Written questions

1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Clearsprings Ready Homes: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value of the Government's contract with Clearsprings Ready Homes is from 2022 to its current expiration date.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 37396 on Social Security Benefits: Fraud, how many cases that were found to be fraudulent by the Risk Review Team were included in the data provided to

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 137396 on Social Security Benefits: Fraud, how many of the cases of benefit fraud in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022 to date were reviewed at any point

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason payments to Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants are delayed in the event that they request a review of a decision under that scheme.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush Compensation Scheme claimants have requested a review of a decision under that scheme; and of those how many have received a decision from the adjudicator as at 14 April 2022.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television: Privatisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to consult the public on its decision to privatise Channel 4.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television: Privatisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the results of her Department's consultation on a change of ownership of Channel 4 Television Corporation.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Channel Four Television

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her oral evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of November 2021 that Channel 4 is in receipt of public money, if she will confirm what public fund

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Habitual Residence Test

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2022 to Question 142049 on Social Security Benefits: Habitual Residence Test, what steps the Risk Review Team takes to determine whether there is a risk that a claiman

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Habitual Residence Test

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2022 to Question on Social Security Benefits: Habitual Residence Test, whether the Risk Review Team reviews every case in which intelligence has identified a high risk

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Habitual Residence Test

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is her Department's policy that all benefit claimants should reasonably be expected to be aware of whether they do or do not pass the habitual residence test.

14 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Office

Advertising: Contracts

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that independent news publishers have fair and reasonable access to national media advertising contracts, such as the All in, all together campaign, funded by the Go

17 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the cases investigated by the Risk Review team were subsequently disallowed because of a failed Residence Test.

17 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the definition of fraud used by the Risk Review Team to determine which cases to investigate.

17 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is the Risk Review Team's policy to suspend cases when fraud is suspected and not in cases where more evidence is required to determine eligibility.

17 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Habitual Residence Test

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Risk Review Team reviews cases in which no fraud is suspected but where it is believed there is a risk that the claimant does not satisfy the Habitual Residence Test.

17 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Windrush Compensation Scheme applicants died before receiving compensation, as at 16 March 2022.

14 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Animals in Science Regulation Unit

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the Animals in Science Regulation Unit provides appropriate regulatory oversight in the context of fewer in-person inspections to view animals and me

9 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what services are available to housebound patients who require diabetic eye screenings.

9 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how people who are housebound and require a diabetic eye screening can access that service in the event that it is not provided by private or NHS providers in their local area.

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Risk Review Team provides a full explanation detailing the reasons behind a decision when a decision is made that a claimant isn't entitled to benefits and an overpayment is issued.

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether it is the policy of her Department not to provide claimants with the reasons for an overpayment occurring in instances when the Risk Review Team has been responsible for reviewing the claimants'

9 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of benefit fraud have been found by her Department in each year since 2015; and how many of those cases have resulted in a criminal conviction.

7 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ukrainian refugees will have (a) recourse to public funds and (b) the right to work while waiting for biometric and security checks to be completed.

7 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees who have arrived in the UK from Ukraine have no recourse to public funds.

7 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the average amount of time it takes for her Department to process asylum applications from Ukrainian refugees.

7 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to introduce a new humanitarian route of entry for Ukrainian refugees to the UK.

3 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Electricity: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to review the VAT regime for electricity, in order to support electric vehicle uptake.

2 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Russia: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the proposal by the Mayor of London to seize properties owned by Russian oligarchs.

2 Mar 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Export Controls

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she plans to widen export limits of luxury goods to and from Russia.

Source: official written-questions record.