Danny Kruger MP: written questions
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Written questions
Pension 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
Original Parliament recordHousehold Support FundDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15918More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Household Support Fund.
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions is currently conducting an evaluation of the Household Support Fund that ran from April 2023 to March 2024, to understand the benefits of the awards made across England during this period. This will be published in due...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15917More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of issuing a commencement order for curfews for non-compliant parents refusing to pay child maintenance.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service already has a suite of strong enforcement powers at its disposal. These include using Enforcement Agents (previously known as bailiffs) to take control of goods, forcing the sale of property, removal of driving licence or UK ...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15916More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for responding to her Department's consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the collection and transfer of payments, published on 8 May 2024.
Answer: A consultation on proposed reforms to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) was published by the previous Government on 8 May 2024. These proposed reforms included removing Direct Pay and managing all CMS cases in one service to allow the CMS to tackle non-...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPoverty: Budget October 2024Department for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15915More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on the number of people living in poverty by household type.
Answer: We are committed to tackling poverty. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people falling into poverty so this will be the foundation of our approach. Backed by £240m investment, the Get Britain Working White Paper launched on 26...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPoverty: Budget October 2024Department for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15914More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on trends in the number of people living in poverty.
Answer: We are committed to tackling poverty. We know that good work can significantly reduce the chances of people falling into poverty so this will be the foundation of our approach. Backed by £240m investment, the Get Britain Working White Paper launched on 26...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPersonal Income: Budget October 2024TreasuryTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15913More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on trends in the level of household income.
Answer: UK living standards, as measured by Real Household Disposable Income (RHDI) per capita, have not grown at the pace many would have hoped for over recent years. If RHDI per capita had grown at the same rate between 2010 and 2023 as it did between 1997 and ...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment Rights Bill: Social Security BenefitsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15912More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the number of people claiming (a) Universal Credit and (b) other benefits.
Answer: The Employment Rights Bill Impact Assessments show that by boosting protections and the quality of work for the lowest paid in the labour market, who are concentrated in more deprived areas of the UK, the package will help to raise living standards across...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15911More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for responding to her Department's closed consultation entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, published on 29 April 202
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 October 2024 to question number 6515. The answer can be found here: Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMedical CertificatesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15910More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish a consultation on fit note reform.
Answer: The call for evidence was launched under the previous government to seek views on how the current fit note process works and the support required to facilitate meaningful work and health conversations. It closed on the 8 July 2024 and received around 1,90...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHezbollah: UN ResolutionsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on Hezbollah’s non-compliance with UN Resolution 1701.
Answer: The announcement of a ceasefire agreement to end hostilities between Israel and Lebanese Hizballah offers hope. The UK was the first G7 country to call for an immediate ceasefire in September and we have worked relentlessly since, with our allies and part...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWritten question 901407Department for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle hare coursing.
Answer: This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England and Wales only. This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation. That is exactly what we will do, ...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChurch Commissioners: CharitiesChurch CommissionersTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13531More
Question: To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what the (a) charitable object and (b) nominal current value is of each (i) trust and (ii) other fund held by the Church Commissioners; and what document defines each such charitable
Answer: The Church Commissioners' are a statutory body corporate and its charitable purposes are set out in a range of statutory provisions. There is no single instrument which specifies each of the purposes for which the Church Commissioners may apply their fund...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPolice: AviationHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with police forces on aerial service needs.
Answer: The National Police Air Service (NPAS) is a police-led collaboration governed by the NPAS National Strategic Board (NSB), which is made up of Chief Constables and PCCs representing each policing region. The NSB sets the direction for the National Police A...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Police Air ServiceHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) relevant stakeholders on levels of police grants in the context of procuring new aircraft for the National Police Air Service.
Answer: The National Police Air Service (NPAS) is a police-led collaboration governed by the NPAS National Strategic Board (NSB), which is made up of Chief Constables and PCCs representing each policing region. The NSB sets the direction for the National Police A...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Police Air ServiceHome OfficeTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11344More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the effectiveness of the National Police Air Service.
Answer: The National Police Air Service (NPAS) is a police-led collaboration governed by the NPAS National Strategic Board (NSB), which is made up of Chief Constables and PCCs representing each policing region. The NSB sets the direction for the National Police A...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChallenger Tanks: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Army Board on the future of the Challenger 3 programme.
Answer: During his visit to Army HQ on 19 September, the Secretary of State for Defence met members of the Army Board and discussed a range of issues including the Army's Equipment Plan supporting the Army's modernisation.The Challenger 3 programme remains an imp...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
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