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HANSARDDraft Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2023I am grateful to the shadow Minister and the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw for their parties’ support for the broad issue we are debating today. Of course, the uprating of…08 Feb 2023HANSARDDraft Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2023On the point about the equality impact assessment, we will always live up our essential equalities obligations. The intention of the scheme was to compensate people who contracted…08 Feb 2023HANSARDDiffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme Levy 2022-23The Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (Levy) Regulations 2014 require active employers’ liability insurers to pay an annual levy, based on their relative market share, for the…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCost of Living: Impact on People with Parkinson’s DiseaseSix million people receiving an eligible disability benefit received a £150 disability cost of living payment last year, and will receive a further £150 cost of living payment…23 Jan 2023HANSARDCost of Living: Impact on People with Parkinson’s DiseaseI am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. We have worked together constructively on issues in the past, and I would certainly be delighted to meet him on this…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s question. It is important to point out that the reform to the warm home discount, which expands the support available, means that 160,000 more…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt is fair to say that my hon. Friend and I have experience of such matters from previous roles. I know that there is no bigger advocate of Disability Confident in Torbay than…23 Jan 2023HANSARDCost of Living: Impact on People with a DisabilityAs I said earlier, six million people receiving an eligible disability benefit received a £150 disability cost of living payment last year and will receive a further £150 cost of…23 Jan 2023HANSARDCost of Living: Impact on People with Parkinson’s DiseaseI thank my right hon. Friend for making that point. Those additional costs that people with conditions such as Parkinson’s often experience are something that I am incredibly…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising this issue. It is fair to say that Ministers in the Department for Work and Pensions meet Ministers in the Department of Health and…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend. Perhaps we could organise a visit so that I can see this organisation for myself. I had a really rewarding visit to Bristol just before Christmas,…23 Jan 2023HANSARDCost of Living: Impact on People with a DisabilityI can certainly extend the offer to my hon. Friend to join the meeting that I agreed to in an earlier exchange. I am keen to have his insight and input on this issue. It is…23 Jan 2023HANSARDPersonal Independence PaymentToday the Department will publish the latest update on progress on making backdated payments to personal independence payment claimants who are affected by the MH and RJ decisions…15 Dec 2022HANSARDUN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Follow-up ReportToday, I will place in the Library of the House a copy of the UK’s 2022 follow-up report to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, following the 2016…15 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for asking about that. It is right that we work across Government to identify priority areas where we can deliver meaningful change and…05 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for raising this point. The experience he describes illustrates the troubling and worrying times for families when a diagnosis of cancer comes through. We…05 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsNearly 1.5 million pensioners are receiving attendance allowance, at a cost of about £5.5 billion this year. It is normal for social security schemes to contain different…05 Dec 2022HANSARDPersonal Independence Payments: Processing TimesI am hugely grateful to my hon. Friend, who is of course a distinguished former Minister for disabled people and whose views on these matters I listen to incredibly carefully. We…05 Dec 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAgain, I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising this issue so constructively. He is right to say that I responded to his earlier question in a letter last week. This matter is…05 Dec 2022HANSARDPersonal Independence Payments: Processing TimesWe are committed to ensuring that people can access financial support through PIP in a timely manner. By prioritising new claims, increasing resources and using different…05 Dec 2022