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date	08/12/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of different practices relating to the (a) provision of forbearance and (b) prioritisation of payments on essential bills in the (i) regulated and (ii) buy-now-pay-later sector.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	6056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) rules require firms offering regulated credit products to offer forbearance to customers who are in arrears with their repayments. Firms can meet these requirements by suspending, reducing, waiving, or cancelling any further interest or charges on credit agreements and allowing customers to defer payment of arrears or make token payments for a reasonable period of time.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA is also in the process of strengthening its framework for firms to provide better support to customers facing payment difficulties. It recently consulted on plans to incorporate its Tailored Support Guidance into its Handbook. This guidance sets out the FCA’s expectations of firms when supporting borrowers in financial difficulty, including providing tailored forbearance.</p><p> </p><p>While Buy-Now, Pay-Later (BNPL) agreements are unregulated, when a BNPL firm passes a debt to a debt collection agency, the debt collection agency must be authorised and regulated by the FCA. It must also comply with the FCA’s rules, including those on the treatment of customers in financial difficulty outlined above.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami grouped question UIN 5951 question first answered 18/12/2023 17:21:49 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

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date	21/01/2020
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Genito-urinary Medicine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to his Department's press release entitled, UK will step up efforts to end preventable deaths of mothers, new-born babies and children in the developing world by 2030 published on 19 October 2019, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that adolescent girls with disabilities can access sexual and reproductive health services.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	6056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State recently announced that the UK would step up efforts to end preventable deaths of mothers, newborns and children by 2030. Universal health coverage, including access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), is central to these efforts.</p><p>Our health and SRHR programmes aim to understand and overcome the barriers for excluded groups, to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable within society, including those with disabilities, are able to access services. All our SRHR programmes target adolescent girls. We also work to address the needs of ethnic groups in particular countries.</p><p>At the UN General Assembly in 2019, the Secretary of State for International Development announce funding of £600 million over 2020-2025 that will provide millions more women and girls with access to family planning.</p><p>The Women’s Integrated Sexual Health reproductive health programme uses innovative ways to identify and reach the poorest and most marginalised adolescent girls and women with essential services across 27 countries. Our support to the Robert Carr Fund, Amplify Change and the Safe Abortion Action Fund all support grassroots organisations to campaign for and promote access to the most marginalised populations’ sexual and reproductive health services and rights.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 6054 6055 question first answered 27/01/2020 17:08:46 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

754247

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
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	Pension Credit: Eligibility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all those people eligible for pension credit are aware of their eligibility.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	6056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that older people receive the support they are entitled to and the Department targets activity on engaging with people who may be eligible at pivotal stages such as when they claim State Pension or report a change in their circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>We use a wide range of channels to communicate information about Pension Credit to potential customers; including information on gov.uk, in leaflets and by telephone.</p><p> </p><p>We believe that one of the best ways to reach those eligible customers who may be reluctant to claim is through trusted messengers working in the community and DWP provides a web-based Pension Credit toolkit at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pension-credit-toolkit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pension-credit-toolkit</a> containing a range of resources for anyone working with pensioners. It contains guides to Pension Credit, examples of the reasons why eligible customers might not claim, ideas for encouraging take-up, and makes available a range of publicity material.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 05/09/2017 11:02:56 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

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date	08/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time was for the Tribunals Service to administer a First-tier Tribunal-Social Security and Child Support appeal in respect of (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment and support allowance, (c) income support, (d) jobseeker's allowance and (e) tax credits in (i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England in the last period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	6056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal – Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service, hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the average length of time to administer appeals in respect of (a) personal independence payment (PIP), (b) employment and support allowance (ESA), (c) income support (IS), (d) jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) and (e) tax credits in (i) Coventry, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) England between April 2014 and March 2015, the latest period for which figures are available.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014/15, due to falling receipts of new cases, the Tribunal Service began processing more older and more complex cases, hence the rise in the average length of time to administer appeals.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Average length of time to administer appeals between April 2014 and March 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>PIP<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>ESA<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>IS</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>JSA</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Tax Credits<sup>3</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Coventry</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p>17.9</p></td><td><p>39.9</p></td><td><p>33.3</p></td><td><p>28.3</p></td><td><p>17.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>West Midlands <sup>4</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td><td><p>35.4</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>25.8</p></td><td><p>17.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England <sup>5</sup></strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p>16.5</p></td><td><p>30.4</p></td><td><p>30.7</p></td><td><p>25.4</p></td><td><p>16.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>SSCS data are normally registered to the venue nearest to the appellant's home address. We cannot retrieve data based on the appellant’s actual address, but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were dealt with at one of our Regional centres or heard at a specific venue.</p><p>1. Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments)</p><p>2. Includes Employment Support Allowance and Employment Support Allowance (Reassessments)</p><p>3. Includes Working Family Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit.</p><p>4. West Midlands includes the venues in: Birmingham, Coventry, Hereford, Stoke, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Shrewsbury, Kidderminster, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton and Walsall.</p><p>5. Excludes SSCS Scotland processing centre and the following venues Aberystwyth, Bridgend, Cardiff, Caernafon, Carmarthen, Colwyn Bay, Cwmbran, Haverfordwest, Llandrindod Wells, Langstone, Llandudno, Llanelli, Llangefni, Llwynypia, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath, Port Talbot, Newtown, Pontypridd, Pontypool, Prestatyn, Swansea, Welshpool, Wrexham, Bargoed and Ebbw Vale</p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 30/07/2015 11:23:58 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher