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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has plans to amend the policy that only the first £10 of the war disablement pension can be disregarded in means tests for pension credit.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria, checks and procedures his Department used to decide where to site Automatic Urban and Rural Network units.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to combat victim blaming when investigating in-service bullying, harassment, sexual assault and rape cases.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Oral question of 12 July 2022, Official Report, column 138, on the Mineworkers Pension Scheme, whether the Treasury has received the Trustee’s proposal on the issue; and if his Department will make a...
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether a severance agreement is attached to the new role of Minister for Veterans’ Affairs.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what salary is associated with the new role of Minister for Veterans’ Affairs; and whether that salary is being drawn from existing Office for Veterans’ Affairs funding.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants will be attached to the new role of Minister for Veterans’ Affairs.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what budget is attached to the role of Minister for Veterans’ Affairs; and whether that budget is being drawn from existing Office for Veterans' Affairs funding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities have the funding required to introduce adequate road safety measures to reduce speeding.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage and support local authorities to introduce safety measures on dangerous roads proactively rather than retrospectively after multiple accidents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support is available for local authorities seeking to reduce speeding to improve road safety.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what specific support his Department provides to charities providing end of life care for children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the level of funding support for hospices and end of life care for children.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when hospices will be informed whether the central NHS England Grant for children’s hospices will continue as a ringfenced funding stream beyond 2023-24.
To ask the Secretary of Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2022 to Question 1525 on Armed Forces: Sexual Offences, how many serving personnel are on the Sex Offender Register as of 8 June 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether support is available for clinical commissioning groups to help ensure that decisions on funding end of life care for children meet local needs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department is (a) taking steps and (b) plans to take steps to make it easier for people to apply for a War Pensioner’s Mobility Supplement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average length of time is from start to finish for appeals against a decision on a War Pensioner’s Mobility Supplement application.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many appeals against a decision on a War Pensioner’s Mobility Supplement application have been made in the last year for which data is available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average wait time is for a response to a War Pensioner’s Mobility Supplement application.