Written questions
807 written questions tabled, most recent first.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant the Answer of 24 April 2024 to Question 22551 on Universal Credit: Employment, what her planned timetable is for the (a) conclusion and (b) publication of the evaluation of the Additional Jobce
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for an initial assessment for people on the Access to Work Scheme in the last five years.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people entered employment through the people and skills strand of the European Social Fund in each year since its inception until its end.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) face-to-face, (b) remote and (c) paper-based Personal Independence Payment assessments resulted in claims being (i) awarded, (ii) disallowed and (iii) withdrawn in each financial year since
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there are as of 21 May 2024.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2023.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2022.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hubs there were in 2021.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent work coaches were working specifically to support young people as of 21 May 2024.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work coaches were employed to support young people in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many places were (a) available and (b) taken up for the Youth Offer in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022, (iii) 2023 and (iv) 2024 as of 21 May.
21 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on (a) dedicated work coaches, (b) support elements separate to the work coaches and (c) youth hubs through his Department's Youth Offer in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022 and (c) 2023.
20 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2024 to Question 24903 on Poverty, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of updating the baseline year for absolute poverty.
16 May 2024 · Home Office
Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to update the definition of serious and organised crime.
16 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Organised Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what definition his Department uses for serious and organised crime.
16 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's statistics entitled Fraud and error in the benefit system, Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2024, published on 16 May 2024, how much of the £7.4 billion overpayment due to
15 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who were (a) not in work and (b) in receipt of (i) Jobseeker’s Allowance and (ii) Employment and Support Allowance in the (A) work-related activity and (B) support group were moved into
15 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of (a) Jobseeker’s Allowance and (b) Employment and Support Allowance in the (i) work-related activity and (ii) support groups were (A) in and (B) not in work in each month fo
15 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of Universal Credit who were (a) in the intensive work-search labour market regime, (b) assessed to have limited capability for work and (c) assessed to have limited capabilit
15 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the end date is for referrals to the Work and Health Programme.
15 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the annual spend on the Work and Health Programme.
15 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobs have been filled as a result of the Work and Health Programme since its inception.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to update the baseline year for absolute poverty.
29 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobcentres: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding his Department has provided for the renovation of Jobcentre sites in each financial year since 2020.
29 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobcentres: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Jobcentre sites are temporarily closed.
23 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Mental Illness
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department's took a leave of absence due to mental ill health by (a) gender, (b) age and (c) UK region between1 May 2023 and 11 April 2024.
18 Apr 2024 · Department for Education
Young People: Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help broaden access to work experience for disadvantaged young people.
18 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: School Leaving
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many school leavers who had been in receipt of free school meals were on Universal Credit six months after leaving school in (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022 and (d) 2023.
18 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) additional work coaches and (b) additional hours of work coach time have been allocated to jobcentres to administer the Additional Jobcentre Support pilot.
18 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the outcomes of the (a) pre-testing phase, (b) phase one and (c) phase two of the additional job centre support pilot.
Source: official written-questions record.