Written questions

Sir Stephen Timms

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Sep 2014 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Sri Lanka

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he plans to take through the Commonwealth and UN to secure Sri Lanka's compliance with the UN Human Rights Committee's resolution on the war crimes and civil rights investigati

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he will take to ensure that evaluations of the Work Programme look at its performance for ethnic minority jobseekers.

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Flexible Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on the Flexible Support Fund in each region of the UK in each year since it was introduced.

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which recommendations made by the Work Programme Best Practice Group have been (a) fully implemented, (b) partially implemented and (c) not implemented; and if he will make a statement.

3 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

New Enterprise Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many businesses have been created with help from the New Enterprise Allowance; and how many of those businesses have sustained operations for more than 52 weeks.

3 Sep 2014 · Cabinet Office

Unemployment: Older People

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people over 50 years old in each region and constituent part of the UK have been unemployed for over 12 months.

2 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the contribution by the Minister of State for Employment of 1 September 2014, Official Report, column 16, on youth employment (support) how much funding from the youth contract wage incentiv

2 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken to process a mandatory re-consideration of an employment and support allowance is; and if he will make a statement.

2 Sep 2014 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications are made on average before (a) a white and (b) an ethnic minority applicant secures an apprenticeship.

1 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Help to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the budget is for the Help to Work scheme in 2014-15.

1 Sep 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 had been (a) applied for and (b) paid by 6 August 2014.

1 Sep 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consultation was undertaken by his Department before it stopped youth contract wage incentives.

22 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Occupational Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the budget of the Health and Work Service will be in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.

22 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Occupational Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what companies have expressed an interest to his Department in tendering for the Health and Work Service.

22 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the market shift mechanism in the Work Programme.

22 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety Executive

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he estimates he will (a) receive and (b) publish the findings of the Health and Safety Executive Review Panel on Fee for Intervention.

22 Jul 2014 · Department of Health

Clinical Commissioning Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to make employment a clinical commissioning group outcome indicator; and if he will make a statement.

21 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to publicise the risks associated with asbestos.

21 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress he is making on reducing the number of incorrectly completed sanction referral forms submitted by Work Programme providers; and if he will make a statement.

21 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was transferred from his Department to HM Treasury as part of the Budget Exchange scheme in each financial year since 2010-11.

21 Jul 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average length of time claimants over 50 spent on jobseeker's allowance in each year since 2009.

21 Jul 2014 · Department for Education

Schools: Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to reduce levels of asbestos in school buildings.