Richard Tice MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Personal Independence Payment: EligibilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41602More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an estimate of the proportion of Personal Independence Payment recipients who would remain eligible for support under the proposed changes to the disability benefits syst
Answer: The publication ‘Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts’ provides some information on the numbers affected by the proposed changes to the disability benefits system. In particular, table A3 on page 8 shows the estimated impa...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39269More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to review the calculation of child maintenance payments, in the context of the use of gross salaries for assessments; and what assessment she has made of the potentia
Answer: Information about the paying parent's gross income is taken directly from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for the latest tax year available. This allows calculations to be made quickly and accurately. Any income subject to income tax, including bonuses and ...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the difference between the rates of the (a) basic state pension and (b) new state pension on pensioners; and whether the Department has considered the potent
Answer: The Government has made a commitment to the Triple Lock for the entirety of this Parliament which will mean spending on people’s State Pensions is forecast to rise by over £31 billion. It is not possible to make direct, like for like comparisons between S...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance ServiceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32514More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will commission an independent investigation into the mortality rates of paying parents using the Child Maintenance Service.
Answer: There are currently no plans to commission an independent investigation into the mortality rates of paying parents using the Child Maintenance Service. The Child Maintenance Service is committed to delivering a safe service that is sensitive to the needs ...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 28 of Schedule 7 of the Pensions Act 2004, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners who have accrued pensionable service before 6 April 1997 for which they do
Answer: The rules around PPF indexation are generally in line with the legal requirements for defined benefit pension schemes. I recognise this matter has been the subject of much discussion and am aware of the concerns of pensions scheme members affected by this...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: Freedom of InformationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in her Department are responsible for (a) processing and (b) responding to Freedom of Information Act requests; and if she will make an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of
Answer: The Department does not keep this information centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs. This is because, whilst all Freedom of Information (FOI) requests are cleared by a central team, depending on the nature of the request, any memb...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many paying parents party to a child maintenance agreement are assessed to have an income of less than £12,570 per year; how many paying parents are in receipt of universal credit; and how many payi
Answer: At the end of September 2024, there were 289,000 Paying Parents using the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) with a recorded income of less than £12,570 per year. This is 43% of all Paying Parents for whom we held income information. Information on the numbe...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23595More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the costs to the Child Maintenance Service are of the (a) supervision and (b) processing of (i) Direct Pay and (ii) Collect and Pay arrangements.
Answer: The cost of running the Child Maintenance Service is not separated between a) supervision and (b) processing of (i) Direct Pay and (ii) Collect and Pay arrangements, therefore, the information requested is not held.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23594More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what private sector companies the Child Maintenance Service has contracted to implement enforcement proceedings; what the value of each contract is; whether funds paid by parents are paid to such compan
Answer: DWP holds a number of contracts to support Child Maintenance Service enforcement proceedings. Qualco UK Ltd – Managed Enforcement Agency Services – contract award forecast value £686,750. Shakespeare Martineau LLP - Orders for Sale Litigation Services – c...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former armed forces personnel have been subject to enforcement proceedings by the Child Maintenance Service since 2021.
Answer: The information requested is not available, as the Child Maintenance Service do not maintain a historical record of employers for each paying parent.
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many separated families applied to the Child Maintenance Service for advice on creating a family-based arrangement from 2021 to 2024; and how many parents who approached the Service did not proceed
Answer: The information requested is not available. However, the Get Help Arranging Child Maintenance (GHACM) service opened on 18 November 2021 and provides individuals with information about options available for paying or getting support for a child, this incl...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: MigrantsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23066More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of migrants that have been granted (a) asylum and (b) leave to remain in the last five years are receiving Universal Credit; and what estimate she has made of the projected
Answer: The Department is exploring the feasibility of developing suitable Official Statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK/ Irish Universal Credit customers. The Department will ensure that this work is done in line with the Code of Practice for S...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: MigrantsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23064More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of migrants who entered in the UK in the last 5 years are in receipt of state benefits.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information to produce the requested calculation. We are, however, exploring the feasibility of developing suitable statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish customers. The Department will ensure that ...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Winter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23061More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of excluding people on Personal Independence Payment from eligibility for the winter fuel payment on their ability to meet energy costs.
Answer: Given the substantial pressures faced by the public finances this year and next, the Government has had to make hard choices to bring the public finances back under control. Winter Fuel Payments will continue to be paid to pensioner households with someon...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Foreign NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants are not UK citizens.
Answer: The Department checks immigration status when assessing eligibility for Universal Credit, but the requested statistics are not readily available. We are, however, exploring the feasibility of developing suitable statistics related to the immigration statu...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNational Insurance: Bulgaria and RomaniaDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many National Insurance Numbers were issued to (a) Bulgarian and (b) Romanian nationals in Boston and Skegness constituency in each year since 2021.
Answer: The Department publishes quarterly statistics on National Insurance number allocations to adult overseas nationals entering the UK on Stat-Xplore. The latest statistics, for January 2002 to June 2024, can be compiled by rolling year end to June and nation...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChild Maintenance Service: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to (a) improve the (i) effectiveness and (ii) efficiency of the Child Maintenance Service and (b) help tackle unpaid child maintenance.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has a relatively low percentage of unpaid maintenance. Only 8% of the total maintenance due to be paid since the start of the CMS remains to be collected through the collect & pay service. This was as high as 17% in...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
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