Written questions

Sir Stephen Timms

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy that people whose applications for employment and support allowance are rejected should routinely be advised of the mandatory reconsideration procedure.

10 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy that claimants applying for mandatory reconsideration after being refused employment and support allowance should routinely be informed of the opportunity to provide additi

6 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the functionality of real time information within the development of the Universal Credit programme.

6 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people on employment and support allowance have been referred to the Work Programme on a voluntary basis since June 2011.

6 Mar 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 savings to his Department from the introduction of mandatory reconsideration for employment and support allowance claims.

6 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job outcome payments have been secured in respect of people on employment and support allowance who have been referred to the Work Programme on a voluntary basis since June 2011.

6 Mar 2015 · Cabinet Office

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of young unemployed people was identified as BME in each month since February 2005.

5 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployed People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the average proportion of jobseekers' time accounted for by (a) compliance activity and (b) employment support activity.

5 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have been refused hardship payments in each month since October 2012.

5 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

5 Mar 2015 · Department for Transport

Cycleways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his oral contribution of 5 March 2015, Official Report, column 1064, on cycling and walking, for what reasons those provisions to cycle lanes in part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 have not ye

4 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending his Department's transparency indicators to apply to the timeliness of benefit processing.

4 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been in receipt of (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance since June 2011; and how many such people have been attached to the Work Programme.

4 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there are circumstances in which it is appropriate for a manager in Jobcentre Plus to press an adviser to increase the number of benefit sanctions he or she is issuing to clients.

4 Mar 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Troubled Families Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many families have participated in the Troubled Families Programme to date; and in how many cases a family member has secured a sustained job outcome following participation in the pr

3 Mar 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of traineeships completed to date lasted (a) less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months and (d) six months or more.

3 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Food Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken since 8 December 2014 to act on the conclusion of the Feeding Britain report.

3 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his latest estimate is of the number of people who will be claiming legacy benefits or tax credits on 1 January 2021.

3 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the average cost of travel to routine fortnightly interviews at Jobcentre Plus where claimants live more than a mile from their Jobcentre Plus office.

3 Mar 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received (a) hardship payments and (b) short-term benefit advances in each of the last (i) five years and (ii) six months.