Ben Maguire MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Social Security Benefits: PensionersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60755More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mixed-age couples are impacted by the rule which prevents them from claiming pension-age benefits until the youngest partner reaches State Pension age.
Answer: The requested information is not held The requirement that both members of a couple need to have reached State Pension age to be eligible for Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit took effect from 15 May 2019. Income-related benefit support for co...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: PensionersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of he rule which prevents mixed-age couples from claiming pension-age benefits until the youngest partner reaches State Pension age on the numb
Answer: The requirement that both members of a couple need to have reached State Pension age to be eligible for Pension Credit or pension-age Housing Benefit was introduced by the previous conservative government from 15 May 2019. Benefit support for couples wher...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37866More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of waiting times for mental health treatment on levels of health-related economic inactivity.
Answer: The Office for National Statistics (ONS) plans to link NHS waiting times data to Census, DWP Benefits and HMRC PAYE records to analyse the relationship between waiting time duration (for various health conditions and procedures) and labour market outcomes...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of trends in mental health waiting lists on the number of people out of work.
Answer: The Department has not assessed the impact of trends in mental health waiting lists on the number of people out of work. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) plans to link NHS waiting times data to Census, DWP Benefits and HMRC PAYE records to analyse...
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing Allowance: RentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21947More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that Local Housing Allowance rates reflect rents in (a) rural and (b) urban areas.
Answer: In April 2024, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) increased to the 30th percentile of local market rents for one year at a cost of £7bn over 5 years.LHA rates are set within Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs), which are determined by rent officers at the Valuat...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21946More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a protected minimum floor for Universal Credit.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of the social security safety net and the role Universal Credit has to play in tackling poverty and making work pay. That is why a Fair Repayment Rate will be introduced from April 2025, reducing the overall cap on...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that people entitled to (a) Pension Credit uplifts and (b) other pension uplifts receive them automatically; and what assessment she has made of the pote
Answer: A Pension Credit award can include additional amounts for:Severe disability;Caring for a disabled person;Children that the claimant is responsible for; andCertain housing costs. These additional amounts can increase or uplift the value of a Pension Credit...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHSBC: Workplace PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps is the Department is taking to support (a) pensioners who face significant reductions in their pensions when they reach state pension age and (b) other pensioners affected by the HSBC Clawbac
Answer: Members of an integrated scheme are not having money they are entitled to taken away from them when they reach state pension age. A member’s benefit entitlement is adjusted and paid as higher payments before they receive their State Pension, then in lower...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMeans-tested Benefits: North CornwallDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to (a) calculate and (b) distribute funding to people on means-tested benefits in North Cornwall constituency.
Answer: The department administers a wide variety of means-tested benefits and asked for clarification on which benefits you were specifically interested in. As no response was received we have interpreted the question to refer to the costs of administering all m...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel Payment: Motor Neurone DiseaseDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of changing eligibility requirements for the winter fuel payment on the affordability of energy for people with motor neurone disease.
Answer: This Government is committed to pensioners – everyone in our society, no matter their working history or savings deserves a comfortable and dignified retirement. Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the governme...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, published on 21 March 2024, whether sh
Answer: We have not estimated the costs of providing redress in North Cornwall. The Ombudsman’s report (para 504) published on 21 March 2024 estimated that providing compensation to all 1950s women at the level 4 range would cost between around £3.5 and £10.5bn. ...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will run a public consultation on changing eligibility requirements for the Winter Fuel Payment before implementing a change in policy in relation to that payment.
Answer: This Government is committed to pensioners – everyone in our society, no matter their working history or savings deserves a comfortable and dignified retirement. Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the governme...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel Payment: North CornwallDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people in North Cornwall constituency who will be affected by her decision to change eligibility requirements for the Winter Fuel Allowance.
Answer: This Government is committed to pensioners – everyone in our society, no matter their working history or savings deserves a comfortable and dignified retirement. Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the governme...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changing eligibility requirements for the Winter Fuel Allowance on the affordability of energy for people aged over 65 in (a) North Cornwall const
Answer: Around 20,000 people in the North Cornwall constituency will be affected by the change in eligibility requirements. Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the government has had to make hard choices to bring the p...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
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