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1714516

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
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: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with housing associations on the potential impact of the 53 rent week year on residents.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	24062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to PQ <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-03-14/18812" target="_blank">18812</a> on the 19<sup>th</sup> March.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/05/2024 16:32:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1688671

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
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	Disability Living Allowance
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 impact delays in change of circumstance requests for Disability Living Allowance claims have on the welfare of those children and their families.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	13723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>In certain cases, delays may occur due to the gathering of evidence from the NHS or Schools but, where possible, we are aiming to gather this from the parent/guardian of the child to expedite this. We have seen a significant increase in claims, which results in us deploying our people accordingly to ensure we manage service across the entire business.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/02/2024 11:52:34 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1678455

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Personal Independence Payment: Take-up
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 the document entitled Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2023, published on 19 September 2023, what steps his Department is taking to manage increases in the number of new PIP applications.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	7348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>Despite the increase in new claims, we have seen a decrease in PIP clearance times since August 2021 with the latest statistics showing that the average end-to-end journey has reduced from 26 weeks in August 2021 to 15 weeks at the end of October. This means that we’re clearing claims faster than we were prior to the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>This is because we are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>using a blend of phone, video and face-to-face assessments to support customers and deliver a more efficient and user-centred service.</li><li>increasing case manager and assessment provider health professional resource.</li><li>prioritising new claims, whilst safeguarding claimants awaiting award reviews, who have returned their information as required, to ensure their payments continue until their review can be completed.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In addition, the Health Transformation Programme (HTP) is modernising Health and Disability benefit services to create a more efficient service, to reduce processing times and improving trust in our services and decisions. As part of this, from July 2023, a limited number of claimants have been able to begin their claim for PIP entirely online.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/01/2024 17:25:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1677691

registered interest
date	13/12/2023
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	Disability Living Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 27.5 week timescale for completing change in circumstance requests for child Disability Living Allowance claims on those children and their families.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	6829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The average journey time for change in circumstances for child Disability Living Allowance is 13 weeks. In certain cases, we are experiencing delays in the gathering of further evidence from the NHS, however, where possible, we are looking to expedite this by obtaining it from the parent/guardian of the child instead.</p><p> </p><p>We have seen a significant increase in child Disability Living Allowance claims and therefore need to deploy our people accordingly to ensure we balance workloads to manage the entire service.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/12/2023 15:00:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1643437

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
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 Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department set the assessment period for the first cost of living payment for 2023 from 26 January 2023 to 25 February 2023.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	188728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The qualifying date is as close to the payment date as possible so that only those who have recently received an eligible means-tested benefit receive a Cost of Living Payment</p><p>This means that claimants who received a nil award during the qualifying period would not be entitled to a Cost of Living Payment. Most nil awards will be as a result of increased earnings.</p><p>Paying those with financial resources available, which would make them ineligible for means-tested benefits, is not the intention of the Cost of Living Payments which are aimed at those on the lowest incomes.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/06/2023 15:08:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1643451

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
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	Children: Maintenance
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 9 May 2023 to Question 183091 on Children: Maintenance, what the average waiting time is between an application to the court and outcome; and whether his Department has set a target on the proportion of applications that result in an outcome.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	188742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has an expectation of a successful outcome in every case we send to the court.</p><p> </p><p>The average clearance between an application to the court and outcome is 16 weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/06/2023 15:10:56 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1625196

registered interest
date	02/05/2023
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	Health and Safety
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 capability of the Health and Safety Executive to investigate incidents that are deemed to meet the conditions for a mandatory investigation.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	183455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>Britain continues to be one of the safest places to work in the world.</p><p> </p><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) carries out planned inspection activity as well as investigating incidents. HSE has discretion as to what incidents it investigates and follows the principles laid out in Sections 6 and 11 in its Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS).</p><p> </p><p>HSE’s published Incident Selection Criteria (ISC) gives guidance on matters that would normally be investigated, however there are a number of reasons why incidents meeting the ISC would not be investigated. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has discretion as to the matters it investigates, as such there are no mandatory investigations.</p><p> </p><p>Where HSE decides not to investigate matters that are within the criteria, due to competing demands for resources, this is because they are deploying resources as efficiently and effectively as possible. Some investigations are unlikely to lead to further action so resource is better spent on proactive inspection work to prevent incidents happening in the first place.</p><p> </p><p>HSE have appropriately trained and experienced inspectors, specialist inspectors and other regulatory staff who can carry out investigations in line with HSE’s policies and procedures, as required.</p><p> </p><p>For 2022 / 2023, provisional figures show that 16,500 proactive inspections were carried out by HSE (against a target of 14,000) and were delivered through a mixture of high-risk programmes and campaigns, assurance and priority local visits. During this same period, 85% of fatal investigations were completed within 12 months of assuming primacy from the police (against a target of 80%) and 95% of non-fatal investigations completed within 12 months of the incident (against a target of 90%). This demonstrates HSE has appropriate measures in place to investigate incidents while also completing proactive inspection activity.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/05/2023 16:07:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1625197

registered interest
date	02/05/2023
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	Health and Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mandatory investigations the Health and Safety Executive ended as a result of inadequate resources in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	183456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>Health and Safety Executive (HSE) selects cases for investigation on the basis of its published incident selection criteria (ISC) – incidents which notionally meet the criteria may not be selected for investigation or, where selected, investigations may conclude early for a number of reasons, including decisions around the most efficient deployment of resources. HSE does not hold specific figures relating to investigations falling within in its ISC which were concluded due to inadequate resources.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/05/2023 16:04:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1624432

registered interest
date	27/04/2023
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications to cancel passports have been made as a result of non-payment of child maintenance in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	183091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has a wide range of enforcement powers available to use for those parents who will not engage in a negotiated debt repayment plan for unpaid maintenance. Any enforcement power that would be recommended to the Courts is usually based on the level of debt and consideration of the ability to repay within the time periods set out in our legislation, as well as the most appropriate sanction for the circumstances of the parent.</p><p> </p><p>These powers are intended to be a strong deterrent to encourage parents to meet their obligations.</p><p> </p><p>During the last 12 months CMS has not applied for a passport confiscation on non-paying cases.</p><p> </p><p>Details of enforcement powers used can be found within the Child Maintenance published statistics at tables 7.1 and 7.2 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-december-2022-experimental" target="_blank">here.</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/05/2023 16:22:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1609951

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
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 February 2023 to Question 148651 on the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, if he will list the stakeholders that his Department have consulted on those regulations.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	180084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Officials from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) regularly engage with a wide range of stakeholders as part of their day-to-day business, covering many matters on both a formal and informal basis. HSE has good working knowledge to inform any decisions they need to make in relation to their approach with the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill. If required, HSE has various established channels of communication with stakeholders to obtain supplementary information.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/04/2023 10:23:26 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders