Written questions
2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants in the limited capability for work and work related activity group are in some form of paid employment as of May 2024.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in the Universal Credit (Limited Capability for Work) group are in a form of paid employment.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Personal Independence Payment claimants are in a form of paid employment.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on the Health Transformation Programme.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on the roll out of the Back to Work Plan.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
WorkWell
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how his Department plans to measure the effectiveness of the WorkWell programme pilots.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
WorkWell
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department used to select the pilot areas for the WorkWell programme.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
WorkWell
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department took to engage with (a) disabled people and (b) disabled people's organisations when developing the Work Well programme.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were waiting for a decision on their PIP application on 1 January 2024.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were waiting for a decision on their PIP application on 1 March 2024.
7 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were waiting for a decision on their PIP application on 1 April 2024.
30 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what national specialist employment support his Department plans to provide for disabled people, in the context of the planned ending of funding for the Work and Health Programme.
30 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Support: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have been supported into work by the Universal Support programme as of 30 April 2024.
30 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Support
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent progress his Department has made towards the full rollout of the Universal Support programme.
30 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Q9 of the oral evidence by Gareth Parry to the Work and Pensions Committee on 17 April 2024, HC 697, whether the Work and Health Programme will end in November 2024.
29 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of potential costs of planned changes to the Work Capability Assessment on (a) the NHS and (b) mental health services.
29 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of planned changes to the Work Capability Assessment on (a) appeal and (b) mandatory reconsideration costs.
24 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Access to Work applicants were awaiting a decision on (a) 1 January, (b) 1 February and (c) 1 March in (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, (iii) 2009 and (iv) 2010.
22 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the increase in Access to Work applications between September 2023 and March 2024.
22 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many new staff have been recruited to work on the Access to Work programme in each of the last six months for which data is available; and whether her Department plans to recruit more staff to work
22 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were waiting for a decision on their Access to Work application on 1 April 2024.
15 Apr 2024 · Women and Equalities
Equality Advisory and Support Service
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many enquiries the Equality Advisory and Support Service has responded to in each of the last five years.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the Carer’s Allowance to £93 per week.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pensioners: Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of awarding the full Carer's Allowance to unpaid carers that are in receipt of the state pension.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of awarding Carer’s Allowance to unpaid carers between the ages of 16-18 that are studying (a) 21 hours and (b) more than 21 hours per week.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of awarding Carer’s Allowance to unpaid carers that are studying (a) 21 hours and (b) more than 21 hours per week.
12 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the earnings threshold for Carer's Allowance in-line with the National Living Wage for financial year 2024-25.
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people in receipt of a letter notifying them of a postponed PIP reassessment are counted as awaiting a PIP (a) assessment and (b) reassessment.
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Departments consultation outcome entitled Work Capability Assessment: activities and descriptors, published 5 September 2023, for what reason the results of the research exercise h
26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Departments consultation outcome entitled Work Capability Assessment: activities and descriptors, published 5 September 2023, what the (a) grade and (b) job titles were of the staf
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