Written questions
587 written questions tabled, most recent first.
28 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to lay its annual report on progress towards full employment before Parliament as required by the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016?
28 Nov 2017 · Department of Health
Dementia: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that dental practitioners receive dementia awareness training.
28 Nov 2017 · Department of Health
Dental Health: Surveys
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the next Adult Dental Health Survey.
28 Nov 2017 · Department of Health
Dental Services: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that dependent older people receiving care in your home services or living in care homes can access NHS dental services.
28 Nov 2017 · Department of Health
Dental Services: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people aged (a) 65 and over, (b) 75 and over and (c) 85 and over who visited an NHS dentist in the 24 months to 30 June 2017.
28 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Mental Illness
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support people with mental ill health entering, returning to and staying in the workforce?
28 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support people entering, returning and staying in the workforce after cancer.
17 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department monitors waiting times for employment and support allowance claimants from their initial submission to the decision on whether they require a work capability assessment or will be pla
17 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been waiting over (a) 3 months, (b) 6 months, (c) 9 months and (d) 12 months from the date of submission for an employment support allowance claim for a decision on whether they wil
20 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total expenditure was on the operation of telephone helplines at his Department in each of the last 12 months.
20 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish a list of contractors responsible for operating his Department's telephone helplines.
19 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of site visits, from a verified account, which start on GOV.UK verify which are successful in accessing a service.
19 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the (a) value and (b) length of contract for each organisation used by his Department to operate telephone helplines.
19 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Department for Work and Pensions: Electronic Government
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the visits to GOV.UK Verify are for the purpose of accessing his Department's services.
19 Oct 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which Government Departments use the GOV.UK Verify service.
13 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of Access to Work awards was for each year since 2009-10.
13 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many awards for Access to Work were (a) stopped and (b) reduced at review in each year since 2009-10.
13 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who received support from the Access to Work scheme were assessed but did not receive an element for each year since 2009-10.
13 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Access to Work reassessments have been conducted in each year since 2009-10.
12 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls to 0345 numbers his Department has received in the last year.
12 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average charge applied to mobile telephones calling 0345 numbers is.
12 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time of a call was to 0345 telephone numbers by his Department.
12 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total number of telephone calls made to the universal credit helpline was from a (a) landline number and (b) mobile telephone number in each of the last 12 months.
12 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department has issued to ensure that universal credit claimants are informed of the option of being called back when telephoning the universal credit helpline.
12 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) shortest, (b) average and (c) longest recorded call was to the universal credit helpline in each of the last 12 months.
14 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government has plans to raise the basic state pension in 2018 by September 2017's CPI inflation figure of 2.9 per cent.
11 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of exempting people with long-term progressive health conditions who are in receipt of the higher rate care and mobility personal independence payment
11 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to the responses to his Department's consultation entitled, Work, Health and Disability: Improving Lives; and whether he plans to publish a White Paper on that subje
11 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to maintain the exemptions from conditionality and sanctions accorded to people in the employment and support allowance support group.
11 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has plans to increase mental health training for personal independent payment and employment and support allowance assessors.
Source: official written-questions record.