Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Justin Tomlinson and Nicholas Dakin

Monday 1st July 2019 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work (Justin Tomlinson)]

I thank my hon. Friend for highlighting such a fantastic proactive example that is making a real difference, and I support anything further that we can do. The number of applicants to the Access to Work programme with a learning disability increased by 22% in the last year alone. That is an encouraging trend, and we must do much more in this important area.

[Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)]

T4. With £7 billion of unclaimed pension credit since 2017—equivalent to two out of five pensioner households entitled to that credit not getting it—how will Government respond to Independent Age’s “Credit Where It’s Due” campaign to ensure that everyone who is entitled to pension credit gets it?