Written questions

587 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans for the referral process by which Child Maintenance Service (CMS) caseworkers can refer new CMS cases and complaints cases to the Financial Investigation Unit to be extended to cover all c

14 Mar 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) prosecutions for misrepresentation and (b) referrals to HM Revenue and Customs for tax and fraud have occurred in connection with Child Maintenance Support cases since the specialist Financ

8 Feb 2017 · Women and Equalities

Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what the planned date is for publication of the evaluation report on the Access to Elected Office pilot fund.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average rate of unemployment is in those communities in which his Department is proposing to close jobcentres.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had their eligibility for winter fuel allowance stopped as a result of the introduction of temperature tests.

7 Feb 2017 · HM Treasury

Universal Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tax credit recipients have been naturally migrated onto universal credit since March 2016.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Bereavement Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to publish an updated impact assessment for plans to replace bereavement benefits with bereavement support payments; and if he will make a statement.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Flexible Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants have received support through the Flexible Support Fund following changes to work allowances introduced in March 2016.

7 Feb 2017 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many special needs assessments were undertaken in each school in England in each year since 2010-11.

26 Jan 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to respond to the letters of 20 October and 30 November 2016 and the email of 12 January 2017 from the hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth on sitting councillors an

23 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons his Department plans to spend less on pensions and pensioner benefits in 2018-19 than in 2017-18.

20 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Improving Lives green paper, published in October 2016, what recent progress his Department has made in undertaking (a) research and (b) a trial to provide support to help individu

20 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's policy is on halving the disability employment gap by 2020.

20 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability employment advisers are employed by his Department.

20 Jan 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions

Support for Mortgage Interest

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on older people of the changes made to the Support for Mortgage Interest scheme in the Welfare and Reform Work Act 2016.

13 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Disability Charities Consortium

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when Ministers from his Department last met the Disabilities Charities Consortium.

13 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Fulfilling Potential Forum

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Fulfilling Potential Forum last met; and when the next meeting of that forum is planned to take place.

7 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2016 to Question 55851, on universal credit, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of reductions to universal credit on the number of

6 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2016 to Question 55887, how many full-time equivalent members of staff his Department has employed to work on the design and implementation of universal credit in (a

1 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times paperwork related to complaints to his Department have been lost in each of the last six years.

1 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessments his Department has made of the potential effect of reductions to universal credit on the number of children in (a) relative and (b) absolute child poverty in each year to 2020.

1 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent members of staff his Department has employed to work on the design and implementation of universal credit in each year since its introduction.

1 Dec 2016 · HM Treasury

Universal Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff of HM Revenue and Customs worked on the design and implementation of universal credit in each year since its introduction.

1 Dec 2016 · HM Treasury

Universal Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the monthly average waiting time was related to calls to HM Revenue and Customs on universal credit in each year since its introduction.

15 Nov 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Accountancy: EU Law

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to transpose the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive into UK Law.

15 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Industrial Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has made to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on (a) the link between increased productivity and good safety and health management and (b) that

15 Nov 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Industrial Health and Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have (a) taken medical severance, (b) taken early retirement on health grounds and (c) been redeployed due to work-related injury or illness in each of the last five years.

8 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of whether childcare provision will be sufficient to provide for the potential change in the number of parents with pre-school age children who will move into wor

8 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many lone-parent households who will be affected by the changes in the benefit cap have a child aged (a) between 0 and two and (b) 0 and four years of age.

8 Nov 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that changes to the benefit cap are compatible with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Source: official written-questions record.