Rachel Gilmour MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals AbroadDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of frozen state pensions on UK state pensioners residing overseas.
Answer: The UK's policy on the up-rating of the UK State Pension for recipients living overseas is a longstanding one. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide without regard to nationality and is uprated abroad where we have a legal requirement to do so. This a...
Answered 28 May 2026
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work Programme: Multiple SclerosisDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 115960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Access to Work Scheme supports people with multiple sclerosis in employment.
Answer: The support that a customer will receive from Access to Work is dependent upon their needs and circumstances at the time they make an application. Case managers will use the current guidance to ensure Access to Work principles are considered when making a...
Answered 17 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: WomenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of State Pension age changes for 1950s-born women on woman in Tiverton and Minehead constituency.
Answer: All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age. Estimates can be made using ONS 2021 Census Data on how many women born in the 1950s resided in each constituency in that year.
Answered 21 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCountryside: WalkingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 89178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) Health and Safety Executive regulations on the interaction between walkers and cattle and (b) how those regulations are communicated to (i) farmers a
Answer: Health and safety legislation places a duty on farmers to manage the risk to the public from cattle as far as it is reasonable to do so. The nature of modern health and safety legislation is largely goalsetting, rather than prescriptive. This is important...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 906021More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have lost entitlement to Pension Credit as a result of their calculated entitlement being short by 50p or less.
Answer: The Department does not hold information about the total income and circumstances of all pensioners. That is why we ask people to apply for pension credit rather than being able to make awards automatically.
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: Health and SafetyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74723More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had recent discussions with retailers on the safety and security of people who are lone working in stores.
Answer: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has the policy lead for workplace health and safety in Great Britain. However, the primary responsibility for managing risk to health and safety lies with employers. An employer is the person or organisation that is l...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Chronic Illnesses and DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72444More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) support is provided for claimants with (i) severe health conditions and (ii) daily-living needs who score zero on a Personal Independence Payment assessment,
Answer: Personal Independence Payment (PIP) provides a contribution towards the extra costs that may arise from a long-term disability or health condition. Entitlement to PIP focuses on the functional impacts of a person’s health condition or disability on thei...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: PublicityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help increase awareness of (a) Access to Work and (b) other employment support programmes.
Answer: Employers are crucial in enhancing employment opportunities and supporting disabled people and those with health conditions to thrive in the workforce. Access to Work aims to support the recruitment and retention of disabled people into employment. It is ...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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