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date	31/01/2023
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Borderlands Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when his Department last met the Welsh Assembly Government to discuss the Wrexham to Bidston train line.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	136598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales regularly engages with Welsh Government, Transport for Wales and a range of stakeholders regarding cross-border rail infrastructure. This includes work to understand options for improvements to the Wrexham-Bidston line.</p><p>Cross-border services between Wrexham and Bidston are operated by Transport for Wales. Passenger services are a devolved matter in Wales and therefore Transport for Wales is the responsibility of the Welsh Government.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 03/02/2023 10:09:17 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1438960

registered interest
date	08/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that people in receipt of universal credit or legacy benefits will receive an additional uplift in the Spring Statement 2022 as a result of the recent increase in the cost of living.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	136598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s statutory annual review of benefits, Universal Credit and a number of other benefits will be uprated in line with September’s CPI of 3.1% in April.</p><p> </p><p>We are additionally providing support worth over £20 billion across this financial year and next that will help families with the cost of living. This includes cutting the Universal Credit taper rate from 63% to 55%, and increasing Universal Credit work allowances by £500 p.a. to make work pay. This change means that 1.9m households will on average keep around an extra £1,000 on an annual basis. We have frozen alcohol and fuel duties to keep costs down, and provided a £9.1 billion package announced in February 2022 to help households with rising energy bills. On top of this, we are increasing the National Living Wage by 6.6% to £9.50 an hour in April 2022 which will benefit more than 2 million workers.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 15/03/2022 14:23:12 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1275761

registered interest
date	12/01/2021
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 Wise: North East
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 living in the North East of England had a Pension Wise guidance appointment by telephone or in person from April 2019 to March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mike Hill
uin	136598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2021 answer text <p>The Money and Pensions Service publishes data on pension wise appointments across 2019-2020 here: <a href="https://moneyandpensionsservice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pension-Wise-Service-Evaluation-report-2019-2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://moneyandpensionsservice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pension-Wise-Service-Evaluation-report-2019-2020.pdf</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 136597 question first answered 19/01/2021 13:24:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4644 label Biography information for Mike Hill

886403

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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	Personal Health Budgets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department’s planned expansion of the NHS's personal health budget scheme.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	136598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>Personal health budgets are not about new money, nor are they about cutting costs. They are about using National Health Service money that would have already been spent on an individual, in a different way to meet their identified health needs.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence from the evaluation of the personal health budget pilot programme, showed that personal health budgets can support a move from unplanned, emergency care to planned care, and that they are cost effective in comparison to conventional services. It also found that people with the highest levels of need experienced similar or improved outcomes when using a personal health budget. The full evaluation report of the personal health budget pilot programme can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.phbe.org.uk" target="_blank">www.phbe.org.uk</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/04/2018 12:21:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger