Written questions
807 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what role the National Audit Office will play in monitoring the employment support programmes outlined in the Trailblazer deals.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant the Answer of 17 March 2023 to Question 162174 on Employment, whether his Department's review into workforce participation will look into the workforce participation of students.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Skilled Workers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Skills Builder Partnership report entitled Essential Skills Tracker 2023, published March 2023, which found that moving from the lower quartile essential skill score to the upper quartile
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Skilled Workers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Skills Builder Partnership report entitled Essential Skills Tracker 2023, published March 2023, which found that 17 per cent of workers do not manage to break out of a cycle of low educati
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Skilled Workers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Skills Builder Partnership report entitled Essential Skills Tracker 2023, published March 2023, which found that further essential skills are need to help increase in productivity, if she
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Skilled Workers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Skills Builder Partnership report entitled Essential Skills Tracker 2023, published March 2023, which found that older workers tend to have lower levels of essential skills, if she will ta
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential basis is for introducing more conditionality for entitlement to benefits.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport
Avanti West Coast: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of final trains of the day have been cancelled by Avanti West Coast in each month since September 2022.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to share data with banks for the purpose of fraud (a) prevention and (b) protection.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Fraud and Overpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a target for the reduction of (a) fraud and (b) error overpayments by his Department.
14 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2023 to Question 146951 on Access to Work Programme, how many advisors there are in each region.
14 Mar 2023 · Women and Equalities
Equality Act 2010
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2023 to Question 903996 on Equality Act 2010, if he will outline the policies and practical actions that the Government plans to implement.
13 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Data Lab
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2023 to Question 133981 on Employment Data Lab, when he plans to publish the two further evaluations.
10 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when his Department intends to publish information on its plans to extend the voluntary Right to Buy scheme to housing association tenants.
9 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish his Department's review into workforce progression.
8 Mar 2023 · Women and Equalities
Equality Act 2010
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to implement section 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
22 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
West Coast Main Line
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how long before a planned train service is due to go ahead does Avanti West Coast know there will be a shortage of train crew.
22 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
Rolling Stock
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much notice rail companies are required to give before altering the number of coaches on a train service.
22 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total cost has been of the Justice Data Lab.
22 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people work in the Justice Data Lab.
22 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people worked in the Justice Data Lab in its first three months of existence.
22 Feb 2023 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Rehabilitation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse of the Justice Data Lab was in its first three months of existence.
21 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
Avanti West Coast: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Avanti West Coast trains were delayed in each calendar month of 2022.
21 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
Avanti West Coast: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Avanti West Coast trains were cancelled each calendar month of 2022.
21 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
Avanti West Coast: Travel Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much notice Avanti West Coast is required to provide before cancelling a train.
21 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
Avanti West Coast: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Avanti West Coast trains have been cancelled due to staff shortages since 1 January 2023.
21 Feb 2023 · Department for Transport
Avanti West Coast: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Avanti West Coast trains have been delayed for more than 15 minutes since 1 January 2023.
21 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Data Lab: Costs and Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual costs are of the Employment Data Lab; and how many people work in that lab.
17 Feb 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Syria: White Helmets
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding his Department or its predecessors have provided for the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets) in each of the last 10 financial years.
17 Feb 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many advisers are employed by his Department to process and support Access to Work applications.
Source: official written-questions record.