Mel Stride MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Erasmus+ Programme: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how will the cost of the Erasmus Scheme in 2027/28 be funded.
Answer: We have agreed terms with the European Commission that represent a fair balance between the UK’s contribution and the benefits the programme offers, which paved the way for UK participation.We have agreed a 30% discount compared to the default terms in th...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordErasmus+ ProgrammeTreasuryTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100843More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the OBR's fiscal forecasts included the costs of the Erasmus scheme.
Answer: As usual, any changes since the last forecasts will be included in a future forecast.
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: LoansDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the outstanding value is of student loan debt owed by EU students; and how much of that debt is being actively repaid.
Answer: An EU borrower is a borrower who was originally domiciled in an EU country prior to entering higher education in England. Tuition fee funding for new EU students in England without 'settled' or 'pre-settled status' ceased in the 2021/22 academic year. How...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordInheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 17 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100841More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of estates subject to paying Inheritance Tax in (a) the most recent year for which data is available and (b) each year up to 2030-31.
Answer: The statistics for the number of estates subject to paying inheritance tax (IHT) are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/inheritance-tax-liabilities-statistics. The statistics for the number of estates forecast to pay inheritance tax are...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99701More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether 2026-27 business rate transitional reliefs should be calculated using base liabilities which include the application of Retail, Hospitality and Leisure rate relief in 2025-26.
Answer: The government has announced support for those losing RHL relief through an expanded Support Small Business scheme which caps bill increases at the higher of £800 or the relevant TR cap. The SSB cap applies to the ratepayers’ current bill, including the 4...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been migrated from Employment and Support Allowance to Universal Credit since July 2024.
Answer: This information will be published as part of a routinely released statistical series in February 2026.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: PregnancyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what number and proportion of pregnant Universal Credit claimants were deemed to have Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity due to pregnancy risk in the most recent year for which data is availab
Answer: Between January 2024 and December 2024 there were 1,150 UC claimants who were deemed to have Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) due to pregnancy risk following a health assessment. Information on all UC claimants who are pregnant is not ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpring StatementTreasuryTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96109More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there will be a Spring Statement in 2026 to accompany the OBR's Spring Forecast 2026; and whether the OBR's Spring Forecast 2026 will include the scoring of new measures announced since Autumn Budget 2025.
Answer: The Chancellor will set out her plans for the Spring forecast in due course.
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Business RatesTreasuryTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90166More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of businesses currently eligible for retail, hospitality and leisure relief have a normal business rates liability of £110,000 or less.
Answer: Eligible retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties benefit from 40 per cent business rates relief up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business in 2025/26. MHCLG publish data on the number of properties benefitting from RHL relief. As business rates ar...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: Public ExpenditureDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74565More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how his Department's capital budgets (a) were allocated in each financial year since 2023-24 and (b) have been allocated for each of the next five financial years.
Answer: The Capital budget for the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) for FY2023-24 and 2024-25 are available via the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee - Estimate memoranda - Committees - UK Parliament, published on the UK Parliament website....
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: MigrantsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74564More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average award is for pension credit claimants with a non-CTA immigration status.
Answer: The requested statistics are not held by the Department.
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: MigrantsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74562More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were in receipt of Pension Credit for each of the last five financial years, by immigration status.
Answer: The requested statistics are not held by the Department.
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74560More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were exempted from the benefit cap for the latest period for which data is available, by (a) reason for exemption and (b) amount they would otherwise have had capped.
Answer: The requested statistics are not readily held by the Department and to produce them would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 7 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: ExpenditureDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) proportion and (b) amount of Universal Credit expenditure was for adults with non-Common Travel Area immigration status in the latest period for which information is available.
Answer: Universal Credit awards are paid to households, which may include both British and foreign nationals who are eligible. Therefore, the information requested is not readily available at the required quality and to provide it would incur disproportionate cos...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 73995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of levels of annually managed expenditure savings due to planned increases in the proportion of face to face (a) PIP and (b) Work Capability Assessments in each of the next fi
Answer: The department has not yet made an estimate of the impact on Annually Managed Expenditure of the planned increases in the proportion of face-to-face assessments for PIP and Work Capability Assessments.
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it has ever been her Department's policy to treat moving into employment as a change of circumstances which triggers a reassessment for (a) personal independence payment and (b) the work capabil
Answer: Being in work, of itself, is not a change of circumstances for the purposes of triggering an award review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or the Work Capability Assessment determination. We are legislating for this approach and believe it is the ri...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the total caseload for UC LCWRA and ESA Support Group participated in Additional Work Coach Time in the most recent (a) month and (b) financial year for which data is available; and w
Answer: Additional Work Coach Support provides disabled people and people with health impairments increased one-to-one personalised support from their work coach to help them move towards, and into, work. Last month, June 2025, 900 LCWRA claimants voluntarily sta...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: MigrantsTreasuryTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66135More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) welfare payments and (b) other services paid to people with indefinite leave to remain in each financial year since 2019-20 onwards.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIncome TaxTreasuryTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64420More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Oral Statement of 30 October 2024 on Financial Statement and Budget Report, Official Report, column 821, whether it remains her policy not to extend the freeze on income tax thresholds.
Answer: The Government is committed to keeping taxes for working people as low as possible while ensuring fiscal responsibility. That is why, at our first Budget, we decided not to extend the freeze on personal tax thresholds.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it remains her Department's policy to spend an additional £1 billion on employment support for people with health conditions and disabilities by 2029-30 relative to pre-Spring Statement plans, f
Answer: We will spend an additional £1 billion on employment support for people with health conditions and disabilities by 2029-2030 relative to pre-Spring Statement plans, with no impact following changes made to the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Pa...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Medical ExaminationsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64011More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made a comparative assessment of award rates for (a) in-person and (b) other modes of PIP assessment.
Answer: The Health Assessment Channels Trial, conducted by the department between May 2022 and March 2023, compared the monetary impact of each PIP assessment channel, focussing on initial claimants eligible for all channels (in-person, telephone or video). The t...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability AssessmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the award rate for Work Capability Assessment was (a) in-person, (b) not in-person and (c) across all modes in each of the last 10 years; and whether her Department has made a comparative assessmen
Answer: The information requested on decisions is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, relevant available information on health professional recommendations has been provided in response to a previous Parliamentary ...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment and Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64009More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people impacted by the changes to PIP proposed in the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill she estimates will (a) lose eligibility to PIP entirely, (b)
Answer: The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out the Government’s intention to abolish the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). This reform will move away from categorising individuals into binary groups of ‘can work’ or ‘can’t work’. Instead, eligibility for additi...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64008More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Oral Statement of 30 June 2025 on Welfare Reform, columns 23-25, whether (a) the cost of changes to her welfare reform proposals include the cost of the new severe conditions group
Answer: We published Impact Assessments alongside this Bill in the usual way. These set out who will be impacted, the financial implications of the changes and equality analysis.To account for the proposed changes to the Bill, the Impact Assessment will be revise...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64007More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Oral Statement of 30 June 2025 on Welfare Reform, columns 23-25, what the evidential basis was for her statement that less that 1% of people on universal credit move into work each
Answer: The statistics referred to in that statement related to those on Universal Credit in the Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity Group. Statistics on the Into Work Rates of Claimants on the Universal Credit Health Journey by month can be fou...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
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