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Henry Smith

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List of Ministers’ Interests and Ministerial Code
Monday 24th April 2023

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Laura Trott Portrait Laura Trott
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We have massively increased the number of people working on that at the moment. We are undertaking work against scams, we are prioritising cases in which the recipient is alive, and we will try to get that done by the end of the year. I am accelerating that as much as I can. I am very aware that it is a problem.

Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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T7. This month has seen the uplifting of pensions and benefits by 10.1%, but what more is the Department doing to ensure that people in my constituency and around the country get the maximum that they are entitled to and, therefore, take up pension credit?

Laura Trott Portrait Laura Trott
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I thank my hon. Friend for all that he is doing to encourage pension credit take-up in Crawley. The Government have undertaken a sustained communications campaign to raise awareness of pension credit and promote its take-up. The latest stats release at the start of the year shows a substantial rise in the number of claims.

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