Written questions
528 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: CCTV
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a risk assessment has been carried out on the secure holding of CCTV footage within her Department.
28 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Email
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any departmental business has been conducted on private email addresses; and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that full records are kept of that business.
24 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Pilot Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Departments plans to restart the managed migration pilot scheme following its suspension during the covid-19 outbreak.
23 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Injuries and Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many internal process reviews have been (a) started and (b) completed on cases of death or serious harm since July 2019.
16 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Restart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is on course to launch their Restart scheme on 28 June 2021 and commence referrals on 12 July 2021.
16 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Workplace Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will provide the records of any meetings she or her Ministers have had with (a) the People's Pension and (b) NEST in the last four years.
15 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Personal Income
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact on claimants of suspending the minimum income floor during the covid-19 outbreak.
14 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has referred any Freedom of Information requests received by her Department to the central Cabinet Office Clearing House on Freedom of Information requests for advice on handling,
14 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Maladministration
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants have had their claim undercalculated in error after receiving two wage payments within one assessment period, since the secondary legislation laid by her Department i
9 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of the childcare element of universal credit has been in each of the last five years.
9 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the annual cost incurred by universal credit claimants for childcare in each of the last five years.
8 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of households that will be claiming universal credit by the completion of the rollout.
7 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact on claimants of universal credit and employment support allowance requiring face-to-face health and disability assessments before they can receive support of t
7 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of when the backlog created by the suspension of face-to-face health assessments for universal credit and employment support allowance claimants will be cleared.
7 Jun 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Kickstart placements have been made available in rural areas.
7 Jun 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Unemployment: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on trends in unemployment in rural areas.
27 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Self-employed
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the risk of bogus self employment among its external providers.
25 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many married women have made claims to claim the underpayment of their state pension to date.
25 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date her Department plans to complete settling outstanding underpayments of married women's state pension.
24 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how her Department will collect data on disability as part of its evaluation of the effectiveness of the Kickstart scheme.
24 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason data about disability is not collected by applications to the Kickstart scheme.
24 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effects on trends in the level of fraud and error of paying childcare costs in arrears through the universal credit payments system.
20 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Restart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether disabled people claiming employment support allowance will be eligible for support under her Department's Restart scheme.
20 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Occupational Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to publish its response to the consultation document, Health is everyone’s business: proposals to reduce ill health-related job loss, which closed on 7 October 2019.
12 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Bereavement Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 28 July 2020 to Question 76930, whether it remains her policy to extend eligibility for (a) widowed parent's allowance and (b) higher rate bereavement support payment to
11 May 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Public and Commercial Services Union
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has met representatives of the Public and Commercial Services Union since her appointment as Secretary of State.
26 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications to create Kickstart scheme placements have been rejected by her Department to date.
26 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many eligible young people have had applications to Kickstart scheme placements rejected; and how many of those people have had multiple rejections.
26 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many eligible young people have applied for Kickstart scheme placements to date.
26 Apr 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Kickstart Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many eligible young people have been referred to the Kickstart scheme to date.
Source: official written-questions record.