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1696535

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit Migration Notice letters he plans to send to people in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) the UK by 31 March 2025.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	902040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department plans to send Migration Notices to over 1 million households by 31 March 2025.</p><p> </p><p>We intend to publish constituency level data at a future date.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 18/03/2024 17:06:33 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1690432

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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: Health and Safety
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 worker safety for those working (a) shifts and (b) unsociable hours.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	14916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>The <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37/contents" target="_blank">Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974</a> (HSWA) and The <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3242/contents/made" target="_blank">Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999</a> (MHSWR) both place general duties on employers with regard to managing the risks to health and safety of their employees. This includes health and safety risks associated with shift work and working unsociable hours.</p><p> </p><p>HSWA places a duty on all employers, so far as is reasonably practicable, to protect the health, safety, and welfare at work of all their employees. MHSWR places a duty on all employers to make an assessment of the risks to their employees from work activities and introduce measures that are ‘reasonably practicable’ to remove or control these risks.</p><p> </p><p>This includes any health and safety risks associated with the number of hours worked; how these hours are scheduled and hazards such as fatigue, and its likelihood of occurring because of shift working.</p><p> </p><p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published guidance for employers to support them in managing the health and safety of shift workers (<a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg256.pdf" target="_blank">Managing shift work [HSG 256</a>]) and <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/shift-workers.htm" target="_blank">Hints and tips for shift-workers (hse.gov.uk)</a> to improve sleep quality, increase alertness and reduce health risk.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/02/2024 12:13:11 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1690082

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
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	Sick Leave: Stress
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 assessment of the potential impact of (a) stress and (b) burnout on the rate of absence due to sickness.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	14684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of the potential impact of a) stress and b) burnout on the rate of absence due to sickness.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS publish annual statistics on sickness absence in the UK labour market, which includes the reasons for sickness absence. However, neither stress or burnout are listed as reasons given for sickness absences in this data.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The latest statistics for sickness absence in the UK labour market can be found <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2022" target="_blank">here.</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 27/02/2024 17:45:34 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1681592

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Food Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the report entitled Without access to justice published by Feeding Liverpool and the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice in January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	9281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. The Department continues to monitor the impact of its policies and keeps them under review.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/01/2024 12:06:40 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1673314

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
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	Age Addition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of the age additions to the State Pension.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	3926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>There is a range of support for pensioners aged over 80. These include Pension Credit which can top up a pensioner’s income to a minimum of £201.05 a week for single pensioners and £306.85 for couples and provides a gateway to other benefits that help with rent, council tax reduction schemes, heating costs and, for the over 75s, a free television license. Households with people aged 80 and over receive a Winter Fuel Payment of £300 instead of the standard £200 for households with pensioners below that age. Additionally, in April 2023 the basic State Pension saw its biggest ever rise of 10.1% to £156.20 per week.</p><p> </p><p>The age addition is not part of the new State Pension for those who reach State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 30/11/2023 12:38:25 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1672917

registered interest
date	24/11/2023
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	Household Support Fund
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 Chancellor of the Exchequer's oral answer of 22 November 2023, Official Report column 348, when he plans to provide details of the (a) determination and (b) grant conditions of the household support fund.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	3648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to PQ<a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-11-23/3412" target="_blank">3412</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 30/11/2023 16:54:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1672419

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
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	State Retirement Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of the over 80 pension.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	3318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2023 the over 80, Category D, non-contributory State Pension, saw its biggest ever rise of 10.1%. The full weekly Category D State Pension is now £93.60 per week.  In addition, a range of other measures and benefits are available to pensioners aged 80 and over. These include Pension Credit which can top up a pensioner’s income to a minimum of £201.05 a week for single pensioners and £306.85 for couples and provide access to a range of other benefits such as help with rent and council tax. Moreover, households with a person aged 80 or over receive a Winter Fuel Payment of £300, which is more than the standard Winter Fuel Payment of £200 for pensioners below that age.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 27/11/2023 16:09:59 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1671466

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
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	Early Retirement: Long Covid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what evidence his Department requests in order to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	2675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own HR data system, including short- and long-term sickness absence generally that may be attributed to Covid, but we do not receive any personal data that will help assess IHR applications.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 2682 2683 question first answered 28/11/2023 15:04:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1671479

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
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: Early Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in his Department in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) the UK have been awarded (i) upper and (ii) lower tier level ill-health retirement when applying as a result of long covid in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	2682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own HR data system, including short- and long-term sickness absence generally that may be attributed to Covid, but we do not receive any personal data that will help assess IHR applications.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 2675 2683 question first answered 28/11/2023 15:04:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1671480

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
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: Early Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in his Department in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) the UK have applied for ill-health retirement as a result of long covid in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	2683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own HR data system, including short- and long-term sickness absence generally that may be attributed to Covid, but we do not receive any personal data that will help assess IHR applications.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 2675 2682 question first answered 28/11/2023 15:04:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden