Neil Duncan-Jordan MP: written questions
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Employment and Support Allowance: Multiple SclerosisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis get contributions-based Employment and Support Allowance.
Answer: In August 2024 there were 14,620* people in receipt of contributions-based ESA whose main condition was multiple sclerosis. * Rounded to the nearest ten.
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Multiple SclerosisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis receive Universal Credit.
Answer: The specific information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Multiple SclerosisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with multiple sclerosis who receive a Personal Independence Payment daily living award do not score more than four points in any of the daily living activities.
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get ...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: DisadvantagedDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43683More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper: Pathways to Work, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to (a) health and (b) disability benefits on
Answer: The Government is committed to building a fairer Britain, to ensure people can live well for longer, and spend less time in ill health, regardless of where they are born or their financial circumstances. We are working with the Department for Health and S...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: Impact AssessmentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43682More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will undertake a health impact assessment of proposed changes to health and disability benefits in her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Suppor
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, with some information published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get B...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to review cross-Government spending on tackling homelessness, in the context of the Spending Review.
Answer: As part of the current Spending Review, the government will be reviewing all spending across government, including spend on tackling homelessness. The Deputy Prime Minister is leading cross-government work to deliver the long-term solutions we need to get...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: HomelessnessDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the welfare reforms proposed in her Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, last updated 28 March 202
Answer: No assessment has yet been made. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Refor...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchool MilkDepartment for EducationTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure schools fulfil their legal obligations under school food standards to provide free milk for students with their free school (a) breakfast and (b) meal.
Answer: Under the School Food Standards, schools must ensure milk is available to all pupils who want it during school hours, which includes any time during a school session or a break between sessions. Section 512ZB (3) of the Education Act 1996 sets out the req...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSchool MilkDepartment for EducationTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the number of children who are not receiving their free milk entitlement; and if she will take steps to monitor compliance with school food standards.
Answer: Under the School Food Standards, schools must ensure milk is available to all pupils who want it during school hours, which includes any time during a school session or a break between sessions. Section 512ZB (3) of the Education Act 1996 sets out the req...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Rates: Public HousesTreasuryTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43332More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce a permanent reduction in business rates for pubs.
Answer: We intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality and leisure (RHL) properties, including pubs, with rateable values below £500,000 from 2026-27, and fund this by introducing a higher multiplier on properties with rateable values ...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBeer: Excise DutiesTreasuryTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43331More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to extend the freeze on beer duty.
Answer: At the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor cut alcohol duty on qualifying draught products, including mostly draught beer – approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. This represents an overall reduction in duty bills of over £85m a year and is equ...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for Students: Freedom of ExpressionDepartment for EducationTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43266More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the Office for Students registered theological colleges’ compliance with academic freedom and freedom of speech obligations.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Poole to the answer of 9 April 2025 to Question HL6374.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: TaxationTreasuryTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43258More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how she determines which state benefits are (a) subject to and (b) exempt from tax.
Answer: The tax treatment of social security benefits depends on their purpose. Generally, benefits that replace income are subject to tax, while those intended to support specific needs are exempt.
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: HealthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43238More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the potential financial impact of changing the eligibility to the health element of Universal Credit to people aged 22 on disabled young people aged between 18 and up to
Answer: Information on the impacts of the “Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper” will be published in due course, with some information already published alongside the Spring Statement. [https://www.gov.uk/government...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to WorkDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made in the Pathways to Work Green Paper of the adequacy of (a) ill health and (b) disability benefits.
Answer: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) provides a contribution to the extra costs that may arise from a disability or health condition. DWP pays close attention to estimates of the extra costs faced by disabled people; including academic research, analysis b...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to WorkDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, when she plans to publish further information on how her Department
Answer: As the Green Paper notes, we are keen to engage widely on the design of this guarantee and the components needed to deliver it. To get this right, we will be seeking input from people who are out of work on health and disability grounds and their represen...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to WorkDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what steps she plans to take to help support people with severe lif
Answer: The social security system will always be there for those who can’t work. As part of making changes to the payment rates in Universal Credit, we will protect the incomes of those with the most severe, lifelong conditions who will never be able to work.For...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to WorkDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42958More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) children and (b)
Answer: An assessment on this basis is not available. The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to WorkDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42956More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with disabilities and long-term health conditions will be supported by the £1bn a year funding outlined in the Green Paper: Pathways to Work, published on 18 March 2025.
Answer: We announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper that we would establish a new guarantee of support for all disabled people and people with health conditions claiming out of work benefits who want help to get into or return to work, backed up by £1 billio...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42955More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) part-time and (b) full-time employment opportunities that will be available by 2029-30 for those disabled people and people with health conditions as outl
Answer: No such estimate has been made. However, we have evidence that delivering better and more tailored employment support can get more people off welfare, and into work - alongside a higher expectation to engage with that support. Therefore, we are investing ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: HealthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the level of saving from reducing the health element of Universal Credit in cash terms to £50 per week in 2026-27 for new claimants.
Answer: The table below breaks down the overall savings into the static savings of the two policies and the impact of the expected behavioural changes. The behavioural changes are the expected impact of both policies on claimant behaviour. DWP costings are produc...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: HealthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42953More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the level of saving from freezing the health element of Universal Credit in cash terms at £97 per week until 2029-30 for existing recipients.
Answer: The table below breaks down the overall savings into the static savings of the two policies and the impact of the expected behavioural changes. The behavioural changes are the expected impact of both policies on claimant behaviour. DWP costings are produc...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42952More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, on people in receipt of carer
Answer: This government is committed to supporting unpaid carers, who provide invaluable support to elderly or disabled people. As the Green Paper sets out, we will consider the impacts on benefits for unpaid carers as part of our wider considerations of response...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42354More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, what steps her Department is taking to consul
Answer: We have set out proposals to reform the health and disability benefits proposals in the Pathways to Work Green Paper published on 18 March 2025. A full 12-week consultation will begin from the point all accessible versions are published on GOV.UK. We want...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, by what date she expects to publish accessibl
Answer: The remaining accessible formats of the Green Paper have now been published and can be accessed here: Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper - GOV.UK. A full suite of accessible versions is available including ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
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