Wendy Chamberlain

4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on allocating funding to brain cancer research.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance: Students

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she make an assessment of the potential impact of the ineligibility for the Carer's Allowance of people in education for more than 21 hours a week on levels of poverty amongst young carers.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Young Carers: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support young carers in full-time education to access financial support.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Students: Young Carers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility criteria for students in vulnerable groups in the 16 to 19 bursary fund to include young carers.

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's guidance on Universal Credit and earnings, updated on 13 May 2024, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to Universal Credit payments in an

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of differential uprating levels for (a) the additional state pension under the old pension system and (b) other elements of the state pension on le

4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to respond to the consultation entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, which closed on 22 July 2024.

3 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Ownership Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what was the outcome of applications to the Community Ownership Fund, Round 3.

3 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate the number of pensioners who will see a reduction in their disposable income as a result of her proposed reforms to Winter Fuel Payments by (a) household type, (b) age and (

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review the (a) level, (b) eligibility criteria and (c) processes of Carer's Allowance.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to reduce the (a) number and (b) size of Carer's Allowance overpayments.

30 Aug 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance: Overpayments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's strategy entitled Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System: Going Further, updated on 13 May 2024, whether she plans to continue the roll out of alerts telling carers that

23 Jul 2024 · Home Office

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme.

16 May 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Carers: Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits for (a) businesses and (b) workers of introducing paid carers leave.

16 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes: Older Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that people over the age of 50 receive adequate support through the Back to Work Plan.

16 May 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Carers: Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the level of paid carers leave on rates of economic activity.

13 May 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department received a draft of the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman report on changes to Women’s State Pension age, published on 21 March 2024.

10 May 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Vaccination

To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what steps his Department is taking with international partners to (a) increase childhood immunisation rates, (b) make vaccine access more equitable and (c) support Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

7 May 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Pets: Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to lay the Windsor Framework (Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals) Regulations before Parliament.

7 May 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential cost to businesses of the reforms to skilled worker visas.

7 May 2024 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Sponsorship

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting times were for processing applications for certificates of sponsorship for skilled workers in each month from November 2023 to April 2024.

3 May 2024 · Treasury

Child Benefit

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average waiting time was for processing a new application for Child Benefit in the latest period for which data is available.

26 Apr 2024 · Treasury

National Insurance Contributions: Internet

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of when the online system for (a) checking the completeness of National Insurance records and (b) paying top ups will be launched.

25 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of differential uprating levels for (a) the additional state pension under the old pension system and (b) other elements of the state pension on lev

24 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Support: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of disabled people on the Universal Support pilot found employment.

24 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Support: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have been enrolled onto the Universal Support programme since it began.

17 Apr 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the roll out of Universal Credit to Tax Credit claimants including those that are farmers.

12 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Carers: Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled People at the Heart of Care, published by her Department in December 2021, CP 560, what steps her Department has taken to raise awareness of Carer's Leav

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Carers: Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department has taken to raise awareness of carer's leave amongst employers.

12 Apr 2024 · Department for Education

Young Carers: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help support young carers in full-time education to access financial support.