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Written questions

Debbie Abrahams

587 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many home visits were made by work coaches in respect of universal credit claimants with complex needs prior to making a referral to a decision-maker on whether or not to consider a sanction in 2017

17 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2018 to Question 130566, what guidance is provided to Jobcentre staff to ensure that the work requirements they prescribe do not necessitate medical treatment.

8 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on legal costs seeking to prevent the publication of the Universal Credit Project Assessment Reviews conducted between March 2012 and October 2015.

1 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Advice of Decision-Makers Memorandum 02/18, whether a claimant of employment support allowance can be sanctioned if they do not (a) consider a referral to professional service, (b)

1 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether guidance issued by her Department to jobcentre staff includes a requirement to contact a (a) healthcare professional, (b) family member and (c) support worker before a sanction is imposed on a

27 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether jobcentre staff are required to undertake a safeguarding visit before imposing a sanction on a vulnerable customer.

27 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department most recently revised its guidance to jobcentre staff on managing customer declarations of intention to attempt suicide or self-harm.

27 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has conducted an evaluation into Work Coaches' tailoring of the Universal Credit Claimant Commitment for people with mental health problems.

27 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit easements from conditionality have been applied to (a) claimants experiencing a period of sickness, (b) claimants suffering a bereavement following the death of a partner, chil

27 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many sanctions have been imposed on universal credit claimants who are (a) disabled and (b) experiencing mental health problems in the most recent 12 months for which figures are available.

26 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has outsourced the payment of state pensions for UK nationals who live abroad to a bank based in the United States.

26 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the timeliness of state pension payments to UK nationals living abroad whose payments have been outsourced to an American Bank.

21 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department determines where non-payroll staff work.

21 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department decides the schedule of working hours for non-payroll staff.

21 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the non-payroll staff in her Department's workforce can be fairly described as being in business on their own account.

20 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) number and (b) average cost was of non-payroll staff working for her Department in each month in 2017.

20 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will specify what services non-payroll staff provide to her Department.

20 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to ensure that non-payroll staff employed by her Department are not disguised employees as defined by HMRC.

20 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to Answer of 22 January 2018 to Question 122972, whether the figure cited of overall satisfaction for personal independence payments included responses from people whose claims were disallowed.

20 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People on 13 December 2017, Official Report, column 188WH, whether the figure cited of 83 per cent of people being either satisfied o

19 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid from the public purse for welfare to work services to (a) Capita, (b) Ingeus UK Ltd, (c) Careers Development Group and (d) G4S in each year from 2010 to date.

19 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid from the public purse in outcome fees to (a) Capita, (b) Interserve, (c) Ingeus UK Ltd, (d) Careers Development Group and (e) G4S in each year from 2010 to date.

19 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid from the public purse in sustainment outcome payments to (a) Capita, (b) Interserve, (c) Ingeus UK Ltd, (d) Careers Development Group and (e) G4S in each year from 2010 to date.

19 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the amount of savings that the introduction and roll-out of universal credit will generate for the public purse; and what the evidential basis is for that

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Table 5.9 of the Office for Budget Responsibility' report Welfare Trends, published in January 2018, that more than 300,000 self-employed workers will lose an average of over £3,000 a

30 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124308, on Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health, if her Department will compensate personal independence payment claimants who are entitled

30 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 124308, on Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health, what estimate she has made of the administrative costs to her Department of reviewing the 1

23 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 19 January 2018, HCWS414, what the timetable is for claimants to be informed if they are entitled to a back payment.

23 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Written Statement of 19 January 2018, HCWS414, whether applicants will be entitled to a reassessment if they were given the standard rate of the PIP mobility component after the Februa

18 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Mesothelioma: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce proposals to up-rate by the rate of inflation payments made by the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme in the 2018-19 financial year.

Source: official written-questions record.