Emily Thornberry

26 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Typhoon Aircraft: Warnings

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 27 January 2015 to Question 221410, when he expects the concept phase of the development of a collision warning system for the Typhoon aircraft to be complete; and when he expects

26 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Navy: Patrol Craft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 6.55 of the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence Review 2015, what assessment he has made of the Royal Navy's operational need for an additional two offshore patrol vessels

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's report, Universal Credit Extended Gateway Evaluation, published on 6 December 2015, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the report's fi

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's report, Universal Credit Extended Gateway Evaluation, published on 6 December 2015, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the report's finding on page 39, tha

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the six pilot areas for Universal Support Delivered Locally were selected for an additional six months extension from September 2015.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the forecast number of people who will (a) move into work, (b) move out of poverty, (c) have increased income and (d) have increased of income of more than £25 a week follow

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will undertake a distributional analysis of the effect of recent changes to the work allowances within universal credit.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which areas the digital service for universal credit is (a) in operation and (b) expected to be in operation by April 2016.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people within each of the four Universal Credit North West Pathfinder jobcentres who meet the eligibility criteria for claiming universal credit under the Pathfinder programme have started a cl

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he (a) submitted and (b) received a response to (i) the strategic outline business case and (ii) the outline business case for universal credit from HM Treasury.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to evaluate the Universal Support Delivered Locally programme on completion of the pilot study.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in each of the 11 pilot areas of universal support delivered locally (a) participated in that programme and (b) consented to have their information used for the purposes of evaluating th

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 2.50 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, to which claimants the announcement of an extension of job search conditionality relates.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to reform the (a) work allowances and (b) taper rate within universal credit during the current Parliament.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to answer Question 19086, tabled on 8 December 2015.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what circumstances a person within one of the universal credit north west pathfinder jobcentres, who meets the eligibility criteria for universal credit under the pathfinder programme, may start a

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of uprating the Minimum Income Floor for the self-employed on universal credit inline with the National Minimum Wage on the number of people moving into self-em

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 7 of the Government's response to the Fifth Report from the Work and Pensions Committee, on Benefit Sanctions: Beyond the Oakley Review, HC 557, when the Government plans to publi

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report entitled, Estimating the Early Labour Market Impacts of Universal Credit, published by his Department in December 2015, what assessment he has made of the implications for h

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to submit the full business case for universal credit to HM Treasury; and when he expects final approval of that case to be granted.

17 Dec 2015 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2015 to Question 15125, when she plans to publish draft proposals on eligibility requirements for free school meals within universal credit; when the consultation on those

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people, excluding people participating in the Work Programme, who were claiming employment and support allowance and were previously in receipt of incapacity benefit, end

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work and Health Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget for employment support has been allocated to the Work and Health Programme for each of the next four years.

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times participants in the work programme were sanctioned between (a) June 2011 and November 2015 and (b) August 2015 and November 2015.

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of (a) UK nationals and (b) EU nationals from outside the UK are (i) in work, (ii) in receipt of jobseeker's allowance and (iii) in receipt of employment and support allowan

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new claims for (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance were made by (i) UK nationals and (ii) EU nationals from outside the UK in each of the l

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of his Department's employees were paid (a) at the national minimum wage and (b) above the national minimum wage but below the voluntary living wage in each of the last five

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions work programme providers referred participants for a sanction between (a) June 2011 and November 2015 and (b) August 2015 and November 2015.

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his estimate is of the notional average weekly change in benefit which working families currently claiming housing benefit would face as a result of removing the family premium from the calculation

16 Dec 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the effect of limiting the backdating of housing benefit to a maximum of one month on (a) the ability of tenants to pay any rent arrears accrued after a delay in applyin