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1549507

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date	07/12/2022
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: Long Covid
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 whose main disability is long Covid have (a) registered for, (b) been assessed for, (c) been awarded and (d) had their applications rejected for Personal Independence Payment as of 7 December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	105415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>Information on conditions is not collected at registration. However, it is available when claimants have been through assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Data on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims, with Long Covid as the primary condition up to July, can be found on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>. In particular, the ‘PIP clearances’ dataset includes the outcomes of PIP assessments and can be broken down by disability. ‘Coronavirus COVID-19’ can be found under the disability subcategory ‘Viral diseases’ which is under the main disability category of ‘Infectious disease’. Only the claimant’s main disabling condition is recorded on the department’s systems. Many people in receipt of PIP have more than one condition. <br></p><p>Data up to 7<sup>th</sup> December will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>You can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, you can access <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">guidance</a> on how to extract the information required.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 12/12/2022 15:42:52 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1521825

registered interest
date	13/10/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	District Heating: Energy Price Guarantee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance his Department has provided for people on communal heating systems who may be hosting refuges on the energy price guarantee.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	62839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government announced that it will effectively cap the price of heat sold by communal and district heat networks through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme this winter by reducing the commercial prices of energy used by these schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Those who sponsor refugees have the option to receive a monthly payment of £350 for up to 12 months, paid in arrears, for as long as you are hosting your guests and provided that the accommodation provided is of a suitable standard. Hosts will be eligible for the first monthly payment once the local council has visited to check the standard of the accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 17:08:52 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1521826

registered interest
date	13/10/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Charities: Energy Price Guarantee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will provide specific advice to small charities on the effect of the energy price guarantee on those organisations.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	62840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government understands the pressure charities and other voluntary organisations are facing with their energy bills, which is why immediate action has been taken to support them over the winter. The details of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme were announced on 21 September 2022, initially running for 6 months covering energy use from 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023. Non-domestic customers, including charities do not need to take action or apply to the scheme as support will automatically be applied to eligible customer bills. Suppliers will inform eligible customers about the amount of discount being applied as appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 17:08:13 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1521827

registered interest
date	13/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to research by Women's Aid on the impact of increases in the cost of living on women who have experienced domestic abuse, published on 1 August 2022, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of providing additional financial support, above what has been provided for energy costs, to help support victims of domestic abuse in winter 2022.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	62841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Tackling domestic abuse is a priority for this Government. As is ensuring all victims and survivors of this heinous crime get the support they need.</p><p>I have discussed with ministerial colleagues how best to tackle domestic abuse.</p><p>An integral part of this work will be to deliver commitments made in The Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, published in March 2022. The Plan invests over £230 million into tackling domestic abuse, including over £140 million for supporting victims. This funding year, the Home Office has also provided over £190,000 to the Police and Crime Commissioner of Leicestershire to support the delivery of a programme that aims to change perpetrator's behaviour.</p><p>As part of the Plan, my department committed to run trials of the ‘flexible funding model’. This is where funds are given to charities who support victims and survivors. Those charities would then have wide-ranging discretion on how these funds can be used. This includes addressing financial obstacles to victims and survivors moving forward with their lives.</p><p>We are aware the cost of living may exacerbate risk factors for victims and survivors of domestic abuse. We are listening to feedback from stakeholders, including Women’s Aid, and are taking this into account through our work on flexible funding.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/10/2022 16:21:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1521869

registered interest
date	13/10/2022
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: Cost of Living Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many outstanding Personal Independence Payment claims there were at the start of the cost of living payment rollout on 20 September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	62842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>On 20<sup>th</sup> September 2022 there were around 264,000 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) new claims outstanding that had not had an initial decision. This data includes claimants who registered their claim on or before 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022 and who may be entitled to a Disability Cost of Living Payment subject to their PIP decision and those who registered their claim after 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022 and would therefore not be eligible for such a payment.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p><strong>Source: PIP Atomic Data Store</strong></p><ul><li>This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</li><li>This data includes claimants waiting for an initial decision on their claim only, and does not include any claimants that have received an initial decision and are awaiting the outcome of any outstanding mandatory reconsiderations or appeals</li><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000</li><li>Data covers Great Britain only</li></ul> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 19/10/2022 10:29:25 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho previous answer version 24559 answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1504894

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Warm Home Discount Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of removing eligibility for the warm home discount scheme from people who receive Personal Independence Payments on their ability to meet the costs of heating their homes.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	47540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>Around 62% of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) recipients also receive one of the qualifying means-tested benefits and so would be considered low-income under the Core Group 2 criteria. Those with high energy costs would therefore be eligible for a rebate. The Government’s analysis shows that 160,000 more households, where there is a person with a disability or long-term illness, will receive a rebate each winter compared to the previous scheme.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/09/2022 13:16:24 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1505176

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the number of people expected to be affected by the Pensions Increase (Review) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/333) in the 2023/24 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	47544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>Section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (as amended) read with the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (as amended) provides for public service pensions to be increased annually by the same percentage as State additional pensions (State Earnings Related Pension and State Second Pension). State additional pensions were increased by 3.1 per cent from April 2022, in line with the increase in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in the 12 months from September 2020 to September 2021. From 11 April 2022, most public service pensions in payment were also increased by the same percentage, with pro-rata increases for those in payment for less than a year.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Increase (Review) Order 2022 covers “official pensions,” which are those pensions listed in Schedule 2 of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971. This covers most public service pensions. There are, however, also a small number of other schemes (which are not official pensions) where the benefits are increased by analogy with official pensions under the rules applying to those schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Official pensions are increased as specified within the annual Pension Increase (Review) Orders, and the Order applies to a pension that began before or during the 12 months before the date that the Order commences and where the pension satisfies a condition qualifying for pension increases to be paid. The pensions increase is therefore usually paid to recipients aged 55 and over, or those aged less than 55 who are in receipt of a survivor's pension, or a pension paid on account of ill health.</p><p> </p><p>Pensions increases also apply to pensions in deferment, although the entitlement arises only when the pension comes into payment and the recipient satisfies a qualifying condition. Members currently accruing further pension benefits in schemes covered by these indexation provisions will also be entitled to receive increases under Pension Increase Orders and some who retire in future, particularly in the next few years, might be entitled to increases under the Pensions Increase Order 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Those affected by the Pension Increase (Review) Order 2022 in the 2022/23 financial year are therefore likely to equal:</p><ol><li>Total public service pensions in payment;</li><li>Total public service pensions in deferment, most of which would be affected in due course;</li><li>A proportion of total public service pensions still accruing, where some future pensions in payment and deferment might in due course be affected by the 2022 Order. That proportion cannot be readily assessed as it will depend on many variable and unknown factors, including future decisions by members about careers and retirements.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Table 2 of the last ONS Occupational Pension Schemes Survey, assessing data up to 2019, estimated that there were then 5.3 million public sector pensions in payment; 4.7 million deferred public sector pensions; and 6.6 million active members of public sector pension schemes. However, this data will also include a small proportion of members who, for example, have defined contribution pensions and are not in arrangements necessarily affected by the Pension Increase (Review) Order 2022.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to those noted above, some private sector scheme rules provide that the defined benefit pensions of some or all members will increase in line with increases applying to official pensions.</p><p> </p><p>A further Pensions Increase (Review) Order will be made for the 2023/24 financial year, which would allow for movements in prices since the previous assessment based on September 2021 CPI.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/09/2022 12:12:22 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1458472

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish data on the proportion and number of Child Benefit families that have opted out of receiving child benefit payment by gender of the registered claimant for each year between 2009 and 2018 inclusive.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	155755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>Information on the number of Child Benefit claimants that have opted out of receiving payment is only available from 2013 when claimants were given the option of opting out of payment following the introduction of the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) in 2013. Below is a table summarising the counts of Child Benefit claimants that opted out of receiving payment and their respective proportion of the total for each year from 2013 to 2018 inclusive.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Gender of Child Benefit claimants that have opted out of receiving payment, 2013 to 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Number of claimants</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Number of claimants as a % of total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>Unavailable</p></td><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>Unavailable</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2013</p></td><td><p>396,980</p></td><td><p>344,135</p></td><td><p>34,400</p></td><td><p>18,445</p></td><td><p>87%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>475,740</p></td><td><p>410,580</p></td><td><p>43,120</p></td><td><p>22,040</p></td><td><p>86%</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>491,695</p></td><td><p>420,970</p></td><td><p>47,530</p></td><td><p>23,195</p></td><td><p>86%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2016</p></td><td><p>503,585</p></td><td><p>427,785</p></td><td><p>51,735</p></td><td><p>24,070</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2017</p></td><td><p>515,920</p></td><td><p>434,955</p></td><td><p>56,070</p></td><td><p>24,895</p></td><td><p>84%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2018</p></td><td><p>545,340</p></td><td><p>456,085</p></td><td><p>63,140</p></td><td><p>26,115</p></td><td><p>84%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Child Benefit Statistics: annual release, August 2021</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 25/04/2022 13:18:36 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1361143

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's oral contribution of 14 September 2021, Official Report, c. 820, for what reason the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency would not approve the Valvena covid-19 vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	58879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>The response given by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to a question raised by the hon. Member for Livingston (Hannah Bardell) has been <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-09-16/debates/E09C8E55-4307-43B6-B57E-BA2E9BFB556F/HealthAndSocialCare#10MC" target="_blank">amended </a>to make clear that Valneva’s Covid-19 vaccine has not yet gained approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) here in the UK, and that the outcome of that approval process will be a matter for the MHRA once data from the trials has been submitted.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 22/10/2021 13:47:56 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1271440

registered interest
date	15/12/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus and Respiratory System: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2020 to Question 114825 on Coronavirus and Respiratory System: Health Services, what estimate he has made of the resources that are required to deliver respiratory commitments set out in the Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	130083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>No estimates have been made past the funding that has already been announced.</p><p>The National Respiratory Programme is a sub-programme of the wider Cardiovascular Disease and Respiratory programme. The Cardiovascular Disease and Respiratory Programme was allocated NHS Long Term Plan funding as follows:</p><p>- 2019/20 £8.4 million</p><p>- 2020/21 £15 million</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 11/01/2021 12:14:57 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth