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1684412

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Livestock Industry: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether she is taking steps to support (a) the meat industry and (b) independent butchers with high energy costs.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	11136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Energy Bills Discount Scheme provides all eligible businesses and other non-domestic energy users with a baseline discount on high energy bills for 12 months from April 2023 until 31 March 2024.</p><p> </p><p>A higher level of support will be provided to some Energy and Trade Intensive Industries (ETIIs) for 70% of their energy. Industries eligible for this support include certain meat and fish processing businesses.</p><p> </p><p>A full list of eligible industries is available here: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fenergy-bills-discount-scheme-factsheet%2Fenergy-bills-discount-scheme-energy-and-trade-intense-industries-assessment-methodology%23annex-a-list-of-eligible-sectors-for-energy-and-trade-intensive-industries&amp;data=05%7C02%7CParliamentary.PQ%40energysecurity.gov.uk%7C0d217a73847e471bf73808dc2187ac35%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638422113784225032%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=lt%2BS2UNrOxViskdD38rv6gwME5owscX%2FAH56xtx5VH4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-bills-discount-scheme-factsheet/energy-bills-discount-scheme-energy-and-trade-intense-industries-assessment-methodology#annex-a-list-of-eligible-sectors-for-energy-and-trade-intensive-industries</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 30/01/2024 12:17:41 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1519286

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Safe Hands Plans: Insolvency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps his Department has taken to (a) help support and (b) provide assistance to the customers of Safe Hands Funeral Plans.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	59872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>In January 2021, the government legislated to bring all pre-paid funeral plan providers and intermediaries within the regulatory remit of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) from 29 July 2022. This has ensured that 1.6 million funeral plan customers are, for the first time, protected by compulsory and robust regulation as they seek to put their affairs in order.</p><p> </p><p>Safe Hands Plans went into administration in March 2022. The government understands that this will be very concerning for customers of Safe Hands.</p><p> </p><p>While the detailed investigation being carried out by the administrators is ongoing, the government continues to work closely with the FCA to monitor the implementation of regulation in this sector.</p><p> </p><p>The government has been supportive of steps taken by the sector to provide assistance to Safe Hands customers. Dignity and Co-op – two of the largest providers in the country – have recently offered Safe Hands’ customers new funeral plans at a substantially discounted price. This may go some way towards supporting affected planholders.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 18/10/2022 14:48:27 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1140822

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Post Office: Biometric Residence Permits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to announce a decision on extending the biometric residence permit collection service with Post Office Ltd.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	280258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>The contract with the Post Office Ltd to provide the biometric residence permit (BRP) collection service started on 29 August 2014. The service commenced in February 2015 and became fully operational on 1 August 2015.</p><p>The current BRP Collection contract is due to end on 31 July 2019. It is our intention to take up the final 1-year extension option which allows the service to run until 31 July 2020.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 25/07/2019 15:20:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1197443

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2020
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average length of time was for Ministers of his Department to respond to correspondence from hon. Members in each month in the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	49735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has a target of responding within 20 working days where a response is required.</p><p>As you will understand, the Cabinet Office is currently dealing with unprecedented volumes of correspondence due to COVID-19. Officials are ensuring that urgent cases raised by hon. Members are prioritised, and are taking steps to provide substantive responses in as short a time as possible.</p><p>All correspondence received from hon. Members is being reviewed and will be responded to as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 02/06/2020 13:26:37 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1282411

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voting Methods: Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the timescale is for the full roll-out of new provisions to enable all blind and partially sighted people to vote independently and in private.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	146920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-01-25/143043" target="_blank">PQ143043</a> on 28 January.</p><p /><p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 146921 question first answered 04/02/2021 17:32:37 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1282412

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voting Methods: Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to consult an adequate number of blind and partially sighted people in the evaluation of audio voting devices.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	146921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-01-25/143043" target="_blank">PQ143043</a> on 28 January.</p><p /><p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 146920 question first answered 04/02/2021 17:32:37 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1356291

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2021
	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, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) challenges and (b) merits of personal independence payment phone assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	50698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2021 answer text <p>During the coronavirus pandemic, we carried out assessments by telephone as a temporary measure. The feedback on telephone assessments has so far been positive: in a recent survey published by the Department, the majority of people who had a telephone assessment for PIP or for their WCA were ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’.</p><p> </p><p>In Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper, we are consulting on the use of telephone and video assessments as an alternative to face-to-face in the future and want to fully evaluate their effectiveness. We have asked for views about the different ways to provide assessments, and how to improve telephone assessments to ensure they are as accurate and effective as possible. It is important that people continue to receive consistent and accurate decisions irrespective of the type of assessment they go through.</p><p> </p><p>DWP Survey results of claimants who have received a telephone assessment are published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/claimant-experience-of-telephone-based-health-assessments-for-pip-esa-and-uc" target="_blank">Claimant experience of telephone-based health assessments for PIP, ESA and UC - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/09/2021 10:07:23 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 22840 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1356292

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2021
	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, whether her Department plans to provide personal independence payment claimants with a choice of being assessed by phone or face-to-face; and if her Department will take steps to help ensure that claimants can make an informed choice about how they would prefer to be assessed.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	50699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2021 answer text <p>In Shaping Future Support: The Health &amp; Disability Green Paper, we are consulting on the use of telephone and video assessments as an alternative to face-to-face in the future. We have asked for views about the different ways to provide assessments, and how to improve telephone assessments to ensure they are as accurate and effective as possible.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/09/2021 14:19:13 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith previous answer version 22841 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1356293

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2021
	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: Multiple Sclerosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with multiple sclerosis applying for benefits have been unable to have a phone assessment and have had to wait for a face-to-face assessment since March 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	50700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2021 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Telephone assessments only commenced for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in late March 2020 and were then used as one of the alternatives to face to face assessments. For the two providers of medical assessments this was on 23<sup>rd</sup> March 2020 (Capita) and 6<sup>th</sup> April 2020 (IAS) respectively.</p><p>Therefore, the majority of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments after March 2020 would have been by telephone, with some paper- based and video call assessments. Where it was not possible to carry out a PIP telephone assessment decisions were made on paper using all the available evidence to ensure any payment was not delayed. We do not readily hold the information on how assessments were carried out for specific conditions.</p><p>Face to face assessments for Work Capability Assessments (WCAs) for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit (UC) were re-introduced in May. They have initially focused on claimants who we have been unable to assess fully by other means. Paper-based assessments, as before the COVID-19 pandemic, are considered in the first instance, and telephone assessments and video assessments introduced in response to the pandemic continue to take place where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 50701 50702 50703 question first answered 24/09/2021 16:17:00 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1356294

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2021
	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: Multiple Sclerosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with multiple sclerosis have had their award changed at the mandatory reconsideration stage after being assessed by phone for personal independence payment since March 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
	uin	50701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2021 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Telephone assessments only commenced for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in late March 2020 and were then used as one of the alternatives to face to face assessments. For the two providers of medical assessments this was on 23<sup>rd</sup> March 2020 (Capita) and 6<sup>th</sup> April 2020 (IAS) respectively.</p><p>Therefore, the majority of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments after March 2020 would have been by telephone, with some paper- based and video call assessments. Where it was not possible to carry out a PIP telephone assessment decisions were made on paper using all the available evidence to ensure any payment was not delayed. We do not readily hold the information on how assessments were carried out for specific conditions.</p><p>Face to face assessments for Work Capability Assessments (WCAs) for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit (UC) were re-introduced in May. They have initially focused on claimants who we have been unable to assess fully by other means. Paper-based assessments, as before the COVID-19 pandemic, are considered in the first instance, and telephone assessments and video assessments introduced in response to the pandemic continue to take place where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 50700 50702 50703 question first answered 24/09/2021 16:17:00 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows