Claire Hanna MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Social Security Benefits and Welfare Tax Credits: UpratingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62267More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to uprate (a) inflation-linked benefits and (b) tax credits for the 2026–27 financial year in line with the consumer prices index rate of inflation for September.
Answer: The Social Security Administration Act 1992 requires the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to review State pension and benefit rates each year to see if they have retained their value in relation to the general level of prices or earnings. Where th...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Allowance: Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by Maternity Action, entitled Pushed into Poverty, published in May 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the recommendation on £7.99 million model
Answer: No assessment is planned. Universal Credit treats Maternity Allowance in the same way as legacy means-tested benefits, such as Income Support or Income Based Jobseeker’s Allowance, in that it is taken fully into account. Whilst we keep all policies under ...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Allowance: Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60534More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of treating Maternity Allowance as earned income for the purposes of calculating Universal Credit.
Answer: No assessment is planned. Universal Credit treats Maternity Allowance in the same way as legacy means-tested benefits, such as Income Support or Income Based Jobseeker’s Allowance, in that it is taken fully into account. Whilst we keep all policies under ...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordParental Pay: Living WageDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what long-term plans her Department has to increase levels of (a) maternity, (b) paternity and (c) parental pay in line with the National Living Wage.
Answer: Government spends approximately £3 billion a year on parental payments. When considering calls to increase the level of maternity benefits generally, those must be balanced against limited resources as well as being mindful of the burden on employers, the...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordParental Pay: Living WageDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Maternity Allowance and (c) Shared Parental Pay to 62.5 per cent of the weekly National Living Wage by
Answer: Government spends approximately £3 billion a year on parental payments. When considering calls to increase the level of maternity benefits generally, those must be balanced against limited resources as well as being mindful of the burden on employers, the...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment InsuranceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work, published on 18 May 2025, what estimate she has made of the number of claimants currently in receipt of contributory Employment
Answer: The Department is currently consulting on a proposed Unemployment Insurance. The consultation closes on 30 June 2025. No decisions have yet been made about transitioning existing claimants of NS ESA and NS JSA to the proposed Unemployment Insurance and th...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Benefit: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work, published on 18 May 2025, what estimate has she made of the potential impact of her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways t
Answer: PIP is administered in Northern Ireland by the Department for Communities (DfC). DfC is responsible for producing analysis on how the planned reforms will impact claimants in Northern Ireland.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55485More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) deaf and (b) disabled people who will be affected by proposed Personal Independence Payment changes in Northern Ireland.
Answer: PIP is administered in Northern Ireland by the Department for Communities (DfC). DfC is responsible for producing analysis on how the planned reforms will impact claimants in Northern Ireland.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to (a) directly invite the views of disabled people and (b) directly engage with stakeholder groups on the Pathway to Work proposals.
Answer: This government strongly values the input of disabled people and representative organisations, and that is why we have brought forward this Green Paper and opened a public consultation. The consultation welcomes all views, and we hope that a wide range of...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure the consultation events on the Pathway to Work are accessible to people with disabilities.
Answer: This government strongly values the input of disabled people and representative organisations, and that is why we have brought forward this Green Paper and opened a public consultation. The consultation welcomes all views, and we hope that a wide range of...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Severe Disability PremiumDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to apply for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal from the Upper Tribunal judgement Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v MJ [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC).
Answer: In relation to the recent judgment in Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v MJ [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC), the Secretary of State will not be seeking permission to appeal the outcome.
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45928More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to hold consultation events in Northern Ireland on the Pathways to work Green Paper.
Answer: We are committed to putting the views and voices of disabled people and people with health conditions at the heart of everything we do. In the Green Paper, we have announced that we will set up collaboration committees to develop parts of our reforms furt...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability Assessment: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Northern Ireland will be impacted by changes proposed to the Work Capacity Assessment.
Answer: Social security is transferred (devolved) to the Northern Ireland Executive where it is administered by the Department for Communities.
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: British Nationals AbroadDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8684More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the Government's policy on uprating the State Pension for people living overseas.
Answer: There are no plans to review the policy on up-rating the UK State Pensions Overseas. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in countries ...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordWorkplace PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6607More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral evidence provided by the Minister for Pensions to the Work and Pensions Committee on defined benefit pension schemes on 10 January 2024, Session 2023-24, HC 144, what plans sh
Answer: I have heard about the problems experienced by Defined Benefit pension scheme members adjusting to an income in retirement which may be less than they were expecting following the insolvency of their employer. I recognise the importance of these issues fo...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 212More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report into women’s State Pension age changes, published on 21 March 2024, if she will take steps to introduce compensation for women a
Answer: As a newly formed Government we will need time to review and consider the Ombudsman’s report along with the evidence provided during the investigation. This Government respects the work of the Ombudsman. Now the election has concluded we need to consider ...
Answered 22 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordDisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 204More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the UK's progress on implementing the recommendations made in the report entitled Concluding observations on the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Answer: The Government is committed to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and improving disabled people’s lives in all aspects of life. The previous Government’s latest response to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilit...
Answered 23 Jul 2024
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