Mary Glindon MP: written questions

Written questions

• Winter Fuel PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2890More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the additional resources it will need to means test winter fuel payments.

  Answer: The department will deliver this year’s Winter Fuel Payments within the existing planned headcount. This is due to linking eligibility to Winter Fuel Payments with existing means tested benefits rather than means testing Winter Fuel Payments separately.

  Answered 5 Sept 2024

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• Pension Credit: Take-upDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 2889More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress her Department has made on increasing the uptake of Pension Credit.

  Answer: The latest available take-up estimates Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year ending 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) cover the financial year 2021/2022 and suggest an overall Pension Credit take-up rate of 63%. The next take-up estimates...

  Answered 5 Sept 2024

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• Abortion: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2326More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that abortion providers meet their obligations to ensure that a woman’s gestational age is accurately assessed before she may be prescribed abortion pills to be ta

  Answer: In accordance with the Abortion Act 1967, home use of early medical abortion pills is only permitted if the pregnancy has not exceeded 10 weeks gestation, at the time the first medicine in the course is administered. Before prescribing abortion medicine f...

  Answered 2 Sept 2024

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• Abortion: DemonstrationsHome OfficeTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2325More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that offers of practical help to women outside abortion clinics will be permitted when section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023 is implemented.

  Answer: Section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023 does not criminalise any specific activity within safe access zones. It introduces a new criminal offence for a person who is within a Safe Access Zone to do an act with the intent of, or reckless as to whether it ha...

  Answered 5 Sept 2024

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• Universal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1492More

  Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2024 to Question 25516 on Universal Credit, when her Department plans to publish the findings of the survey of people who have not claimed Universal Credit followi

  Answer: The survey is currently being conducted. The Department intends to publish the findings once it is complete in the Autumn.

  Answered 30 Jul 2024

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