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Written questions

Debbie Abrahams

587 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will undertake a cost-benefit analysis of (a) Access to Work expenditure and (b) the potential effect of that programme on (i) social security expenditure and (ii) income tax returns.

21 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability living allowance claimants he expects to transfer to personal independence payment in each year to 2020.

21 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Disability Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment (PIP) claimants in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area will be affected by his Department's proposed changes to aids and appliances po

21 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Disability Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of in work personal independence payment (PIP) claimants who will no longer be able to work as a result of his Department's proposed changes to PIP aids and appli

21 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Disability Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many in work personal independence payment (PIP) claimants will be affected by his Department's proposed changes to aids and appliances points; and how many such claims will (a) no longer qualify fo

17 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of care leavers in receipt of jobseeker's allowance or employment and support allowance had a sanction applied in each year from 2010 to 2015.

17 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Disability Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, further to the Government response to the consultation on aids and appliances and the daily living component of personal independence payment, Cm 9194, what modelling his Department undertook to assess

10 Mar 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with (a) disability charities and other third sector groups, (b) disabled people, their families and informal carers and (c) organisations led by disabled people

29 Feb 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Councillors: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the implications for his policies are of the effect of the Localism Act 2011 on the discretion of parish councils and local authorities in disqualifying councillors convicted of chil

25 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls were made to the Child Maintenance Options Service in each month since November 2015.

25 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many final letters concerning CSA case closure have been issued in each month since January 2015 for cases in (a) segment 1, (b) segment 2, (c) segment 3 and (d) segment 4.

25 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many six-month notice letters of CSA case closure have been issued in each month since July 2014 for cases in (a) segment 1, (b) segment 2, (c) segment 3 and (d) segment 4.

25 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many one-month reminder letters of CSA case closure have been issued in each month since November 2014 for cases in (a) segment 1, (b) segment 2, (c) segment 3 and (d) segment 4.

24 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Independent Living Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will commission an evaluation of the effectiveness of support for former Independent Living Fund recipients.

24 Feb 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Councillors

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that people who have been convicted of a child sex offence cannot serve as a local authority or parish councillor.

8 Feb 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Local Housing Allowance: Supported Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Minister for Disabled People's contribution on housing benefit and supported housing of 27 January 2016, Official Report, column 326, how he defines all supported housing; when the one-y

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have participated in the universal credit in-work conditionality pilots; and (a) how many and (b) what proportion of these people have been sanctioned since those pilots began.

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to commission and publish an independent evaluation of the universal credit in-work conditionality pilots.

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have signed revised claimant commitments as part of the universal credit in-work conditionality pilots.

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work and Health Programme: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what projection his Department has made of the annual spend on the contracted-out element of back to work support for the forthcoming Work and Health Programme; and how that spend compares with the annu

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the outcomes have been of the universal credit in-work conditionality pilots.

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people receiving universal credit and aged under 25 are subject to a 48 hour working week claimant commitment agreement under the terms of the universal credit in-work conditionality pilot.

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the universal credit in-work conditionality pilots track outcomes for people who are no longer in receipt of that credit.

26 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who were at any time included in the universal credit in-work conditionality pilot are no longer receiving any element of that credit.

11 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Severe Disability Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients in the (a) work related activity group and (b) support group were also in receipt of the severe disability premium in (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15 and (iii) 2015-16 to date.

11 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the length was of the longest social security appeal heard by an appeals tribunal for appeals lodged in each year from 2010-11 to date.

11 Jan 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Social Security Benefits: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length was of a social security appeal heard by an appeals tribunal in each year from 2010-11 to date.

6 Jan 2016 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Kashmir

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions were held during the recent visit to the UK by the Indian Prime Minister on Kashmir.

4 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will extend the deadline for submissions on his Department's Consultation on aids and appliances and the daily living component of personal independence payment.

4 Jan 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of personal independence payment recipients the sample of 105 cases represented in his Department's Consultation on aids and appliances and the daily living component of personal indepen

Source: official written-questions record.