Every parliamentary written question tabled by Neil Coyle this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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Whether she plans to meet with the Safe Sick Pay campaign to discuss the rate of Statutory Sick Pay.
My officials met with representatives from the Centre for Progressive Change to discuss measures to strengthen Statutory Sick Pay on the day of the Employment Rights Bill introduction. As announced in the Next Steps to Make Work Pay, the Government will s...
When the Occupational Health Taskforce (a) last met and (b) is scheduled to next meet.
As outlined in the previous Government’s response to the Occupational Health: Working Better consultation (published on 23 November 2023), an expert occupational health taskforce led by Dame Carol Black was established in February 2024 to explore the deve...
How much (a) housing benefit and (b) UC equivalent allowance was paid directly to councils in each of the last three years.
The information requested for Universal Credit is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. The information requested for Housing Benefit may be found by using the Detailed Housing Type and the Payment Destination fields i...
When the threshold for pension credit was last reviewed; and when it is next set for review.
The rates of Pension Credit were last reviewed in Autumn 2023 as part of the Secretary of State’s annual statutory review of State pension and benefit rates. Following that review, the Pension Credit standard minimum guarantee was increased by 8.5%, in li...
If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of automating pension credit payments without an application process for claimants reaching retirement age on universal credit.
Households in receipt of Universal Credit are likely to see a significant change in their financial situation on reaching state pension age – at which point they may become entitled to retirement income such as the state pension, occupational or private p...
How many people applying for pension credit have been in receipt of universal credit in each of the last five years.
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
When the application process for Pension Credit was last reviewed.
We continually review the Pension Credit application process, with improvements made as recently as 3 September 2024. This led to the introduction of the online claim process, providing customers with a convenient alternative claim route, alongside the ex...
What assessment she has made of the potential role of (a) small and medium sized enterprises and (b) community interest companies in helping to deliver the Youth Guarantee.
Our plan to get Britain Working includes a Youth Guarantee for all young people aged 18-21 to ensure that they can access quality training opportunities, an apprenticeship or employment support. This will sit alongside; a new national jobs and careers ser...
If her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of setting a target for the level of food bank usage by the end of this Parliament.
We are committed to tackling poverty and ending the mass dependence on emergency food parcels. We will be considering the best way to achieve these important objectives over the coming weeks and months working through the new Ministerial Taskforce on Child Poverty which will oversee the development of a cross-government Child Poverty Strategy.
Whether the proposed child poverty strategy will examine the potential impact of (a) trends in the use of food bank usage and (b) the No Recourse to Public Funds policy on levels of childhood poverty.
We are committed to tackling child poverty and ending the mass dependence on emergency food parcels. The new Ministerial Taskforce will drive cross-government action on child poverty, starting with overseeing the development of our ambitious new strategy ...