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1700390

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
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: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many improvement and prohibition notices the Health and Safety Executive has issued on (a) workplace stress and (b) other mental health problems at work in each year since it took responsibility for this area.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	21277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>There are no specific regulations relating to work-related stress or mental health and any enforcement action taken by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in those areas would use general health and safety legislation such as the Health and Safety at Work Act or the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, HSE can not provide the numbers of notices as the information is not held in the format requested so is not easily retrievable or statistically robust.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/04/2024 13:08:32 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1698003

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
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	Employment: Mental Health
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 Health and Safety Executive employees are dedicated to mental health related workplace matters.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	19978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>Information on the work and resourcing within Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 26/03/2024 15:23:59 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1673723

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
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	Pensions Ombudsman: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the waiting times for the Pensions Ombudsman to respond to enquiries that the Early Resolution Team have escalated.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	4291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>TPO’s Early Resolution team (ERT) investigates complaints where TPO believes the complaint may be resolved informally. Over 80% of cases that go to ERT are resolved there, but where this is not possible, the complaint is passed to TPO’s Adjudication Team. Cases may then be escalated to the Pensions Ombudsman where the complainant does not agree with the adjudicator’s decision.</p><p> </p><p>DWP have recently provided additional funding to TPO towards reducing waiting times. This funding has been used to create a new casework support team. This has significantly increased case clearances.</p><p> </p><p>Due to variation in the complexity of cases, TPO does not currently hold validated data on the average time for cases to pass through the Adjudication Team and Ombudsman.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/12/2023 14:28:37 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1673725

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
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	Pensions Ombudsman: Standards
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 assessment of the adequacy of (a) financial and (b) staffing support for the Pensions Ombudsman in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2022 and (iv) 2023 to date.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	4292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>DWP have increased the financial support to The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO), with an additional £750,000 of funding provided in 2022/23 towards tackling the case backlog and an additional £1,698,347 in 2023/24 towards the case backlog and waiting times, enabling TPO to create a new casework support team. This has significantly increased case clearances.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also provide support, when necessary, in the areas of digital, commercial, security and HR alongside continuing stewardship support and advice.</p><p> </p><p>The TPO 2022/23 annual report and accounts are due to be laid in Parliament and will provide further detail.</p><p /> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/12/2023 14:33:28 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1673728

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
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	Pensions Ombudsman: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints the Pensions Ombudsman Early Resolution Team escalated to the Pensions Ombudsman in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and how much funding his Department provided the Pensions Ombudsman in those years.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	4293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO) is reviewing its Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and data as part of its business planning for 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p>TPO does not hold data in a format that could produce a validated response as the information requested does not form part of TPO’s current KPI’s. It will consider this as a metric in the work between the department and TPO when agreeing 2024/25 KPI’s.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions provided TPO with funding of £8,870,000 in 2020/21, £7,931,195 in 2021/22, £10,413,705 in 2022/23, and £11,268,672 in 2023/24.</p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/12/2023 14:31:11 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1664637

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Pension Credit: Publicity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will publish a report on the outcome of the pension credit public awareness campaign.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	202490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The outcome of the Pension Credit awareness campaign will be reported in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. Our extensive communications campaign has been running since April 2022 and so far, there is a strong indication that it is having a positive effect. The number of Pension Credit applications is up by around 75% in the 12 months to May compared to the same period last year.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 23/10/2023 14:36:03 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1664638

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Pension Credit: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there were significant changes in the level of uptake of pension credit claims after the launch of the invitation to claim trial.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	202491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The invitation to claim trial is a small-scale test and learn exercise taking place across 10 local authority areas. Evaluation of the test and learn is underway, and we plan to report on the results towards the end of the year when further data is available.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 23/10/2023 14:53:01 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare