Written questions

1,338 written questions tabled, most recent first.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for the period January to March 2021, how many universal credit first-tier Tribunal appeals were lapsed.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for the period April to June 2021, how many personal independence payment first-tier Tribunal appeals lapsed.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence payment first-tier Tribunal appeals were lapsed between January and March 2021.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance first-tier Tribunal appeals were lapsed between April and June 2021.

26 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance first-tier Tribunal appeals were lapsed between January and March 2021.

25 Oct 2021 · Treasury

Holiday Accommodation: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to take steps to remove the holiday let tax exemption that allows landlords to lower their mortgage interest payments by using properties for holiday lets rather than longer-term tenancies.

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Football Index

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in the context of the collapse of football gambling firm Football Index, what steps she is taking to help ensure that those persons (a) affected by the collapse are compensated and (b) r

25 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Food Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has untaken an impact assessment to estimate how many claimants may potentially need to use food banks in the context of the decision to end the £20 uplift to universal credit.

21 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department offers mental health support to claimants who have had their benefits stopped and have experienced problems with their mental health.

21 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department records the number of deaths that are directly or indirectly related to instances in which her Department has stopped benefit payments.

21 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has a policy of compensating claimants for emotional distress in cases where allegations of fraud, which have resulted in benefit claims being stopped, have proven to be false.

21 Oct 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time between a claimant's benefits being (a) stopped and (b) reinstated was following allegations of fraud by her Department having been (i) dropped and (ii) successfully appealed again

20 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Government's decision not to recognise Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna or Janssen jabs administered in Africa on the UK Government's relationship with

20 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Oman: Riot Control Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will assess whether (a) UK-made tear gas or (b) any other UK-made defence equipment has been used against protesters in Oman.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to increase the supply of affordable housing.

10 Sep 2021 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the Government's timetable for its plans to tackle pavement parking in response to his Department's 2020 consultation on that matter.

10 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to stop the universal credit and legacy benefit claims of individuals who qualify for EU Settled Status but have not yet applied for that scheme.

10 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether caseworkers who were previously working on the Windrush Compensation Scheme have been re-allocated as a result of the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.

10 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department are working on the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

10 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the administration of the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy on her Department's existing application processing times.

10 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has recruited additional staff to assist with the potential increased workload from the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy.

8 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who have arrived in the UK via the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme have been housed in (a) hotels, (b) self-contained accommodation, (c) permanent accommodation and (d) hostels.

8 Sep 2021 · Treasury

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what additional funding will be made available to local authorities housing refugees via the Afghan Citizens Resettlement scheme.

8 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Housing: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people will be housed in each local authority under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement scheme.

8 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Housing: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how additional funding will be allocated to local authorities that will house refugees via the Afghan citizen's resettlement scheme; and what his timetable is for allocating that funding.

8 Sep 2021 · Home Office

Housing: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions officials in her Department have had with their counterparts in the (a) Housing, Communities and Local Government and (b) Treasury on the level of funding that will be made available

18 Aug 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Immigration Appeal Tribunal

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was between the submission of an appeal and a case being listed for a hearing in the Immigration Appeal Tribunal on 31 August 2021.

18 Aug 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Immigration: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases were waiting to be listed by the Immigration Appeal Tribunal on 31 August 2021.

15 Jul 2021 · Department for International Trade

Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to UK Export Finance's support for the Mozambique LNG project, what the names of the companies are with which contracts for that project have been issued for UK goods and services; and

15 Jul 2021 · Department for International Trade

Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of contracts supported by UK Export Finance with (a) UK and (b) non-UK companies for the Mozambique LNG project.

Source: official written-questions record.