Rachael Maskell

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to help ensure that people with a deteriorating condition (a) have the right level of social security support and (b) do not experience delays for the (i) asse

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to postpone deduction payments on social security for disabled people in response to increases in the cost of living.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make a comparative assessment of the average additional costs that disabled people incur at home with the cost of living and the level of social benefits payable to people with disabilities.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce an additional allowance for disabled people over this winter to support heating costs and to prevent a deterioration in their health.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to uprate social security payments for disabled people above the level of inflation to help cover additional expenditure they may incur with the cost of heating.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help enable disabled people with fluctuating medical conditions to find suitable work which matches their skills and offers flexible work arrangements in line with their perso

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to employ clinical specialists to assess people with (a) neurological conditions and (b) other complex conditions to make social security assessments.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what weight his Department gives to consultants and other clinical leads assessments of their patients' conditions when decision makers are considering awards of benefit.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he will take to help ensure that disabled people with physical and psychological ill health, where there is fluctuation or periods of remission, can demonstrate the nature and history of thei

28 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what fiscal steps he will take to ensure departmental spending allows for adequate (a) pay and (b) grading structure for staff working in social care.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help ensure that his Department's processes are respectful of the (a) physical and (b) psychological challenges faced by people with disabilities; and what steps he is taking

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Climate Change: Job Creation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide funding for jobs that will help to mitigate the effects of climate change.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

BioYorkshire: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of funding for the BioYorkshire programme.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Family Hubs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding of family hubs.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Family Hubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress he has made on the roll out of family hubs.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of independent reviewing officers for improving standards in children’s social care.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Social Workers: Agency Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the use of (a) locus and (b) agency social workers in each of the last three years.

27 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Agency Social Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce the (a) use and (b) costs of (i) locum and (ii) agency social workers by local authorities.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to create a direct funding formula based on a per child basis for children in social care.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for the delivery of children’s social care in local authorities.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children and young people are in (a) social care, (b) residential care and (c) foster care placements, (i) nationally and (ii) in York.

27 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Malnutrition: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to tackle malnutrition caused by food poverty.

27 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Malnutrition: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) monitor and (b) tackle malnutrition.

27 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department takes to measure the effectiveness of Healthy Start vouchers.

27 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: York

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of those entitled to Healthy Start vouchers have accessed those vouchers in York.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Health Education: Nitrous Oxide

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help teach young people in schools on the dangers of using nitrous oxide.

27 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Nitrous Oxide: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the prevalence of the use of nitrous oxide in (a) York and (b) North Yorkshire.

27 Oct 2022 · Home Office

Nitrous Oxide: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help reduce the use of nitrous oxide.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is his policy to restore the triple lock on pensions in (a) 2023-24 and (b) future years.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason it is not his policy to allow people who would be entitled to (a) winter fuel support payments and (b) other pension-related benefits but missed the qualifying deadline to claim a pro ra