Written questions
667 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: London
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in London have submitted claims for universal credit by local authority area since 23 March 2020.
6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the policy of benefit sanctions during the covid-19 outbreak.
6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families who have made a claim for universal credit since 23 March 2020 have three or more children.
6 May 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the additional costs incurred by parents as a result of school closures during the covid-19 outbreak.
6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the £20 a week uplift to universal credit introduced during the covid-19 outbreak will be made permanent.
6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish her Department's assessment of the effect of the £20 a week uplift to universal credit during the covid-19 outbreak.
6 May 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Independent Case Examiner
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2020 to Question 1734 on the Independent Case Examiner, what the average length of time taken was to (a) commence and (b) complete an investigation into a complaint
6 May 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Universal Credit: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of universal credit data collected by the First Tier Tribunal (Social Security & Child Support) which relates to (a) limited capability for work, (b) right to re
6 May 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals against the disallowance of (a) employment and support allowance, (b) personal independence payment and (c) disability living allowance lapsed prior to the date of their hearing at the First Tier
6 May 2020 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 3 July 2019 to Question 270759, what recent estimate he has made of the cost to Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service of administering appeals against the Department for Work
6 May 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the formula is for calculating the Department for Work and Pensions’ contribution to the cost of the First Tier Tribunal (Social Security & Child Support).
6 May 2020 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding the Department for Work and Pensions allocated to Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20; and what proportion of the cost of the First Tier Tribunal (Social Secur
1 May 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Israeli Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 5529, whether it remains the Government’s policy that Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank could not go unchallenged
2 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mildmay International
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the cost to the public purse of a bed at (a) Mildmay Mission Hospital and (b) an acute ward at an NHS hospital for one night.
2 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mildmay International
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the cost-effectiveness of (a) maintaining the services provided by Mildmay Mission Hospital and (b) providing those services in NHS acute wards.
2 Mar 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of improving the process for hospitals who wish to become recognised as specialist NHS Trust hospitals.
24 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Fire and Rescue Services: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firefighters were available for duty in (a) Cumbria, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) Lancashire, (d) Greater Manchester and (e) London in 2015; and how many such firefighters are available in each of
24 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to Fire and Rescue Services in (a) West Yorkshire, (b) Cumbria, (c) Lancashire, (d) Greater Manchester and (e) London in each year since 2010.
21 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Fire and Rescue Services: Floods
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources from the public purse have been allocated to Fire and Rescue Services to respond to the effects of recent storms and flooding in 2020.
21 Feb 2020 · Home Office
Metropolitan Police: Biometrics
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who were stopped during the recent public automated facial recognition technology trials by the Metropolitan Police were wrongly identified.
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners will see their income reduce as a result of the abolition of the Adult Dependency Increase; and what estimate he has been made of the number of pensioners who are entitled to alterna
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the net saving that will be made by the public purse from the abolition of the Adult Dependency Increase for pensioners from April 2020.
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to review the effect on pensioner poverty of the requirement that pensioners make a claim for universal credit on retirement and not pension credit because their partner has not yet r
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Pensioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners have been required to make a claim for universal credit rather than pension credit because their partner has not yet reached pension age.
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Independent Case Examiner
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2020 to Question 1733, on the Independent Case Examiner (ICE), if she will request that the ICE's annual report for 2019-20 includes data on the average number of we
13 Feb 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Independent Case Examiner
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, further to her Answer of 14 January 2020 to Question 1734 on the Independent Case Examiner, what the average length of time taken was to (a) commence and (b) complete an investigation into a complaint a
11 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Clarion Housing Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many complaints about poor services by Clarion Housing Group were received by the Housing Ombudsman Service in (a) 2018-19 and (b) the first three financial quarters of 2019-
11 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing Ombudsman Service: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8 October 2019 to Question 291215 on Housing Ombudsman Service: Complaints, what the average length of time taken was to determine complaints to the Hou
11 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Clarion Housing Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 249190 on Clarion Housing Group and with reference to the oral contribution of the former Minister for Housing and Planning of 31
11 Feb 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Clarion Housing Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will ask the Regulator for Social Housing to state (a) how many complaints it has received about services provided by Clarion Housing Group in each of the last four years a
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