Written questions
1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the process is for a claimant who wishes to complain about a health assessment related to their benefit.
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, whether it is her Department's policy to provide written reasons for a lapsed appeal to claimants.
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, whether it is her Department's policy to inform claimants of a lapsed appeal by telephone only.
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, whether it is her Department's policy to inform claimants of a lapsed appeal by telephone only.
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, whether her Department informs representatives of claimants that an appeal has lapsed.
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677, If she will publish the guidance followed by her Department’s staff when they communicate with claimants to confirm whether or not an appeal has
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, if she will publish the guidance her Department uses to decide whether or not an appeal should be allowed to
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, for what reason did the number of lapsed Personal Independence Payment appeals increase between 2013 and 202
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, whether her Department reviews every appeal after it is lodged to determine whether to allow an appeal to la
23 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2022 to Question 27677 on Social Security Benefits: Appeals, on what grounds her Department decides to allow an (a) Personal Independence Payment, (b) Universal Credit o
21 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter sent on 15 July 2022 by the then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to the Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, if she will take steps to publish the evalu
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, under what contractual terms her Department can seek financial compensation from assessment providers.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, how much financial compensation her Department sought from assessment providers each year from 2010 to 20
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, what steps her Department has taken to improve the performance of Personal Independence Payment assessmen
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, how her Department monitors the performance of assessment providers.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, what contract management processes are in place for assessment providers.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 21 June to Question 17850 on Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals, if she will publish the comprehensive performance regime followed by assessment providers.
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any benefit claimants outside of London have been referred to her Department's Risk Review Team.
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases has the Risk Review Team recommended that a claim is ineligible, in each month from January 2020 to September 2022.
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have had their benefits reinstated by the Risk Review Team in each month from January 2020 to September 2022.
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have had their benefits suspended by the Risk Review Team in each month from January 2020 to September 2022.
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants have had their benefits suspended by the Risk Review Team in (a) Enfield (b) Edmonton (c) Greater London in each year since the establishment of that team in May 2020.
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of benefit sanctions on the behaviour of benefit claimants.
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's letter to the Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee dated 15 July 2022, for what reason her Department was unable to assess the deterrent effect of benefit sanction
7 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what work her Department has undertaken to evaluate the use of benefit sanctions.
6 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants rejected the outcome of a Tier 2 review decision in each month from April 2019 to September 2022.
6 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants rejected the outcome of a Tier 1 review decision in each month from April 2019 to September 2022.
6 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times did the Home Office not accept and implement the recommendation of a Senior Reviewer following a Tier 1 review decision of a Windrush Compensation Claim, in each month from April 2019 t
6 Sep 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times did the Home Office not accept and implement the recommendation of the independent person following a Tier 2 review decision of a Windrush Compensation Claim, in each month from April 2
30 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Answer of 14 June 2022 to Question 17999 on Social Security Benefits: Tribunals, and with reference to the findings of Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2022, published on
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