Liz Jarvis MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Personal Independence Payment: Bipolar DisorderDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the Personal Independence Payment assessment process for people living with bipolar disorder.
Answer: Entitlement to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is based on the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability and not on a particular disability or diagnosis such as bipolar disorder. Health conditions may be physical, sensory, mental, ...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: VeteransDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61337More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of mandatory in-person assessments on levels of likelihood of veterans seeking support.
Answer: As announced in Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, we are planning to do more face-to-face health assessments. We will, however, preserve alternative health assessment channels to meet the specific needs o...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: VeteransDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61336More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will introduce mandatory training to ensure that all benefits assessors understand the impact of military service-related (a) injuries and (b) mental health conditions on claimants who have serve
Answer: I have interpreted your question to refer to health professionals (HPs) who conduct Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments and Work Capability Assessments (WCA) for our assessment suppliers on behalf of the department, and not Department for Work...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Multiple SclerosisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain, published on 5 June 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Departme
Answer: No separate assessment has been made.Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper has been published here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’(opens in a new tab).Impacts of the proposed c...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: AppealsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57426More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time is for her Department to respond to Mandatory Reconsideration requests.
Answer: The median mandatory reconsideration (MR) clearance times have been provided for Universal Credit (UC), Personal Independence Payment (PIP), and Employment Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessment (WCA) benefit decisions. To provide information ...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAttendance AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57425More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to promote take-up of Attendance Allowance.
Answer: Attendance Allowance provides support for those with care needs in England and Wales, regardless of income and capital. It also gives rise to an additional disability amount in Pension Credit for those on low incomes. Some advisory organisations and local...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Cystic FibrosisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 57424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will exempt people with cystic fibrosis from proposed changes to disability benefits.
Answer: The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out a broad package of reforms to health and disability benefits and employment support. We have committed to putting on the face of the Bill strong protections for the most vulnerable. We will protect the income of al...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: British Nationals AbroadDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review its policy on freezing state pensions for people who move abroad.
Answer: The Department has no plans to review such reciprocal social security agreements.
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people receiving disability benefits for Ménière's disease will be exempt from her proposed reforms to the benefits system.
Answer: The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out a broad package of reforms to health and disability benefits and employment support. The functional impact and severity of a condition can significantly vary across individuals, so we are not planning for specific ...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed reforms to Personal Independence Payments on blind and partially sighted people.
Answer: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is assessed on needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability rather than the health condition or disability itself. Individuals can be impacted by their health conditions in different ways and the assess...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJobcentres: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the National Audit Office report entitled Supporting people to work through jobcentres, published on 31 March 2025, what steps her Department plans to take to increase the number of jo
Answer: We are reforming both the welfare and employment support systems to make best use of our work coaches’ time, ensuring a system that is fit for purpose. We are targeting support where it is needed most to tackle ill-health and disability-related economic i...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38401More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the 1.7% increase in benefits that are linked to inflation from April 2025 for disabled people receiving a state pension.
Answer: Attendance Allowance (which provides support for pensioners with care needs) has been consistently uprated in line with inflation since it was introduced and will be increased by 1.7% from April 2025. This means that the higher rate of Attendance Allowanc...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
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