Seema Malhotra

20 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to provide additional resources to support the processing of any increase in Personal Independence Payment applications when the transitional protection for the limited capability for w

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to paragraph 3.119 of the Spring Budget 2023, HC 1183, whether his Department consulted stakeholders prior to the Budget on the proposal to withdraw central support fo

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to paragraph 3.119 of the Spring Budget 2023, HC 1183, whether his Department has begun its consultation on the proposal to withdraw central support for local enterpri

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to paragraph 3.119 of the Spring Budget 2023, HC 1183, whether his Department has carried out an impact assessment of the potential impact of the proposal to withdraw

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Local Enterprise Partnerships

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to paragraph 3.119 of the Spring Budget 2023, HC 1183, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the proposal to withdraw central support for

19 Apr 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April to Question 176698 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, in what way the code used to process the data for Universal Credit sanction duration statistics was n

19 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the ability of asylum seekers housed on (a) military bases, (b) accommodation barges, (c) cruise ships and (d) other non-urban locations to access medic

19 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the ability of asylum seekers housed on (a) military bases, (b) accommodation barges, (c) cruise ships and (d) other non-urban locations to access Engli

19 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Home Care Services: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of paying home care workers by the minute on workforce retention and staff morale.

19 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Home Care Services: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 205 of the third report of the Health and Social Care Committee entitled Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care, published on 25 July 2

19 Apr 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Home Care Services: Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of paying home care workers by the minute on the quality of care provided by that workforce.

18 Apr 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Appreciate Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to her Department's data entitled BEIS: spending over £500, December 2022, for what purpose her Department spent (a) £3256.87 at Appreciate Group Plc on 2 December 2022, (b) £7792.37 at

18 Apr 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Appreciate Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to data on BEIS: ePCS spending over £500 for November 2022, published on 18 April 2023, for what purpose her Department spent (a) £4,173.62 on 1 November 2022, (b) £8,057.75 on 4 Novembe

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Billing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of invoices received by his Department in (a) quarter three and (b) quarter four of the 2021-2022 financial year were paid within five days.

14 Apr 2023 · Attorney General

Attorney General: Billing

To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of invoices received by her Department were paid within five days in (a) the 2021-2022 financial year and (b) each of the last 12 months.

29 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March to Question 171416 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, for what reasons his Department suspended sanction duration and median sanction length statistics fro

29 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's definition is of essential living needs in the context of accommodation for asylum seekers.

29 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Passenger Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the potential cost to her Department of staffing and supplying cruise ships for the purpose of accommodation for asylum seekers.

29 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Passenger Ships

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether cruise ships accommodating asylum seekers will be docked in port rather than moored at sea.

29 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS 111

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the average wait time for a 111 call in each of the last 12 months.

28 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the cost of accommodating Afghan refugees in non-hotel accommodation.

28 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has identified alternative accommodation for Afghan refugees who are due to leave hotel accommodation by the end of the 2023.

27 Mar 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Audit: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has had recent discussions with the Leader of the House on the indicative timescale for the introduction of the proposed Audit Reform Bill.

27 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been waiting for an asylum substantive interview for (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four and (e) five years.

27 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Interviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum from people who applied before July 2022 from (a) Afghanistan, (b) Eritrea, (c) Libya, (d) Syria and (e) Yemen her Department plans to consider without a face-to-face

23 Mar 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Disclosure of Information: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the contribution in Westminster Hall on 23 March by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she plans to bring forward the review of the whistleblowing

23 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2023 to Question 166241 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, for what reasons his Department is not making data on benefit sanctions readily available; and i

23 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department records data on benefit sanctions; and whether that data is held centrally.

22 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disqualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants have a sanction lasting (a) 91 and (b) 182 days attached to their account as of 22 March 2023.

22 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 21 March to Question 166241, what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of making this information available.