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Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Children
Monday 14th December 2020

Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of the policy of limiting welfare benefits to two children on abortion rates since (a) that policy’s implementation and (b) the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Will Quince

DWP has made no such assessment.


Written Question
Universal Credit
Monday 9th March 2020

Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

What assessment her Department has made of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit on referrals to food banks.

Answered by Will Quince

The Department does not keep official statistics on food bank use, so no such assessment has been completed.

There are many reasons people use food banks and their growth cannot be linked to a single cause.

Some food aid providers produce statistics on the number of food parcels distributed, but the Government has no plans to require individual food banks to keep records, as this would place a significant burden on charitable organisations.


Written Question
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
Tuesday 11th February 2020

Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of personal independence payment who were assessed at home have had successful mandatory reconsideration claims in (a) Coventry North West constituency, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England.

Answered by Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not available.