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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Independent Living Fund

"That is absolutely the case, and I want to talk about one of the people affected: the constituent I mentioned earlier, Nathan Davies.

Nathan is a proud resident of Wrexham and 40 years old. Aged 15, he was diagnosed with a degenerative condition, Friedreich’s ataxia, which I had never heard …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Independent Living Fund

"I very much take the hon. Lady’s point. Is that not made worse by the fact that budgets are broadly decreasing at the same time? Local government bodies have the unenviable task of somehow maintaining funding to individuals at a time when their income is falling...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Independent Living Fund

"Can the hon. Lady tell me whether the Scottish fund is open to new applicants?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Independent Living Fund

"The Minister said that funding to individuals has been maintained. How does she know that when she does not keep records of the amounts paid by local authorities to individual recipients?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 09 Jan 2018
Independent Living Fund

"I thank the Minister for her response. The first step I would like to see is for the Government to begin collecting the information from local authorities on the real impact of the closure of the fund on individuals within each local authority area in England, so that we are …..."
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Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
Thursday 16th November 2017

Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff appointed after 24 June 2016 in his Department hold a post that includes work on the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by Damian Hinds

The Department’s EU exit work is being centrally co-ordinated but the breadth of issues to be considered, and the interactions between EU exit work and the Department’s other priorities, mean that it is not possible to provide an estimate of how many staff have an element of their work in this area.

Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Wales
Tuesday 7th November 2017

Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to amend the Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Service etc) Regulations 2012 to enable data-sharing on employment and training between his Department and the Welsh Government.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

I can confirm that the amendments have been made to the aforementioned Regulations and were laid before Parliament on 23 October.

They are due to come into force on the 15th November 2017 and will be known as “The Social Security (Information-sharing in relation to Welfare Services etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2017”.

These amendments will allow the Department for Work and Pensions to provide information on people aged between 18 and 25 who are in receipt of Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit to Careers Wales (a wholly owned subsidiary of the Welsh Government) and to allow Careers Wales to hold such information to allow them to provide advice, assistance and support to such persons.

Written Question
Independent Living Fund
Tuesday 31st October 2017

Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many former recipients of financial support from the Independent Living Fund in England received (a) improved or equal financial support or (b) reduced such package from local authorities administering the successor scheme.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

This information is not collated centrally and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
Monday 30th October 2017

Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2017 to Question 108912, on Department for Work and Pensions: telephone services, where the income from telephone services referred to in that Answer is applied.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

As mentioned in my previous answer to 108912, DWP does not receive any income from any of its telephone lines including 0345.

Written Question
Social Security Benefits
Thursday 26th October 2017

Asked by: Ian C. Lucas (Labour - Wrexham)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list examples of co-operation between his Department and charitable or private sector providers on personal independence payments or employment and support allowance by parliamentary constituency.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

The Department works with many charitable and private sector providers.

Examples within each parliamentary constituency could only be provided at disproportionate costs