Harriet Cross MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Winter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners in receipt of a Winter Fuel Payment in 2023-24 were no longer eligible in 2024-25.
Answer: It is estimated that 9.2 million pensioners who received a WFP in 2023/24 were not eligible for a WFP in 2024/25. This estimate was published in the OBR Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBatteries: StorageDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Health and Safety Executive plans to create a dedicated department within the Energy Division of the Hazardous Industries Directorate to take responsibility for battery energy storage system
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) deploys its resources to deliver risk based proportionate regulation of workplaces, including battery energy storage system (BESS) facilities. This approach is set out in HSE’s Regulatory approach – (Regulation of hea...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Chapter three of the Government's Get Britain Working White Paper, published on 26 November 2024, if she will publish an outline of the scope of the Government's planned health and dis
Answer: We are working to develop proposals for health and disability reform in the months ahead and will set them out in a Green Paper in Spring. This will launch a consultation on the proposals, with a conclusion to be set out in a white paper later this year. ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35168More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's White Paper entitled Get Britain Working, published in November 2024, when she plans to publish details of the planned public consultation; and what the timeline will
Answer: The Get Britain Working White Paper outlines the government's commitment to engage with stakeholders on the detailed policy development and implementation of reforms.We are engaging with disabled people, and others with relevant expertise and experience, ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBereavement Support PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the time frame in which bereavement support can be claimed.
Answer: Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) helps people with short-term bereavement costs, by way of a lump sum followed by up to 18 monthly instalments. The lump sum has a 12 -month, and each instalment a 3- month, time limit for claiming. A person would need to ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
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