Rachel Gilmour MP: written questions

4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025

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Written questions

Child Maintenance Service: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58812More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of service for users provided by the Child Maintenance Service.
Answer: Through the Service Modernisation Programme, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has made significant improvements to both communications and digital service in order to provide separated parents a greater level of service. The online digital service 'Get...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
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Child Maintenance Service: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the communication of the Child Maintenance Service.
Answer: Through the Service Modernisation Programme, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has made significant improvements to both communications and digital service in order to provide separated parents a greater level of service. The online digital service 'Get...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
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Housing: ConstructionDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53750More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will issue guidance on raising an issue of safety on a housing development where the operators are aware of the risks.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive already provide guidance on raising health and safety issues in a workplace or public space. This can be found on their website www.hse.gov.uk/contact/tell-us-about-a-health-and-safety-issue.htm
Answered 29 May 2025
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Personal Independence Payment: AppealsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the (a) length in number of applicants and (b) duration of time of the backlog in Personal Independence Payment awards for appeals where a decision was previously made.
Answer: As of April 2025, a total of 8,900 appeals are currently in progress. This figure has been rounded to the nearest 100. DWP is not solely responsible for appeals wait time. Appeals are lodged by claimants with His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (H...
Answered 27 May 2025
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Personal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the (a) length in number of applicants and (b) duration of time of the backlog in Personal Independence Payment awards.
Answer: As at the end of January 2025, a total of 265,000 New Claims were in progress. This figure has been rounded to the nearest 1,000.For the average clearance times in median weeks for New Claims under Normal Rules, please see the Personal Independence Paymen...
Answered 27 May 2025
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Food Supply and PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the potential cost to the public purse of (a) food insecurity and (b) economic hardship.
Answer: It is unacceptable that people are falling into hardship and using foodbanks. This is why we have committed to tackling poverty and ending mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Our plan for Making Work Pay and our Get Britain Working White Paper, alo...
Answered 12 May 2025
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Social Security Benefits: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she make an assessment of the adequacy of levels of welfare support for children within married families.
Answer: We will bring in a permanent, above inflation, rise to the standard allowance in Universal Credit for the first time ever by raising the standard allowance above inflation from 2026/27 until 2029/30. This is in stark contrast to the freeze between 2016/17...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
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Cattle: Walls and FencesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46487More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who is (a) responsible for the installation of fencing to keep cattle safely grazing and (b) liable if the fence breaks and a member of the public is injured by cattle.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety, this includes workplace health and safety risks created in agriculture. The main piece of health and safety legislation enforced by HSE is the Health an...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
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Employment and Support Allowance and Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the financial impact of transitioning from ESA to Universal Credit on adults with preventing disabilities.
Answer: We have interpreted your question to mean ‘To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the financial impact of transitioning from ESA to Universal Credit on adults with preventable disabilities’. The G...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
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Pension Credit: Winter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27303More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the withdrawal of Winter Fuel payments on pensioners who (a) are not in receipt of Pension Credit and (b) have an annual income below £15,000.
Answer: The Government has had to make hard choices to bring the public finances back under control. The policy change ensures that the Winter Fuel Payment will be better targeted to low-income pensioners who need it most. Information on pensioners with incomes b...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
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State Retirement Pensions: PaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22214More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of paying the State Pension in monthly instalments.
Answer: State Pension payments are usually paid four weekly in arrears. People have the option to be paid weekly or in some circumstances bi-weekly. There are no plans to introduce alternative payment arrangements.
Answered 9 Jan 2025
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Child Maintenance ServiceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report by Gingerbread entitled Fix the CMS, published on 25 November 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) assigning (i) dedicated and (ii) named case
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) continues to engage regularly with stakeholders as we consider CMS reform. We are currently considering the recommendations and our response to the Gingerbread report ‘Fix the CMS’.The CMS Service Modernisation Programm...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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Universal Credit: Mental HealthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the journal system for Universal Credit on the mental health of applicants and users.
Answer: DWP are committed to providing the best possible support for all our customers, including the most vulnerable in society. Within Universal Credit, we recognise that customers have individual needs and different barriers, so we train and support all our wo...
Answered 15 Nov 2024
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Department or topic	Published records
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	4
Department for Education	20
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	6
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	28
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	3
Department for Transport	6
Department for Work and Pensions	13
Department of Health and Social Care	40
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	6
Home Office	2
Ministry of Defence	2
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	16
Ministry of Justice	4
Treasury	11

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