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1715171

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help limit noise pollution for people who live near motorways.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	24511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>National Highways are responsible for managing and improving England’s motorways and major A roads, known as the strategic road network. National Highways use a range of measures to reduce the impact of noise on their roads including using low-noise surfacing for road surfaces, installing noise barriers where suitable, and delivering noise insulation packages. National Highways recognise that there are opportunities to implement more measures in the older parts of its network that were built to different standards and have set a target to mitigate noise in 7500 properties during the second road investment period.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to take action to reduce the levels of excessive noise experienced by communities, delivering noise mitigation in Noise Important Areas near the strategic road network, and has funded leading research into noise cameras to detect and enforce excessively noisy road vehicles.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/05/2024 14:41:10 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1587828

registered interest
date	21/02/2023
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: Uprating
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 merits of uplifting the benefits cap in line with inflation.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	149594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State reviewed the benefit cap levels and decided they should be increased in line with CPI in the year to September 2022 (10.1%) in April 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/02/2023 13:22:53 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1567986

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials are employed to administer universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	126766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>All DWP colleagues employed within our Universal Credit Directorate equate to 35,390 FTE (full time equivalent) resource as of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2022. This takes into account all grades working within the Universal Credit Directorate.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Data is correct as of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2022.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Figures for Universal Credit were derived from the Department’s Activity Based Model (ABM), which provides Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures of colleagues employed within this directorate based on point in time estimate by Line Managers.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures has been rounded off to the nearest 10.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The number of colleagues employed in these directorates is unpublished management information, collected and intended for internal departmental use and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. As the Department holds the information, we have released it.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures only included colleagues employed by DWP only and does not include any external outsourced employees.</li></ul><p> </p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/01/2023 17:01:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1380147

registered interest
date	19/11/2021
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	State Retirement Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent comparative assessment her Department has made of level of monies received by pensioners on (a) the former basic State Pension and (b) receiving the new State Pension.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	78492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2021 answer text <p>The published figures can be accessed here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-november-2021" target="_blank">DWP benefits statistics: November 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/11/2021 15:27:24 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1352416

registered interest
date	03/09/2021
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what provisions are in place to ensure continued receipt of child maintenance payments from a parent who is imprisoned but still in receipt of income from personal assets.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	42070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2021 answer text <p>Where a paying parent is in prison and receives income from certain assets, then a variation can be considered and that income may be taken into account when calculating the maintenance liability.</p><p> </p><p>If the paying parent fails to make payments that are due, the Child Maintenance Service can make arrangements to enforce payment of any arrears.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/09/2021 16:52:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1340270

registered interest
date	25/06/2021
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	Pensions: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what arrangements her Department has put in place to maintain EU member state derived pension entitlements for EU citizens residing in the UK following the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	22193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>The EU Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement set out the rules on the payment of state pensions when individuals of any nationality have moved, or move in future, between the UK and EU member states.</p><p> </p><p>These agreements maintain the same rules as prior to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in respect of the payment of their state pension and the coordination between states in its calculation. The UK and EU Member State governments are bound by obligations in those agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The agreements also provide mechanisms for raising issues relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU with the European Commission and the governments of Member States.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 22194 question first answered 05/07/2021 16:03:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1340272

registered interest
date	25/06/2021
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	State Retirement Pensions: Greece
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has made representations to the Greek Government on unpaid pension entitlements due to Greek citizens residing in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	22194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>The EU Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement set out the rules on the payment of state pensions when individuals of any nationality have moved, or move in future, between the UK and EU member states.</p><p> </p><p>These agreements maintain the same rules as prior to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in respect of the payment of their state pension and the coordination between states in its calculation. The UK and EU Member State governments are bound by obligations in those agreements.</p><p> </p><p>The agreements also provide mechanisms for raising issues relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU with the European Commission and the governments of Member States.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 22193 question first answered 05/07/2021 16:03:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1301892

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in (a) her private office and (b) the wider Department have been allocated to the production and promotion of online content for use on social media in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	167281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2021 answer text <p>The DWP is the largest department in Whitehall, making a difference to the lives of millions of people right across the country, and as such it is vital that communications are far-reaching, clear and effective. DWP manages social media through these key areas;</p><p> </p><ul><li>At a national level in the Strategic Communications Directorate (SCD) to communicate key policy areas to the public, campaign messaging and ministerial priorities.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>At a local level in the Customer Experience Directorate (CED) through operational staff using jobcentre accounts that are a valuable resource to help people find work and access the support they need.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>In the Digital Group (DG) to communicate how it uses technology and innovation to build products and services that change the lives of people across the UK.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The following table shows the amount of staff who have a role in the production of social media content.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Operational staff who manage local jobcentre accounts are not included in these figures as social media forms a small part of their daily role. There are no officials in Ministers’ private offices that create or manage content for social media.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/03/2021 13:06:13 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1138385

registered interest
date	11/07/2019
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	Universities Superannuation Scheme
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 claims that the Universities Superannuation Scheme exaggerated its budget deficit in November 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	276269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2019 answer text <p>It is not appropriate for Government to comment on individual cases, which are a matter for the independent Pensions Regulator.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/07/2019 12:19:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones