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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 12 May 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) The personal independence payment does what it says on the tin: it is designed to enable people to live - Speech Link
2: Robin Swann (UUP - South Antrim) What steps her Department is taking to help increase the accuracy of personal independence payment assessments - Speech Link
3: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) What progress her Department has made on its review of the personal independence payment assessment system - Speech Link
4: John Milne (LD - Horsham) independence payment on the number of people receiving that payment who will move into employment. - Speech Link
5: Perran Moon (Lab - Camborne and Redruth) independence payment eligibility criteria will mean for them. - Speech Link


Select Committee
Royal British Legion
WAFFU0095 - Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up (2023)

Written Evidence Mar. 12 2025

Inquiry: Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-Up
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: and female veterans may be partly because female veterans are likely to be younger, overall.


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Veterans
Monday 20th May 2024

Asked by: Lord McCabe (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of veterans in garrison towns that claimed PIP in 2022-23.

Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)

As explained in the answer on 13 March, to PQ16600, we have no plans to introduce a veterans’ marker for Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Therefore, we have no current plans to estimate the number of veterans receiving PIP in garrison towns.


Public Bill Committees
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th Sitting - Thu 12 Dec 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) Commissioner, the Scottish Veterans Commissioner, the Veterans Commissioner for Wales and the Northern - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) ’ welfare, including with the existing veterans commissioners.There is concern within the veterans’ community - Speech Link
3: Luke Akehurst (Lab - North Durham) Veterans Commissioner. - Speech Link
4: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Veterans Commissioner. - Speech Link
5: None Veterans Commissioner. - Speech Link
6: Lincoln Jopp (Con - Spelthorne) Veterans Commissioner. - Speech Link
7: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Veterans Commissioner. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Royal British Legion - Tue 01 Apr 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (Con - Hinckley and Bosworth) taking on the challenges faced by our nation’s veterans. - Speech Link
2: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) The Wee County Veterans of Clackmannanshire is a group that show the very best of both the veterans and - Speech Link
3: Helen Maguire (LD - Epsom and Ewell) And narrower eligibility criteria for personal independence payment and changes to universal credit could - Speech Link
4: Al Carns (Lab - Birmingham Selly Oak) I absolutely support the Castle Court veterans village. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Nov 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Both the Minister for the Armed Forces and the Veterans Minister know it well, and I hope that the Veterans - Speech Link
2: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Members have asked, what about veterans? - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) Minister, who is currently looking at representation for veterans. - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees

Nov. 20 2024

Source Page: VAPC eastern England: meeting minutes
Document: (PDF)

Found: VETERANS ADVISORY AND PENSIONS COMMITTEE EASTERN ENGLAND VETERANS ADVISORY &


Scottish Government Publication (Advice and guidance)
Safer Communities Directorate

Apr. 01 2025

Source Page: Welcome to Scotland - A guide for Service personnel and their families in Scotland (updated 2025)
Document: Welcome to Scotland: A guide for Service personnel and their families in Scotland (updated 2025) (PDF)

Found: Child Payment; Best Start Grants; and Winter Heating Payment.


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 07 May 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) operators meet a set of standards for security at stations; and we are taking measures that support personal - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (Con - East Grinstead and Uckfield) How does that square with the harrowing personal testimony from Jade, Chantelle, Scarlett, Erin and Steph - Speech Link
3: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) It was an honour to meet veterans at the VE Day parade on Monday and to commemorate the sacrifice of - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Because of our action, we have stabilised the economy, invested record amounts in the NHS, made a payment - Speech Link
5: Roz Savage (LD - South Cotswolds) independence payment, the winter fuel allowance and the two-child benefit cap, and will he introduce - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
Committee stage - Wed 19 Mar 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The National Recruiting Centre holds everyone’s personal information. - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) All of us are wrestling with independence versus accountability. - Speech Link
3: Lord Beamish (Lab - Life peer) Again, this goes to the heart of the issue of independence. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) The Government set great store by the independence of the commissioner. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Carberry of Muswell Hill (Lab - Life peer) Independence implies a degree of freedom, discretion and flexibility. - Speech Link