Apsana Begum MP: written questions
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Written questions
Poverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45120More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 7 March 2025 to Question 42058 on Poverty: Children, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of the measures in the Green Paper: Pathways to
Answer: The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: HealthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45119More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42059 on Social Security Benefits: Reform, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of the measures in the Green Pape
Answer: A programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper and to monitor and evaluate their impact will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45118More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42955 on Employment: Disability, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of measures in the Green Paper: Pathways to Work
Answer: I refer the Hon. member to the answer I gave on 7 April 2025 to PQ 42955.
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42955 on Employment: Disability, whether she plans to make that estimate.
Answer: I refer the Hon. member to the answer I gave on 7 April 2025 to PQ 42955.
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45116More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 42958 on Pathways to Work and her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working published o
Answer: No assessment has been made on this basis. The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms – Impacts. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work ...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: Republic of IrelandHome OfficeTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to help ensure that UK Border Force eGates are configured to permit entry to holders of Irish passport cards travelling from outside the Common Travel Area.
Answer: Irish nationals can travel to the UK on either an Irish passport or associated passport card. In line with other identity cards, Irish passport cards cannot be used at eGates and there are no plans to change this.If an Irish national wishes to use their p...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Code of Practice in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill in protecting the (a) rights and (b) privacy of (i) vulnerable people
Answer: As outlined in the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill, DWP will publish three Codes of Practice to sit alongside its Information Gathering, Debt Recovery and Eligibility Verification measures. These are in development and we are already e...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEconomic CrimeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria will be used to determine suspicious bank account activity that would result in the Department requiring access to the individuals bank account under the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error a
Answer: DWP’s information gathering powers may be used where there is a reasonable suspicion of fraud. In such cases the Department can issue an information notice, where necessary and proportionate, to any information holders who DWP believe hold relevant inform...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Ground RentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that existing leaseholders with (a) unregulated and (b) uncapped ground rents are able to secure buyers for their properties.
Answer: The government remains firmly committed to its manifesto commitment to tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rents, and we will deliver this in legislation.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: Ground RentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with mortgage-lenders on ensuring that existing leaseholders with (a) unregulated and (b) uncapped ground rents are able to secure buyers for thei
Answer: The government remains firmly committed to its manifesto commitment to tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rents, and we will deliver this in legislation.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Israel Defense ForcesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 19048 on Gaza: Israel Defense Forces, whether any products made by Elbit Systems exported before 2 September 2024 were
Answer: Following the suspension of export licences announced on 2 September, there are currently no extant export licences for items that we assess might be for use by the Israel Defense Forces in military operations in the Gaza conflict (except for F-35 compone...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 20272 on Social Security Benefits, whether she plans to conduct a statutory public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 into (a) deaths and (b) ser
Answer: The department is fully supportive of the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s ‘safeguarding vulnerable claimants’ inquiry, which is examining how the department supports vulnerable benefit claimants and whether its approach to safeguarding needs to chang...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 20 December 2024 to Questions 19855 and 19857 on Climate Change: Demonstrations and to Questions 19852 and 19853 on Arms Trade: Israel, Question, what assessment she has mad
Answer: The right to peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democratic society.We have committed to holding expedited post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 beginning in May 2025. This process will review how the legislation has operated ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33989More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 20 December 2024 to Questions 19855 and 19857 on Climate Change: Demonstrations and to Questions 19852 and 19853 on Arms Trade: Israel, Question, what assessment her Departm
Answer: The right to peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democratic society.We have committed to holding expedited post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 beginning in May 2025. This process will review how the legislation has operated ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33988More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 20 December 2024 to Questions 19855 and 19857 on Climate Change: Demonstrations and to Questions 19852 and 19853 on Arms Trade: Israel, Question, what assessment her Departm
Answer: The right to peacefully protest is a fundamental part of our democratic society.We have committed to holding expedited post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 beginning in May 2025. This process will review how the legislation has operated ...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Housing Allowance: Shared HousingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32052More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether she has any plans to abolish the Shared Accommodation Rate as part of the Government’s Universal Credit review.
Answer: Individual policies cannot be considered in isolation and there are currently no plans to abolish the Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR), which is the rate of housing support for individuals under 35 living in the private sector. Government will prioritise t...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRight to Manage CompaniesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29904More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to implement recommendation 58 of the report by the Law Commission entitled Home ownership: exercising the right to manage, published on 21 July 2020.
Answer: The government is committed to enacting remaining Law Commission recommendations relating to the Right to Manage.On 10 February, we laid regulations in Parliament to implement the reforms contained in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 concerning ...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHouseboats: Security of TenureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22356More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to increase the security of tenure of houseboat dwellers.
Answer: The government recognises that while the occupants of residential boats have the benefit of protection under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 and wider consumer protection legislation, they do not enjoy the same level of tenure security as those in t...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK has any agreements with countries under which asylum seekers could be sent to them as a safe third country.
Answer: The Government has been clear that it will be ending the Migration and Economic Partnership with Rwanda. The UK has no other such agreements.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse dated 29 August 2024, reference number MC2024/19996, on support for a public inquiry into th
Answer: The Department provided a response on 6 January 2025.
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: Arms TradeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the deals announced on 16 December 2024 between the Israel Ministry of Defence and Elbit Systems for the supply of advanced communication systems to the Israel Defence Force will include produc
Answer: We cannot comment on individual companies’ commercial plans. Elbit Systems UK Ltd, like all UK companies, would be required to apply for an export licence to export military or dual-use items from the UK. All such applications are assessed against the Str...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIraq: Women's RightsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Iraqi counterparts on the amendments proposed to the Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959.
Answer: The UK is analysing the proposed amendments to Iraq's Personal Status Law and its implications for women and children's rights, which we note have not yet been passed through the House of Representatives. As we continue to privately engage with a range of...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordIraq: Women's RightsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the amendments proposed to the Personal Status Law No. 188 of Iraq.
Answer: The UK is analysing the proposed amendments to Iraq's Personal Status Law and its implications for women and children's rights, which we note have not yet been passed through the House of Representatives. As we continue to privately engage with a range of...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ReformDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of welfare reforms since 2010 on (a) poverty, (b) child poverty, (c) disabled people, (d) women, (e) people of Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and
Answer: In 2022/23 there were 1.3 million more people in relative low income after housing costs than in 2010/11. The 1.3 million increase comprises 700,000 children, 300,000 working age individuals and 300,000 pensioners. During this period, there was a gradual ...
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to conduct a public inquiry into (a) deaths and (b) serious harm linked to the social security system.
Answer: The department is fully supportive of the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s ‘safeguarding vulnerable claimants’ inquiry, which is examining how the department supports vulnerable benefit claimants and whether its approach to safeguarding needs to chang...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
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