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1747815

registered interest
date	06/12/2024
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	Refugees: Employment and 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 proportion of refugees are (a) employed, (b) unemployed, (c) in receipt of Universal Credit and (d) in receipt of other social security benefits.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
uin	18448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information to produce the requested calculation.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the total number of individuals with refugee status is held by the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p>For a) and b), it is not possible to produce this information using the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey (LFS).</p><p> </p><p>For part c), the Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable official statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit customers including refugees.</p><p> </p><p>For part d), the Department does not hold the requested information on refugees in receipt of social security benefits other than Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms question first answered 13/12/2024 12:09:21 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	5158

1748193

registered interest
date	09/12/2024
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of trialling the provision of a copy assessment report when informing claimants of a decision on a benefit claim under the Health Transformation Programme.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Steve Darling
uin	18710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>The Health Transformation Programme (HTP) is modernising benefit services to improve customer experience, build trust in our services and create a more efficient service. As we develop these services, we are exploring a range of ideas to establish what works best for our customers with HTP providing the platform for change and the flexible capability to trial new ideas.</p><p> </p><p>Audio recording is available on an opt-in basis for face-to-face and telephone assessments. Customers are informed of the audio recording offer prior to their assessment in invitation letters. The programme is looking at how audio recording can also be offered for video assessments and will be seeking ways to improve the whole process. We will set out the detail of any changes in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We have undertaken initial tests where assessment reports are shared with customers. We are evaluating the outcomes of these tests to establish next steps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms grouped question UIN 18709 question first answered 13/12/2024 11:59:11 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	5066

1748192

registered interest
date	09/12/2024
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: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of trialling automated recording of health assessment information under the Health Transformation Programme.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Steve Darling
uin	18709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>The Health Transformation Programme (HTP) is modernising benefit services to improve customer experience, build trust in our services and create a more efficient service. As we develop these services, we are exploring a range of ideas to establish what works best for our customers with HTP providing the platform for change and the flexible capability to trial new ideas.</p><p> </p><p>Audio recording is available on an opt-in basis for face-to-face and telephone assessments. Customers are informed of the audio recording offer prior to their assessment in invitation letters. The programme is looking at how audio recording can also be offered for video assessments and will be seeking ways to improve the whole process. We will set out the detail of any changes in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We have undertaken initial tests where assessment reports are shared with customers. We are evaluating the outcomes of these tests to establish next steps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms grouped question UIN 18710 question first answered 13/12/2024 11:59:11 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	5066

1748230

registered interest
date	09/12/2024
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	Carers: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will take steps to provide financial support for pension-age carers providing full-time care but no longer eligible for Carer's Allowance.
tabling member constituency	South Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Dr Roz Savage
uin	18844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>Although there is no upper age limit to claiming Carer’s Allowance, it cannot normally be paid with the State Pension. It has been a long-held feature of the UK’s benefit system, under successive Governments, that where someone is entitled to two benefits for the same contingency, then whilst there may be entitlement to both benefits, only one will be paid to avoid duplication for the same need. Although entitlement to State Pension and Carer’s Allowance arise in different circumstances they are nevertheless designed for the same contingency – as an income replacement. Carer’s Allowance replaces income where the carer is unable to undertake full time employment due to their caring responsibilities, while State Pension replaces income in retirement. For this reason, social security rules operate to prevent them being paid together, to avoid duplicate provision for the same need.</p><p> </p><p>However, if a carer’s State Pension is less than Carer's Allowance, State Pension is paid and topped up with Carer's Allowance to the basic weekly rate of Carer's Allowance which is currently £81.90.</p><p> </p><p>Where Carer’s Allowance cannot be paid, the person will keep underlying entitlement to the benefit. This gives access to the additional amount for carers in Pension Credit of £45.60 a week and potentially other means-tested support. Around 125,000 people are receiving the Carer Premium with their Pension Credit. It is paid to recognise the additional contribution and responsibilities associated with caring. And even if a pensioner’s income is above the limit for Pension Credit, they may still be able to receive Housing Benefit.</p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms question first answered 13/12/2024 11:55:45 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	5352

1748209

registered interest
date	09/12/2024
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: Mental Health
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 potential impact of the assessment process for Personal Independent Payment on the mental health of those assessed; and if she will reform that process.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth West
tabling member printed	Jessica Toale
uin	18767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>DWP and our assessment providers are committed to providing a quality, sensitive and respectful service, with an approach aimed at continual improvement.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that attending a consultation can be a stressful experience for some people, which is why where there is sufficient available evidence, Personal Independence Payment assessments are carried out via a paper-based review. Where an assessment is required, claimants are encouraged to include another person where they would find this helpful, for example, by reassuring them or helping them during the consultation. The person chosen is at the discretion of the claimant and might be, but is not limited to, a parent, family member, friend, carer or advocate.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Health Transformation Programme (HTP) is modernising benefit services to improve customer experience, build trust in our services and the decisions we make, and create a more efficient service.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes there is a strong case to change the system of health and disability benefits across Great Britain so that it better enables people to enter and remain in work, and to respond to the complex and fluctuating nature of the health conditions many people live with today.</p><p> </p><p>We will bring forward a Green Paper in spring 2025. We will listen to and engage with disabled people as we develop proposals for reform in this area and across the employment support system.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms question first answered 13/12/2024 11:54:53 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	5202

1748633

registered interest
date	10/12/2024
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	Poverty: Liverpool
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 report entitled Dying in Poverty, published by Marie Curie in November 2024, what steps she is taking to tackle the levels of people dying in poverty in Liverpool.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool Riverside
tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
uin	19069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>The Department has noted the recommendations made in the report, and values Marie Curie as a key stakeholder which engages with us constructively in this area. The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benefit rules which are known as the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical assessment or serve waiting periods and in most cases, receive the highest rate of benefit.</p><p> </p><p>For many years, the Special Rules applied to people who have 6 months or less to live, they have now been changed so they apply to people who have 12 months or less to live.  Changes to the Special Rules mean that thousands of people nearing the end of life are now able to claim fast-tracked financial support from the benefits system six months earlier than they were able to previously.</p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms grouped question UIN 18832 19033 question first answered 13/12/2024 11:50:14 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson

1748676

registered interest
date	10/12/2024
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	Poverty: Lambeth
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 is taking to reduce the number of people dying in poverty in Lambeth.
tabling member constituency	Clapham and Brixton Hill
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	19033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>The Department has noted the recommendations made in the report, and values Marie Curie as a key stakeholder which engages with us constructively in this area. The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benefit rules which are known as the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical assessment or serve waiting periods and in most cases, receive the highest rate of benefit.</p><p> </p><p>For many years, the Special Rules applied to people who have 6 months or less to live, they have now been changed so they apply to people who have 12 months or less to live.  Changes to the Special Rules mean that thousands of people nearing the end of life are now able to claim fast-tracked financial support from the benefits system six months earlier than they were able to previously.</p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms grouped question UIN 18832 19069 question first answered 13/12/2024 11:50:14 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1748201

registered interest
date	09/12/2024
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	Poverty: Kirklees
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 tackle the number of people dying in poverty in Kirklees.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Paul Davies
uin	18832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>The Department has noted the recommendations made in the report, and values Marie Curie as a key stakeholder which engages with us constructively in this area. The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benefit rules which are known as the Special Rules for End of Life (SREL). These enable people who are nearing the end of their lives to get faster, easier access to certain benefits, without needing to attend a medical assessment or serve waiting periods and in most cases, receive the highest rate of benefit.</p><p> </p><p>For many years, the Special Rules applied to people who have 6 months or less to live, they have now been changed so they apply to people who have 12 months or less to live.  Changes to the Special Rules mean that thousands of people nearing the end of life are now able to claim fast-tracked financial support from the benefits system six months earlier than they were able to previously.</p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms grouped question UIN 19033 19069 question first answered 13/12/2024 11:50:14 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	5317

1747510

registered interest
date	05/12/2024
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
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 Secretary of State for the Home Department on (a) exemptions for and (b) flexibility in (i) sponsored visa and (ii) skilled workers visa guidance staff in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool Riverside
tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
uin	18226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2024 answer text <p>The Secretary of State, and ministers, regularly meet with Cabinet and ministerial colleagues, regarding a range of matters.</p><p> </p><p>DWP takes the welfare of its staff very seriously and continues to provide a range of support to colleagues employed on time limited visas who are impacted by the uplift to Skilled Worker salary thresholds for sponsorship introduced in April 2024.</p> answering member constituency Stretford and Urmston answering member printed Andrew Western question first answered 13/12/2024 11:06:01 answering member 4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western
tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson

1747508

registered interest
date	05/12/2024
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish (a) staff turnover, (b) the number of new recruits and (c) the number of vacancies in her Department in each of the last three months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool Riverside
tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
uin	18225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2024 answer text <p>a) The annual turnover rate for DWP ending in the last three months is 7.0% in September, 6.8% in October and 6.6% in November. Annual end of year turnover rates are published in the DWP Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>b) DWP has had 2,063 new recruits between 2 September 2024 and 30 November 2024.</p><p> </p><p>c) DWP has advertised 170 recruitment campaigns for up to 2147 roles.</p> answering member constituency Stretford and Urmston answering member printed Andrew Western question first answered 12/12/2024 18:04:02 answering member 4979 label Biography information for Andrew Western
tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson