Neil Duncan-Jordan MP: written questions
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Business 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
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42352More
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, whether disabled people aged between 19 and 2
Answer: In Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper we are consulting on raising the age someone can access the UC Health Element to 22, which would remove any potential disincentive to work during this time. It would al...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42351More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published on 26 March 2025, what financial support her Department plans to provi
Answer: The changes to PIP eligibility will ensure we can focus the benefit more on those with higher needs. There will be no immediate changes to anybody’s entitlement. Our intention is that the new eligibility requirement in Personal Independence Payment, where...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRecycling: Public HousesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on the beer and pub sector.
Answer: In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not split the assessment by sector. The Government has worked closely with industry,...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPackaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with international counterparts on best practices for balancing the environmental benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility with economic sus
Answer: Defra and PackUK have engaged with multiple European and Canadian EPR schemes throughout development of pEPR, using international best practice to inform the drafting of the regulations. Many of the international EPR schemes are managed by Producer Respon...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPackaging: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42346More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on businesses in the UK compared to similar schemes in (a) France, (b) Germany and (c) Ca
Answer: In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not compare the impact of fees to international schemes. Illustrative base fee estim...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPathways to Work: Impact AssessmentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42060More
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, whether she considered the potential merits o
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 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42059More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraphs 2.33 to 2.35 of HM Treasury's document entitled Spring Statement 2025, published on 26 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the changes in hea
Answer: No such assessment 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. We are investing £1 billio...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42058More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published on 26 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact
Answer: No such assessment has been made. However, the proposals have been carefully designed to protect the finances of severely disabled people. The Department published “Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Equality Analysis” and “Spri...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: HealthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published on 26 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact
Answer: No such assessment has been made. However, the proposals have been carefully designed to protect the finances of severely disabled people. The Department published “Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Equality Analysis” and “Spri...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
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