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1549351

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date	07/12/2022
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	Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
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 Retained EU Law Bill, what plans he has to (a) replace, (b) revoke or (c) retain the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	105308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, as amended, make explicit the implicit requirements to manage workplace health and safety in the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The Regulations outline employers’ duties to manage health and safety risks including risk assessment, risk control, health and safety arrangements, health surveillance, competent health and safety advice, procedures for serious and imminent danger and information for employees.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>The Regulations implement a number of provisions of EU Directives and are subject to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022 (REUL Bill) currently passing through Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>With the introduction of the REUL Bill, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) remains focused on ensuring that regulatory frameworks maintain the United Kingdom’s high standards of health and safety protection and continue to reduce burdens for business. HSE’s approach aligns closely with the Government’s pledge to do more for business to help promote growth by removing disproportionate burdens and simplifying the regulatory landscape. Our standards of health and safety protections are among the highest in the world. HSE will continue to review its retained EU Law to seek opportunities to reduce business burdens and promote growth without reducing health and safety standards.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2022 17:34:08 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1549524

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Bereavement Support Payment: Inflation
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 raising the level of Bereavement Support Payment in line with inflation since 2017.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	105423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The rate of Bereavement Support Payment is reviewed on a discretionary basis as part of the annual uprating process. Following this year’s review, Bereavement Support Payment will stay at the current rate. This means that claimants on the standard rate will continue to receive a first payment of £2,500 and 18 monthly payments of £100, and those on the higher rate will receive £3,500 followed by 18 monthly payments of £350.</p><p>Bereavement Support Payment is intended to provide working people with short-term financial support following the death of a spouse or civil partner, to help towards the additional costs associated with a death. It is not means-tested unlike income replacement benefits such as Universal Credit, which we are increasing in line with inflation to protect the least well-off. Families needing extra financial support are protected by this welfare safety net.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2022 17:36:44 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1549525

registered interest
date	07/12/2022
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	Bereavement Support Payment: Ex Gratia Payments
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 establishing an ex gratia payment scheme to make sure that all families receive the same amount of Bereavement Support Payment as they would have done if they had been married or in a civil partnership.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	105424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The draft Remedial Order proposes to extend Widowed Parents Allowance and Bereavement Support Payment to cohabitees who have entitlement on, or from, 30th August 2018.</p><p>It is not routine for Social Security changes to be made retrospectively and we consider that the 30 August 2018 to be a logical and fair start date. This was the date that the incompatibility for Widowed Parents Allowance was accepted as final in the Supreme Court. To use an earlier start date would bring administrative complexity and costs to the taxpayer. Equally, it would not be appropriate to set up an ex-gratia scheme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2022 17:33:34 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1548635

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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	Housing Benefit: Rents
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 housing benefits in light of increasing rental costs.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	102971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Local Housing Allowance (LHA) determines the maximum financial support available for renters in the private rented sector who are in receipt of housing benefit or the housing element of universal credit. LHA rates are not intended to meet all rents in all areas.</p><p> </p><p>For Great Britain in May 2022, 55% of the households on LHA had rents higher than the LHA rates. For these households the average gap was £146 per month.</p><p> </p><p>In 2020 LHA rates were raised to the 30th percentile, a significant investment of almost £1 billion, we have maintained the increase since then so that everyone who benefited from the increase continues to do so.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that rents are increasing but the challenging fiscal environment means that difficult decisions were necessary to ensure support is targeted effectively. The Chancellor announced at Autumn Statement a package of targeted support worth £26 billion.</p><p> </p><p>To protect the most vulnerable, working age and disability benefits will be increased in line with inflation for 2023-24, increasing expenditure by £11 billion in 23/24. In addition, to ensure that households will see an increase in their benefits following uprating – the benefit cap will also be increased in line with CPI (10.1%) in April 2023.</p><p> </p><p>For those who require extra support, the government is extending the Household Support Fund providing an additional £1bn to help with the cost of household essentials, for the 2023-24 financial year, on top of what we have already provided since October 2021, bringing total funding for this support to £2.5 billion.</p><p> </p><p>For those who require additional support with housing costs, Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are available. Since 2011 we have provided nearly £1.5 billion in funding for DHPs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/12/2022 10:53:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1548794

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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	Asbestos: EU Law
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 impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill on asbestos-related legislation; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	104211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The regulatory framework for asbestos is provided by the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. The Regulations cover all work with asbestos that could give rise to exposure and outline controls which must be in place to prevent exposure occurring.</p><p> </p><p>With the introduction of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) remains focused on ensuring that regulatory frameworks maintain the United Kingdom’s high standards of health and safety protection and continue to reduce burdens for business. HSE’s approach aligns closely with the Government’s pledge to do more for business to help promote growth by removing disproportionate burdens and simplifying the regulatory landscape. Our standards of health and safety protections are among the highest in the world. HSE will continue to review its retained EU Law to seek opportunities to reduce business burdens and promote growth without reducing health and safety standards.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2022 17:34:16 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1548996

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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	Discretionary Housing Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether local authorities will be allowed to roll over unspent Discretionary Housing Payment funding from 2022-23 to 2023-24 rather than return the sums to the Department.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	104098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>The Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are DEL funded and therefore in line with HM Treasury guidance, the DHP funding for a specific year is unable to be carried forward.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/12/2022 13:56:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

1549155

registered interest
date	06/12/2022
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	Local Housing Allowance: Homelessness
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 an estimate of the potential costs associated with homelessness in the context of the Department's decision to maintain the level of the Local Housing Allowance for financial year 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	104334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>The causes of homelessness are multi-faceted and often complex, they interact dynamically making it difficult to isolate the relative importance of individual factors.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is providing an additional £50 million, through a top up to the Homelessness Prevention Grant, for local authorities to help prevent vulnerable households from becoming homeless. This additional £50 million investment builds on the £316 million in funding already available to local authorities through the Homelessness Prevention Grant for 2022/23. This is part of the £2 billion of funding to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>In 2020 LHA rates were raised to the 30th percentile, a significant investment of almost £1 billion, we have maintained the increase since then so that everyone who benefited from the increase continues to do so.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that rents are increasing but the challenging fiscal environment means that difficult decisions were necessary to ensure support is targeted effectively. The Chancellor announced at Autumn Statement a package of targeted support worth £26 billion.</p><p>For those who require additional support with housing costs, Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are available. Since 2011 we have provided nearly £1.5 billion in funding.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/12/2022 13:54:55 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1548335

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
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	Offshore Industry: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether offshore employees raised concerns relating to offshore employment to (a) HSE and (b) her Department in the first six months of 2022.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	102854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive received a total of 11 concerns from employees at offshore sites in the first six months of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2022 17:27:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

1548336

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
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	Offshore Industry: Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hydrocarbon releases were reported to HSE in the first six months of 2022.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	102855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>34 hydrocarbon releases were reported to the Health and Safety Executive in the first six months of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2022 17:29:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

1548337

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
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	Renewable Energy: 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, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the regulatory framework for renewable energy generation for (a) onshore and (b) offshore health & safety regimes.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	102856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has established a Net Zero Hub dedicated to reviewing the measures in place for effective regulation of Net Zero technologies. The Hub comprises Senior Managers, Policy Advisors, Operational Staff and Scientists and is underpinned by full governance arrangements including authorisation at HSE Board level.</p><p>As part of this, the suitability of existing legislation for both on and offshore wind industries will be considered.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2022 17:31:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman