Sarah Olney MP: written questions
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Office for Value for MoneyTreasuryTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12455More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of the Office for Value for Money on Government expenditure in each of the next three financial years.
Answer: The Office for Value for Money has two primary roles. First, to provide targeted interventions, working with Treasury and departments, so that value for money governs every decision government makes. Second, to recommend system reforms to ensure any chang...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffice for Value for Money: StaffTreasuryTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12454More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff in the Office for Value for Money have a salary over £100,000.
Answer: The Office for Value for Money has one member of staff with a salary of over £100,000. This is within the pay range for Senior Civil Service Directors across government.
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were waiting to be assessed for pension credit on 28 October 2024.
Answer: As of 29th July, there were 33,883 claims outstanding and as of 28th October, there were 76,569 claims outstanding. Since the announcement to means test Winter Fuel payments, to date we have increased the resource in Pension Credit claims by around five h...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were waiting to be assessed for pension credit on 29 July 2024.
Answer: As of 29th July, there were 33,883 claims outstanding and as of 28th October, there were 76,569 claims outstanding. Since the announcement to means test Winter Fuel payments, to date we have increased the resource in Pension Credit claims by around five h...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit claims were processed within her Department’s planned timescale in 2024.
Answer: As per the publication of the DWP Annual Report and Accounts (ARA), 77.7% of Pension Credit claims were processed within the Department’s planned timescales in the Financial Year 2023 to 2024. The next publication of the ARA will include claims processed ...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 12097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for pension credit there were in each week from 23 September to 28 October 2024.
Answer: As per Gov.uk, the Department has announced it will publish updated Pension Credit application and award statistics on 28 November 2024. Releases will be quarterly, including Pension Credit application, clearance, and award/non-award volumes data from 1 A...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordLaw Reporting: CostsMinistry of JusticeTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 901074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of providing free court transcripts to survivors of sexual assault and other serious crimes.
Answer: I understand transcripts may help individuals obtain closure from traumatic events.Since May 2024, the Ministry of Justice has been running a pilot providing free sentencing remarks to victims of rape and serious sexual offences. We will be evaluating the...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Airspace Design Service: StaffDepartment for TransportTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11022More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled, Creating a UK Airspace Design Service, published on 22 October 2024, whether the service will be staffed from existing Departmental staff.
Answer: The consultation published on 22 October outlines our proposals to set up a UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS), initially undertaken by NATS (En Route) plc (NERL) through a change to its air traffic services licence. NERL is independent and not resourced ...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Airspace Design ServiceDepartment for TransportTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11021More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the consultation entitled Creating a UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS), published on 22 October 2024, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of her proposal to establish t
Answer: The Government’s plans for the UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS) have been developed to strengthen delivery in implementing the airspace modernisation programme. They aim to improve delivery confidence of the Future Airspace Integration Strategy (FASI) p...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUK Airspace Design ServiceDepartment for TransportTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11020More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the consultation entitled Creating a UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS), published on 22 October 2024, what steps she plans to take to allow communities to provide comments to the proposed UKA
Answer: As a public consultation, any interested party is welcome to provide feedback on our proposals to set up a UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS). The CAA’s Airspace Change Process (CAP1616) sets out how airspace change proposals should be developed and deliv...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPublic Houses: Government AssistanceTreasuryTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10753More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support (a) pubs and (b) breweries in (i) Richmond Park constituency and (ii) the United Kingdom.
Answer: Pubs make an enormous contribution to our economy and society, and this is recognised in the tax system. At the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor cut alcohol duty on qualifying draught products – approximately 60% of the alcoholic drinks sold in pubs. Thi...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Written QuestionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 6369 tabled by the hon. Member for Richmond Park on 4 October 2024.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 October 2024 to Question 6369.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Written QuestionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 6368 tabled by the hon. Member for Richmond Park on 4 October 2024.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 October 2024 to Question 6368.
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: ApplicationsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the average number of pension credit applications processed within 50 working days dropped between (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2022-23.
Answer: The department supports customers to claim Pension Credit through a range of take up campaigns. In June 2019, the BBC announced its intention to limit free TV licenses to people 75+ and in receipt of Pension Credit from June 2020. The subsequent mass mail...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pension credit applications made between 29 July and 9 August 2024 are waiting to be processed.
Answer: Data on how many pension credit applications have been made between 29 July and 9 August 2024 was recently published on gov.uk, Weekly Pension Credit claims received from 1 April 2024 to 22 September 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Because of how we capture ou...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDisability Living AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children are waiting for over the 50 working day target for their disability living allowance claim to be processed in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) does not have a target timeframe, but we aim to process Disability Living Allowance (DLA) claims for children within 40 working days, not 50. As published in the DWP Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024, which...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDisability Living Allowance: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the rate of disability living allowance claims processed dropped between (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2023-24.
Answer: DWP has seen a substantial increase in claims for Disability Living Allowance (Children) since Covid-19, and this upward trajectory continues. This has resulted in increased pressures on early years services for children with additional needs and neurodiv...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: ReservoirsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the Environment Agency’s modelling of the average (a) daily and (b) monthly percentage of (i) usable and (ii) deployable capacity in each of the (A) Lower Lee Group
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) does not model how resilient water company owned supply systems are to drought. It is the responsibility of the water companies to ensure that their systems can deliver secure water supplies for customers whilst ensuring they m...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordRiver Thames: ReadingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish the Environment Agency’s modelling of average (a) daily and (b) monthly volumetric river flow rates for each gauging station on the Thames from Reading to Kingston f
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) does not model flow at gauging stations using drought event return periods. The modelling of flow under a range of climate scenarios is carried out as part of planning by water companies to assess how resilient their supply sys...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait for a pension credit application to be approved was in each year since 2015.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the annual average waiting time for Pension Credit and cannot provide the figures requested. The Department does publish our annual performance against a 50 working day clearance rate for Pension Credit in the D...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time between a pension credit application and a decision by the Department.
Answer: The most recent information on processing times for Pension Credit was published in the DWP Annual Report and Accounts on 22nd July 2024 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 29 July 2024 on Public Spending: Inheritance, Official Report, column 1033, how many people have applied for pension credit
Answer: We have recently published Weekly Pension Credit claims received from 1 April 2024 to 22 September 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) which provides the number of Pension Credit claims received by the department.
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are waiting to be assessed for pension credit.
Answer: The total outstanding Pension Credit claims as at the end of week commencing 30th September 2024 is 77,703. This includes 8,245 advanced claims where the application can be started up to 4 months before reaching State Pension age. The Department is signif...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordParliamentary Estate: SecurityHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8184More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will publish a list of (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers who have a parliamentary pass.
Answer: We are unable to provide this information, as the pass issuing system does not categorise passholders in this way. Special advisers are not a specific category of passholder, and therefore this information could not easily be obtained from the pass data s...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordParliamentary Estate: SecurityHouse of Commons CommissionTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8183More
Question: To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will publish a list of special advisers who have had a parliamentary pass in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: We are unable to provide this information, as the pass issuing system does not categorise passholders in this way. Special advisers are not a specific category of passholder, and therefore this information could not easily be obtained from the pass data s...
Answered 17 Oct 2024
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