Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has identified the Transformation Area in which the integrated assessment service will be piloted.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department has made on securing new contracts for (a) personal independence payment and (b) work capability assessments from 1 August 2021.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department has made in its discussions with representatives of (a) the Independent Assessment Service and (b) Capita on finding a suitable method of audio recording face-to-face assess

10 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on piloting a new IT system to deliver assessments for personal independence payments and the Work Capability Assessments in employment support allowance and univer

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the (a) former Chair of the Work and Pensions committee’s letter of 29 July 2019 on information posted on universal credit claimants’ journals as fit for work notifications and (b) Min

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are taken to inform a universal credit claimant who is vulnerable and unable to access their journal of the outcome of their Work Capability Assessment.

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 52280, whether her Department has set a budget for the formal consultation on the Health and Disability Green Paper.

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 11 January 2021 to Question 133065 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, if she will instruct her officials to explore opportunities to utilise digital technology to increas

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant of the Answer of 11 January 2021 to Question 133065 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, if she will publish a list of the (a) disabled and deaf people's organisations and (b) other chariti

1 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of changes to the way housing benefit is issued on the number of claimants renting from private landlords.

1 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of changes to the way housing benefit is issued on the number of private landlords renting to claimants.

1 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many housing benefit claimants have been evicted as a result of rent arrears in each of the last 10 years.

1 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many housing benefit claimants have been evicted as a result of rent arrears in each of the last 12 months.

1 Feb 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average processing time, (b) approval rate and (c) refusal rate is of requests for Alternative Payment Arrangements from private landlords where their tenant is in receipt of housing benefi

27 Jan 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many youth services organisations have accessed the Government's £16.5 million youth covid-19 support fund to date.

27 Jan 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Organisations: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the Government's £16.5 million youth covid-19 support fund has been allocated to youth services to date.

26 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Performing Arts: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the destinations of people who have successfully completed a BTEC Performing Arts course in each of the last 10 years.

26 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Performing Arts: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who have enrolled on a BTEC Performing Arts course in each of the last 10 years.

26 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Performing Arts: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who have successfully completed the BTEC Performing Arts course in each of the last 10 years.

21 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance has been given to health assessors carrying out health and disability assessments for new claims for (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment support allowance and (c) disablement

21 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time from submission to payment of claims was in each of the last 12 months for (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment support allowance and (c) disablement pension i

21 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of claims for (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment support allowance and (c) disablement pension which are pending due to a face-to-face

21 Jan 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department is providing for claimants of (a) personal independence payment, (b) employment support allowance and (c) disablement pension where the health assessors find that a face-to-f

18 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that directly employed personal assistants carers are aware they can access covid-19 vaccines as frontline social care staff.

14 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vitamin D

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who was responsible for the distribution of letters offering clinically extremely vulnerable people a four-month free supply of vitamin D supplements; and how many people received those letters.

14 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vitamin D

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of clinically extremely vulnerable individuals who have accessed the four-month free supply of vitamin D supplements.

14 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vitamin D

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that clinically extremely vulnerable people have access to vitamin D supplements.

30 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much an army sergeant has been paid on average in each year from 2005 to 2020 in real terms; and if paid on a scale, what the range of that scale was.

30 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Baby Care Units: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the National Neonatal Audit Programme, published November 2020, that 37 per cent of neonatal intensive care unit shifts met the qualified in speciality (QIS) speci

30 Dec 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Gunning Principles will be applied to the consultation on the Health and Disability Green Paper in the event that paper is published during a period when covid-19 lockdown restrictions are i

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