Written questions
1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.
4 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Occupied Territories: Economic Situation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of Israel’s decision to withhold $138 million in taxes from the Palestinian authorities on the economic situation in the Occupied Palestinian Ter
4 Mar 2019 · Department for International Development
UNRWA
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what the long-term strategy of the Government is with respect to sustainable support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
4 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Jerusalem: Palestinians
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on the (a) eviction of the Abu Assab family and (b) potential eviction of a further 200 Palestinian families from their homes in E
4 Mar 2019 · Department for International Trade
Trade Agreements: Israel
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the UK-Israel Free Trade Agreement will exclude Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in line with current European Union differentiation.
28 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an estimate of the number of people who went into (a) rent arrears and (b) council tax arrears following the underpayment of their employment and support allowance; and if she will
28 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her Written Statement of 21 February 2019 on Employment and Support Allowance, Official Report HCWS 1348, which work streams the 1,200 staff working on underpayment cases have been taken fro
19 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2019 to Question 213466, how many complaints were received in relation to the personal independence payment assessment process in each calendar year since 2013.
13 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that parity of esteem between mental and physical health extends to the social security system.
13 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Stress
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for her policies of the conclusions of the study published in the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ BJPsych Open journal in January 2019, which
1 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2019 to Written Question 208905, Universal Credit: Disability, how many people in receipt of severe disability premium will receive back payments following their nat
28 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints were received in relation to the personal independence payment assessment process in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
15 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2019 to Question 206466 on Universal Credit: Disability, what estimate she has made of the cost of providing information on how many people in receipt of the severe
10 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what oversight his Department will give to services funded by the NHS in relation to the implementation of national learning disability improvement standards.
10 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure services funded by the NHS uphold national learning disability improvement standards; and whether he plans to bring forward measures to ensure compliance with thos
10 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether mandatory training for NHS staff on learning disability and autism will involve people with learning disabilities and autism.
10 Jan 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to involve people with learning disabilities and autism in the development of mandatory training for NHS staff.
8 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the written statement of 7 June 2018 on Universal Credit, HCWS745, how many people in receipt of the severe disability premium have been naturally migrated onto universal credit since
8 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of the severe disability premium under the legacy social security system were moved onto universal credit in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.
7 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether (a) income-related and (b) contributory employment and support allowance will be phased out as part of managed migration to universal credit.
10 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the merits of introducing a taper for claimants of carers allowance once the claimant has reached the earnings threshold.
10 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance: Overpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to conduct a review of eligibility criteria for carer’s allowance as a result of the number of carers that have been overpaid.
7 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her letter of 5 December 2018 on the Work Capability Assessment, when her Department will provide statistics on how many people flowed off Employment and Support Allowance whose date o
6 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that disabled people have access to a customer service email address for personal independence payment assessments.
6 Dec 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effect on disabled claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) of the closure of the Atos PIP customer service email.
19 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office
Elections: Visual Impairment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Government’s Response to the Call for Evidence on Access to Elections published 30 August 2018, whether he can provide an update on the progress of the Accessibility Working Group's conside
19 Nov 2018 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new special schools have opened since the introduction of free schools in 2010.
14 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants
What recent assessment he has made of the capacity of the civil service to manage additional responsibilities arising from the UK leaving the EU.
12 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Disability
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the level of compliance of Departments with their duty under the Equality Act 2010 to provide accessible documents for disabled people.
6 Nov 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of disabled people who will be naturally migrated to universal credit and lose access to transitional protection as a result of changes in the date for managed m
6 Nov 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money her Department has spent promoting Access to Work in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
Source: official written-questions record.