Written questions
1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2022 to Question 17999 on Social Security Benefits: Tribunals, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for which tribunals draw different conclusions to her Depar
29 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 22 June 2022 to Question 17999, for what reason a tribunal might access new written evidence at a hearing that her Department was unable to access during the decision-making pr
29 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that (a) Employment and Support Allowance, (b) Personal Independence Payments and (c) Universal Credit health assessments are carried out accurately and to
29 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2022 to Question 17999 on Social Security Benefits: Tribunals, if she will publish any guidance that was provided to decision makers on the new approach to decision mak
29 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2022 to Question 17999 on Social Security Benefits: Tribunals, what was the average additional time given to decision makers to proactively contact claimants where they
29 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many appeals relating to (a) Employment Support Allowance, (b) Personal Independence Payments and (c) Universal Credit lapsed in each month from January 2010 to July 2022.
29 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy on the recruitment and retention of social care workers.
29 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Migrants: Cost of Living
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that families subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds condition receive adequate support in the context of the rise in the cost of living.
22 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit Programme Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will invite the new Chair of the Universal Credit Programme Board to publish a statement on his priorities for the Board’s work in the run-up to the managed migration phase of the roll-out of Uni
22 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit Programme Board: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the position of Chair of the Universal Credit Programme Board was advertised publicly prior to Sir Robert Walmsley’s appointment in July 2013.
22 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit Programme Board: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 31 May 2022 to Question 8086, on Universal Credit Programme Board: Public Appointments, for what reason the Universal Credit Programme Board is not (a) listed in the Public App
14 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Support Allowance: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the findings of Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2022, published 9 June 2022, on the proportion of Employment Support Allowance tribunal decisions overturned in favour o
14 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the findings of Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2022, published on 9 June 2022, on the proportion of Social Security and Child Support disposals cases in 2021-22 that h
14 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department would allow (a) an Employment and Support Allowance, (b) Personal Independence Payment and (c) Universal Credit appeal to lapse.
14 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Tribunals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2022, published on 9 June 2022, which showed 72 per cent of Personal Independence Payment tribunals overturning decisions in favour of t
14 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timescale is for publishing the White Paper on Health Disparities in England.
8 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants have rejected the awards of their Tier 2 review in each month from January 2020.
8 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the outcomes of (a) Tier 1 and (b) Tier 2 Windrush Compensation Scheme reviews.
8 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the (a) Tier 1 and (b) Tier 2 review process for the Windrush Compensation Scheme is (a) impartial and (b) comprehensive.
8 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role her Department plays in initial review process of a claim to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
8 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Windrush Compensation Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what remedies are available to Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants who do not wish to accept the outcome of a Tier Two Review.
8 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Universal Credit Risk Review Team, whether a risk review can be initiated solely due to a claimant being identified by a computer system as being high risk, or whether a human will
8 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether risk scoring or other algorithms are used to identify Universal Credit claimants for potential review by the Risk Review Team.
8 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nigeria: Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs whether her Department is taking steps to engage with (a) organisations and (b) representatives of the Nigerian diaspora in the UK on (i) potential solutions to the extremist
8 Jun 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nigeria: Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations officials in her Department have received from (a) organisations and (b) representatives of the Nigerian diaspora in the UK on the frequency of attacks t
24 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Metro Newspaper
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2022 to Question 154234 on Universal Credit: Publicity, on what date the Advertising Standards Authority’s determination, that the UC uncovered adverts in The Me
24 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Advisory Committee: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applicants were interviewed for the post of Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee.
24 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit Programme Board: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2022 to Question 154232, what the level of remuneration was for the post of Chair of the Universal Credit Programme Board in each year since its creation.
24 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit Programme Board: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2022 to Question 154232, whether the Commissioner on Public Appointments was notified that the post of Chair of the Universal Credit Programme Board was not goin
24 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit Programme Board: Public Appointments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 26 April 2022 to Question 154232, for what reason the post of Chair of the Universal Credit Programme Board was not advertised for open public recruitment; and if she wil
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