Written questions

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Sep 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who applied for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payments needed reasonable adjustments in order to make their claim in the last 12 months.

3 Sep 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) universal credit and (b) employment and support allowance claimants were found fit for work but were awarded (i) limited capability for work and (ii) limited capability for work related act

3 Sep 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit limited capability for work assessments were successful at the initial assessment in each month in the last 12 months.

28 Aug 2020 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa extensions were granted to people in the UK in each of the last five years; and how many of those extensions were granted to people subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds condition i

28 Aug 2020 · Treasury

Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to increase the minimum age at which people can access their private pension under the tax rules; and if he will make a statement

28 Aug 2020 · Department for International Trade

Clothing: Bangladesh

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2020 to Question 63203 on clothing: Bangladesh, what further discussions she has had since 21 May 2020 with UK retailers on payments to garment manufacturers in Bangl

28 Aug 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to support private tenants who find themselves unable to pay their rent debt after evictions are allowed to resume as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Written Statement of 9 July 2020, WS 353, whether she plans to permit disability benefit claimants to choose a face-to-face, telephone or paper assessment; and if she will make a stateme

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to develop (a) paper and (b) telephone versions of work capability assessments; and if she will make a statement.

21 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to continue (a) paper and (b) telephone assessments for (i) personal independence payment and (ii) disability living allowance after the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will

14 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Landlords: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an estimate of the change in the level of annual revenue accruing to the public purse from a national licensing scheme for residential landlords.

13 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments of financial redress her Department has made since March 2019 to claimants who moved from legacy benefits to universal credit on her Department's advice and became worse off.

13 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for financial redress have been made to her Department by people who claimed universal credit after lockdown restrictions came into effect and are worse off than on their previous benefi

13 Jul 2020 · Treasury

Landlords: Licensing

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the additional tax receipts that would be raised from a national licensing scheme for residential landlords.

13 Jul 2020 · Treasury

Landlords: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his most recent estimate is of the tax revenues lost through residential landlords failing to declare their rental income.

8 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria he plans to use to determine for how long families with No Recourse to Public Funds will have access to free school meals; and if he will make a statement.

7 Jul 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Permitted Development Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish his Department’s response to the consultation on permitted development rights.

6 Jul 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time was for applications for change of conditions of leave to allow recourse to public funds since the application form was digitised in April 2020.

6 Jul 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for change of conditions of leave to allow recourse to public funds are currently pending a decision.

6 Jul 2020 · Home Office

Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for lifting the No Recourse to Public Funds condition have been (a) submitted and (b) granted in each of the last 12 months.

6 Jul 2020 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa extensions for people in the UK were issued in each of the last five years; and how many of those extensions were subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds condition in each of those ye

2 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Social Distancing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of enforcing social distancing in workplaces on (a) limiting the spread of covid-19 and (b) ensuring workplace safety.

2 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety Executive: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal protective equipment specialists were made redundant in the science division of the Health and Safety Executive in 2019; and if she will make statement.

2 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Chemicals: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the preparedness of the Chemical Regulation Division of the Health and Safety Executive in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal; and if she will make

2 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety Executive: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent Band 3 Regulatory inspectors are employed by the Health and Safety Executive in each region and nation of the UK.

2 Jul 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health and Safety Executive: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the £14 million additional funding for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been (a) allocated by HSE and (b) allocated by HSE for additional inspection capacity.

30 Jun 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Local Government Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant Answer dated 12 June to Question 54984 on Immigrants: Finance, whether (a) local welfare assistance and (b) Section 17 Children Act 1989 support is classified as local welfare provision; and

29 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the higher mortality rates from covid-19 reported by the Office for National Statistics among disabled people; and if he will make a statement.

26 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to implement the recommendations of the Committee on Climate Change report, Reducing UK emissions Progress Report to Parliament, published in June 2020 by making all her (a) Departmen

23 Jun 2020 · Department for International Trade

Clothing: Bangladesh

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what representations she has made to UK retailers who have not paid garment manufacturers in Bangladesh for products supplied during the covid-19 pandemic.

Source: official written-questions record.