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1550359

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date	09/12/2022
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	Cold Weather Payments
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 impact of maximum waiting times to receive the Cold Weather Payment on people with pay-as-you-go energy meters.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	107177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>The Cold Weather Payment scheme ensures that vulnerable claimants on qualifying benefits automatically receive a payment of £25 for every 7-day period of exceptionally cold weather. It is paid within 14 working days of a trigger. Issuing payments automatically without the need to claim provides certainty to claimants and minimises delays.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 14/12/2022 12:29:15 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

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date	11/10/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Andargachew Tsege
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government has investigated how Andargachew Tsege's itinerary was shared with the Ethiopian authorities in advance of his kidnap from an airport in a third country.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	107177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>Mr Tsege was detained in Yemen and taken to Ethiopia in June 2014. Following Foreign and Commonwealth Office inquiries the Ethiopian and Yemeni authorities have both stated that they have a bilateral treaty that permited Mr Tsege’s extradition to Ethiopia. The UK Government continues to take Mr Tsege’s case extremely seriously and is working to ensure his welfare and legal access. The Ethiopian government are in no doubt about the importance we place on Mr Tsege’s case: the Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to raise this at the highest levels.​​</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/10/2017 15:32:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake