Sir Stephen Timms

18 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has plans to change her Department’s policy on consent requirements for authorised representatives to act on behalf of claimants of universal credit.

11 Apr 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Utilities: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the prices of (a) energy bills, and (b) water bills are affordable for those of state pension age.

11 Apr 2019 · Treasury

Personal Savings: Older People

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the elderly to accrue personal savings.

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

Rented Housing: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help local authorities improve security of tenure for older renters.

11 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that older people in financial hardship are able to claim the benefits they are entitled to.

9 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that universal credit adequately supports social housing tenants paying rent weekly to meet their obligations in relation to the 53 week year.

8 Apr 2019 · Home Office

Migrants: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his oral contribution of 1 April, Official Report, Column 799, when he plans to announce his final decisions in relation to the overseas students falsely accused of cheating in TOEIC Engli

3 Apr 2019 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions: Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children excluded from full time education had previously been in receipt of free school meals in each year for which information is available.

3 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Low Birthweight Babies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies have been born at a low birth weight in each year since 2010.

3 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an estimate of the cost of abolishing the five week wait for universal credit claimants.

3 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the benefit freeze on child poverty rates.

3 Apr 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April to question 236986 on Employment Schemes: Young People, what specific measures and outcome data have been collected in management information for the Youth Obligation.

1 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in which months in the last two years Central and East London Breast Screening Service has met its target of less than 2 per cent of screenings being subject to technical recalls.

1 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many screening sessions have been delivered by Central and East London Breast Screening Service (a) in Homerton Hospital and (b) at the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre in each w

1 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of women were invited for screening at Central and East London Breast Screening Service within three years of their previous appointment in each month in the last three years.

1 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Barts Health NHS Trust: Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of symptomatic breast appointments in Barts Health NHS Trust in each of the last five years.

27 Mar 2019 · Home Office

Architecture: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to meet with representatives of the architecture profession to discuss architects' concerns on the Immigration White Paper.

27 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether universal credit claimants are able to deduct the tax relief claimed by relief at source pension schemes from their earned income figure to calculate their award of universal credit.

27 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department receives information automatically from HMRC when a tax refund is paid directly by HMRC to a universal credit claimant.

26 Mar 2019 · Home Office

Crime: Retail Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to tackle (a) retail crime and (b) violence against shopworkers; and if he will make a statement.

26 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Immigration: Ghana

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that out-of-country appeals from Ghana are conducted fairly and without prejudice to an appellant’s case; and if he will make a statement.

26 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Obligation participants have secured (a) employment, (b) traineeships, (c) work placements and (d) apprenticeships since 1 January 2019.

26 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have joined the Youth Obligation programme since 1 January 2019.

26 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 216920, what plans she has to publish Youth Obligation outcome data; and if she will make a statement.

22 Mar 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Barts Health NHS Trust: Private Finance Initiative

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has plans to provide PFI relief to Barts Health NHS Trust.

21 Mar 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax Reduction Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether mixed-age couples will continue to be able to claim council tax support under the default scheme when changes to their entitlement to pension credit take effect from 15 M

21 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the approximately 60,000 mixed-age couples who will be affected by the change in the entitlement rules for pension credit by 2023-24 live in each region of the UK.

21 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of mixed-age couples claiming (a) pension credit or (b) pension age housing benefit on 14 May who will lose entitlement due to a change in circumstance in each o

21 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to (a) publicise forthcoming changes to pension credit for mixed-age couples and (b) encourage people to make a claim for that benefit before 15 May 2019.

14 Mar 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the universal credit system has access to information provided to the Government’s Tell Us Once system for registering births and deaths; and if she will make a statement.