Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive is taking to protect outdoor workers from the potential ill-health effects of long-term exposure to air pollution.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Health and Safety Executive is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety in Great Britain; it does not regulate environmental exposures. In the UK, responsibility for meeting air quality limit values is devolved to the national administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has responsibility for meeting the limit values in England and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) co-ordinates assessment and air quality plans for the UK as a whole.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research the Health and Safety Executive is undertaking to better understand the effect of polluted air on the health of outdoor workers.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Health and Safety Executive is not currently undertaking any research to better understand the effect of polluted air on the health of outdoor workers.
Defra and the Devolved Administrations carry out air quality modelling both to provide information on concentrations of pollutants in places where they do not monitor and to predict concentrations under different situations, for example in the future or as a result of possible new policies.
The UK Stratospheric Ozone and UV monitoring programme funded by Defra and the Devolved Administrations provides ozone and UV background information and includes a map of the ozone and UV monitoring stations across the UK.
Defra and the Devolved Administrations also support a number of research networks that gather data about certain air pollutants.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her statement of 7 June 2018, Official Report, column 19WS, when those claimants who were in receipt of severe disability premium and have moved on to universal credit will begin receiving the ongoing payment; and how those claimants will be informed of their entitlement to that payment.
Answered by Lord Sharma
The Department is unable to provide precise detail or timetables related to the Severe Disability Premium proposals until the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018 is debated and agreed by Parliament.
Further detail on the proposed rates can be found in the explanatory memorandum and letter sent to the Social Security Advisory Committee at:
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her statement of 7 June 2018, Official Report, column 19WS, how the additional payment will be calculated; and whether that payment will be made as a lump sum to claimants.
Answered by Lord Sharma
The Department is unable to provide precise detail or timetables related to the Severe Disability Premium proposals until the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018 is debated and agreed by Parliament.
Further detail on the proposed rates can be found in the explanatory memorandum and letter sent to the Social Security Advisory Committee at:
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the draft Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018, how the value of the transitional payment was calculated.
Answered by Lord Sharma
The Department is unable to provide precise detail or timetables related to the Severe Disability Premium proposals until the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018 is debated and agreed by Parliament.
Further detail on the proposed rates can be found in the explanatory memorandum and letter sent to the Social Security Advisory Committee at:
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the draft Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018, for what reasons universal credit claimants with limited capability for work and work related activity will receive a transitional payment of £80 per month; and what assessment he has made of the value of this payment in comparison to changes in those claimants' income as a result of transitioning to universal credit.
Answered by Lord Sharma
The Department is unable to provide precise detail or timetables related to the Severe Disability Premium proposals until the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Managed Migration) Amendment Regulations 2018 is debated and agreed by Parliament.
Further detail on the proposed rates can be found in the explanatory memorandum and letter sent to the Social Security Advisory Committee at: