Written questions

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of written complaints to her Department’s Debt Management team were answered within 15 working days in (a) August (b) September (c) October and (d) November 2020.

10 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of calls to her Department’s Debt Management team were answered in (a) August (b) September (c) October and (d) November 2020.

7 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter of 21 November 2020 from the Permanent Secretary to the Work and Pensions Committee, how many cases of universal credit identity hijack have been referred to the Stolen Iden

7 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her letter of 20 July 2020 to the Work and Pensions Committee, how many cases of universal credit identity hijack her Department (a) has investigated since October 2018 and (b) is curr

3 Dec 2020 · Treasury

Pension Wise

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Q82 of the oral evidence taken before the Treasury Committee on 4 November 2020, HC950, what plans the Financial Conduct Authority has to set a target for take-up of Pensions Wise.

1 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Immigration: Hong Kong

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the successful integration of people arriving from Hong Kong into UK communities after the British National Overseas Passport route opens on 31 January 20

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's promotion of Access to Work in the current financial year on the number of applications to that scheme.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the amount her Department will have spent on promoting the Access to Work scheme in the current financial year, 2020-21, by the end of the financial year.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on promoting the Access to Work scheme in the 2020-21 financial year.

30 Nov 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what his target is for gigabit broadband coverage by 2025.

30 Nov 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the £5 billion announced in the 2020 Spring Budget to ensure all homes and businesses can access gigabit broadband by 2025 remains available for that purpose; and if he will make

30 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance she has given to jobcentre staff on relaxing normal work search requirements for benefit claimants who are self-employed and highly experienced but temporarily unable to find work in their

30 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions her Department is having with representatives of (a) Equity and (b) other similar organisations on social security support for self-employed workers in the creative industries during t

23 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2020 to Question 114047 on Immigrants: Coronavirus, if she will issue guidance to local authorities to clarify that families with No Recourse to Public Funds are el

23 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Police Stations: East Ham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 31 January 2019 to Question 213168, what plans his Department has to bring the former East Ham police station building back into use.

19 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Internet: Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to tackle the online sale of illegal weapons in the forthcoming legislation on online harms; and if she will make a statement.

19 Nov 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Internet: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to tackle financial crime in his forthcoming legislation on online harms; and if he will make a statement.

19 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with representatives (a) among the self-employed and (b) workers in the creative arts sector on the operation of the social security system during the covid-19 outbreak.

18 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Kenya: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Kenyan authorities on the non-payment since January 2019 of pensions to former Kenyan Government employees now living in the UK; and if h

18 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Windrush Lessons Learned Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 106891 on Windrush Lessons Learned Review, what data on ethnicity she plans to collect to inform the review and evaluation of the public funds str

18 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Windrush Lessons Learned Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 106891 on Windrush Lessons Learned Review, what plans she has to update Parliament after receiving the regular progress reports on the review and

18 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2020 to Question 105275, for what reason the figure provided for in-country family extensions in the Immigration statistics referred to in that answer does not equ

17 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Windrush Lessons Learned Review

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to The Response to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review: A comprehensive improvement plan, published in September 2020, CP293, what the scope is of the review and evaluation being undert

17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November to Question 106891 on Free School Meals: Immigrants, what plans he has to publish the outcome of the review being undertaken by his Department with the Home Department.

11 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November to Question 105275, what assessment she has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of people in the other category extending their leave from Q4 2019 t

11 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November to Question 105275, what routes are included in the other category referred to in the data for in-country extensions included in that Answer.

11 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November to Question 105275, whether the figures for Leave to Remain with No Recourse to Public Funds extensions in that Answer include applicants on the five year route.

11 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her oral statement of 9 November 2020, Official Report, column 637 on supporting disadvantaged families, whether children in families whose immigration status has the No Recourse to Public

10 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

India: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer on 27 April 2020 to Question 37391 on Repatriation: Coronavirus, how many UK nationals have returned to the UK from India on repatriation flights organ

10 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of reduced visitor access on the levels of (a) loneliness and (b) mental ill health of care home residents since the start of the covid-19 outb

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