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Division Votes
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 295 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 304 Noes - 62
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 297 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 306
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 295 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 296 Noes - 170
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 299 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 168 Noes - 302
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 297 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 301 Noes - 167
31 Mar 2025 - Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 300 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 166 Noes - 305
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 298 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 302 Noes - 167
31 Mar 2025 - Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 297 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 301 Noes - 104
31 Mar 2025 - Business without Debate - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 291 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 296 Noes - 164
1 Apr 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 293 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 110 Noes - 302
1 Apr 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 293 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 303 Noes - 110
2 Apr 2025 - Driving Licences: Zero Emission Vehicles - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 295 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 304 Noes - 101
2 Apr 2025 - Onshore Wind and Solar Generation - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 299 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 307 Noes - 100
2 Apr 2025 - Energy Conservation - View Vote Context Paula Barker voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 288 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 349 Noes - 14

Speeches
Paula Barker speeches from: Gaza: Israeli Military Operations Paula Barker contributed 1 speech (96 words) Wednesday 2nd April 2025 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Written Answers
Personal Independence Payment: Reform Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree) Tuesday 1st April 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has commissioned an impact assessment on the proposed PIP reforms on household income with (a) at least one person in work and (b) at least one recipient of PIP, whether that be the person working or not. Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, with some information published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’. A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.
Personal Independence Payment Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree) Tuesday 1st April 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of PIP recipients were in some form of (a) work and (b) training on 25 March 2025. Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) You can find the proportion of PIP recipients in employment in the evidence pack that was provided alongside the ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’, which shows that 17% of PIP claimants were in employment in March 2024. (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper) Data for March 2025 is not currently available for analysts to access; the latest relevant data is for the financial year ending March 2024. The department does not hold data regarding PIP recipients in training.
Personal Independence Payment: Reform Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree) Tuesday 1st April 2025 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposed social security reforms to PIP on trends in the levels of child poverty. Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts.
Private Rented Housing: Energy Performance Certificates Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree) Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration is given to home Energy Performance Certificates by the first-tier tribunal in determining a market rent assessment. Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) A market rent decision in the First-tier Tribunal is a judicial decision. In reaching a decision, a tribunal will take into account all relevant factors in a given case including, amongst others, those relating to the condition of a property such as energy efficiency or an Energy Performance Certificate, if that evidence is before the Tribunal. Tribunal market rents decisions are published at Residential property tribunal decisions - GOV.UK and can be searched using free text terms such as “EPC” or “energy efficiency” within the “Rents” category of decisions.

Written Answers

Personal Independence Payment: Reform
Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has commissioned an impact assessment on the proposed PIP reforms on household income with (a) at least one person in work and (b) at least one recipient of PIP, whether that be the person working or not.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, with some information published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found here ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’.

A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming months.

Personal Independence Payment
Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of PIP recipients were in some form of (a) work and (b) training on 25 March 2025.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

You can find the proportion of PIP recipients in employment in the evidence pack that was provided alongside the ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper’, which shows that 17% of PIP claimants were in employment in March 2024.

(https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper)

Data for March 2025 is not currently available for analysts to access; the latest relevant data is for the financial year ending March 2024.

The department does not hold data regarding PIP recipients in training.

Personal Independence Payment: Reform
Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)
Tuesday 1st April 2025

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of her Department's proposed social security reforms to PIP on trends in the levels of child poverty.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The government's impact assessment regarding Health and Disability Reform is available at Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts.

Private Rented Housing: Energy Performance Certificates
Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)
Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consideration is given to home Energy Performance Certificates by the first-tier tribunal in determining a market rent assessment.

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

A market rent decision in the First-tier Tribunal is a judicial decision. In reaching a decision, a tribunal will take into account all relevant factors in a given case including, amongst others, those relating to the condition of a property such as energy efficiency or an Energy Performance Certificate, if that evidence is before the Tribunal.

Tribunal market rents decisions are published at Residential property tribunal decisions - GOV.UK and can be searched using free text terms such as “EPC” or “energy efficiency” within the “Rents” category of decisions.

Paula Barker mentioned

Bill Documents
Apr. 09 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 9 April 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _8 Paula Barker Siân Berry Neil Duncan-Jordan Alex Sobel Marsha De Cordova David Davis .
Apr. 08 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 8 April 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _8 Paula Barker Siân Berry Neil Duncan-Jordan .
Apr. 07 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 7 April 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _8 Paula Barker Siân Berry Neil Duncan-Jordan .
Apr. 02 2025 Notices of Amendments as at 2 April 2025 Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: _8 Paula Barker Siân Berry Neil Duncan-Jordan .

Paula Barker - Select Committee Information

Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 1st April 2025 Written Evidence - Sir Bernard Jenkin MP OUT0024 - Outside employment and interests Outside employment and interests - Committee on Standards
Tuesday 1st April 2025 Written Evidence - Richard Fuller MP OUT0023 - Outside employment and interests Outside employment and interests - Committee on Standards