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1609716

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to correspondence of (a) 4 January and (b) 1 February from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of a constituent Charles Wright.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	179849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>A response was sent by the Minister for Immigration on 3 March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/04/2023 10:09:36 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1609717

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to correspondence of (a) 24 January and (b) 16th February from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of a constituent Samantha Smith on a biometric residence permit.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	179850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office replied to the hon. Member on 17 February 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/04/2023 10:11:24 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1609718

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: CCTV
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March to Question 174319 on Taxis: CCTV, if he will list the (a) 15 authorities with a requirement for all licensed taxis to have CCTV fitted and (b) 14 authorities with a requirement for all licensed private hire vehicles to have CCTV fitted.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	179851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>Information on the licensing authorities in England that require the fitting of CCTV systems in taxis and/or private hire vehicles is available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/taxi-and-private-hire-vehicle-statistics-england-2022" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/taxi-and-private-hire-vehicle-statistics-england-2022</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 18/04/2023 14:29:15 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1609761

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driverless Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2023 to Question 168095, what discussions he had with the Leader of the House on bringing forward legislation on the deployment and operation of self-driving vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	179894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Secretary of State is in regular contact with the Leader of the Commons on the Department for Transport’s legislative programme. The government is committed to bringing forward Future of Transport legislation when parliamentary time allows.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/04/2023 14:17:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1609806

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Cost of Living: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what further support with essential food and energy costs his Department has provided to vulnerable households.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	179939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government understands the pressures people are facing with the cost of living and is taking action to help.</p><p> </p><p>To protect the most vulnerable we have increased benefits in line with inflation. This means that they have risen by September 2022 Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation – 10.1%. In order to increase the number of households who can benefit from these uprating decisions, benefit cap levels have also increased by the same amount.</p><p> </p><p>Households on eligible means-tested benefits will get up to £900 in Cost of Living Payments, paid in three separate payments of £301, £300 and £299 across the 2023/24 financial year. The first payment of £301 will be paid to the majority of those eligible between 25 April and 17 May. In addition, over 6 million people on qualifying disability benefits will receive a separate Disability Cost of Living payment of £150 in the summer and more than eight million pensioner households will receive an additional £300 Cost of Living Payment during winter 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Further to this, as announced in the Spring Statement, the government is maintaining the Energy Price Guarantee at £2,500 until the end of June. This will ensure that households across the UK are supported through the spring while retail energy costs are expected to remain high.</p><p> </p><p>For people who require additional support, whether they receive benefits or not, the Household Support Fund will continue until March 2024. This year long extension allows Local Authorities in England to continue to provide discretionary support to those most in need with the significantly rising cost of living.  The guidance for Local Authorities for this next iteration has now been published and can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/household-support-fund-guidance-for-local-councils/1-april-2023-to-31-march-2024-household-support-fund-guidance-for-county-councils-and-unitary-authorities-in-england" target="_blank">here.</a> This sets out that the fund should be used to support households in the most need, particularly those who are not eligible for other cost of living support such as Cost of Living Payments. The Devolved Administrations will receive consequential funding as usual to spend at their discretion.</p><p> </p><p>To further support those who are in work, from 1 April, the National Living Wage (NLW) has increased by 9.7% to £10.42 an hour for workers aged 23 and over - the largest ever cash increase for the NLW.</p><p> </p><p>This support is in addition to that provided in 2022/23, including cost of living payments for people on eligible benefits, the Energy Price Guarantee and the £400 non-repayable discount to eligible households provided through the Energy Bills Support Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/04/2023 15:55:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1609812

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department provides to make public transport more accessible for those suffering from (a) visual and (b) audio impairment.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	179945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring disabled passengers, including people who are visually or hearing impaired can use public transport easily, confidently, and without additional cost.</p><p> </p><p>We have provided £75m to Network Rail to install tactile paving on all remaining railway station platforms by 2025, and on 30 March we laid the draft Public Service Vehicles (Accessible Information) Regulations in Parliament, which if agreed, will require the provision of audible and visible information on local bus and coach services across Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>We have also allocated £4.65m to the Real Time Information Group, who will be supporting small operators with the upfront costs of complying with the planned Accessible Information Regulations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 18/04/2023 14:26:53 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1609818

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the (a) accessibility and (b) quality of transport data.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	179951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>The Department announced and published its first Transport Data Strategy on 28 March 2023. This strategy shows how the Department will work with and support the transport sector to harness the benefits of data to help grow and level up the economy, reduce environmental impacts and improve transport for the user, with the main goal of improving data accessibility and quality.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/04/2023 14:49:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1610021

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply to correspondence of (a) 23 January and (b) 2nd March 2023 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of Dr Richard Lawson.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	180154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>A response was sent by the Minister for Immigration on 6 March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/04/2023 10:09:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1610101

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Cancer: Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free dental care to all cancer patients.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	180234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>We have no current plans to make a specific assessment.</p><p>There are a range of exemptions to National Health Service dental patient charges. Further information is available on the NHS website at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/dental-costs/get-help-with-dental-costs/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/dental-costs/get-help-with-dental-costs/</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 18/04/2023 08:08:26 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1610247

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment
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 policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published on 15 March 2023, what steps his Department has taken to assess the adequacy of the four-week transition period from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payments at the age of 16.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	180380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>When most Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claimants reach age 16 they are invited to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP).</p><p /><p>To ensure continuity of payment while someone in receipt of DLA is assessed for PIP, we continue to pay their DLA at the existing rate for the entirety of the PIP assessment process. Once the PIP decision is made, the DLA continues to be paid, regardless of the PIP outcome, for four weeks following the next DLA payday. These arrangements ensure that those seeing a lower or nil award of PIP have a period in which to adjust to their new circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>We have no plans to amend these arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 18/04/2023 13:38:39 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft