Adam Dance MP: written questions 2025

Written questions

• Employment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23608More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to consult with organisations that advocate for deaf and disabled people on employment support reforms; and what recent discussions she has had with those organisatio

  Answer: This Government is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to working with disabled people to design our reforms. The Get Britain Working White Paper announced that DWP will establish a panel to consult disabled people as part of our wi...

  Answered 16 Jan 2025

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• Social Rented Housing: RentsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23607More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring social housing providers to refer tenants to a local debt advice service before serving them with an eviction

  Answer: The government is clear that social landlords should seek to sustain tenancies and should only evict as a last resort.Landlords will, when managing their social housing schemes, provide advice and assistance to those struggling financially, including sign...

  Answered 16 Jan 2025

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• Housing Benefit: Social Rented HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23606More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the bedroom tax on the number of incidences of exploitation by criminals taking over the homes of vulnerable people.

  Answer: No such assessment is planned. Taking over of a person’s home for use by criminals, also known as ‘cuckooing’, is an appalling practice which can drive violence, exploitation and anti-social behaviour in our communities. The Government’s Safer Streets Mis...

  Answered 25 Feb 2025

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• Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: SomersetDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22814More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of difficulties faced by NHS patients in Somerset in receiving prescriptions of Creon.

  Answer: The Department monitors and manages medicine supply at a national level so that stocks remain available to meet regional and local demand. We have not made an assessment of stock levels within Somerset specifically.The Department has been working with sup...

  Answered 13 Jan 2025

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• Department of Health and Social Care: CorrespondenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22204More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20545 on Department of Health and Social Care: Correspondence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that 80% of hon. Members receive

  Answer: The Department is committed to meeting the target of responding to at least 80% of correspondence from Hon. Members within 20 working days. Parliament has a right to hold Ministers to account. We recognise there is room for improvement and we are committe...

  Answered 9 Jan 2025

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• Young People: Education and EmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21820More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what sanction regime will be used for young people under the Youth Guarantee; how that regime will differ from the conditionality regime; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of that

  Answer: The Youth Guarantee will be available to all young people in England aged 18-21, not just those on benefits, and therefore sanctions are not relevant for many in scope of the Guarantee. Young people on benefits can access DWP’s Youth Offer and Jobcentre P...

  Answered 13 Jan 2025

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• Unemployment: Government AssistanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21819More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support people who are out of work but not receiving employment support.

  Answer: As part of the biggest reforms in a generation, DWP will shift from being a department for welfare to being a department for work. The Get Britain Working White Paper published in November set out plans to deliver fundamental reform of our health, employm...

  Answered 10 Jan 2025

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• Integrated Care BoardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21818More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the criteria are for Ministers to (a) intervene in an Integrated Care Board's reconfiguration proposal and (b) revisit decisions made in those proposals.

  Answer: The call-in power introduced on 31 January 2024 allows my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to intervene in service reconfigurations within the National Health Service at any stage where a proposal exists and following th...

  Answered 13 Jan 2025

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