Helen Whately MP: written questions
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Social Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autumn Budget 2025.
Answer: The department does publish quarterly benefit cap statistics about the number of households that have been capped but this does not provide a breakdown of exemptions nor go into an individual exemption breakdown level. These were last published on 16 Dece...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Budget 2025, what assessment he has of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the salary sacrifice policy for employee pension contributions on the number of hours worked
Answer: The proposed Salary Sacrifice policy’s changes to employer contributions will not have an impact on National Health Service employees' working hours. HM Treasury's Managing Public Money guidelines prevent public funds from being used to offset National In...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99213More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on overall hours withdrawn by employees.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99212More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on hours worked by people near tax cliff edges.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99211More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice cap policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on employee hours worked in (a) the private sector and (b) the public sector.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99210More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on pensions and hours worked by (a) sex, (b) age and (c) NUTS region.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWorkplace Pensions: National Insurance ContributionsTreasuryTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99209More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on individual pension savings.
Answer: A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to pensions salary sacrifice. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) November 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) sets out that t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSolar PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of community benefit levels provided by NSIP-scale solar developers (a) relative to the profits generated and (b) in comparison with no
Answer: We believe that, where communities do the country a service by hosting clean energy infrastructure, they should benefit from it directly. No formal analysis has been carried out to compare the community benefit funds of proposed NSIP projects with those o...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordInsurance Premium TaxTreasuryTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97808More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much insurance premium tax was collected from each type of insurance product in the latest year for which data is available.
Answer: HMRC publishes annual statistics on IPT receipts and liabilities within the publication titled “Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) Bulletin” which can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/insurance-premium-tax-ipt-bulletin How...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people who have newly claimed Universal Credit in each of the last five years by (a) health-related reasons for claiming and (b) the searching-for-work co
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 25 November 2025 to PQ UIN 92813.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordWork Capability AssessmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 22 October 2025 to UIN 77348, how many additional assessors have been recruited; and in what locations.
Answer: While this information is not currently published by the department, we will be sharing this data in a future statistical release.
Answered 27 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordJobcentres: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complex case coaches (a) are currently employed and (b) have been for each month since June 2024.
Answer: There is no specific Work Coach role defined as Complex Case Coach.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: MotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2025 to Question 62284, whether his Department holds further information on the primary medical conditions of the PIP claimants with an active contract for the Motabili
Answer: The information requested cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: MotabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment claimants are in a contract with the Motability Scheme to receive a vehicle by primary medical condition.
Answer: The information requested will be published in due course.
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in receipt of the child benefit of UC are exempt from the household benefit cap because they (a) receive limited capability for work and work-related activity, (b) are in a grace perio
Answer: The information requested not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households who flowed off the household benefit cap because of an exempting benefit had the off-flow outcome due to receiving (a) Employment Support Allowance support group, (b) Disability Livi
Answer: The Department publishes Official Statistics on the number of households in Great Britain on Housing Benefit or Universal Credit that have flowed off the benefit cap, including outcome at off-flow, which are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore and are curr...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, of the households who flowed off the household benefit cap in the quarter to May 2025, how many had the off-flow outcome due to the (a) household’s benefit income being reduced to under the cap levels,
Answer: The Department publishes Official Statistics on the number of households in Great Britain on Housing Benefit or Universal Credit that have flowed off the benefit cap, including outcome at off-flow, which are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore and are curr...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of (a) removing the two-child limit of UC child benefit and (b) adding that benefit to the exemptions for the household benefit cap on the
Answer: Information related to removing the two child limit policy is published in ‘Table 3.2: Costing of the removal of the two-child limit’ (page 66-67) and is available at EFOs - Office for Budget Responsibility.
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: UnemploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has done on the increase in households that off-flowed from the benefits cap as a result of the increase in unemployment over the past 13 months, in the context of the 9-mon
Answer: No such analysis has been undertaken.
Answered 12 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average payment per customer for each primary medical condition, as defined in the Access to Work statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Answer: The requested information across all Access to Work provision can be found in tables AVG03a (nominal terms expenditure) and AVG03a-R (real terms expenditure) in the published official statistics. Tables AVG03b through AVG03d-R provide further average expe...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received the following payment per customer under the Access to Work scheme – a) £0 - £9,999 b) £10,000 - £19,999 c) £20,000 – £29,999 d) £30,000 – £39,999 e) £40,000 - £49,999 f) £50,00
Answer: The table below shows the number of people who received total payment values within each specified band during the 2022/23 to 2024/25 financial years. The figures refer to individuals who received any Access to Work provision. The figures do not sum to th...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work Programme: StandardsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals are waiting for their Access to Work application to be processed, and how does this compare to each month since June 2024.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 22 October 2025 to Question UIN 80759. The number of Access to Work applications increased from approximately 5,340 in April 2021 to 42,403 in June 2024. We are committed to reducing waiting times for new ap...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96280More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants with dependent children are in the light touch or working conditionality groups.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: EmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96279More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the number of Universal Credit households with dependent children reporting fewer than (a) 16, (b) 30 and (c) 35 hours of work per week.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: EmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 2 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 96278More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Universal Credit claimants with dependent children are in (a) full-time or (b) part-time work.
Answer: The requested information is not available.
Answered 10 Dec 2025
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