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Written questions

Sir Stephen Timms

3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Resolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department issues guidance on (a) criteria and (b) legal cost thresholds for NHS Resolution involvement in clinical negligence claims; and if he will make a statement.

17 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Resolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department issues on involvement by NHS Resolution in cases in which claimants have commenced legal action against the NHS in the courts.

17 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Resolution

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in what circumstances NHS Resolution becomes involved in a legal case being undertaken by a patient against the NHS; and if he will make a statement.

14 Apr 2023 · Treasury

Debts: Ethiopia

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of Ethiopia's progress under the G20 common framework for debt treatments; whether he has made an estimate of the timescale for Ethiopia's private and

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve school attendance (a) by students who are eligible for free school meals and from deprived areas and (b) generally.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published 16 March 2023, what steps he plans to take to train and support (a) work coaches and (b) disabil

30 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people who make a protection or human rights claim for asylum and who meet the four conditions set out in clause 2 of the Illegal Migration Bill would undergo an asylum screening interview.

30 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children her Department forecasts will be subject to the duty to remove under clause 2 of the Illegal Migration Bill in 2024.

30 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum Seekers) Regulations 2005

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she intends to amend the Immigration and Asylum (Provision of Accommodation to Failed Asylum Seekers) Regulations 2005 to ensure people whose asylum claims are declared inadmissible are eligib

28 Mar 2023 · Department for Education

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the SEND review: right support, right place, right time, published on 29 March 2022, what steps her Department is taking to make it easier for parents of disabled children to receive financial

28 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to (a) support parents of disabled children and (b) help those parents return to work.

27 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Myanmar: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that education projects in Myanmar funded by the British taxpayer do not discriminate against ethnic minority languages.

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to reply to correspondence of 10 February from the Rt Hon. Member for East Ham, reference ST102732.

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to introduce specialist Jobcentre Plus Work Coaches with expertise on supporting single parents.

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential for Work Coaches or other Jobcentre Plus staff to support employers to job carve, to create roles suitable for single parents seeking to balance work with pa

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how job centre work coaches are trained to understand the circumstances of working parents and disabled people when setting in-work progression requirements; and if he will make a statement.

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of replacing the first sanction for someone claiming Universal Credit with a formal warning; and if he will make a statement.

23 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to reply to the letter dated 13 January 2023 from the Rt hon. Member for East Ham, ref ST102443.

21 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Actuaries: Regulation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason he proposes that the new Audit Regulation and Governance Authority will regulate non-public interest actuarial work.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls to his Department were (a) received and (b) answered by service area in each of the last five years; and what the average wait time for such calls was in each such area in each such year.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Home Discount Scheme: Eligibility

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the number of disabled people who were no longer eligible for the Warm Home Discount scheme following changes to eligibility criteria in winter 2022-23.

20 Mar 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Myanmar: Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help prevent the supply of aviation fuel to the Myanmar military.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2023 to Question 161211 on Universal Credit: Coronavirus, how much was not collected in deductions from Universal Credit as a result of the suspension of deductions dur

14 Mar 2023 · Treasury

Financial Services: Technology

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what preparations he has made to legislate for the long-term regulatory framework for Open Banking once the Joint Regulatory Oversight Committee reports in 2023.

14 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her oral contribution to the second reading debate on the Illegal Migration Bill on 14 March 2023, Official Report, Column 580, what steps she is taking to ensure that unaccompanied asylum

13 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the NHS England Children’s Hospice Grant by at least the rate of inflation each year, beyond 2023-24.

13 Mar 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Home Discount Scheme: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reversing the changes to Warm Home Discount scheme eligibility that exclude disabled people.

13 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any decisions on people’s Universal Credit entitlement are fully automated; and if he will make a statement.

8 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the income not received by his Department as a result of the suspension of deductions from Universal Credit during the covid-19 pandemic for the first 12 months from the s

6 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of raising the standard allowance of Universal Credit in the context of rising inflation.

Source: official written-questions record.