Sir Stephen Timms

15 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to improve employment support for Work Programme participants claiming employment and support allowance who have a 12 month prognosis of a return to work.

15 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 32 of Work Programme Evaluation: Operation of the commissioning model, finance and programme delivery, published by his Department in December 2014, what assessment he has made of

15 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury

Minimum Wage

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2015 to Question 218249, how many complaints about non-payment of the minimum wage to HM Revenue and Customs have been made in each of the last six years.

14 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his strategy for testing approaches to universal credit in work conditionality includes testing of a requirement to leave one job and start another in order to increase pay; and if he will make

14 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

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

14 Jan 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 cost of applying in work conditionality once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

14 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what dates and in what locations the universal credit in work pilots are due to start.

14 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his strategy for testing approaches to universal credit in-work conditionality includes testing employer involvement in the application of conditionality.

14 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury

Bitcoin: VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his Department's policy to seek to recover VAT on bitcoin transactions.

13 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the research finding reported in the evaluation of the Work Programme published by his Department in December 2014, that differential

13 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sub-contractors were engaged in the Work Programme at the most recent stocktake of that programme.

13 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what conclusions his Department has drawn from the Universal Credit in-work conditionality pilots which started in 2014.

13 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Labour Market Statistics, table BEN01, published in December 2014, what assessment he has made of the reasons why the number of claimants of employment and support allowance and ot

13 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury

Bitcoin: VAT

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has made to the European Court of Justice in response to its consideration of the VAT treatment of bitcoin transactions; and if he will make a statement.

13 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's guidance on delivering public value from spending proposals, under what circumstances procuring a system precedes completion of the full business case.

12 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 28 of his Department's Work Programme Evaluation published in December 2014, what guidance his Department gives Work Programme providers on best practice in cases where the costs

12 Jan 2015 · Home Office

Entry Clearances

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effect of revoking the visa sponsorship licence granted to Youth With A Mission on that organisation.

8 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who the (a) Chair and (b) other members are of the Universal Credit Programme board.

8 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 28 of work programme evaluations: operation of the commissioning model, finance and programme delivery, published by his Department on 18 December 2014, what assessment he has mad

8 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of differential pricing on provider behaviour in the Work Programme; and if he will make a statement.

8 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 122 of work programme evaluation: operation of the commissioning model, finance and programme delivery, published by his Department on 18 December 2014, for what reasons the perfo

8 Jan 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans for the Skills Funding Agency to have a data sharing agreement in place with London Work Programme providers so that referrals to Skills support for Work Programme participan

7 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the staff in his Department responsible for the Work Programme are divided between those dealing with contracting and those dealing with performance; and what assessment he has made of t

7 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Labour Market Statistics, December 2014, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the rise in the number of claimants of employment and support allowance and other incapacity ben

7 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people work for the Universal Credit Digital Service; whether the number of those workers is below the planned number; and if he will make a statement.

7 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury

Minimum Wage: Enforcement

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average time between a national minimum wage infringement first being reported and the issue of the resulting Notice of Underpayment was in the last year for which figures are available.

7 Jan 2015 · HM Treasury

Minimum Wage: Enforcement

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many HM Revenue and Customs staff worked on national minimum wage enforcement in each of the last five years.

6 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Trussell Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he last met representatives of the Trussell Trust.

6 Jan 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Work Programme sub-contractors have received no referrals since the inception of that programme.

6 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 in the last two years about the adequacy of his Department's hardship payments scheme.