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1715791

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	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	Disability: Cost of Living
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the average extra costs that disabled people face as a result of their disability compared to people who are not disabled.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	24769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made.</p><p> </p><p>The Government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living. Over recent years, the government has demonstrated its commitment to supporting the most vulnerable with one of the largest support packages in Europe. The total support over 2022- 2025 to help households and individuals with higher bills amounts to £108 billion – an average of £3,800 per UK household.</p><p> </p><p>We provided a Disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 in June/July 2023 to people in receipt of certain disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Disability Living Allowance (DLA). This is in addition to the £150 payment paid in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that nearly 60 per cent of individuals who received an extra costs disability benefit would have received the means-tested benefit Cost of Living Payments, worth up to £900.</p><p> </p><p>We also increased extra costs disability benefits by 10.1 per cent from April 2023 and by 6.7% from April 2024 in line with the Consumer Price Index.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 24770 question first answered 14/05/2024 16:25:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1715792

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	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	Mental Health: Cost of Living
	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 average extra costs that people with less severe mental health conditions face as a result of their conditions compared to the general population.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	24770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made.</p><p> </p><p>The Government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living. Over recent years, the government has demonstrated its commitment to supporting the most vulnerable with one of the largest support packages in Europe. The total support over 2022- 2025 to help households and individuals with higher bills amounts to £108 billion – an average of £3,800 per UK household.</p><p> </p><p>We provided a Disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 in June/July 2023 to people in receipt of certain disability benefits such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Disability Living Allowance (DLA). This is in addition to the £150 payment paid in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that nearly 60 per cent of individuals who received an extra costs disability benefit would have received the means-tested benefit Cost of Living Payments, worth up to £900.</p><p> </p><p>We also increased extra costs disability benefits by 10.1 per cent from April 2023 and by 6.7% from April 2024 in line with the Consumer Price Index.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 24769 question first answered 14/05/2024 16:25:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1715793

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	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, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech on welfare of 19 April 2024, what the evidential basis is for the statement that people with less severe mental health conditions should be expected to engage with the world of work.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	24771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Evidence shows that good work is generally good for health<sup>1</sup>. The Government therefore has an ambitious programme of initiatives to support people with mental health conditions, who are able, to start, stay and succeed in work. This includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Employment Advisers in NHS Talking Therapies, which combines psychological treatment and employment support for people with mental health conditions;</li><li>The Individual Placement and Support in Primary Care programme, a Supported Employment model (place, train and maintain) delivered in health settings, aimed at people with physical or common mental health disabilities to support them to access paid jobs in the open labour market; and</li><li>WorkWell, which is being established as a new early-intervention work and health support and assessment service in England, with the aim of preventing and reducing economic inactivity among disabled people and people with health conditions.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p><sup>1</sup> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/is-work-good-for-your-health-and-well-being" target="_blank">Is work good for your health and well-being? An independent review - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/05/2024 16:24:24 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1715794

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, published on 29 April 2024, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of condition-based assessments on people with multiple health conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	24772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper was published on 29 April 2024. The associated consultation will last for 12 weeks, ending on 22 July. Throughout this period we will continue to listen to and work with disabled people, people with health conditions and their representatives.</p><p>The consultation aims to hear views on whether we should have a condition-based assessment. We understand that many people have more than one health condition, and if this proposal is taken forwards following the consultation, we will consider in the detailed policy design how a condition-based approach would work for people with multiple conditions.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/05/2024 16:18:32 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1715795

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2024
	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	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his department's consultation entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, published on 29 April 2024, what steps he is taking to help ensure that disabled people can respond to that consultation.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	24773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>To help ensure that disabled people and people with long term conditions can access and respond to <em>Modernising Support for Independent Living: The Health and Disability Green Paper</em>, the Green Paper was published in standard and five alternative formats:</p><ul><li>Large print</li><li>Braille</li><li>Easy Read</li><li>British Sign Language (BSL)</li><li>Audio</li></ul><p> </p><p>All formats can be accessed via the web page <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/modernising-support-for-independent-living-the-health-and-disability-green-paper" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p> </p><p>We encourage everyone to respond to the consultation, so that we are able to hear from disabled people, people with health conditions, representatives, and others on these important issues.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It is possible to respond via the online form, via email or by post. If anybody has difficulty responding, they can ask a representative to support them or respond on their behalf.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/05/2024 16:20:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1702221

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	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	Carer's Allowance: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) average and (b) maximum amount of waiting time when contacting the Carer's Allowance Unit by telephone.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	22579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>Telephony is our customers’ primary channel to contact us. We continually assess the number of calls we are receiving and the associated waiting times, deploying resources accordingly to support service levels wherever this is possible.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/04/2024 13:56:13 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1700323

	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many overpayments of carer’s allowance of (a) £0.01 - £500, (b) £500.01 - £1,000, (c) £1,000.01 - £5,000, (d) £5,000.01 - £20,000 and (e) more than £20,000 were made in the (i) 2021-22, (ii) 2022-23 and (iii) 2023-24 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	21072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>Claimants have a responsibility to ensure they are entitled to benefits they claim and to inform the DWP of any changes in their circumstances that could impact their award. For Carer’s Allowance, eligibility is partly dependent upon claimants earning £151 or less a week after tax, National Insurance and allowable expenses.</p><p> </p><p>Where overpayments do occur, the Department has a duty to the taxpayer to protect public funds and to ask for money to be paid back. However, we seek to do so without causing excessive hardship. We remain committed to working with anyone who is struggling with their repayment terms and will always look to negotiate sustainable and affordable repayment plans.</p><p> </p><p>Our most recent statistics show that Carer's Allowance overpayments relating to earnings/employment represents 2.1% of our £3.3bn Carer’s Allowance expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested has been provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Carer’s Allowance Debt Value Grouping</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£0.01 - £500.00</p></td><td><p>26.4k</p></td><td><p>20.3k</p></td><td><p>28.0k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£500.01 - £1000.00</p></td><td><p>12.2k</p></td><td><p>11.4k</p></td><td><p>11.9k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£1000.01 - £5000.00</p></td><td><p>18.4k</p></td><td><p>16.4k</p></td><td><p>18.6k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£5000.01 - £20,000.00</p></td><td><p>2.9k</p></td><td><p>1.3k</p></td><td><p>1.3k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £20,000.00</p></td><td><p>0.1k</p></td><td><p>0.1k</p></td><td><p>0.0k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>60.1k</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>49.5k</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>59.9k</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The above data has been sourced from internal DWP management information, which is intended only to help the Department to manage its business. It is not intended for publication and has not been subject to the same quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 19/04/2024 11:33:45 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1700324

	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many debts of overpayments of Carer's Allowance his Department was seeking to recover in value brackets (a) £0.01 - £500, (b) £500.01 - £1,000, (c) £1,000.01 - £5,000, (d) £5,000.01 - £20,000 and (e) over £20,000 as of 6 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	21073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>Claimants have a responsibility to ensure they are entitled to benefits they claim and to inform the DWP of any changes in their circumstances that could impact their award. For Carer’s Allowance, eligibility is partly dependent upon claimants earning £151 or less a week after tax, National Insurance and allowable expenses.</p><p> </p><p>Where overpayments do occur, the Department has a duty to the taxpayer to protect public funds and to ask for money to be paid back. However, we seek to do so without causing excessive hardship. We remain committed to working with anyone who is struggling with their repayment terms and will always look to negotiate sustainable and affordable repayment plans.</p><p> </p><p>Our most recent statistics show that Carer's Allowance overpayments relating to earnings/employment represents 2.1% of our £3.3bn Carer’s Allowance expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested has been provided in the table below.</p><p /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Carer’s Allowance Debt Value Grouping</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume of Carer’s Allowance Debts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£0.01 - £500.00</p></td><td><p>61.9k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£500.01 - £1000.00</p></td><td><p>29.7k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£1000.01 - £5000.00</p></td><td><p>53.2k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£5000.01 - £20,000.00</p></td><td><p>11.3k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £20,000.00</p></td><td><p>0.3k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>156.3k</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The above data has been sourced from internal DWP management information, which is intended only to help the Department to manage its business. It is not intended for publication and has not been subject to the same quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Data is taken as a snapshot as at 03/04/2024, the closest date we can obtain to 06/04/2024.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 19/04/2024 11:37:23 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1700325

	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	Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many overpayments of Carer’s Allowance there have been in relation to the earnings conditions in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	21074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>Claimants have a responsibility to ensure they are entitled to benefits they claim and to inform the DWP of any changes in their circumstances that could impact their award. For Carer’s Allowance, eligibility is partly dependent upon claimants earning £151 or less a week after tax, National Insurance and allowable expenses.</p><p> </p><p>Where overpayments do occur, the Department has a duty to the taxpayer to protect public funds and to ask for money to be paid back. However, we seek to do so without causing excessive hardship. We remain committed to working with anyone who is struggling with their repayment terms and will always look to negotiate sustainable and affordable repayment plans.</p><p> </p><p>Our most recent statistics show that Carer's Allowance overpayments relating to earnings/employment represents 2.1% of our £3.3bn Carer’s Allowance expenditure.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information requested has been provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022/23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023/24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Volume of Carer’s Allowance (CA) Debts</strong></p></td><td><p>36.1k</p></td><td><p>30.7k</p></td><td><p>34.5k</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The above data has been sourced from internal DWP management information, which is intended only to help the Department to manage its business. It is not intended for publication and has not been subject to the same quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 19/04/2024 11:40:39 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1699039

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Schools: Pedestrian Crossings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department holds information on the number and proportion of school crossing guards who wear body cameras while on duty.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	20665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>This information is not held by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/04/2024 09:49:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood