Angus MacDonald MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Employment: ArthritisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64704More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department has provided to help people with arthritis to (a) remain in and (b) return to work.
Answer: Good work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. Disabled people and people with health conditions, including arthritis, are a diverse group so access to the...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: ArthritisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64703More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Personal Independence Payment claimants with a primary condition of arthritis.
Answer: There were 471,358 Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants with a primary medical condition of arthritis in April 2025. This information can be found on Stat Xplore in the ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement from 2019’ table. You can use the ‘Disability’ fi...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: AutismDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63504More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support autistic people into work.
Answer: We are committed to supporting neurodivergent people, including autistic people, get into and thrive in work. Our Jobcentres have a range of support available, including Disability Employment Advisors. On 6th March 2025 we announced that we will deploy 10...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Blue Badge Scheme and Carer's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63503More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of uncoupling Carer’s Allowance and Blue Badges from PIP.
Answer: It is a long-established principle that in order for an unpaid carer to receive Carer’s Allowance the person they are caring for should be receiving a “trigger” disability benefit. This link acts as a proxy for establishing that care needs exist. We have ...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Chronic IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50454More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Personal Independence Payments assessments for people with (i) moderate and (ii) fluctuating health conditions.
Answer: The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment looks at how a long-term health condition or disability impacts on daily life across 12 activities, taking into account fluctuations over a 12-month period. The activities are grouped into two components,...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: Chronic IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of cuts to (a) Personal Independence Payments and (b) the health top-up in Universal Credit on people with (i) moderate and (ii) fluctuating conditio
Answer: No assessment has been made on the impacts of the reforms on claimants with particular health conditions.Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper has been published here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britai...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: British Nationals AbroadDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34574More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for Personal Independence Payments to include people who have been forced to move abroad due to life-threaten
Answer: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can continue to be paid during an absence from Great Britain for 13 weeks. This can be increased to 26 weeks where the absence is specifically in relation to medical treatment of the condition which existed prior to a t...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Carer's Allowance in supporting unpaid carers; and whether she plans to increase the rate of that allowance.
Answer: This Government continues to protect the value of benefits paid to carers whilst also spending record amounts in real terms. The Secretary of State undertakes a statutory annual review of benefit and pensions, and the value of Carer’s Allowance is protect...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Leader of the House on scheduling a parliamentary debate on compensation for women affected by changes to the state pension age.
Answer: Sir John Hayes MP (Conservative, South Holland and The Deepings) has secured a Westminster Hall general debate on the topic of ‘Compensation for women affected by changes to the State Pension age’ on Wednesday 15 January 2025.
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPensions: Disclosure of InformationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to increase transparency in the (a) management and (b) adjustment of pension schemes.
Answer: Trustees have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the scheme membership, and are required by law to provide members with information about how the scheme has been managed. This includes legal duties about transparency and disclosure of inform...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: British Nationals AbroadDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential financial impact of uprating the pensions of British pensioners overseas whose state pensions are currently frozen.
Answer: No assessment has been made. The UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide and is uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so, for exa...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordState Retirement PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of the differences in the amounts received by recipients of the old and new State Pension.
Answer: We are absolutely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement.It is not possible to make direct, like for like comparisons between State Pension amounts received under the pre 2016 State Pension s...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordState Retirement PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5160More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people over the age of 65 receive adequate financial support through the State Pension.
Answer: We are absolutely committed to supporting pensioners and giving them the dignity and security they deserve in retirement. The Government is committed to the Triple Lock, which means that in April 2025, the basic and new State pension will increase by the ...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
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