Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that people who receive the limited capability for work and work-related activity element of Universal Credit contribute an adequate share of child maintenance responsibilities.

Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The child maintenance calculation is designed to be fair for the paying parent, while ensuring they contribute a significant proportion of their income to support their children.

A banding system ensures that the very lowest earners and those on prescribed benefits pay a flat rate of £7 per week. Those that can afford to make a bigger contribution do so at a rate that reflects what they earn.

For child maintenance calculation purposes, a paying parent who is in receipt of Universal Credit and also has earned income will not be considered as being in receipt of benefit. Their liability to pay child maintenance will therefore be calculated based upon the income they receive.

The department is reviewing the calculation to make sure it is fit for purpose. This has included updating the underlying research and considering how we ensure the calculation reflects current and future societal trends.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15144 on Teachers: Workplace Pension, what the updated planned timetable is for resolving the backlog of people waiting for cash equivalent transfer value details from Teachers’ Pensions.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The scheme administrator has made significant progress to reduce the backlog of Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV) figures that built up whilst the necessary guidance was developed following the Transitional Protection (McCloud) remedy taking effect.

The backlog of 3,062 at the end of October 2024 has been reduced to 472 as of 3 June. The current outstanding figure includes recent applications and as such there will always be a number of outstanding CETVs at any given time.

The scheme administrator is now working through the more complex cases for members who have not retired who have scheme flexibilities to take account of, which must be processed clerically as a result.

Addressing the remainder of the backlog remains a key priority for both the department and the scheme administrator and it is anticipated that these outstanding cases will be completed before October 2025.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic pressure his Department has exerted on the El Salvador government to ensure that the human rights of detainees at the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca are protected.

Answered by Catherine West - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK continues to urge the authorities in El Salvador to establish an exit strategy from the current State of Exception and ensure respect for human rights, including ensuring that prisoners are treated in line with international human rights standards and afforded the protections to which they have a right under El Salvador's Constitution. The UK reaffirmed this in its statement during El Salvador's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in January this year, calling on El Salvador to ensure the right to fair trial, with the guarantee of legal representation for defendants, and the release of individuals detained without clear evidence.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of statutory regulation for the bailiff industry.

Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

Whilst most enforcement agencies have already signed up to the Enforcement Conduct Board’s (ECB) voluntary accreditation scheme, the Government believes that it is necessary to take action so that all enforcement agents, High Court Enforcement Officer and agencies are regulated to the same standards and overseen by the same body. To that end, a public consultation was launched on 9 June to explore how best to achieve this. The package of measures on which we are consulting includes a proposal to place the ECB on a statutory footing and for all enforcement agents to come within its auspices.

Responses to the consultation will inform legislation to be brought forward as soon as parliamentary time allows.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many claims to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund were rejected as a result of the total fund limit being reached in 2024-2025; and how many claims made in 2024-25 exceeded the new limits for individual claims in 2025-26.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

No claims to the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF) were rejected as a result of the total fund limit being reached in 2024/25.

Applications exceeding £3,000 were made for 4,832 children in 2024/25. This figure may include some double counting, if more than one application exceeding £3,000 was made for the same child, as could be the case if an application for match-funding was being made.

However, the department’s systems do not enable it to make an accurate calculation of the number of children for whom two or more separate applications under £3,000 were made, but which together totalled more than £3,000. This could, as a result, lead to some under-counting of children in this category.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that multi academy trust executives are paid appropriately; and what action was taken by the 37 trusts her Department issued with outlier pay challenge letters in October 2024.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The 37 academy trusts listed in the October 2024 publication on GOV.UK were engaged with on executive pay to ensure compliance with the Academy Trust Handbook.

The Academy Trust Handbook requires that:

• An academy trust’s board of trustees ensures its decisions, when setting levels of executive pay (including salary and any other benefits), follow a robust evidence-based process.
• Academy trusts’ decisions on pay must be a reasonable and defensible reflection of the individual’s role and responsibilities.
• No individual can be involved in deciding their remuneration.
• Academy trusts must be transparent on pay and publish the number of employees whose benefits exceed £100,000 on their websites in £10,000 bandings. Where employees are also trustees, this information must be disclosed in £5,000 bandings.

Following provision of evidence from the academy trusts, all 37 were found to be compliant with the Academy Trust Handbook.

Found: Labour; Sheffield South East) Nesil Caliskan (Labour; Barking) Mr Luke Charters (Labour; York Outer) Anna Dixon

Found: Labour; Sheffield South East) Nesil Caliskan (Labour; Barking) Mr Luke Charters (Labour; York Outer) Anna Dixon

Found: Labour; Sheffield South East) Nesil Caliskan (Labour; Barking) Mr Luke Charters (Labour; York Outer) Anna Dixon

Found: Anna Dixon made representations.

Found: Anna Dixon is next.

Found: Monica Harding Sean Woodcock Perran Moon Sarah Olney Rebecca Paul Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Found: Monica Harding Sean Woodcock Perran Moon Sarah Olney Rebecca Paul Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Found: REPORT STAGE Wednesday 18 June 2025 52 _NC44 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon

Found: REPORT STAGE Wednesday 18 June 2025 24 _NC44 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon

Found: _20 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon Jess Asato Kim Johnson Tonia

Found: _20 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon Jess Asato Kim Johnson Tonia

Found: _20 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon Jess Asato Kim Johnson Tonia

Found: Monica Harding Sean Woodcock Perran Moon Sarah Olney Rebecca Paul Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Found: _20 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon Jess Asato Kim Johnson Tonia

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Found: Olney Mary Kelly Foy Darren Paffey Monica Harding Daniel Francis Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

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Found: _20 Kirith Entwistle Charlotte Nichols Juliet Campbell Anna Dixon Jess Asato Kim Johnson Tonia

Found: on advertising) (NC14):— _NC14(b) Paul Waugh Dame Meg Hillier Sarah Smith Daniel Francis Anna Dixon

Found: on advertising) (NC14):— _NC14(b) Paul Waugh Dame Meg Hillier Sarah Smith Daniel Francis Anna Dixon

Found: Olney Mary Kelly Foy Darren Paffey Monica Harding Daniel Francis Maya Ellis Mary Glindon Anna Dixon

Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire APPG
Tuesday 10th June 2025

Found: Liberal Democrats); Harpreet Uppal MP (Labour, Huddersfield); Paul Davies MP (Labour, Colne Valley); Anna Dixon

Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Found: rape and sexual violence – Alison Hume MP, Jayne Kirkham MP, Dan Aldridge MP, Marie Tidball MP, Anna Dixon