Wendy Chamberlain

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full time equivalent civil servants his Department employed to administer Access to Work at the end of the month for the 18 months up to and including December 2023.

16 Feb 2024 · Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department is taking steps to help identify tax credit claimants (a) with limited capacity, (b) who have been subject to domestic abuse and (c) with other vulnerabilities.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and (b) UK High Commissions and Embassies on supporting UK citizens living overseas

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much he plans to spend on encouraging (a) UK residents and (b) UK citizens living overseas to register to vote in the next general election.

16 Feb 2024 · Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

Electoral Commission

To ask the hon. Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, whether the Committee has had recent discussions with the Electoral Commission on the independence of the Commission.

8 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Sudan: Armed Conflict

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will seek assurances from his (a) UAE and (b) other international counterparts that they are not providing (i) military and (ii) logistical support to the Rapid Support Forc

8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer on 1 February 2024 to Question 11651 on Minimum Wage, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the recommendations relating to minimum wage for

1 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Women

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent representations he has made to his Afghan counterpart on the treatment of women and girls in that country. .

30 Jan 2024 · Treasury

State Retirement Pensions: Underpayments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) letters have been issued to people who are likely to have been underpaid their state pension as a result of their national insurance record not including the correct entitlement of home responsibilities

30 Jan 2024 · Treasury

National Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many additional staff he has (a) recruited and (b) transferred from other roles in order to process additional changes to National Insurance records arising from (i) the HMRC exercise to correct errors in record

30 Jan 2024 · Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to protect vulnerable tax credit claimants who have accrued overpayment debt through no fault of their own.

30 Jan 2024 · Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits: Overpayments

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the overpayment of tax credits in the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 financial years.

30 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants are employed in roles relating to the administration of the Access to Work scheme as of 30 January 2024.

29 Jan 2024 · Department for Education

Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of eligible two year olds received free funded early education in each year between 2019 and 2023.

26 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Eritrea: Detainees

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make representations to his Eritrean counterpart for the release of religious detainees.

26 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Eritrea: Human Rights

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Eritrea.

26 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendations relating to minimum wage for early years and elder care in the University of Manchester report entitled

26 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will introduce a minimum wage of £12 per hour for (a) early years and (b) elder care.

19 Jan 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Broadband: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on mid-contract price rises for broadband providers.

16 Jan 2024 · Scotland Office

Overseas Students: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on bringing Afghan female medical students to Scotland.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Adult Disability Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the longest time taken to transfer a claim for a Personal Independence Payment to a claim under Social Security Scotland for an Adult Disability Payment was in each month in 2023.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Adult Disability Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average processing time was for transferring a claim for the Personal Independence Payment to the Adult Disability Payment under Social Security Scotland in each month in 2023.

8 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of Carers Allowance and State Pension being overlapping benefits on levels of pensioner poverty.

5 Jan 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has had recent discussions with Post Office Limited on preventing errors with the current Horizon software.

5 Jan 2024 · Treasury

High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the fairness of the high income child benefit charge.

18 Dec 2023 · Cabinet Office

Immigration: Overseas Students

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason international students studying in the UK are included in overall immigration statistics.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she will next review the repayment threshold for repayment of (a) student tuition fee loans and (b) student maintenance loans; and if she will carry out a public consultation on this review.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the level of student maintenance loans on the labour market.

18 Dec 2023 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has carried out an equality impact assessment on the uprating of the student maintenance loan.

14 Dec 2023 · Department for Transport

Fisheries: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with his Irish counterpart on that country's decision to exempt fishermen who go out to sea for less than 72 hours from medical certificate requirements; and if he will consider a