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1730643

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date	04/10/2024
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	Winter Fuel Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what evidential basis she set levels of means-testing for the Winter Fuel Payment.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>Pension Credit (and the other qualifying income-related benefits payable to pensioners) is the most practical proxy to target Winter Fuel Payments at those on a low-income. Linking entitlement to Pension Credit ensures that we can pay almost all eligible pensioners automatically, without the need to claim the WFP. This means that the Winter Fuel Payment will be better targeted to low-income pensioners who need it.</p><p> </p><p>We will ensure that the poorest pensioners get the support they need. The government will work with external partners and local authorities to boost the take-up of Pension Credit and to target additional support to the poorest pensioners.</p><p> </p><p>We know there are low-income pensioners who aren’t claiming Pension Credit, and we are urging pensioners to come forward and check their eligibility for Pension Credit to ensure as many people in need as possible have access to this support. This will passport them to receive Winter Fuel Payment alongside other benefits – hundreds of pounds that could really help them.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 15/10/2024 16:11:28 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730644

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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	Mental Health Services: Secondary Education
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 he is taking to help ensure that mental health services are accessible to secondary school children.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>There are currently approximately 65 locally funded early support hubs in England offering early easy access mental health interventions to thousands of children and young people aged 11 to 25 years old, including secondary school children. The Department is running a £8 million Shared Outcomes Fund project throughout 2024/25 to boost and evaluate the impact of 24 of these existing early support hubs, including two in London.</p><p>In addition, we will roll out Young Futures hubs in every community. They will provide open access mental health support for children and young people in every community. The Department is working across Government to deliver our commitment of a specialist mental health professional in every school.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 14/10/2024 12:17:43 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730645

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to tackle violence against women and girls in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>The scale of violence against women and girls in our country is intolerable, and we have set out our unprecedented mission to halve it within a decade.</p><p>Achieving this means overhauling every aspect of society’s response to these devastating crimes.</p><p>This Government will treat tackling violence against women and girls as a national emergency and we will use every tool to target perpetrators and address the root causes of violence. This includes ensuring that victims can access support services.</p><p>Last month we unveiled a series of bold measures designed to strengthen the police response to domestic abuse, protect victims and hold perpetrators to account. This includes a new approach named ‘Raneem’s Law’ which will be piloted from early 2025. Reneem’s Law will see domestic abuse specialists embedded in 999 control rooms to advise on risk assessments, work with officers on the ground and ensure that victims are referred to appropriate support services swiftly. We will also seek to create dedicated domestic abuse teams within every police force.</p><p>In addition, Nottinghamshire PCC has received up to £1m between 2022 and 2025 through the Children Affected by Domestic Abuse Fund. All future decisions on funding will be made in due course as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Birmingham Yardley answering member printed Jess Phillips question first answered 14/10/2024 14:09:02 answering member 4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730646

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Victims
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has to inform victims of the early release of prisoners.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2024 answer text <p>Victims and survivors who are eligible for and have opted into either the Probation Service’s Victim Contact Scheme or Victim Notification Scheme are provided with updates about an offender who perpetrated crime(s) against them, including when these offenders are due to be released from custody. In this way, the victims and survivors who have opted into the Schemes are given the opportunity to make representations as to the licence conditions which they would like to be in place on an offender’s release, such as an exclusion zone</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 10/10/2024 12:44:42 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730647

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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	Winter Fuel Payment: Ashfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of pensioners who will not be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment in Ashfield constituency.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>It is estimated that around 15,800 pensioners in Ashfield Constituency (2024 boundaries) will be impacted by the decision to amend the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment. This is based on February 2024 Pension Credit statistics which are available via <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">DWP Stat-Xplore</a> and the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/winter-fuel-payment-statistics-for-winter-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">Winter Fuel Payment statistics for winter 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This estimation is calculated by subtracting the number of people claiming Pension Credit in Ashfield Constituency from the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients in Ashfield Constituency. It is possible to use the Pension Credit statistics, to give a minimum estimate of the number who may be eligible for Winter Fuel Payments. Therefore, the above estimation is essentially the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients who are not claiming Pension Credit pre-policy change, as an estimate of those who will no longer receive the Winter Fuel Payment.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the above estimation would not take into account any potential increase in Pension Credit take-up that we might see as a result of the Government’s Pension Credit Awareness Campaign. We do not have data on those additional Pension Credit claims by Parliamentary constituencies or Local Authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The published Pension Credit figures refer to households, so the number of individuals in respect of whom Pension Credit is paid will be higher (i.e. taking account of households where a claimant has a partner and / or dependents.)</p><p> </p><p>In addition, while Pension Credit claimants constitute the majority of those that will be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment, pensioners who claim other qualifying means-tested benefits will also be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment. It is not, however, possible to include those on other qualifying means-tested benefits in these figures.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 16/10/2024 10:42:48 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730652

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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	Council Tax: Single People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people claimed the single person discount on council tax in (a) the UK (b) the East Midlands, (c) Mansfield and (d) Ashfield in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>The latest available data for October 2023 shows there were approximately 8.6 million households in receipt of a single person discount. This data is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/council-taxbase-2023-in-england" target="_blank">Council Taxbase 2023 in England</a>. The most recent local authority level data on the number of dwellings entitled to the single person discount in England, can be found here: <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F65df0a7dcf7eb1e5f4f57f66%2FCouncil_Taxbase_Local_Authority_Level_Data_2023__revised_.ods&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">Council Taxbase: Local authority level data for 2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton answering member printed Jim McMahon question first answered 14/10/2024 12:36:17 answering member 4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730661

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Ashfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department taking to improve the provision of SEND support for children in Ashfield constituency.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Nottinghamshire received a joint local area special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in February 2023 under the current Area SEND Inspection framework. Ofsted and CQC found widespread and/or systemic failings leading to significant concerns about the experiences and outcomes of children and young people with SEND which the local area partnership must address urgently. The report, published on 16 May 2023, included two areas for priority action (APA). The local area submitted a priority action plan (PAP) to Ofsted and CQC to address these APAs, which was approved on 14 July 2023.</p><p>The department’s regional team has put in place systems to track outcomes against the APAs found by inspectors and the progress made by children and young people with SEND. Nottinghamshire County Council is committed to working closely with the department to improve services.</p><p>The department has appointed a SEND advisor to work collaboratively with an NHS England Adviser to challenge, support and work alongside Nottinghamshire County Council and the local area partnership.</p><p>This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with SEND or in alternative provision receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. The department is committed to taking a community-wide approach in collaboration with local area partnerships to improve inclusivity and expertise in mainstream schools and to ensure special schools cater to those with the most complex needs.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 14/10/2024 12:30:15 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730701

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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	Housing Benefit and Pension Credit: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of bringing together the administration of Pension Credit and Housing Benefit.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>No definitive estimate has yet been made as to the full cost of this policy. The Department has already begun working with local authorities to ensure that take-up of Pension Credit is maximised and implementation is appropriately planned. This work will help further our understanding of the costs so we deliver consistent and high quality support to pensioners.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms question first answered 14/10/2024 15:03:41 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730711

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
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	Winter Fuel Payment: Ashfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people that will be affected by the proposed changes to pensioners' eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment in Ashfield constituency.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>It is estimated that around 15,800 pensioners in Ashfield Constituency (2024 boundaries) will be impacted by the decision to amend the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment. This is based on February 2024 Pension Credit statistics which are available via <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">DWP Stat-Xplore</a> and the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/winter-fuel-payment-statistics-for-winter-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">Winter Fuel Payment statistics for winter 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> which are available via GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>This estimation is calculated by subtracting the number of people claiming Pension Credit in Ashfield Constituency from the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients in Ashfield Constituency. It is possible to use the Pension Credit statistics, to give a minimum estimate of the number who may be eligible for Winter Fuel Payments. Therefore, the above estimation is essentially the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients who are not claiming Pension Credit pre-policy change, as an estimate of those who will no longer receive the Winter Fuel Payment.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the above estimation would not take into account any potential increase in Pension Credit take-up that we might see as a result of the Government’s Pension Credit Awareness Campaign. We do not have data on those additional Pension Credit claims by Parliamentary constituencies or Local Authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The published Pension Credit figures refer to households, so the number of individuals in respect of whom Pension Credit is paid will be higher (i.e. taking account of households where a claimant has a partner and / or dependents.)</p><p> </p><p>In addition, while Pension Credit claimants constitute the majority of those that will be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment, pensioners who claim other qualifying means-tested benefits will also be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment. It is not, however, possible to include those on other qualifying means-tested benefits in these figures.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 15/10/2024 16:08:03 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1730712

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Ashfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants are housed in Ashfield constituency; what accommodation is used to house those migrants; and what the cost is of housing those migrants.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	6484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2024 answer text <p>The Government is determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly. This includes identifying a range of options to reduce the use of hotels over time and ensuring efficiency and value for money across all accommodation arrangements.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates asylum accommodation costs by type.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation, by local authority, can be found within the Asy_D11 tab for our most recent stats release: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fimmigration-system-statistics-data-tables%23asylum-and-resettlement&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc512c183cf314790986f08dce6bc7a5c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638638944374814281%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=NsO69dG7JkGP1FYp%2F2y%2FSYRNQqDtnudWUqd1a3UPhYs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p>The total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at HO annual reports and accounts- <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fho-annual-reports-and-accounts&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc512c183cf314790986f08dce6bc7a5c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638638944374836700%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=abICF2CB0Rbf9SObtmjqfsn9QIPh91srp%2B%2Bf8rSnX48%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">HO annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wallasey answering member printed Dame Angela Eagle question first answered 11/10/2024 12:42:38 answering member 491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson