Liz Kendall

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Medical Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what evidential basis he stated to The Telegraph on 20 March 2024 that GPs were signing people off work for feeling down and bluesy.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 4.58 of the Office for Budget Responsibility publication entitled Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in March 2024, whether he has made an estimate of future trends in th

26 Mar 2024 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2024 to Question 17582 on National Insurance Contributions: State Retirement Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing, rather t

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 18113 on Jobcentres: Finance, what the individual incentives are in the two incentive pilot programmes for work coaches supporting people into work.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 18113 on Jobcentres: Finance, what the cost to the public purse was of the two incentive pilot programmes.

12 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to offer financial incentives for Jobcentre work coaches to get people into work.

7 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Loans: Repayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the increase in the maximum repayment period on new budgeting advance loans starts is scheduled for December 2024.

7 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants have received a budgeting advance in each of the last three years.

7 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number and proportion of tax credit claimants that have closed a claim rather than migrate to Universal Credit in each of the last three years.

7 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Office for Budget Responsibility publication entitled Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in March 2024, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of

7 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Defamation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraphs 7.16 and 7.17 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions Ministers in his Department have informed the Law Officers that they are the defendants in a libel action in (a)

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance contributions on how qualifying years for pension entitlement would be (a) calculated and (b) accounted.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance contributions on (a) calculating and (b) accounting pension entitlements.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing national insurance contributions on state pension entitlements.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Financial Statement from 6 March 2024, Official Report, column 851, whether his Department has made an assessment of potential alternative funding mechanisms for the State Pension.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's spend on the youth offer was in the last financial year.

12 Sep 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times (a) the Secretary of State and (b) each Minister in his Department has visited a (i) Government Hub and (ii) ministerial office outside of London in the last 12 months.

17 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients remained in hospital who no longer met the criteria to reside for each day between 1 May 2023 and 17 May 2023 for which data is available.

17 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Supported Housing: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report published in March 2023, whether the amount of money she plans to spend on supporting people to remain in their homes by a

17 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients moved into a step down bed purchased using the £750 million allocated by his Department for freeing up beds during winter 2022-23; what was the average duration of their package;

17 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many discharges from step down beds were there in (a) October 2022, (b) November 2022, (c) December 2022, (d) January 2023, (e) February 2023 and (f) March 2023.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Older People's Housing Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the remit will be of the Older People’s Taskforce.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respite Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hours of respite the funding allocated to unpaid carers in the Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care report will provide.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated to support the social care workforce in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper in December 2021 compared to the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care rep

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the unallocated funding in the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report will be used for; and when that funding will allocated.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason statistics on discharge delays are not broken down on a daily and weekly basis for the 2023-24 financial year.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to speed up delayed discharges in the 2023-24 financial year; and where those funds have been derived from.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were readmitted to an inpatient setting from a step down bed procured through the £750 million allocated by his Department for freeing up hospital beds in winter 2022-23.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many step down beds were purchased using the £750 million of funding allocated by his Department for freeing up beds in hospitals during winter 2022-23.

16 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the of the £750 million pledged to speed up hospital discharges in winter 2022-23 was spent before 31 March 2023; and where the unspent funds have been reallocated to.