Written questions

2,147 written questions tabled, most recent first.

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, how his Department selected the cases to be reviewed.

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, how many cases were reviewed as part of the research.

26 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism and Learning Disability: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to provide housing for adults with (a) learning disabilities and (b) autism who are currently living in in-patient units so that they can live indep

26 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Autism and Learning Disability: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to enable adults with (a) learning disabilities and (b) autism living in in-patient units to live independently.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were awaiting a decision on their Personal Independence Payment application on the first day of each month in 2021.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were awaiting a decision on their Personal Independence Payment application on the first day of each month in 2022.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for Access to Work support had not received an assessment on 1 December 2022.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for Access to Work support had not received a decision on (a) 1 January, (b) 1 February and (c) 1 March 2024.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants for Personal Independence Payment had not received a decision on the first day of each month in 2023.

19 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2024 to Question 17902, how many individual Musculoskeletal Physical Activity Hubs will be created as a result of the £12 million a year allocated as part of the 2023

19 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of funding for social care.

19 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Financial Services: Learning Disability

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to increase the financial inclusion of people with a learning disability.

19 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Cost of Living: Disability

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps his Department is taking to provide financial support for disabled people with the rise in the cost of living.

19 Mar 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 March 2024.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to require airline staff to wear cameras to help prevent discrimination against disabled airline passengers by staff.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of fare discounts for assistants accompanying disabled airline passengers.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport

Aviation: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made on the introduction of an airlines accessibility framework.

13 Mar 2024 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people sit on his Department's accessibility group; and of those, how many identify as disabled.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to improve awareness of the Access to Work programme.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to increase public awareness of support available to people living with (a) arthritis and (b) musculoskeletal conditions.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to take steps to help increase the number of musculoskeletal hubs in local communities.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Musculoskeletal Disorders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of people living with (a) arthritis and (b) a musculoskeletal condition that have received support through the Access to Work scheme.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Musculoskeletal Disorders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that people living with (a) arthritis and (b) a musculoskeletal condition are able to remain in work.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken to process an Access to Work application was in each month since January 2022.

6 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications to the Access to Work scheme were rejected in each month from January 2023 to February 2024.

23 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Q102 of the oral evidence given by Lorraine Jackson to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 31 January 2024, HC 148, when the constant review of statutory sick pay began; what st

22 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Statutory Sick Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the statutory sick pay system on (a) older and (b) disabled workers.

22 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were awaiting a decision on their Access to Work application on 1 January 2024.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Guide Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of waiting times for a replacement guide dog after a previous dog has been retired on the blind and visually impaired community.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Guide Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of levels of availability of replacement guide dogs on the blind and visually impaired community since the pandemic.

Source: official written-questions record.