Rachael Maskell MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Employment Schemes: Unpaid WorkDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to take steps to ensure that work-trial schemes allow people to return to previous levels of social security if they are not successful.
Answer: The DWP Work Trial scheme is one of several DWP initiatives that support jobseekers into sustainable work. Allowing some jobseekers who have successfully applied for a job, to do that job for a short unpaid period, whilst retaining benefits. Specifically,...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60529More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will ensure that people in receipt of Carers Allowance will to continue to receive that allowance if the person being cared for is no longer in receipt of social security support.
Answer: Unpaid carers play a vital role in supporting people with long-term health conditions and disabilities, and this Government recognises and appreciates the vital contribution made by all unpaid carers. Carer’s Allowance recognises this contribution and ref...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: ParentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support children of disabled people who have had PIP removed.
Answer: PIP provides a contribution to the extra costs an individual faces as a result of needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability. It is not an income replacement benefit.We have committed to introduce a new requirement that claimants must s...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60526More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support disabled people who (a) are too ill to work and (b) score less than 3 points under Pathways to Work.
Answer: We have committed to introduce a new requirement that claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living component of PIP. This will target PIP at people who have a higher level of funct...
Answered 25 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support will be available to disabled people that are unable to secure employment after the implementation of planned changes to Pathways to Work.
Answer: We are delivering the biggest investment in support for disabled people and those with health conditions in at least a generation – a total of £1.9bn over 4 years. Our Pathways to Work Guarantee will provide work, health and skills support for disabled pe...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment and Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59776More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people who lose (a) PIP and (b) the Universal Credit health element have timely access to (a) psychological services and (b) suicide prevention professionals duri
Answer: We are aware from working closely with health colleagues that there is increased anxiety relating to the Green Paper changes resulting in people seeking health related support.We want to reassure people that the changes to PIP will not come into effect im...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment and Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59775More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to assess the increased cost of (a) health and (b) social care on people following the loss of (i) PIP and (ii) Universal Credit health element.
Answer: Our plans are designed to protect the most vulnerable and give disabled people equal chances and choices to work. We will always work to ensure that the most vulnerable and severely disabled people are protected and consider how best we can support people...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59774More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to assess the impact of losing PIP to people in employment.
Answer: Approximately 17% of current PIP claimants are in employment.The Office of Budget Responsibility has committed to produce an assessment of the labour market impacts of the proposals in the Pathways to Work Green Paper at the time of the autumn budget.Info...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment SchemesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to provide support to people who are unable to secure employment after the transition period.
Answer: We are delivering the biggest investment in support for disabled people and those with health conditions in at least a generation. Our Pathways to Work Guarantee will provide work, health and skills support for disabled people and those with health condit...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy that local authorities will be required to subsidise the loss of (a) PIP and (b) Universal Credit Health Element to disabled people.
Answer: Our plans are designed to protect the most vulnerable and give disabled people equal chances and choices to work. We will always work to ensure that the most vulnerable and severely disabled people are protected and consider how best we can support people...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment and Universal Credit: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is planning to take to support disabled people following the potential loss of (a) Universal Credit and (b) PIP.
Answer: Our plans are designed to protect the most vulnerable and give disabled people equal chances and choices to work. We will always work to ensure that the most vulnerable and severely disabled people are protected and consider how best we can support people...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to social security payments after a three month transition period on disabled people.
Answer: We are aware from working closely with health colleagues that there is increased anxiety relating to the Green Paper changes resulting in people seeking health related support.We want to reassure people that the changes to PIP will not come into effect im...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Benefit: Social Rented HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a disabled person in their household pay a spare room subsidy payment.
Answer: Easements from RSRS deductions allow for the provision of an additional bedroom to support the needs of disabled people and families of disabled children such as where members of the household are unable to share a bedroom or where overnight care is requi...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Benefit: Social Rented HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56827More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people pay spare room subsidy payments.
Answer: Easements from RSRS deductions allow for the provision of an additional bedroom to support the needs of disabled people and families of disabled children such as where members of the household are unable to share a bedroom or where overnight care is requi...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing Benefit: Social Rented HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56826More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has considered ending spare room subsidy payments.
Answer: Easements from RSRS deductions allow for the provision of an additional bedroom to support the needs of disabled people and families of disabled children such as where members of the household are unable to share a bedroom or where overnight care is requi...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisqualificationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of ending conditionality through sanctioning in relation to social security.
Answer: The Department has made no assessment on ending conditionality through sanctioning. It is right that there should be conditions and consequences to labour market support. We will continue to ensure that claimants who need support receive it and consider h...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisqualificationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of conditionality through sanctions on levels of (a) poverty and (b) mental health of social security recipients.
Answer: The Department has made no assessment on ending conditionality through sanctioning. It is right that there should be conditions and consequences to labour market support. We will continue to ensure that claimants who need support receive it and consider h...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56823More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what methods her Department uses to calculate the minimum amount of social security that a person can live off.
Answer: Under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 the Secretary of State is required by law to review State Pension and benefit rates each year to see if they have retained their value in relation to the general level of prices or earnings. We have uprate...
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on ensuring that (a) voluntary and (b) community organisations are adequately funded to support the child poverty st
Answer: Local Authorities are key partners in tackling child poverty and the Child Poverty Taskforce, co-chaired by the Secretary of State, will bring forward a UK-wide child poverty strategy which supports and enables shared solutions. The Taskforce recognises t...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented Housing: Housing Benefit and Local Housing AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much (a) local housing allowance and (b) housing support was provided to tenants in the private rented sector in each of the last five years.
Answer: Information on how much the Department for Work and Pensions spent to support households a) in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) and in receipt of the Local Housing Allowance and b) in the PRS in general is published and the latest statistics can be found a...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56266More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to introduce a minimum income guarantee for people in receipt of social security.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of the social security safety net and the role Universal Credit has to play in tackling poverty and making work pay. In the Pathways to Work Green Paper, we announced that we will improve the adequacy of the standa...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle poverty among parents who are carers of disabled children.
Answer: Tackling child poverty is an urgent priority for this Government. The Child Poverty Taskforce’s publication of 23 October ‘Tackling Child Poverty: Developing our Strategy’ sets out how we are developing the Strategy, exploring all available levers to driv...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to set up a task group on tackling the impact of poverty on disabled people.
Answer: This government is putting disabled people’s views and voices at the heart of everything we do. That is why we have brought forward the Pathways to Work Green Paper and opened a public consultation. This consultation welcomes all views, and we hope that a...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) funding and (b) devolved powers she plans to provide to local authorities to help them tackle child poverty.
Answer: Local Authorities are key partners in tackling child poverty and the Child Poverty Taskforce, co-chaired by the Secretary of State, will bring forward a UK-wide child poverty strategy which supports and enables shared solutions. The Taskforce recognises t...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56262More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of potential impact of the potential impact of proposals to amend Carer's Allowance in the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper,
Answer: The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out our plans to reform health and disability benefits and employment support. There are no proposals to amend Carer’s Allowance in the Pathways to Work Green Paper and therefore no such estimate has been made. As the ...
Answered 5 Jun 2025
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