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
Written Evidence Mar. 12 2025
Inquiry: Women in the Armed Forces: Follow-UpFound: and female veterans may be partly because female veterans are likely to be younger, overall.
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.
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
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
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
Nov. 20 2024
Source Page: VAPC eastern England: meeting minutesFound: VETERANS ADVISORY AND PENSIONS COMMITTEE EASTERN ENGLAND VETERANS ADVISORY &
Apr. 01 2025
Source Page: Welcome to Scotland - A guide for Service personnel and their families in Scotland (updated 2025)Found: Child Payment; Best Start Grants; and Winter Heating Payment.
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
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