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	registered interest
	date	19/04/2024
	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	Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to tackle climate change.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	22813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK is the first major economy to halve its emissions – having cut them by around 53% between 1990 and 2023. We have the most ambitious 2030 emissions reduction target of any major economy.</p><p> </p><p>The UK over-achieved against the first, second and third carbon budgets. Taken together, the policies set out in last year’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan keep us on track for Carbon Budgets 4, 5 and 6, our 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution, and ultimately for net zero by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>Renewables, which have increased from 7% in 2010 to nearly half of our electricity generation, will help ensure our energy security – providing homegrown energy, and reducing our exposure to volatile fossil fuel markets. The UK is home to the five largest operational offshore wind farm projects in the world and no country has built more offshore wind than the UK bar China.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/04/2024 05:52:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1344810

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2021
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of legacy benefit payments in meeting the costs of living for disabled people during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	29136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting disabled people affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, including those who claim legacy benefits, and has delivered an unprecedented package of support; injecting billions into the welfare system.</p><p>We continue to monitor the impact on disabled people, while ensuring that they are able to access the support they need.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/07/2021 14:05:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1338890

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2021
	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	Employment: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government’s national strategy for disabled people will take to prevent the further widening of the disability employment gap.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	20509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>We are making progress on decreasing the disability employment gap. The disability employment gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people, was 28.6 percentage points in Q1 2021. This is a decrease of 0.3 percentage points on the year, and 5.2 percentage points since Q1 2014.</p><p>The government has set a goal to see one million more disabled people in employment between 2017 and 2027 and is committed to improving the lives of disabled people. The National Strategy for Disabled People will be published shortly and will be informed by insights from the lived experience of disabled people, focusing on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life. Employment will be a central theme of the strategy. The strategy’s significance is even greater, as we rebuild the UK's economy and society in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2021 14:12:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1338892

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2021
	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	Disability: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the disability pay gap.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	20511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>Pay gaps are caused by a range of factors. To address them, we must ensure that everybody has equal access to opportunities.</p><p>A range of DWP initiatives are currently supporting disabled people to stay in and enter work. These include the Work and Health Programme, the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, Access to Work, Disability Confident and support in partnership with the health system, including Employment Advice in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services. The Government has also increased the number of specialist Disability Employment Advisers (DEAs) in Jobcentres.</p><p>The Department has also published a voluntary reporting framework on disability, mental ill health and wellbeing, in November 2018. This is aimed at large employers (over 250 employees) and it is recommended that they publicly report on the pay and progression of disabled people at regular intervals.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2021 14:07:55 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1338893

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2021
	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	Employment Schemes: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure economically inactive disabled people are supported to find jobs.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	20512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the lives of disabled people, and will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People shortly. The Strategy will be informed by insights from the lived experience of disabled people, focusing on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life, including employment. Employment will be a central theme of the strategy.</p><p>A range of DWP initiatives are supporting disabled people to stay in and enter work. These include the Work and Health Programme, the Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, Access to Work, Disability Confident and support in partnership with the health system, including Employment Advice in NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services. The Government has also increased the number of specialist Disability Employment Advisors (DEAs) in Jobcentres.</p><p>The Department will shortly publish a Green Paper on health and disability support which will consider how we can improve our current service, provide extra support to navigate the system and seek to better understand how we can improve the current employment support offer.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/06/2021 14:09:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1334077

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2021
	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: Disability
	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 11 June 2021 to Question 12293, how insights shared by disabled people on their lived experiences with the benefits system will inform the Government's upcoming health and disability Green Paper.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	15388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2021 answer text <p>Through the Health and Disability Green Paper events we have gathered valuable insights from disabled people and their representatives. These insights have shaped the main themes of the Green Paper: improving claimant experience of our services, enabling independent living, and improving employment outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also commissions independent research with disability benefit claimants on an ongoing basis. The Green Paper will explore proposals to improve the health and disability benefit system in the short and long-term, which are grounded in research evidence, data analysis and consultation.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/06/2021 13:44:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1331501

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2021
	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: Terminal Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to publish its review of the Special Rules for Terminal Illness.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	13217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department is committed to delivering an improved benefit system for claimants that are nearing the end of their lives and is working across Government to bring forward proposals following the evaluation. The Department remains committed to implementing the key areas identified in the evaluation and will announce the outcome in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 13218 question first answered 15/06/2021 13:15:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1331502

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2021
	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: Terminal Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the time being taken by her Department to publish the results of its review of the Special Rules for Terminal Illness.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	13218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department is committed to delivering an improved benefit system for claimants that are nearing the end of their lives and is working across Government to bring forward proposals following the evaluation. The Department remains committed to implementing the key areas identified in the evaluation and will announce the outcome in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 13217 question first answered 15/06/2021 13:15:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1330679

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	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: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people are proactively and directly engaged in the public consultation on the forthcoming health and disability Green Paper.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	12293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2021 answer text <p>It is vital that the voices of disabled people are at the centre of health and disability policy development. Over the past 18 months I have personally led a series of events in which I have heard directly from disabled people about their lived experiences with the benefits system. We will continue this direct engagement with disabled people up to and following the publication of the Health and Disability Green Paper.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/06/2021 13:39:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1330680

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2021
	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	Employment Schemes: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations from the Social Security Advisory Committee in its recent report on the quality of her Department’s engagement with disabled people when designing or evaluating programmes that affect them.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	12294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2021 answer text <p>I am grateful to the Committee for their report and pleased to see that our sustained efforts to engage with disabled people have been recognised. We are planning to respond to the Committee in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/06/2021 13:53:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova