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1599359

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date	27/02/2023
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	Pensioners: Carers
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 introducing a benefit for people over the age of retirement who are caring for relatives and do not qualify for carer's allowance.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	153921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>Carer’s Allowance aims to provide a measure of financial support and recognition for people who give up the opportunity of full-time employment, in order to provide regular and substantial care for a severely disabled person.</p><p> </p><p>For those over the age of retirement, the State Pension is intended to replace income when work ceases. It has been a long-held feature of the UK’s benefit system under successive governments that, where someone is entitled to two benefits for the same contingency, then whilst there may be entitlement to both benefits, only one will be paid to prevent duplicate financial provision for the same need.</p><p> </p><p>Where underlying entitlement of Carer’s Allowance occurs (all entitlement conditions are met, but the overlapping benefit rule prevents payment), additional support may be available through Pension Credit, notably including the additional amount payable to carers in Pension Credit. This additional amount is currently £38.85 a week, but will increase to £42.75 a week from April. It is paid to recognise the additional contribution and responsibilities associated with caring and means that lower income pensioners with caring responsibilities can receive more than other lower income recipients of Pension Credit. If a pensioner’s income is above the limit for Pension Credit, he or she may still be able to receive Housing Benefit.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/03/2023 15:36:40 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1564829

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	Sick Leave: Mental Health
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 merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require companies to provide information on levels of sickness due to (a) stress and (b) other mental health issues.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	119116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has no current plans for legislation regarding sickness reporting, but will keep this under review. DWP already provides a voluntary reporting framework for employers (voluntary reporting on disability mental health and wellbeing, (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-reporting-on-disability-mental-health-and-wellbeing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/voluntary-reporting-on-disability-mental-health-and-wellbeing</a>)) and we encourage transparency in this space.</p><p> </p><p>DWP works closely with Mind, the Health and Safety Executive and the business-led Mental Health at Work Leadership Council to review guidance and practice for employers on mental health in the workplace.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/01/2023 15:09:17 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1538662

registered interest
date	02/11/2022
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	Universal Credit: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in total his Department has spent on the Enhanced Checking Service since April 2020; and how much in total his Department has recovered in fraudulently claimed welfare benefits as a result of the Enhanced Checking Service.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	77540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>The Enhanced Checking Service (ECS) was introduced in April 2020 to support Universal Credit colleagues who were observing potentially fraudulent claims from people looking to exploit the easements implemented to support customers during the Covid pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>ECS now operates as part of DWP’s Counter Fraud, Compliance &amp; Debt (CFCD) ‘Disrupt’ function, whose workload is primarily driven by potential threats identified by DWP’s Integrated Risk and Intelligence Service.</p><p> </p><p>ECS costs cannot be separated from the costs of the wider Disrupt teams, which in 2021/22 (the last full year for which data is available) were £19.7 million. This figure includes staffing, management, and training costs.</p><p> </p><p>No cost information is available in relation to the ECS team for the 2020/21 financial year. This is because ECS funding was part of the wider CFCD budget during this period and cannot be meaningfully separated out.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst recovery of benefit overpayments resulting from fraud cannot be attributed to the work of individual teams, I can confirm that in 2021/22, our Disrupt teams actioned 485,000 cases, with an estimated saving of £671 million in potential losses through fraud.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/11/2022 15:32:14 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1487034

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Gender Recognition: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 11 September 2017 to Question 7091 on Gender Recognition Act 2004, how many people were convicted of an offence under section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	31897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The number of offenders found guilty at all courts for offences under S22 Gender Recognition Act 2004 is zero in England and Wales, from 2016 to 2021.</p><p>This information for the year of 2022 will be available in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 11/07/2022 16:13:42 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1469752

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the taxpayer of the deportation flight from the UK to Rwanda scheduled for 14 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	17074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Our priority will always be to keep our communities safe, and we make no apology for seeking to remove those with no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>Charter flight operations are an important means to remove individuals with no right to remain in the UK where there are limited scheduled routes. We manage the charter programme flexibly, balancing it with use of scheduled flights to best respond to operational needs. Costs for individual flights will vary based on a number of different factors and are regularly reviewed to ensure that best value for money is balanced against the need to remove those individuals with no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>The endless merry go round of late legal claims – which are often unfounded or without merit – can result in people being removed from flights at the last minute. However, our New Plan for Immigration will stop the abuse of the system and expedite the removal of those who have no right to be here.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 17075 question first answered 16/06/2022 14:20:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1469759

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Rwanda
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether scheduled deportation flights from the UK to Rwanda are planned to take place without passengers onboard; and what the cost to the public purse is of those flights.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	17075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Our priority will always be to keep our communities safe, and we make no apology for seeking to remove those with no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>Charter flight operations are an important means to remove individuals with no right to remain in the UK where there are limited scheduled routes. We manage the charter programme flexibly, balancing it with use of scheduled flights to best respond to operational needs. Costs for individual flights will vary based on a number of different factors and are regularly reviewed to ensure that best value for money is balanced against the need to remove those individuals with no right to remain in the UK.</p><p>The endless merry go round of late legal claims – which are often unfounded or without merit – can result in people being removed from flights at the last minute. However, our New Plan for Immigration will stop the abuse of the system and expedite the removal of those who have no right to be here.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 17074 question first answered 16/06/2022 14:20:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield