Written questions
1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Jan 2024 · Cabinet Office
Disability: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the length of time it took to appoint a new Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work.
15 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department holds data on the (a) outcome and (b) reasoning behind Tribunal verdicts relating to personal independence payment claims; and whether his Department takes steps to use Tribunal v
15 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department issues to universal credit claimants living in (a) temporary and (b) supported accommodation that receive benefit sanctions.
15 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Sanctioned disengaged claimants management information April 2019 to August 2023, published on 12 December 2023, how many and what proportion of c
15 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of households that will be subject to the benefit cap due to proposed changes to the work capability assessment descriptors in 2025-26.
15 Dec 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of households that will be subject to the benefit cap due to (a) increases in the local housing allowance and (b) the uprating of benefits in 2024-25.
30 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that NHS providers comply with the Accessible Information Standard.
30 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS England plans to publish the revised Accessible Information Standard.
30 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps with (a) the Royal National Institute of Blind People, (b) local sight loss councils and (c) other third sector organisations to undertake a review of the effectiveness of no
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what her Department's policy is on negotiating a geographically explicit territorial clause in any free trade agreement with Israel.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress her Department has made negotiating a free trade agreement with Israel.
27 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to increase the annual grant available under the Learning Support Fund for healthcare students studying (a) nursing, (b) midwifery and (c) allied healthcare professions
27 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to extend the Learning Support Fund to students studying pharmacy and cardiac physiology.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Service Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on the services sector.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the impact of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on levels of trade.
27 Nov 2023 · Treasury
Economic Situation: Brexit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to undertake an assessment of the impact of the UK's departure from the EU on the economy.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Business
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of the UK's departure from the EU on businesses.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish his Department's (a) research and (b) analysis that informed the production of the Work Capability Assessment consultation paper.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will hold a new 12 week consultation on proposed changes to the Work Capability Assessment that (a) clearly set outs the potential impact of those changes on groups affected by those proposals and
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit and Employment and Support Allowance: Employment Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy that existing claimants are not included in further potential reviews into eligibility for the (a) Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work and Work-Rela
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's response to the Work Capability Assessment: Activities and Descriptors Consultation, published in November 2023, what his planned timetable is for publishing an equali
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Access to Work applications (a) were (i) approved and (ii) rejected and (b) given 100% of award in each year since 2021 to 2023 as of 27 November.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to increase funding for the Access to Work scheme in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to require companies with more than 250 employees to publish data annually on (a) their disability pay gap and (b) the proportion of disabled employees within each pay quartile.
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government's consultation on Disability workforce reporting, published on 16 December 2021, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring companies with mo
27 Nov 2023 · Women and Equalities
Disability: Employment
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to ensure that companies are upholding their legal duties under the Equality Act 2010 on the implementation of reasonable adjustments for disabled people.
22 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Legal Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on legal cases relating to (a) Universal Credit, (b) Employment and Support Allowance, and (c) Personal Independence Payment financial support since 2017.
22 Nov 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Judgements
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases relating to (a) Universal Credit, (b) Employment and Support Allowance and (c) Personal Independence Payments were taken to the (i) High Court, (ii) Court of Appeal and (ii) Supreme Court
22 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will meet the Visual Impairment Charity Sector Partnership to discuss the RNIB's report entitled The eye care support pathway, published in November 2023.
22 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions officials in her Department have had with NHS England on the potential merits of endorsing the Royal National Institute of Blind People's eye care support pathway.
Source: official written-questions record.