Written questions

528 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that Job Centre Pluses can manage potential increased demand after the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

14 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what forecasts her Department has made on the potential impact of the end of support under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on claimant rates for universal credit.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle labour shortages in food distribution.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Restart Scheme: Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have successfully moved into work in food distribution after participation in the Restart scheme.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Kickstart Scheme: Food Supply

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Kickstart placements have been created in food distribution industries.

3 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of using algorithms, such as for fraud risk scoring, on benefits claimants' rights to privacy and non-discrimination.

20 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Ventilation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2021 to Question 29793 on Department for Work and Pensions: Coronavirus, what budget her Department has allocated to enforcement activities in respect of ventilation in

16 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Restart Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants are eligible for support through the Restart scheme.

15 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Restart Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants have found work through the Restart scheme to date.

15 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on the financial security of young universal credit claimants.

15 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on the financial security of universal credit claimants with disa

15 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on the financial security of disabled universal credit claimants.

15 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the temporary uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on the financial security of unpaid carers.

14 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on income inequality.

14 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made on the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on material deprivation.

14 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on food bank usage.

14 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on levels of debt accrued by universal credit claimants.

14 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on rent arrears accrued by universal credit claimants.

13 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the £20 uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on levels of parental employment.

13 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of removing the £20 uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on the in-work progression of universal credit claimants.

13 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what ethnicity impact assessment her Department has made of removing the £20 uplift to the universal credit standard allowance.

13 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what gender impact assessment her Department has made of removing the £20 uplift to the universal credit standard allowance.

13 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what regional economic impact assessment her Department has made of removing the £20 uplift to the universal credit standard allowance.

13 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what specific training is given to disability assessors used by her Department for (a) personal independence payment and (b) work capability assessments on mental health to ensure that they are able to

12 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of removing the £20 uplift to the universal credit standard allowance on levels of child poverty.

12 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of removing the £20 uplift to universal credit standard allowance on levels of in-work poverty.

12 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many current universal credit claimants have been first-time claimants of universal credit in the period since 1 April 2020.

12 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 7 July 2021, when she plans for all universal credit claimants to have been sent a letter informing them that the £20 upl

8 Jul 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to mitigating the risk of covid-19 transmission through ventilation in JobCentre Plus premises and other buildings owned and managed by her Department, with and without public access, wha

28 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Judicial Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent from the public purse on contesting court cases in each of the last three years.

Source: official written-questions record.