Written questions
894 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Underpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait time is for her Department to correct underpayment errors for Personal Independence Payments (PIP).
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Underpayments
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to tackle the number of underpayment errors for PIP applications.
10 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy set out in section 4.31 of the Government's Growth Plan 2022 published on Friday 22nd September 2022 that claimants who do not fulfil their job-search commitment without goo
20 Sep 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the press release entitled UK to donate 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses, published on 11 June 2021, how many and what proportion of those vaccines hav
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2022 to Question 47660 on Pension Credit, if she will publish equivalent data on the number of people eligible for Pension Credit in the period since 2019-20.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Carbon Emissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken pursuant to the Court ruling in The Queen (on the application of (1) Friends of the Earth Limited (2) ClientEarth (3) Good Law Project and Joan
5 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Second State Pension Age Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish the outcome to the public consultation on the Second State Pension age review which closed on 25 April 2022; and if she will provide an interim update.
5 Sep 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2022 to Question 31232 on Pension Credit and the Answer of 11 July 2022 to Question 31233 on Pension Credit, what estimate she has made of the number of people eligible
20 Jul 2022 · COP26
Climate Change
To ask the President of COP26, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Government policies to tackle climate change.
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Carers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, HC 193, published on 7 July 2022, which notes at page 71 errors in the recording of Home Responsibilities Protection, how many peop
11 Jul 2022 · Treasury
Child Benefit
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of child benefit.
11 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Carer's Allowance: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of Carer's Allowance on the ability of unpaid carers to undertake employment.
11 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what factors her Department will take into account when it next makes an assessment of the potential merits uprating of benefits; and whether the energy price cap will be taken into account when making
6 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Global Fund potentially not reaching its seventh replenishment target of raising $18 billion; and wha
6 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Bilateral Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether any technical assistance hold-back as part of the UK's pledge for the Global Fund's seventh replenishment will count as bilateral aid.
6 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in the percentage of Official Development Assistance allocated to multilateral organisations on the targ
6 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Development Aid: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the commitment to restore Official Development Assistance funding to projects supporting women and girls, whether a proportion of those additional resources
5 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the take-up of pension credit awards by (a) those who qualify but have not previously claimed pension credit (b) new recipients of the state pension.
5 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's Pension Credit Day of Action and associated awareness raising activities; and whether she has made an estimate of the number of appl
30 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Biometric Residence Permits
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what service standard has been set for processing biometric residence permit applications; what proportion of applications were processed within that timeframe; and what steps her Department is taking
30 Jun 2022 · Home Office
Homes for Ukraine Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice her Department has issued to employers on employing Ukrainians who have entered the UK under the Homes for Ukraine scheme but have not yet received the Biometric Residence Permit; and what
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who has responsibility for holding data relating to mandatory reconsideration of benefit decisions.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of decisions on Personal Independence Payment awards that were reversed as a result of mandatory reconsideration in the past year; and if she will make an
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps to (a) collect and (b) evaluate evidence in order to understand the reasons for successful Mandatory Reconsiderations.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what safeguards her Department has put in place to minimise errors during the Universal Credit migration process.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what protections her Department has put in place for people undergoing managed migration to Universal Credit.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Families
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of automatic deductions from Universal Credit on families' financial wellbeing.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Suicide
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to mitigate against and prevent death by suicide linked to benefit claims.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who will receive a reduced benefit award after migrating to Universal Credit.
28 Jun 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of migrating people to Universal Credit.
Source: official written-questions record.