Written questions
537 written questions tabled, most recent first.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Youth Guarantee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will list the employers which have been engaged with the Youth Guarantee scheme.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Youth Guarantee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) private sector, (b) public sector and (c) third sector organisations have signed up to the Youth Guarantee scheme.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Youth Guarantee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many providers of (a) apprenticeships, (b) training and (c) education have signed up to the Youth Guarantee scheme.
18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Youth Guarantee
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people does the Department estimate will be eligible for the Youth Guarantee at the beginning of the scheme, and for each quarter until the end of this Parliament.
17 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households on Universal Credit have a combined income between £831 and £861 a month after tax and national insurance contributions, broken down by those who are (a) employed and (b) self-employ
17 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households returned to the benefit cap because of the loss of an exempting benefit other than PIP during (a) the quarter to August 2025, (b) the quarter to May 2025, (c) the quarter to February
17 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households returned to the benefit cap because of the loss of PIP during (a) the quarter to August 2025, b) the quarter to May 2025, (c) the quarter to February 2025 and (d) the quarter to Nove
16 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,how many households include (a) one, (b) two and (c) three or more people in receipt of Carer’s Element in the latest period for which data is available.
16 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households have (a) one, (b) two and (c) three or more individuals in receipt of Carer’s Allowance.
15 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 8 December 2025 to UIN 96251, whether his Department plans to make an estimate of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autu
15 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autumn Budget 2025.
12 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Budget 2025, what assessment he has of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the salary sacrifice policy for employee pension contributions on the number of hours worked
11 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on overall hours withdrawn by employees.
11 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on hours worked by people near tax cliff edges.
11 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice cap policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on employee hours worked in (a) the private sector and (b) the public sector.
11 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on pensions and hours worked by (a) sex, (b) age and (c) NUTS region.
11 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the salary sacrifice policy announced in the Autumn Budget 2025 on individual pension savings.
8 Dec 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of community benefit levels provided by NSIP-scale solar developers (a) relative to the profits generated and (b) in comparison with no
8 Dec 2025 · Treasury
Insurance Premium Tax
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much insurance premium tax was collected from each type of insurance product in the latest year for which data is available.
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people who have newly claimed Universal Credit in each of the last five years by (a) health-related reasons for claiming and (b) the searching-for-work co
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 22 October 2025 to UIN 77348, how many additional assessors have been recruited; and in what locations.
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobcentres: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complex case coaches (a) are currently employed and (b) have been for each month since June 2024.
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2025 to Question 62284, whether his Department holds further information on the primary medical conditions of the PIP claimants with an active contract for the Motabili
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Motability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Personal Independence Payment claimants are in a contract with the Motability Scheme to receive a vehicle by primary medical condition.
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in receipt of the child benefit of UC are exempt from the household benefit cap because they (a) receive limited capability for work and work-related activity, (b) are in a grace perio
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households who flowed off the household benefit cap because of an exempting benefit had the off-flow outcome due to receiving (a) Employment Support Allowance support group, (b) Disability Livi
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, of the households who flowed off the household benefit cap in the quarter to May 2025, how many had the off-flow outcome due to the (a) household’s benefit income being reduced to under the cap levels,
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of (a) removing the two-child limit of UC child benefit and (b) adding that benefit to the exemptions for the household benefit cap on the
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Unemployment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what analysis his Department has done on the increase in households that off-flowed from the benefits cap as a result of the increase in unemployment over the past 13 months, in the context of the 9-mon
3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average payment per customer for each primary medical condition, as defined in the Access to Work statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Source: official written-questions record.