two on ancient woodland.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	900517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Secretaries of State are in on-going contact and discuss a range of issues concerning HS2 and the environment. The Department for Transport and HS2 Ltd work closely with DEFRA, Natural England, the Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission to ensure the project complies with environmental commitments, and to mitigate environmental impacts.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 30/01/2020 15:23:10 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1667673

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	Allied Steel And Wire: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he last met with former Allied Steel and Wire employees to discuss their pensions campaign.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not met with the former Allied Steel and Wire employees to discuss their pension campaign. However, the former Minister for Pensions and Financial Inclusion, Guy Opperman, met with members of the Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme on 16 June 2021 to discuss their financial assistance payment.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/11/2023 15:40:48 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1670609

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2023
	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	Revenue and Customs: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) average length of time taken between notification being received from HMRC of a change to a person's National Insurance record and that change being reflected in a revised state pension (i) forecast and (ii) award and (b) how many such notifications are outstanding.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	2376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2023 answer text <p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of voluntary contributions paid result in records being updated within days, though more complex cases requiring specialist caseworkers can take longer to resolve.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has extended the deadline to 5 April 2025 to give taxpayers more time to fill gaps in their National Insurance record and help increase the amount they receive in State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/11/2023 15:16:17 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1675646

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	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	Access to Work Programme
	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 28 November 2023 to Question 3350 on Access to Work Programme, how many applications to the Access to Work scheme were rejected in each month from April 2021 to April 2022.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	5378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>In response to your question, I have provided the information on applications not receiving an Access to Work award below:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>April 2021 – 1,678</p><p>May 2021 – 1,579</p><p>June 2021 – 1,909</p><p>July 2021 – 1,784</p><p>August 2021 – 1,285</p><p>September 2021 – 1,547</p><p>October 2021 – 1,853</p><p>November 2021 – 2,082</p><p>December 2021 – 1,954</p><p>January 2022 – 1,807</p><p>February 2022 – 1,615</p><p>March 2022 – 2016</p><p>April 2022 – 1,478</p><p> </p><p><strong>Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal Departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution. </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 12/12/2023 12:32:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1693021

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2024
	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	Universal Credit: Disability
	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 automating data-sharing between his Department's Disability Service Centre and its Universal Credit section.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	16540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department is always looking to make improvements to the design of the service and continues to review the way in which processes can be further automated.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 07/03/2024 14:35:03 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1693395

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
	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 it his policy to (a) collect and (b) publish management information on the number of people who have (i) had changes to their National Insurance record and (ii) are waiting to have their state pension calculation updated.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	16811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>DWP does not publish this information as changes to a citizen’s National Insurance Record forms part of HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) function. When DWP receives notification from HMRC of a change in a citizen’s National Insurance record, DWP reviews the State Pension claim accordingly.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The vast majority of changes to a citizen’s National Insurance Record are processed by DWP within days. However, more complex cases requiring specialist caseworkers can take longer to resolve.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 07/03/2024 14:30:33 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1693485

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2024
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Underpayments
	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 his Department's Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice exercise to identify people who have been underpaid State Pension, how many people identified as having received an underpayment have deceased, by each category of error; in how many of those cases his Department (a) has been unable to identify an heir and (b) has sent a letter to an heir and (i) has not received a response and (ii) has received a response but payment has not yet been made; and what steps his Department is taking to (A) identify heirs and (B) follow up cases where no response has been received to an initial contact letter.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	16895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p><p> </p><p>The Department uses all available resources to identify heirs. In the instance when a response is not received for the initial contact letter, we issue further letters inviting the heir to contact DWP.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will be publishing its progress with the State Pension Underpayment Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice (LEAP) exercises to the end of February 2024 before the end of March 2024.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 12/03/2024 13:54:53 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1694919

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2024
	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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
	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 7 March 2024 to Question 16811 on State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions, how many days his Department took on average to reassess a citizen's claim to state pensions following notification of an updated National Insurance record by HMRC in the latest year for which data is available; and how many people waited more than one month for their claim to be reassessed in that period.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
	uin	17905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 18/03/2024 16:54:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain