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1679338

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	Local Housing Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is his planned timetable for announcing local housing allowance rates for 2025; and if he will launch a consultation on the level of those rates.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	7738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The Secretary of State (SoS) has recently completed his review of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates for 2024/25. As announced by the Chancellor in the recent Autumn Statement, from April 2024 the Government will be investing £1.2 billion increasing LHA rates to the 30th percentile of local market rents. This ensures 1.6 million private renters in receipt of Housing Benefit, or the Housing Element of Universal Credit will gain, on average, nearly £800 per year in additional help towards their rental costs in 2024/25. This is a significant investment of £7bn over five years.</p><p>The SoS has committed to reviewing LHA rates annually, usually in the Autumn. The rates for 2025/26 have not yet been reviewed.</p><p>The department works closely with stakeholders, jobcentres, and local authorities to understand the impact of its policies.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/01/2024 16:37:12 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1679341

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in the Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity group left that group in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	7902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>There were 1,020,700 claimants in the Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity group in November 2022, of which 65,600 (6.4%) were not in the Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity group in November 2023 (the latest month of data that can be analysed).</p><p> </p><p><strong>Note:</strong> These figures are rounded to the nearest 100, produced using internal MI and are not quality assured to Official Statistics standards.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/01/2024 16:36:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1679345

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	Health and Safety Executive: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many inspections have the Health and Safety Executive conducted by sector in each year since 2008.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	7924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of inspections, by year and by sector, carried out by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for each financial year since 2017. HSE’s data deletion policy only allows for retention of detailed inspection data for up to 7 years, therefore data before 2017 can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?parent=health-and-safety-executive&amp;organisations%5B%5D=health-and-safety-executive&amp;order=updated-oldest" target="_blank">Gov.uk</a> website.</p><p> </p><p>The figures below are based on raw live data and can be subject to change due to updates to historical cases. Therefore these figures may differ to the figures published in the Annual Reports.</p><p> </p><p>‘Sector’ as used in this table is a term used by HSE internally and is a categorisation of the main economic activity of a workplace. The figures below include inspections to major hazard sites. A breakdown by sector is not always published in the Annual Reports as the focus will be on the respective priorities of business plan for that work year.</p><p><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Year Inspected</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sector</strong></p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Agriculture</p></td><td><p>574</p></td><td><p>773</p></td><td><p>708</p></td><td><p>229</p></td><td><p>405</p></td><td><p>868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Construction</p></td><td><p>7,872</p></td><td><p>7,472</p></td><td><p>5,004</p></td><td><p>4,582</p></td><td><p>6,134</p></td><td><p>6,146</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Extractive Utilities</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manufacturing</p></td><td><p>6,068</p></td><td><p>5,289</p></td><td><p>4,322</p></td><td><p>6,080</p></td><td><p>5,729</p></td><td><p>5,417</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Services</p></td><td><p>3,304</p></td><td><p>3,195</p></td><td><p>2,291</p></td><td><p>3,717</p></td><td><p>3,426</p></td><td><p>2,959</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Water/Waste Management</p></td><td><p>1,626</p></td><td><p>1,418</p></td><td><p>1,148</p></td><td><p>2,225</p></td><td><p>1,258</p></td><td><p>1,434</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>19,586</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18,194</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13,514</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,985</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>17,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,912</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/01/2024 14:21:37 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1679377

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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: Disqualification
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 publish Universal Credit sanctions rate data from its introduction to April 2019.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	7903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>The sanction rate statistics for Universal Credit Full Service were first published in <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-july-2020-experimental" target="_blank">November 2020</a> and covered monthly statistics from April 2019. These statistics are updated on a quarterly basis with the latest statistics available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-august-2023-official-statistics-in-development" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/01/2024 12:37:28 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1679408

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans that the full rollout of Universal Credit will be completed.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	7904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>Universal Credit was successfully rolled out to all Jobcentres by December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We are now focussed on moving those remaining on legacy benefits to Universal Credit through managed migration. The department remains on track to notify all customers that are solely in receipt of Working Tax Credit and/or Child Tax Credit of the need to make a claim to Universal Credit by the end of March 2024. By the end of the 2024/25 financial year, we plan to have completed the remaining moves of all those on tax credits (including those on both Employment and Support Allowance and tax credits), all cases on Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Income Based) and all Housing Benefit only cases.</p><p> </p><p>Managed migration of customers on income-related Employment Support Allowance (except for those receiving child tax credit) is planned to commence in 2028.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/01/2024 12:36:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1679446

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	Sign Language: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Disability Unit has made a recent assessment of the (a) level of demand for and (b) adequacy of the availability of courses in British Sign Language.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	7900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The Disability Unit in the Cabinet Office has not made any recent assessments of the (a) level of demand for and (b) adequacy of the availability of courses in British Sign Language (BSL) as this is the remit of the Department of Education. However, following the passage of the BSL Act (2022), the Government established a non-statutory BSL Advisory Board who will continue to consider and advise the Government on matters of importance to the d/Deaf community.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/01/2024 17:42:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1679526

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	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 have discussions with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on the potential merits of enabling employers to report to the HSE (a) drug and (b) alcohol misuse as a contributing factor in a reportable incident.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	8037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) are made under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and apply to all sectors and workplaces in Great Britain.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>RIDDOR requires responsible persons (usually employers in relation to employees) to report work-related fatalities and certain injuries, dangerous occurrences, and cases of disease. Reporting requirements are based on the outcome of incidents.</p><p> </p><p>RIDDOR does not require the reporting of immediate or underlying causes, such as whether the use of drugs or alcohol were a contributing factor in a particular incident. Causation of an incident will not necessarily be apparent during the statutory timeframe in which a dutyholder is required to report; that information generally only becomes evident during an investigation, either by the dutyholder or the regulator.</p><p> </p><p>Even if such information were required as part of the reporting process, it would be difficult to reliably establish direct causation on a case-by-case basis. Having this information reported would be of limited value to the regulator and disproportionate for the responsible person to ascertain.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 10/01/2024 13:12:54 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1679536

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	Household Support Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to announce his plans for the household support fund for financial year 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	8058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government has provided over £2 billion in funding for the Household Support Fund since October 2021.</p><p>The current Household Support Fund runs from April 2023 until the end of March 2024, and the government continues to keep all its existing programmes under review in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/01/2024 12:34:14 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1679546

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	Social Security Benefits: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of households that are (a) affected by the two-child limit and (b) living in poverty.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	8053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The latest available statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-and-child-tax-credit-claimants-statistics-related-to-the-policy-to-provide-support-for-a-maximum-of-2-children-april-2023" target="_blank">Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit claimants: statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of 2 children, April 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>National statistics on the number and percentage of people in poverty, including regional-level data, is published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. This can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2022" target="_blank">here</a>. The most recent figures state that in the year 2021/22 there were 11.4 million people living in a household below the absolute poverty threshold after housing costs. This represents a decrease of 1.7 million people since 2009/10.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 11/01/2024 15:16:01 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1679569

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Bullying and Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many settlement payments his Department issued following claims of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination in the (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23 financial years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The information below shows the information held by DWP in relation to the settlement payments following claims of (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination over the financial years of (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22, (iv) 2022-23.</p><p> </p><p>(i) 2019-2020</p><p>(a) Bullying – 0</p><p>(b) Harassment – 3</p><p>(c) Discrimination – 0</p><p> </p><p>(ii) 2020-2021</p><p>(a) Bullying – 0</p><p>(b) Harassment – 2</p><p>(c) Discrimination – 0</p><p> </p><p>(iii) 2021-2022</p><p>(a) Bullying – 3</p><p>(b) Harassment – 11</p><p>(c) Discrimination – 0</p><p> </p><p>(iv) 2022-2023</p><p>(a) Bullying – 2</p><p>(b) Harassment – 4</p><p>(c) Discrimination – 0</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This is the number of cases settled by DWP due to poor prospect of success at litigation in line with Cabinet Office guidance. DWP do not have in place any compromise agreements in this period.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/01/2024 14:21:07 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney