Sir Stephen Timms

10 Dec 2014 · HM Treasury

Minimum Wage

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints about non-payment of the national minimum wage HM Revenue and Customs received about how many employers in each of the last six years.

10 Dec 2014 · HM Treasury

Minimum Wage

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were repaid arrears of the national minimum wage as a result of his Department's enforcement activity in each of the last six years.

10 Dec 2014 · HM Treasury

Minimum Wage

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average cost is to HM Revenue and Customs of national minimum wage enforcement cases where (a) there is no enforcement action, (b) a Notice of Underpayment is issued and (c) there is a criminal prosecution.

10 Dec 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the total income lost each year to employees who are entitled to but are not paid the National Minimum Wage.

8 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints have been made to the Merlin Mediation Service about non-compliance with the Merlin Standard since April 2012; and what the outcome was of each such complaint.

8 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy for his Department to collect information on the length of time taken for benefit payments to be made; and if he will make a statement.

8 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects to have gathered sufficient data from labour market trials to compare the effectiveness of the different approaches to in-work progression with Universal Credit.

8 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentre Plus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on claimants of the removal of telephones from Jobcentre Plus offices.

8 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Contract wage incentives have been paid to businesses based in (a) London, (b) Manchester and (c) Birmingham to date.

5 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have died since May 2010 while their benefit was withheld as a result of sanction.

5 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the value of Work Programme payments claimed fraudulently by providers since June 2011.

5 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pilot Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pilot schemes his Department has launched since May 2010.

5 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has recouped in Work Programme payments claimed fraudulently by providers since June 2011.

4 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish the number of jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance claimants who have been subject to mandatory reconsideration.

4 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Vacancies: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department has received about the universal jobmatch service since November 2012.

4 Dec 2014 · Department for Education

Schools: East Ham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2014 to Question 216369, how many new school projects are currently being considered as alternative options for the East Ham Police Station site.

4 Dec 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) white and (b) Black and minority ethnic applicants started, (i) apprenticeships and (ii) traineeships in the last three years; and what proportion of each such group completed

3 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government's commitment in its response to the Oakley Review, Cm 8904, to strengthen guidance so that hardship provision is clear upfront to all claimants who are sanctioned, what

3 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increased number of claimants of employment and support allowance receiving benefit sanctions since mid-2013.

3 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Voluntary Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what arrangements his Department has in place with the voluntary sector to enable benefit claimants to undertake voluntary work.

3 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what circumstances claimants of employment and support allowance are permitted to retain their benefit while undertaking voluntary work.

3 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what circumstances benefit claimants are permitted to undertake paid work which is regarded as therapeutic.

2 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2013 to Question 149822 and pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2014 to Question 215974, how much additional jobseeker's allowance in total claimants subject to

2 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families claiming employment and support allowance with dependent children have been sanctioned since December 2012; and how many such people have subsequently had their sanction rescinded.

2 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families claiming jobseeker's allowance with dependent children have been sanctioned since October 2012; and how many such people have subsequently had their sanction rescinded.

2 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government's commitment in its response to the Oakley Review, Cm 8904, to implement an IT solution so that local authorities are given the information they need to suspend housing

1 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects support and security accreditation to be restored to the Enhanced Transition Service Enhancements.

1 Dec 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department gives to a Work Programme sub-contractor to which a prime provider has refused to make a contractual payment; and if he will make a statement.

1 Dec 2014 · Ministry of Justice

Kidnapping: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how he plans to respond to the Law Commission's recommendation on unlawful retention of children in its report on Simplification of Criminal Law: Kidnapping and Related Offences; and if he will make a statement.

28 Nov 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made in its discussions with HM Revenue and Customs on plans to transfer tax credit debt to his Department; and if he will make a statement.