Fabian Hamilton MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the loss of transitional protection under Universal Credit for claimants who form a couple, including where one partner acts as a carer.
Answer: Transitional Protection is designed to give customers notified to move to Universal Credit time to adjust. It is not intended to permanently replicate legacy benefits and ends when there is no longer a meaningful comparison between a household’s final leg...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48362More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the decision to freeze Local Housing Allowance rates until 2026.
Answer: Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates are reviewed annually, usually at an Autumn fiscal event. At last year’s Autumn Budget, the decision to maintain LHA at current levels for 2025/26 was taken after a range of factors were considered, including rental dat...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing Allowance: UpratingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of not uprating the Local Housing Allowance on (a) poverty and (b) homelessness; and whether she plans to increase rates in line with rental costs.
Answer: No assessment has been made using current economic assumptions and methodological practices. However, the department has previously produced a poverty impact assessment using OBR economic assumptions from 30th October 2024 on an outdated version of the mo...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAgeing and Older People: Public AppointmentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of the introduction of a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing in England.
Answer: DWP offers employment support for eligible older people through the network of Jobcentres across the UK. The White Paper published on 26 November focuses on support for people who are economically inactive, people who are looking for work or want to prog...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce delays in the administration of Carer's Allowance; and what steps she is taking to inform carers about the Carer's Allowance earnings threshold.
Answer: Recruitment and deployment of additional resources is taking place to enable the Carer’s Allowance (CA) unit to meet the consistent increased demand, which should reduce the clearance times for new claims to CA. DWP has reviewed its communications to ensu...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people that are unable to work due to (a) long-term illness, (b) disability and (c) other circumstances are adequately supported following her planned reforms to
Answer: The social security system will always be there for those who can’t work. As part of making changes to the payment rates in Universal Credit, we will ensure that those with the most severe, lifelong conditions who will never be able to work have their inc...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposed welfare reforms on levels of economic inactivity.
Answer: No estimate has yet been made. As announced in the Green Paper, we will build towards a guarantee of personalised employment, health and skills support for anyone on out of work benefits with a work-limiting health condition or disability who wants it. Ca...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability and EmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40999More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she plans to take to (a) reform (i) employment support and (ii) disability services and (b) support more people into work.
Answer: We announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper that we would establish a new guarantee of support for all disabled people and people with health conditions claiming out of work benefits who want help to get into or return to work, backed up by £1 billio...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40998More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to improve the PIP assessment process for (a) all claimants and (b) claimants with fluctuating conditions.
Answer: It is important that all people claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are able to access our services and that they do not face obstacles in applying and communicating with the Department and its providers. In the Green Paper Pathways to Work: Refo...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support PIP claimants into work.
Answer: We announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper that we would establish a new guarantee of support, backed up by £1 billion of new funding. We want this guarantee to have a particular focus on early support, by offering everyone who claims UC and has a w...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to provide personalised support to jobseekers.
Answer: We are ending the one-size-fits-all approach by reforming both the welfare and employment support systems to Get Britain Working, opening-up employment opportunities in a fair and more sustainable way to boost economic growth. We announced in the Pathways...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Social Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that changes to (a) Universal Credit taper rates and (b) other benefits (i) encourage more people into work and (ii) support people in work.
Answer: As the Chancellor has set out, this Government is reforming the social security system to support people into work, while protecting people who will never be able to – making the system sustainable so that it is there to help those of us that need it now ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCarersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help support unpaid carers.
Answer: Unpaid carers play a vital role in supporting elderly or disabled relatives or friends. Sometimes unpaid carers will need to turn to the benefit system for financial support, so it is right that we keep Carer’s Allowance under review, to see if it is meet...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCost of Living: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 5883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the cost of living for people with disabilities.
Answer: In England, the Household Support Fund (HSF) is a scheme providing discretionary support towards the cost of essentials, such as food and energy to those most in need, including disabled people. The current HSF is running from 1 October 2024 until 31 Marc...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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