Debbie Abrahams

11 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which organisations his Department consulted when drawing up the criteria for exemption from employment and support allowance reassessments for people with long-term health conditions.

11 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish the criteria for exemption from employment and support allowance reassessments for people with long-term health conditions.

7 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people receiving tax credits who will be receiving universal credit at the completion of full service roll-out.

7 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of tax credit recipients who are (a) lone parents with dependent children, (b) married or co-habiting couples with dependent children and (c) married or co-habiti

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the costs and benefits of increasing the employment rate of people with a learning disability.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to increase employment opportunities for people with a learning disability in (a) the public sector and (b) the wider economy.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of personal independence payments on retention of employment among people with a learning disability.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to ensure that employers have access to the skills and knowledge necessary to employ someone with a learning disability.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobseeker's Allowance: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that people with a learning disability who are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance have access to additional specialist employment support.

19 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Low Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of low pay on levels of social security spending for (a) public and (b) private sector employees by (i) industrial sector and (ii) region.

19 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about health assessors were investigated by each accredited professional body in each year since 2010-11 in relation to (a) work capability and (b) personal independence payment heal

17 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish (a) the value and duration of all contracts his Department holds with contractors for the delivery of work capability assessments and personal independence payment assessments and (b

17 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many public sector workers have been in receipt of universal credit since April 2013.

17 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list (a) the qualification levels of assessors who undertake work capability assessments or personal independence payment health assessments and (b) the proportion of assessors who are member

17 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claimants have waited (a) six, (b) eight, (c) 10, (d) 12 and (e) longer than 12 weeks for an initial payment between April 2016 and March 2017.

17 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for (a) employment and support allowance payments and (b) personal independence payments were assessed from application to decision from April 2015 to March 2017; and what the aver

17 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the indicators for agreed outcomes for (a) personal independence payment health assessments and (b) work capability assessments; and if he will publish the performance against those i

12 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people between 18 and 21 years old have (a) applied for and (b) been granted exemptions to ensure entitlement to the housing costs element of universal credit since 1 April 2017.

12 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to ensure that people who have not retained the legacy benefits that they are entitled to can have such benefits reinstated swiftly.

12 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of claimants whose legacy benefits have not been protected following a transfer to universal credit.

12 Jul 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints his Department received on claimants whose legacy benefits were not protected following their transfer to universal credit.

29 Jun 2017 · Home Office

Criminal Investigation: Manchester Arena

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional financial support her Department is providing to Greater Manchester Police to meet the costs resulting from the investigation into the terrorist attack at Manchester Arena on 22 May 20

20 Apr 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Government's policy on child poverty.

19 Apr 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons pensioner poverty increased between 2014-15 and 2015-16.

19 Apr 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the number of children in relative low-income households increased between 2014-15 and 2015-16.

19 Apr 2017 · Ministry of Justice

Private Prosecutions: Reasonable Adjustments

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 makes provision for HM Courts and Tribunals Service to allow people seeking to bring a private prosecution to do so via a video link.

30 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Legal Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to his Department was of R v SSWP UK SC 0029/2016.

29 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department arising from the application of the under-occupancy penalty in the current financial year and each of the next three financial years.

29 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department arising from the application of the under-occupancy penalty in each of the last four financial years.

14 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department's evaluation of the work of the Financial Investigation Unit in dealing with child maintenance cases within the New Case and Complaints areas of the Child Maintenance Service has