Helen Whately

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received the following payment per customer under the Access to Work scheme – a) £0 - £9,999 b) £10,000 - £19,999 c) £20,000 – £29,999 d) £30,000 – £39,999 e) £40,000 - £49,999 f) £50,00

3 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individuals are waiting for their Access to Work application to be processed, and how does this compare to each month since June 2024.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants with dependent children are in the light touch or working conditionality groups.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the number of Universal Credit households with dependent children reporting fewer than (a) 16, (b) 30 and (c) 35 hours of work per week.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Universal Credit claimants with dependent children are in (a) full-time or (b) part-time work.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for every year since 2017, what proportion of Universal Credit claimants with dependent children are (a) in work and (b) not in work.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average duration of a Universal Credit claim that was started in a) 2021, b) 2022, c) 2023, d) 2024 and e) 2025.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the average duration of a Universal Credit claim for someone who begins a claim at age a) 18, b) 19, c) 20, d) 21, e) 22, f) 23 and g) 24.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, will he provide projections for the number of face-to-face assessments on a national basis for each month of 2026.

2 Dec 2025 · Cabinet Office

Families

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many families there were in each region in England and Wales with (a) one child, (b) two children, (c) three children, (d) four children, (e) five children, (f) six to eight children, (g) eight to 10 childre

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment Assessment Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the membership of the Timms Review steering group will be published.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Universal Credit starts in each of the last 5 years were (a) new benefit claimants and (b) claimants transitioning from legacy benefits through managed migration.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Employment: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, wow many employees in the United Kingdom take part in a salary sacrifice scheme in the (a) public and (b) private sectors.

2 Dec 2025 · Treasury

Workplace Pensions: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of recent changes to salary sacrifice arrangements on employees’ pension savings.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2025 on the number of NEET young people.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many NEET young people (a) live with their parents or guardians and (b) live independently.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many NEET young people are parents, broken down by month since January 2020.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what projections his Department has made of numbers of NEET young people for each quarter until the end of this Parliamentary term.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Unemployment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of current numbers of NEET young people on the economy.

2 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate the Department has made of the level of change in the number of households exempt from the benefit cap following the Autumn Budget 2025.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Universal Credit starts in each of the last 5 years were (a) new benefit claimants and (b) claimants transitioning from legacy benefits through managed migration.

19 Nov 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 5 years, broken down by (a) health-related reasons for claiming and (b) the searching-f

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of removing the two-child benefit cap on incentives to work.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with (a) the Prime Minister, (b) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (c) other Cabinet colleagues on lifting the two-child benefit cap.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of changing the two-child benefit cap to a) three, b) four and c) five children.

19 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap.

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 20 October to Question 78358, whether the 1,000 redeployed Pathways to Work advisers are part of the existing work coach data referenced in that Answer.

13 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Advisory Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work coaches there were in each English district in each month since July 2024.

12 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Management Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department's consultation on legislative and policy options to reduce the prevalence of private estate management arrangements will be published.

12 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the new consumer protections for residential freeholders contained in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 will be implemented.