Written questions
3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.
12 Oct 2015 · Home Office
Metropolitan Police: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were accepted onto the Metropolitan Police National Fast Track Programme in the last 12 months; and how many such people did not subsequently pass the vetting procedure and therefore d
12 Oct 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
BBC: Religion
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether requirements for religious content will be included in the new BBC Charter.
12 Oct 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeship applications have been (a) made and (b) accepted in the last 12 months; and how many such applications were from people who have served a prison sentence.
17 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 September 2015 to Question 10000, whether the milestone set in autumn 2014 of reaching 100,000 universal credit claims by May 2015 was achieved; and if he will make a statem
17 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2015 to Question 228133, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2015 to Question 748 and pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2015 to Question 9414, why information
11 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by when he plans for one million people to be in receipt of universal credit; and what steps he is taking to achieve this outcome.
10 Sep 2015 · Department for Education
Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the rationale is for attainment at Key Stage Level 4 being selected as the education indicator in the proposed Life Chance reports.
10 Sep 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Children: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the effect of the proposed national living wage on (a) absolute and (b) relative child poverty by 2020.
10 Sep 2015 · 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 work incentives of the reduction in the universal credit work allowance proposed in the Summer Budget 2015.
9 Sep 2015 · HM Treasury
Personal Income
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the effect was of the tax and benefit changes announced in the Budget on median household income in each income quintile.
9 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to exempt 18 to 21 year olds in supported accommodation who meet the specified accommodation definition under the Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Supported Accommodation) (Amendme
9 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims include an element for housing costs.
9 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects the transition to universal credit to be complete.
9 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants are in receipt of universal credit; and of those claims how many have alternative payment arrangements in place.
8 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2015 to Question 228133, and pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2015 to Question 748, how much has been claimed in hardship payments in each of the last 12 months.
8 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the effect on (a) relative and (b) absolute child poverty of the four-year freeze announced in the July Budget on the uprating of (i) jobseeker's allowance and (ii) employme
8 Sep 2015 · HM Treasury
Budgets
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to publish an analysis of the distributional impact of changes alongside each Budget Statement in this Parliament.
8 Sep 2015 · HM Treasury
Children: Poverty
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on (a) relative and (b) absolute child poverty of (i) the two child limit for the child element of Tax Credit; and (ii) the removal of the family element of Child Tax Credit an
8 Sep 2015 · HM Treasury
Welfare Tax Credits
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on (a) relative and (b) absolute child poverty of the four year freeze announced in the Summer Budget 2015 on the uprating of (i) tax credits and (ii) child benefit.
8 Sep 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Vocational Guidance: Minority Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of treating ethnic minority groups as a priority by the National Careers Service.
7 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason his Department invented quotes by non-existent jobseekers in its recent leaflet on benefit sanctions; and if he will make a statement.
7 Sep 2015 · Department for Transport
Railways: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make the provision of turn-up-and-go facilities to be a requirement in the next award of franchises for (a) South Eastern railways and (b) South Western railways.
7 Sep 2015 · Ministry of Justice
Aiding and abetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to review and clarify the law on joint enterprise.
7 Sep 2015 · HM Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Concentrix
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have been contacted on behalf of HM Revenue and Customs by Concentrix; and for what purpose they were so contacted.
15 Jul 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Industrial Injuries
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consultation he plans on the role of employers and insurers in providing support to people who suffer from industrial injuries in the workplace; and if he will make a statement.
15 Jul 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of an increase in rents on housing benefit spending.
15 Jul 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of housing benefit aged between 18 and 21 are studying (a) full-time and (b) part-time in further education.
15 Jul 2015 · HM Treasury
Child Tax Credit
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether families with disabled children born after 6 April 2017 will continue to receive both the child element of child tax credit and the new disability element on account of that child, irrespective of how many ot
15 Jul 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households are affected by the household benefit cap; and how many such people are in (a) social rented housing, (b) private rented housing and (c) temporary accommodation (i) nationally and (i
14 Jul 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the Government proposes in Clause 1 of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill that the full employment reporting obligation will be repealed at the dissolution of the present Parliament.
Source: official written-questions record.