Written questions

4,857 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of participants in (a) the work programme, (b) work choice, (c) help to work and (d) mandatory work activity who started work during the course of their time on the programm

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of participants in (a) the work programme, (b) work choice, (c) help to work and (d) mandatory work activity who started work while participating in those programmes became

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of participants in (a) the work programme, (b) work choice and (c) help to work who started work during the course of their time on the programme in question were employed i

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which employers who have provided work placements for participants in (a) help to work and (b) mandatory work activity since the start of programme in question.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre Plus: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many income support advisers were employed by Jobcentre Plus in each of the last five years.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre Plus: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many branches of Jobcentre Plus employed at least one full-time equivalent (a) disability employment adviser and (b) income support adviser in each of the last five years.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were affected by the benefit cap in August 2015 were also affected by the benefit cap in September 2013.

14 Oct 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 people affected by the benefit cap are participants in the work programme.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish statistics on the number of sanctions made in relation to jobseekers claiming universal credit.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Income Support

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming income support work between one and 16 hours per week.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Income Support

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming income support (a) are pregnant and (b) gave birth within the last 15 weeks.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) employment and support allowance and (c) income support who were sanctioned in the last 12 months moved into work within on

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much time in total participants spent on (a) work choice, (b) help to work and (c) mandatory work activity in each year since the start of those programmes.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total number of hours worked by participants in (a) help to work and (b) mandatory work activity was in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the average number of hour

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were affected by the benefit cap in August 2015 have been affected by the benefit cap at any point since September 2013.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have been affected by the benefit cap at any point since September 2013, and are no longer affected, are in receipt of (a) disability living allowance, (b) personal independence paym

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have been affected by the benefit cap at any point since September 2013, and are no longer affected, started a claim for working tax credit after becoming self-employed.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were affected by the benefit cap between May 2015 and August 2015 normally carried out paid work between one hour and 16 hours per week during this period.

14 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2015 to Question 228756, when his Department plans to publish statistics on the performance of the Help to Work scheme.

12 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Welfare Reform and Work Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish equality impact assessments for the proposals in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

12 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to respond to the fifth Report of the Work and Pensions Committee of Session 2014-15, Benefit sanctions policy beyond the Oakley review, HC 814.

12 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to respond to the fourth Report of the Work and Pensions Committee of Session 2013-14, Support for housing costs in the reformed welfare system, HC 479.

15 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page two of the Impact Assessment for the Benefit Cap published on 20 July 2015, how many and what proportion of those affected by the lower cap on the day of its introduction will exp

15 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2015 to Question 8871, on data or categories of households affected by the benefit cap, if he will publish that administrative data on people claiming each benefit

15 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the households affected by the benefit cap in May 2015 were also affected by that cap in February 2014.

8 Sep 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, under what criteria NHS England choose to fund a NICE-approved medicine before the three month period following the publication of a positive NICE recommendation; and what steps NHS England is taking to encourage

8 Sep 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Innovative Medicines and MedTech Review plans to investigate how to reduce the period between NICE approval of a medicine and its funding by NHS trusts.

8 Sep 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with NHS England on recent guidance stating that NICE-recommended medicines will be funded from day 90 of publication.

8 Sep 2015 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Renewables Obligation

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the effect on investor confidence of the decision to consult on ending grandfathering under the Renewables Obligation.

8 Sep 2015 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Solar Power: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many mid-scale PV roofs were installed in (a) London and (b) the UK in 2014-15; and if she will make a statement.

Source: official written-questions record.