Sorcha Eastwood MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Social Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51604More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken with (a) disabled people and (b) disabled people’s organisations to develop the Health and Disability Green Paper; and what plans she has to work with disabled people
Answer: Our Green Paper, “Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working” is an important staging post on a journey of reform, building on the vision and approach set out in the Get Britain Working White Paper in November 2024. It sets ou...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51603More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department's consultation on the Health and Disability Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, does not include proposals to (a) abolish the Work Capability Assessment, (b) freeze t
Answer: The Pathways to Work Green Paper set out our plans and proposals for reform to health and disability benefits and employment support. This includes urgently needed reforms to PIP eligibility and Universal Credit rates that are not subject to consultation ...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51602More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of her Department's proposals to freeze the Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity element of Universal Credit until 2029-30 on disabl
Answer: Some information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper has been published in the evidence pack, impacts analysis and equalities analysis at:[https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-br...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51601More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the number of people who are currently in receipt of PIP who are likely to lose their entitlement under the proposals in the Health and Disability Green Paper, broken d
Answer: No such assessment will be made. PIP is not based on primary medical condition diagnosis but on functional disability as the result of one or more conditions, and is awarded as a contribution to the additional costs which result.Information on the impacts...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Advisory ServicesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10219More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations she consulted on the proposal of having job coaches visit mental health patients in hospital.
Answer: The Secretary of State has made no announcement regarding having job coaches visit mental health patients in hospital and therefore did not consult any organisations. She was referring to her experience visiting a severe mental illness Individual Placemen...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance: EligibilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the eligibility criteria for Carer’s Allowance for people in receipt of the State Pension who have provided long-term unpaid care.
Answer: Although there is no upper age limit to claiming Carer’s Allowance, it cannot normally be paid with the State Pension. It has been a long-held feature of the GB benefit system, under successive Governments, that where someone is entitled to two benefits f...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to ensure Local Housing Allowance keeps pace with local rents.
Answer: Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates were restored to the 30th percentile of local market rents from April 2024 for one year. Decisions on LHA for future years will be taken in the context of the Government’s missions, housing priorities, and the fiscal co...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMaternity Pay and Paternity PayDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of (a) maternity and (b) paternity pay for (i) one child and (ii) multiple child births.
Answer: Maternity pay is primarily a health and safety provisions for pregnant working women. It is not intended to replace a woman's earnings completely, rather it provides a measure of financial security to help pregnant working women take time off work in the ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPensions: Self-employedDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of defaulting self-employed people into pension savings.
Answer: Finding effective and enduring solutions to enable self-employed people to achieve greater financial security in later life is a challenge, which the UK like other countries is confronting. Research has highlighted that while self-employments are diverse,...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 537More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department will continue the work of the Department’s Children in Hospital Stakeholder Group.
Answer: Supporting parents with care and compassion whilst they navigate some of the toughest moments a parent can face is something all in this house would believe in. We will consider the work done by the previous Government before making a decision on next ste...
Answered 26 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing children and young people with cancer to apply for (a) Personal Independence Payment, (b) Disability Living Allowance and (c) other disab
Answer: Other than for those who are nearing the end of their life, the extra costs disability benefits, such as Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA), are assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a long-term health cond...
Answered 25 Jul 2024
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