Written questions

1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who are not claiming benefits to which they are entitled.

3 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how her Department defines benefit fraud.

3 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit claims are suspended by the Risk Review Team.

3 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many customer cases have been reinstated following suspension by the Risk Review Team in the last six months.

3 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any claimants who have had their claim suspended by the Risk Review Team have subsequently been convicted of fraud in the last six months.

2 May 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department uses (a) automated or (b) partially automated technologies to (i) investigate benefit claimants or claims and (ii) select or refer benefit claimant or claims for possible investig

27 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting Act 2004

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to amend the Hunting Act 2004 to ban trail hunting.

27 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hunting

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of illegal fox hunts that have taken place in each of the last five years.

25 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Somaliland: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to allocate Official Development Assistance to people displaced by violence in Las Anod.

21 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Housing: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023, what assessment she has made of the suitability of deregulating housing provisions for pro

21 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Housing: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of those regulations on (a) potentia

21 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Housing: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of those regulations on the wel

21 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Housing: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to The Houses in Multiple Occupation (Asylum-Seeker Accommodation) (England) Regulations 2023, whether her Department plans to introduce safeguards to mitigate against asylum seeker ac

21 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

East Africa: Droughts

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will take steps to host a donor conference to help tackle drought in East Africa.

17 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Humanitarian Aid: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government is taking steps to help ensure the (a) participation and (b) resourcing of women-led organisations at pledging conferences for international humanitari

17 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Climate Change: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if the Government will press for the use of the Loss and Damage Facility Fund to provide support in climate emergencies.

17 Apr 2023 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ukraine Recovery Conference: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help increase the participation of (a) women's rights and (b) women-led organisations at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in June 202

29 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 169368, what guidance his Department offers to advice and assistance work coaches on claimants who are subject to the benefit cap but not expected to

29 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2023 to Question 169366 on Universal Credit, for what reason the benefit cap is applied to people who are in work but earning less than £658.

29 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2023 to Question 169369 on Social Security Benefits, for what reason people who are found not fit to work but not in receipt of the severe disability premium are subje

29 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2023 to Question 169369 on Social Security Benefits, for what reason people who are unable to work because they are the primary carer for a child under the age of 3 ar

28 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2023 to Question 159040 on Asylum: Housing; whether the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts High Profile Notification team holds information on of the number o

28 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2023 to Question 159040 on Asylum: Housing; what type of incidents accommodation providers are required to report to the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts Hi

28 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2023 to Question 159040 on Asylum: Housing; how many incidents accommodation providers reported to the asylum accommodation and support contracts high profile notific

27 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2023 to Question 165397 on Asylum: Housing, how much the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility service costs; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness

27 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2023 to Question 165397 on Asylum: Housing, how many concerns have been raised through the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility service in each month since it was

27 Mar 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2023 to Question 165397 on Asylum: Housing, what the cost to the public purse of the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) service was in the last year; and

21 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2023 to Question 159058 on Social Security Benefits, what (a) advice and (b) other support his Department provides to claimants who are subject to the benefit cap and

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Transport

Abellio Greater Anglia: Timetables

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department provided Greater Anglia with a formal written derogation to not consult on that company's May 2023 train timetable changes.

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people who were subject to the benefit cap who increased their earnings through employment in each year since 2015.

Source: official written-questions record.