Written questions
1,285 written questions tabled, most recent first.
31 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department's review of 1.6 million personal independence payment claims includes those claims which (a) scored 0 points and (b) were not awarded personal independence payment.
31 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department is using to prioritise the personal independence payment claims it is reviewing.
31 Jan 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timetable is for her Department to update the personal independence payment assessment guide following the judgment of RF v Secretary of State for Work And Pensions [2017] EWHC 3375 (Admin) (21
26 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Ground Rent
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to tackle leaseholds with doubling ground-rents; and what support his Department provides to tenants subject to those rents.
19 Jan 2018 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department are taking to fix technical problems with HMRC's tax-free childcare system.
21 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government paper Improving lives: the future of work, health and disability, published in November 2017, if he will consider the commissioning of specialist external providers to p
21 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to protect claimants in the Employment and Support Allowance Support Group and its Universal Credit equivalent from financial loss if they engage in work-related activity and are subseq
19 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to (a) encourage disabled people to apply to become Community Partners for Jobcentre Plus under the Work and Health Programme and (b) ensure that the recruitment proce
14 Dec 2017 · Department for Exiting the European Union
European Banking Authority and European Medicines Agency
What assessment the Government has made of the effect on the UK economy of the (a) European Medicines Agency and (b) European Banking Authority relocating from London to other EU countries.
13 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability, published in November 2017, Cm 9526 , if he will take steps to commission specialist external providers to make available hi
13 Dec 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to protect the income of (a) universal credit claimants and (b) claimants in the Employment and Support Allowance Support Group when they engage in work-related activity.
11 Dec 2017 · Department of Health
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to implement a national strategy for ocular health.
11 Dec 2017 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase the number of accessible stations in south-west London.
29 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to include provision similar to the Severe Disability Premium as part of universal credit.
23 Nov 2017 · Cabinet Office
Electoral Register
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government plans to publish its findings and recommendations on consultation on access to elections, and what steps it is taking to ensure that no-one is disenfranchised in 2018 local elections in Londo
23 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a claimant in receipt of the employment and support allowance Work-Related Activity Group addition of £29.05 per week, living in a universal credit full service area and takes but subsequently l
22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants identify as disabled.
22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment and Support Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of new Employment and Support Allowance claimants who have moved into work as a result of the removal of the Work-Related Activity Group Addition of £29.05 pe
22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consult disability organisations on the future contract specifications for contracted assessors of Personal Independence Payment and Employment and Support Allowance claims.
22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of (a) assessments (b) subsequent decisions and (c) mandatory reconsideration for (i) Personal Independence Payment and (ii) Employment and Support Allowan
22 Nov 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who identify as disabled are employed by his Department, broken down by pay grade.
30 Oct 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding he plans to provide to local authorities for the installation of sprinklers in tower blocks.
12 Oct 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work Capability Assessment: Exemptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which disabilities and health conditions are now exempt from work capability re-assessments for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) universal credit.
13 Sep 2017 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Employment: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on incorporating disability employment policy in the wider industrial strategy.
13 Sep 2017 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the DWP response to FOI request 1740 on key performance indicators, if he will set out the wording of the key performance indicator referred to in the FOI response; and whether that th
Source: official written-questions record.