Sir Stephen Timms

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people aged 18 to 21 who will retain entitlement to housing benefit under proposals to remove automatic entitlement to housing benefit from those people.

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to publish an impact assessment of plans to reduce the household benefit cap to £23,000 per year.

9 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Child Tax Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people claimed child tax credits in the last year, and how many such people had more than (a) two and (b) three children.

9 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the effect on rent arrears of requiring housing benefit claimants to pay 10 per cent towards the cost of their rent; and if he will make a statement.

8 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of setting local housing allowance rates at the 20th percentile of market rents on (a) levels of arrears in the private rented sector, (b) viability in the buy

8 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on levels of arrears in the social rented sector of requiring all housing benefit claimants in that sector to make a contribution to their rent.

5 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to integrate different IT systems being developed for universal credit.

5 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions:Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the additional £105 million in-year savings to be delivered by his Department in 2015-16 on delivery of key projects and programmes and its capacity to admin

5 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to promote the Access to Work scheme.

5 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants are being served by the universal credit digital solution.

5 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library an itemised breakdown of the saving of £105 million in his Department's budget in the current financial year announced by the Chancellor on 4 June 2015.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to continue the Targeted Affordability Fund beyond financial year 2015-16.

3 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Pensions

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to conduct research into the use of savers make of money withdrawn under the new pensions freedoms.

3 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Pensions: Fraud

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to monitor the prevalence of fraud related to the new pensions freedoms.

3 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Pensions: Fraud

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have been victims of fraud and mis-selling related to the new pensions flexibilities.

3 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Pensions: Advisory Services

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people and what proportion of those eligible to take advantage of the pensions flexibilities have received (a) face-to-face and (b) telephone advice through Pension Wise.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2015 to Question 228133, how much has been claimed in hardship payments in each of the last 12 months.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people under the Government's proposals for a youth allowance he has estimated will be expected to undertake community work from the commencement of an employment and support allowance cl

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people he has estimated will no longer receive housing benefit under the Government's proposals to restrict access for that age group to that benefit.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment Benefits: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 18-21 year olds he has estimated would be affected by plans to replace out-of-work benefits for that age group with a youth allowance.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many 18-21 year olds who (a) are care leavers, (b) have young children and (c) are in employment he has estimated would no longer receive housing benefit under the Government's proposals to restrict

29 May 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who (a) receive the work-related activity component of employment and support allowance, (b) have a child aged under one and (c) are living in temporary

29 May 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people residing (a) in inner London, (b) in outer London and (c) outside London who would be affected by a reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000.

29 May 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish details of the earnings thresholds for universal credit that will be used to determine eligibility and entitlement to passported benefits.

29 May 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of households with children which will be claiming universal credit in April (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018, (d) 2019 and (e) 2020.

29 May 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people who will be claiming universal credit in April (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018, (d) 2019 and (e) 2020.

23 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what research his Department has commissioned on links between securing a short-hours job and securing a longer-hours job; and if he will make a statement.

23 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library the research his Department has commissioned on links between securing a short-hours job and a subsequent gain of longer-hours jobs.

23 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have joined each of the three options in the Help to Work programme in each month since May 2014.

23 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest duration of sanction imposed on a claimant in the work related activity group was in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014.