Danny Kruger MP: written questions
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Archbishops' CouncilChurch CommissionersTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52344More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, if she will (a) publish the amounts certified under subsection 2(6) of the National Institutions Measure 1998 for each year since that provision came into force and (b) place cop
Answer: The Church Commissioners will be able to publish the 2024 certificate after the annual general meeting on the 19th June, when the Church Commissioners' annual report will be published and laid in the House of Commons Library. The Commissioners have commit...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Advisory ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50230More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full time equivalent work coaches were working in JobCentres in each month since July 2024.
Answer: The table below shows the monthly number of full time equivalent work coaches working in Jobcentres since July 2024: MonthJul-24Aug-24Sep-24Oct-24Nov-24Dec-24Jan-25Feb-25Mar-25FTE16,78016,85017,02017,24017,21017,19017,24017,28017,160 Notes:The number of s...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Social ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of adult social care to local authorities for people in receipt of (a) Personal Independence Payment and (b) other working age benefits.
Answer: No estimate has been made.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Social ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of the Personal Independence Payment are also in receipt of adult social care support.
Answer: The Department does not centrally record whether PIP claimants are in receipt of adult social care support.
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of changes to the Personal Independence Payment on social care costs for local authorities.
Answer: The Pathways to Work Green Paper announced our plans to bring forward reforms to the Personal Independent Payment (PIP) eligibility criteria. We are consulting on how best to support those who are affected by the eligibility changes and we will work close...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJobcentres: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average number of people assigned to each work coach is.
Answer: In March 2025 there were 1,662,380 Universal Credit (UC) customers in the Searching for Work conditionality regime, and at the end of March 25 the number of full time equivalent (FTE) Work Coaches was 17,160. Not all UC claimants have a Work Coach. We hav...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJobcentres: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent work coaches work in jobcentres.
Answer: The latest figure for the number of Work Coaches expressed as Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) in the Department is 17,160 as at the end of March 2025. Notes:The number of Work Coaches has been derived from DWP's Activity Based Model (ABM). This model gives an ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Medical ExaminationsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, whether her Department plans to provide additional trainin
Answer: All health professionals who carry out PIP assessments receive comprehensive training in disability analysis which includes evaluation as to how medical conditions affect claimants in their day-to-day activities, as well as awareness training in specific ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Medical ExaminationsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, what proportion of PIP assessments she expects to be face-
Answer: The Department is committed to assessing people for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) as quickly as possible to ensure they receive the support they are entitled to in a timely manner. PIP assessments are currently carried out via a range of channels. A...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: AppealsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, whether people affected by changes to the Universal Credit
Answer: Decisions made by a decision maker on entitlement to benefit generally confer a right of appeal. The outcome of any WCA will lead to a decision about the customer’s capability for work, which would have appeal rights. If the customer disagrees with that ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Terminal IllnessesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, whether people with terminal illnesses will be
Answer: Claimants of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) who are nearing the end of their life will be unaffected by the reforms to the PIP assessment criteria. Claims made under the special rules for end of life are automatically awarded the enhanced rate of the...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, if she will make it her policy to publish an evaluation of
Answer: We anticipate that we will assess effectiveness of Pathways to Work measures in the usual way, including through evaluation of their implementation and the impacts that they have on employment, incomes, benefit receipt and other indicators. We will publis...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Chronic Illnesses and DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of he
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, with some information already published alongside the Spring Statement. A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Pa...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSports Competitors: Heart DiseasesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of extending eligibility for heart screening to amateur athletes.
Answer: The safety, wellbeing and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is absolutely paramount.National Governing Bodies (NGBs) are responsible for the regulation of their sports and for ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to protect participants ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability AssessmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing the Work Capability Assessment.
Answer: The Work Capability Assessment is not working and needs to be reformed or replaced. We are committed to reforming the system of health and disability benefits so that it promotes and enables employment among as many people as possible. The system must als...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29905More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to accelerate the rollout of Universal Credit.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Statement of 12 November (Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament)
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what passport benefits of what average value a Pension Credit claimant may be eligible to receive.
Answer: Pension Credit claimants can receive passported benefits such as:- Winter Fuel Payment;- Housing Benefit for those who rent the property they live in;- support for Mortgage Interest for those who own the property they live in;- a Council Tax discount for ...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost to the public purse is of (a) a Pension Credit claimant, (b) their council tax discounts and (c) other passport benefits.
Answer: Data on Pension Credit award amounts is routinely published and made publicly available via DWP Stat-xplore. At May 2024, the average weekly Pension Credit award amount was £82.66. This figure does not include other operational and administrative costs, s...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Certificates: Public ConsultationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish data collected from the fit note trailblazers.
Answer: In 2024, the previous government announced fit note trailblazers to be included in some of the 15 WorkWell pilot areas across Integrated Care Boards in England. Due to the timings of the General Election the trailblazers were not launched. The learning fr...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6515 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, if she will publish the consultation responses from organisations.
Answer: We will not be publishing organisational responses to the previous Government’s consultation, as it is for each organisation to choose whether or not to publish its response. Many organisations have already published their own responses.
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel Payment: PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of pensioner poverty levels in each region following changes to the eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment.
Answer: The latest available data on pensioner poverty levels by region is published by the Department here Households below average income:Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 to 2023 - GOV.UK On 19 November, Secretary of State wrote ...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Poverty Taskforce: ConferencesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Child Poverty Taskforce holds first Scottish summit, published on 22 November 2024, if she will publish a list of (a) attendees and (b) speakers
Answer: The Child Poverty Taskforce will publish the child poverty strategy in Spring 2025 and further details on the engagement which helped develop the strategy will be outlined as part of the publication. Working closely with partners across all UK nations and...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArchbishops' CouncilChurch CommissionersTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19811More
Question: To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how much (a) the Church Commissioners distributed to and (b) was certificated by the Archbishops’ Council under section 2(6) of the National Institutions Measure 1998 in each year sin
Answer: Section 1 of the Miscellaneous Provisions Measure 2018 (“the 2018 power”) came into force on 1 March 2019 and has only been used for grants made since the start of 2020. Between the Archbishops' Council’s inception at the start of 1999 and the end of 2019...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordIncome: EqualityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department (a) made and (b) has since made an assessment of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on trends in the level of income inequality.
Answer: HM Treasury have published distributional analysis showing the estimated impact of tax, welfare and public service spending decisions on household incomes, across the household income distribution. This can be found here Impact_on_households.pdf (publishi...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: ReviewsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17267More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the terms of reference will be for her Department's review of universal credit.
Answer: The Department is committed to reviewing Universal Credit to make sure it is doing the job we want it to and meeting our objectives of making work pay and tackling poverty. We have already begun this work with the introduction of the new fair repayment ra...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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