Sir Stephen Timms

27 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on Work Programme job outcome fees on (a) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Income Related (IR), Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) with three to six months prognosis, (b)

27 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Rented Housing: Landlords

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made in sharing data with registered social landlords.

26 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre Plus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on rent for the Jobcentre Plus estate in 2013-14.

26 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what training has been given to staff working in universal credit service centres on dealing with the housing benefit component of universal credit.

26 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost was of maintaining the Jobcentre Plus estate in 2013-14.

26 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job centres there were on 1 January (a) 2010 and (b) 2015; and how many job centres have closed since 1 January 2010.

26 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the oral Answer to the hon. Member for Easington of 26 January 2015 to Question 907220, what the evidential basis was for the statement that according to figures from the International Labou

22 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the change in the inactivity rate recorded in the Office of National Statistics Labour Market statistics issued on 21 January 2015.

22 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre Plus: Disciplinary Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre Plus staff were subject to disciplinary action in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2015 to Question 220893, when the new closer working approach was introduced; and what figures he plans to use to measure that approach's effectiveness.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2015 to Question 220893, which aspects of the new closer working between jobcentres and Work Programme prime providers are improving relationships between them.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what further plans he has to reduce youth unemployment.

21 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it remains his estimate that the number of claimants of universal credit will reach 100,000 by May 2015, as forecast on page 30 of his Department's document Universal Credit at work, published i

20 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the approach of Work Programme providers to benefit sanctions referrals is consistent.

20 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the consistency between different Work Programme providers of procedures on referrals for benefit sanctions.

20 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the principal risks are which his Department has identified with respect to the national rollout of universal credit in 2015.

20 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Youth Unemployment Innovation Fund.

19 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2015 to Question 220704, how large the control group will be in the proposed randomised control trial for universal credit in work progression; for how long that tri

19 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the Major Projects Authority to provide its next assessment of the universal credit project.

19 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Self-employed: Industrial Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how much time per year self-employed workers spend on fulfilling regulatory health and safety obligations.

19 Jan 2015 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Welfare Assistance Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has prepared an equality statement on its decision to cease grant funding for local welfare provision from 2015-16.

19 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any people claiming universal credit are subject to in-work conditionality.

16 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 7.12 of the Explanatory Memorandum to the Universal Credit (Work-Related Requirements) In Work Pilot Scheme Amendment Regulations 2015, if he will place in the Library a copy

16 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects in work conditionality to be applied to all appropriate claimants of universal credit.

16 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to pilot approaches to in work conditionality in which the conditionality will be applied by staff other than Jobcentre Plus staff; and if he will make a statement.

16 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received from the Trussell Trust about the adequacy of his Department's hardship payments scheme since 2010.

16 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to pilot different approaches to the use of sanctions in in work conditionality for universal credit.

15 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes he has made to his Department's policies or procedures in response to those representations about the adequacy of his Department's hardship payments scheme.

15 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish evaluations of the universal credit in work conditionality pilots.

15 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what conclusions about effective approaches to universal credit in work conditionality he has drawn from the labour market trials which started between May 2013 and January 2014; and if he will make a s