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Written Question
Employment: Disability
Monday 26th January 2026

Asked by: Nia Griffith (Labour - Llanelli)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support disabled people into work.

Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

This Government is committed to championing the rights of, and helping, disabled people and those with long-term health conditions.

Last week we announced the expansion of our groundbreaking programme WorkWell across England, up to 250,000 more people with health conditions will receive support to stay in or return to work. This builds on our Pathways to Work Guarantee and our Connect to Work supported employment programme.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"The Minister will understand just how sceptical pensioners are because, quite frankly, they have seen their trustees try to make the companies do the right thing time and again. Will he agree to meet me and trustees from companies such as 3M and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to explain what mechanism …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"I rise to speak to my new clause 22. There is a group of pensioners who have worked hard for very prestigious companies, and those companies have grown rich and successful on the back of the work that those pensioners have done. These are companies with good reputations. People think …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"Indeed, the right hon. Member mentions yet another world-renowned, multinational, household name.

Our Labour Government have just announced that we will change the law to enable the payment of inflation increases on the pre-1997 pensions to Pension Protection Fund and financial assistance scheme members. That is an important principle. If …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"I thank the Minister for that, but it is a matter of action and ensuring that it really happens. We are too used to regulators not having the powers they are supposed to have or not being effective in using them. We need some action, and hopefully the Minister will …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"Indeed. I thank my hon. Friend for mentioning Patricia Kennedy, who has been incredibly hard-working and has really tried to put the facts and figures together.

Let me give the House an example now that I had intended to quote later. The number of companies that have reneged on giving …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"The problem is that many of the trustees are trying to get these increases, but the difficulty they are encountering is that the power structure is such that the company has the last word. Sometimes trustees are actually appointed by the company; sometimes it is a unanimous decision that is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Pension Schemes Bill

"As I said, it is an important principle on the PPF; if we are doing it for those pensioners for the companies that have gone bust, we really should be doing it for the successful companies, too...."
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Written Question
Universal Credit
Monday 15th May 2023

Asked by: Nia Griffith (Labour - Llanelli)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the inflation-based rise to Universal Credit was paid to claimants in their April benefit payment.

Answered by Guy Opperman

Increases in Universal Credit come into force from the start of the first assessment period beginning on or after the first Monday of the tax year.

As Universal Credit is a calendar monthly assessed benefit that is paid monthly in arrears, a claimant will receive their uprated benefit award in payments due from 16 May.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"12. What assessment her Department has made of the impact on disabled people of the move from legacy benefits to universal credit as part of the managed migration process. ..."
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