Helen Whately MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Access to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 104739More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2025 to Question 96708 on Access to Work Programme, what the salary bands are of people on the Access to Work scheme who are receiving payments per customer of (a) £4
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions does not hold information on the salaries of Access to Work recipients. Access to Work eligibility is not linked to salary, so this information is not routinely collected by the Department.
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 103816More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2026 to Question 96708, what practical support is given to people receiving a) £40,000 - £49,999, b) £50,000 - £59,999, c) £60,000 - £69,999 and d) above £70,000.paym
Answer: The support that a customer will receive from Access to Work is dependent upon their needs and circumstances at the time they make an application and will be tailored to the individual. This flexibility helps customers to receive support that is most appr...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101455More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the 55,000 Jobs Guarantee placements will go to each of the six specified regions.
Answer: For long-term unemployed 18–21-year-olds on Universal Credit, the Jobs Guarantee scheme will provide six months of paid employment. This will reach around 55,000 young people over the next three years.We know young people need support quickly and that is ...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTrainingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101454More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Department will provide a list of employers who will provide the additional work experience placements and additional bespoke training opportunities announced on December 8 2025.
Answer: We will be working closely with Youth Guarantee supporters and partners across the country to deliver jobs, apprenticeships, work experience and training places. The government will set out details of Youth Guarantee employers and partners in due course.
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101453More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Department will provide a projection of how many people will gain (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment after their placement on the Youth Guarantee scheme.
Answer: As part of the Youth Guarantee we are breaking the cycle of unemployment by guaranteeing paid work for every eligible 18-21 year old who has been on Universal Credit, looking for work, for 18 months. This will give young people their first step on the lad...
Answered 29 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101452More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has been made of the potential impact of the (a) the Youth Guarantee and (b) the Government’s new scheme for under-25s on the workload of employers.
Answer: Nearly one million young people aged 16 to 24 – around one in eight - are currently Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET). To tackle this crisis of opportunity, the government has expanded the Youth Guarantee. The Government is investing £820 m...
Answered 29 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many small and medium-sized businesses he has engaged with as part of the Government’s new scheme for under-25s.
Answer: Public and private sector employers, the third sector, and education and training providers are integral to the success of the Youth Guarantee, including Small and Medium sized businesses who have a key role to play. We have started engaging with stakehol...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: ApprenticesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, will he provide an estimate for the number of people who will take up apprenticeship training at small and medium-sized businesses under the Government’s new scheme for under-25s.
Answer: To meet this government’s ambition to support 50,000 more young people into apprenticeships, including at small and medium-sized enterprises, we are taking a range of action backed by an additional £725m of investment announced by my right hon. Friend the...
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, will claimants who reject a placement under the Youth Guarantee scheme retain access to benefits.
Answer: The Youth Guarantee is part of a new social contract with young people opportunity matched by responsibility. Young people who can work will be expected to engage with the support offered. If the support is declined without good reasons, existing benefit ...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will list the employers which have been engaged with the Youth Guarantee scheme.
Answer: Public and private sector employers, the third sector, and education and training providers are integral to the success of the Youth Guarantee. Many employers recognise that investing in young people and training their workforce drives both business succe...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101447More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) private sector, (b) public sector and (c) third sector organisations have signed up to the Youth Guarantee scheme.
Answer: Public and private sector employers, the third sector, and education and training providers are integral to the success of the Youth Guarantee. Many employers recognise that investing in young people and training their workforce drives both business succe...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101446More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many providers of (a) apprenticeships, (b) training and (c) education have signed up to the Youth Guarantee scheme.
Answer: Public and private sector employers, the third sector, and education and training providers are integral to the success of the Youth Guarantee. Many employers recognise that investing in young people and training their workforce drives both business succe...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordYouth GuaranteeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people does the Department estimate will be eligible for the Youth Guarantee at the beginning of the scheme, and for each quarter until the end of this Parliament.
Answer: We are investing £820 million over the next 3 years in our Youth Guarantee to overhaul support and give a generation of young people a brighter future. Different aspects of the Youth Guarantee have different eligibility criteria. Young People claiming ben...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101051More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households on Universal Credit have a combined income between £831 and £861 a month after tax and national insurance contributions, broken down by those who are (a) employed and (b) self-employ
Answer: Of the 6.9 million households on Universal Credit in the most recent month for which official statistics are available (August 2025), around 40,000 households had an income of between £831 and £861 from employment and/or self-employment. Around 7,000 of t...
Answered 26 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 101050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households returned to the benefit cap because of the loss of an exempting benefit other than PIP during (a) the quarter to August 2025, (b) the quarter to May 2025, (c) the quarter to February
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 26 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100936More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households returned to the benefit cap because of the loss of PIP during (a) the quarter to August 2025, b) the quarter to May 2025, (c) the quarter to February 2025 and (d) the quarter to Nove
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 26 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: CarersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100473More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,how many households include (a) one, (b) two and (c) three or more people in receipt of Carer’s Element in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: There is a maximum of two claimants on a Universal Credit (UC) claim therefore there cannot be 3 or more claimants on the UC claim being attributed with the carer’s element.a) In August 2025, 1,045,000 UC households had the UC carer's element of £201.68 f...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCarer's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households have (a) one, (b) two and (c) three or more individuals in receipt of Carer’s Allowance.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Published information on the number of people in receipt of Carer’s Allowance using DWP administrative data, and information on benefit receipt on a ho...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 8 December 2025 to UIN 96251, whether his Department plans to make an estimate of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autu
Answer: The department does publish quarterly benefit cap statistics about the number of households that have been capped but this does not provide a breakdown of exemptions nor go into an individual exemption breakdown level. These were last published on 16 Dece...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autumn Budget 2025.
Answer: The department does publish quarterly benefit cap statistics about the number of households that have been capped but this does not provide a breakdown of exemptions nor go into an individual exemption breakdown level. These were last published on 16 Dece...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Budget 2025, what assessment he has of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the salary sacrifice policy for employee pension contributions on the number of hours worked
Answer: The proposed Salary Sacrifice policy’s changes to employer contributions will not have an impact on National Health Service employees' working hours. HM Treasury's Managing Public Money guidelines prevent public funds from being used to offset National In...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99213More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on overall hours withdrawn by employees.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99212More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on hours worked by people near tax cliff edges.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99211More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice cap policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on employee hours worked in (a) the private sector and (b) the public sector.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99210More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on pensions and hours worked by (a) sex, (b) age and (c) NUTS region.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
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