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1147923

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date	02/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Welfare Assistance Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the amount of money people have received out of local welfare assistance schemes in each local authority area since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	293441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>Since 2015-16 Local Welfare Provision funding has been rolled into Revenue Support Grant. This decision was made to further simplify and decentralise funding, because local authorities know better how to make good local decisions to help vulnerable people</p><p><br>The Ministry does not give local authorities specific direction about what to spend revenue support grant on. Local authorities are open to spend non ringfenced funding as they see fit to meet local priorities, and are accountable to their local electorate for their spending. However, we do publish data on total expenditure on Local Welfare Assistance Schemes by each local authority, which is available through the link below in each year to 2017/18.</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Flocal-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGrace.Death%40communities.gov.uk%7C0e469d514fa9467e19e508d74b23f91b%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637060490179823743&amp;sdata=lw3mOsC8Z2Ro1TAckvqPAzfS1JYs5yINbJ3UMUquAYg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing.</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 07/10/2019 16:13:25 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1147925

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the inclusion of pension strain within the £95,000 cap on public sector exit payments on long-serving public servants on low to middle salaries.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	293443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The government was clear during the passage of the primary legislation that the cap will have no impact on the majority of public sector workers. We do however accept that there will be some circumstances where it is necessary or desirable to relax the cap. As such, a waiver system is in place for use in exceptional situations, including where imposing the cap would cause genuine hardship.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment was conducted and published in the 2016 consultation ahead of the primary legislation. This impact assessment took the inclusion of pension strain into account and can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-a-public-sector-exit-payment-cap/consultation-on-a-public-sector-exit-payment-cap#impact-analysis" target="_blank">here</a>. A further equalities assessment will be conducted on the final version of the regulations. The government is currently considering responses to the consultation on the draft regulations to implement the public sector exit payment cap and will respond to the consultation in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The government believes it is right to include all payments related to exit within the cap. The cap does not affect any pension that a person has earned through their years of service or have any impact on accrued pension rights. The cap ensures additional contribution to that pension made by the employer to fund early access to a pension is limited to no more than £95,000, on account these costs are ultimately funded by the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 07/10/2019 10:03:10 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1147996

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hormone Replacement Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department has taken to ensure that women who are unable to use alternative forms of HRT have access to HRT patches.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	293445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department fully understands that maintaining access to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications is vitally important to many people in this country.</p><p>We are aware of ongoing supply issues with some HRT transdermal patches due to manufacturing issues. We have been working closely with all suppliers of HRT transdermal patches to maintain overall supply to patients. Although some HRT transdermal patches are affected by supply issues, supplies of other alternative HRT transdermal patches have remained available.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 07/10/2019 16:53:50 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe