Written questions
3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.
3 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April 2016 to Question 34911, which contracted employment support initiatives other than the Work Programme and Work Choice are included in the figure for the total budget f
3 May 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Islamic State: Genocide
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to refer to the UN Security Council the evidence being collected by his Department on potential acts of genocide committed by Daesh.
3 May 2016 · HM Treasury
PAYE
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate HM Revenue and Customs has made of the number of PAYE schemes whose balances do not reconcile to within £100 of their liabilities in 2013-14 and each successive financial year.
28 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: PAYE
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to prevent employer's (a) late and (b) inaccurate reporting of PAYE through real time information causing errors in the amount of universal credit received by that employer's
27 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Rented Housing: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department arising from application of the under-occupancy penalty in each of the last three financial years.
27 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Rented Housing: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average reduction in benefits was for claimants subject to the under-occupancy penalty in each of the last three financial years.
27 Apr 2016 · HM Treasury
Universal Credit: PAYE
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 34477, whether it is possible to correct errors in PAYE real-time data submitted by employers before the point at which such errors affect universal credit claimant
27 Apr 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Living Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to discourage employers from cutting staff benefits on the grounds that implementing the national living wage compels them to do so.
26 Apr 2016 · Department of Health
Tuberculosis: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2016 to Question 33687, what investment there has been related to the Collaborative TB Strategy for England 2015 to 2020 for (a) tuberculosis (TB) awareness raising, (b) TB case
26 Apr 2016 · Department of Health
Tuberculosis: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 33688, how many individuals were screened for tuberculosis among populations deemed to be at high risk of that infection in each year since 2010.
26 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
PAYE: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data quality testing has been carried out on the effect on universal credit calculations of the timeliness and accuracy of employer PAYE reporting through real time information.
26 Apr 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 21 April 2016 to Question 33376, by what date his Department plans to decide on whether British Sign Language is an acceptable alternative to qualifications in En
22 Apr 2016 · Home Office
Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what protocols her Department has on removing from the UK people who have been refused leave to remain and who require (a) 16 hours and (b) 24 hours of oxygen per day for medical reasons.
22 Apr 2016 · Home Office
Deportation: India
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse has been of removing to India by sea those people who have been refused leave to remain in each of the last five years.
22 Apr 2016 · Home Office
Deportation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were removed from the UK by surface transport on grounds that they were not entitled to leave to remain but who were unable to fly on medical grounds in each of the last five years; an
22 Apr 2016 · Department of Health
Tuberculosis: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2016 to Question 33687, what funding and support (a) his Department and (b) NHS England have provided to integrate blood-borne virus testing into mobile digital radiology screeni
22 Apr 2016 · Department of Health
Tuberculosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2016 to Question 33687, what new investment which is in line with the Collaborative TB Strategy for England has been made to deliver (a) TB awareness raising, (b) TB case finding
20 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2016 to Question 34050, how much funding his Department has allocated to the work programme and work choice in the 2016-17 financial year.
20 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April 2016 to Question 32294, what account is taken of a person's earlier claim for work capability assessment if the person submits a new claim for employment and support a
20 Apr 2016 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 33689, how many teachers of GCSE (a) English and (b) mathematics were employed by the armed forces in each of the last five years.
20 Apr 2016 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces: GCE A-level
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many enlisted soldiers gained A-levels while serving in the armed forces in each of the last five years; and in which subjects those A-levels were obtained.
19 Apr 2016 · Department for Education
Academies: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans for local authorities to continue to receive basic need allocations of capital for new school places under her proposals for all schools to become academies.
18 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: PAYE
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the extent of errors in payments of universal credit arising from errors in PAYE real time information.
18 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of claims for universal credit were made online in each year since that benefit was introduced.
18 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on claimants of the time which elapses between a claim for universal credit and the first payment of that benefit.
14 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a bedroom which is currently unusable pending repairs by a social landlord is included by his Department in its assessment of whether a household under-occupying accommodation.
14 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Unemployment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Youth Obligation can be extended beyond six months for a participant who is not work-ready at the end of that period.
14 Apr 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect on annual spending on (a) employment support by non-government providers and (b) Jobcentre Plus of the introduction of the Work and Health Programme; and if he wi
14 Apr 2016 · Department for International Development
Middle East: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Government response to the International Development Committee's Third Report of Session 2014-15, UK's development work in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, what progre
14 Apr 2016 · Department of Health
Tuberculosis: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason there was a shortage of the BCG vaccine in 2015; and what steps his Department is taking so that such shortages do not occur in the future.
Source: official written-questions record.