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1712711

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2024
	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	Social Security Benefits
	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 equalities impact assessment of the policies announced in the Prime Minister’s speech on welfare of 19 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	22968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to meeting its obligations under the Equality Act 2010, and has considered equality impacts in the policies announced in the Prime Minister’s speech on welfare of 19 April 2024. This will be kept under regular review as each policy develops.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/04/2024 16:31:55 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1273384

	registered interest
	date	30/12/2020
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential effect of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement on social security spending in the (a) medium and (b) long term.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	133017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2021 answer text <p>DWP will shortly publish an Impact Assessment on the impact of overall changes in DWP areas of social security co-ordination policy, for persons covered by the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. DWP will also be providing an estimate of expenditure/savings as a result of these policy changes at a future fiscal event.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/01/2021 15:42:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1127591

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254839 on Social Security Benefits, whether claimants of (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment and support allowance whose claims were subject to a review by her Department's Quality Team are entitled to access any feedback on their claim from Quality Team reviewers.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	256373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has one quality team who check all benefits, any feedback from this team, on individual claims, can be requested through a Right to Access Request.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/05/2019 14:40:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1126910

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2019
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether claimants of (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment and support allowance whose claims were subject to a review by her Department's Quality Team are entitled to access the Quality Team's report of that review.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	254839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>Based on our understanding of the question, we believe the ‘quality report’ refers to a report based on the overall quality of the Department’s Decision Making, not on the quality of assessment. Internally within DWP there is no Quality Assessment Report.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/05/2019 11:16:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

746377

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2017
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost was to the public purse of legal fees in relation to defending the benefit cap in the High Court; and how much his Department estimates the cost of appealing the High Court's decision on that case will be.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	1771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Legal fees of defending the case in the High Court are £67,690. This figure includes VAT where payable (for example on Counsel’s fees) and disbursements but does not include costs attributable to time spent by Government advisory lawyers, as time spent by such advisory lawyers is not recorded in a manner that allows it to be attributable to individual court cases.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has also paid £125,000 (plus VAT) towards the Claimants’ costs.</p><p> </p><p>DWP’s legal costs for appealing the case in the Court of Appeal are estimated to be between £25,000 and £40,000 (this includes our best estimate of external Counsel fees).</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/07/2017 14:09:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows