Sir Stephen Timms

14 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department provides to local authorities to help (a) identify and (b) remedy errors in universal credit calculations.

14 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations her Department defines as partners in the delivery of universal credit.

14 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what response her Department makes when notified by a local authority of an error in a resident’s universal credit calculation.

9 May 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

5G

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of of current permitted development rights for (a) mobile infrastructure and (b) 5G in helping the UK become a world-leading 5G e

7 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to give staff who advise universal credit claimants access to benefit calculations to enable them to provide better support.

7 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of whether the information provided to universal credit claimants, who request reasons for a decision, meets the statutory requirements that it should (a) be adequate to all

7 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to increase the (a) accuracy and (b) clarity of the universal credit payment statements provided to claimants.

7 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the (a) accuracy and (b) clarity of the universal credit payment statements provided to claimants.

7 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Mortgages

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the difficulties faced by universal credit claimants applying for a mortgage; and if she will make a statement.

2 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2019 to Question 247977 on Universal Credit, what assessment he has made of what type of interactions with social media would help to increase awareness and understanding

1 May 2019 · Treasury

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of (a) tax credits and (b) child benefit to which claimants were entitled but did not claim in each year since 2010.

1 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to make prospective parents aware of the two child limit on entitlement to tax credits and the child element of universal credit.

1 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to promote the use of benefits calculators to help ensure that people claim the benefits to which they are entitled.

1 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the amount of (a) jobseeker’s allowance, (b) universal credit, (c) personal independence payment and (d) disability living allowance to which claimants were entitled but di

1 May 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people who are digitally excluded are not missing out on benefits to which they are entitled.

30 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of the two-child limit on families with a low income; and if she will make a statement.

30 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pension, what estimate she has made of the value of advanced payments that will be paid to claimants of universal credit in each of the next five years.

30 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the value of advanced payments that will be paid to claimants of universal credit in 2019.

30 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to include an income assessment form in the application for advance payments for universal credit; and if she will make a statement.

30 Apr 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to address the projection in his Department’s Updated Energy and Emissions Projections 2018, published 11 April 2019, that the UK will miss its carbon targets fo

29 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Educational Testing Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial settlement his Department reached with ETS after terminating in 2014 its licence to deliver the TOEIC test in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

26 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the minutes of the universal credit programme board for June 2017, what plans she has for the universal credit system to interface with social media providers; and if she will make a s

25 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing Associations

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to encourage Housing Associations to retain essential household items within properties during a change of tenancy.

25 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in privately rented property living without essential household items.

25 Apr 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Housing: Consumer Goods

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the numbers of council housing tenants living without a (a) fridge, (b) freezer, (c) washing machine, and (d) cooker in each of the las

25 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Welfare Assistance Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been spent on Local Welfare Assistance Schemes in each of the last nine years.

25 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Welfare Assistance Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Local Welfare Assistance Schemes; and if will he make a statement.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it remains his policy that young carers be referred to explicitly in Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework; and if he will make a statement.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much has been clawed back from providers in the Broadband UK programme as a result of a higher than anticipated take-up of broadband.

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if it remains the Government’s ambition to provide access to work support to over 60,000 people per year by 2020 as set out in the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper published in November 2017.