Josh Babarinde MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Employment Schemes: EastbourneDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support jobseekers in Eastbourne.
Answer: The Get Britain Working White Paper published in November set out plans to deliver fundamental reform of our health, employment and skills system, that will help support economically inactive people in all areas in England get back into work.We committed ...
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce delays in processing Personal Independence Payment assessments.
Answer: We are committed to ensuring people can access financial support through Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in a timely manner. Reducing customer journey times for PIP claimants is a priority for the Department and we are working constantly to make impro...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help support employers to create inclusive workplace environments that support people with hidden disabilities to (a) secure and (b) stay in work.
Answer: Employers are crucial in enhancing employment opportunities and supporting disabled people and those with health conditions to thrive in the workforce. The Disability Confident Scheme encourages employers to create disability inclusive workplaces and to s...
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: PaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36862More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of dispensing PIP payments on a weekly basis.
Answer: Payments of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are made every four weeks in arrears, other than SREL (Special Rules, End of Life) cases, which are paid weekly in advance. These are set out in legislation.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to consult claimants before making any future changes to (a) Personal Independence Payments, (b) Work Capability Assessments and (c) the Disability Living Allowance.
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 ahead of the Spring Statement later this year. This will launch a public consultation on the proposals. This Government is comm...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32741More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will reverse the Government’s decision not to provide pension compensation to women who were born in the 1950s and 1960s.
Answer: We carefully considered the Ombudsman’s findings to ensure our decision was fair and based on the evidence.We have accepted the Ombudsman’s finding that there was a 28-month delay in sending out letters and for this we have apologised. However, we do not ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27606More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the report entitled Nothing has changed, published by Citizens Advice Eastbourne in January 2025.
Answer: We are committed to reforming the system of health and disability benefits so that it promotes and enables employment amongst as many people as possible. We will set out our proposals in a Health and Disability Green Paper ahead of the Spring Statement. W...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
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