Written questions

107 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, whether people affected by changes to the Universal Credit

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Terminal Illnesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, whether people with terminal illnesses will be

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, if she will make it her policy to publish an evaluation of

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Chronic Illnesses and Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of he

25 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Sports Competitors: Heart Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of extending eligibility for heart screening to amateur athletes.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Work Capability Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing the Work Capability Assessment.

7 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to accelerate the rollout of Universal Credit.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what passport benefits of what average value a Pension Credit claimant may be eligible to receive.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average cost to the public purse is of (a) a Pension Credit claimant, (b) their council tax discounts and (c) other passport benefits.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Medical Certificates: Public Consultation

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish data collected from the fit note trailblazers.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6515 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, if she will publish the consultation responses from organisations.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of pensioner poverty levels in each region following changes to the eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Poverty Taskforce: Conferences

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Child Poverty Taskforce holds first Scottish summit, published on 22 November 2024, if she will publish a list of (a) attendees and (b) speakers

12 Dec 2024 · Church Commissioners

Archbishops' Council

To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how much (a) the Church Commissioners distributed to and (b) was certificated by the Archbishops’ Council under section 2(6) of the National Institutions Measure 1998 in each year sin

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Income: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department (a) made and (b) has since made an assessment of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on trends in the level of income inequality.

2 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the terms of reference will be for her Department's review of universal credit.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Household Support Fund.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of issuing a commencement order for curfews for non-compliant parents refusing to pay child maintenance.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for responding to her Department's consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the collection and transfer of payments, published on 8 May 2024.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Budget October 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on the number of people living in poverty by household type.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: Budget October 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on trends in the number of people living in poverty.

25 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Personal Income: Budget October 2024

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of Autumn Budget 2024 on trends in the level of household income.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Rights Bill: Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the number of people claiming (a) Universal Credit and (b) other benefits.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for responding to her Department's closed consultation entitled Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability green paper, published on 29 April 202

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Medical Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish a consultation on fit note reform.

20 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Hezbollah: UN Resolutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on Hezbollah’s non-compliance with UN Resolution 1701.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Written question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle hare coursing.

11 Nov 2024 · Church Commissioners

Church Commissioners: Charities

To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what the (a) charitable object and (b) nominal current value is of each (i) trust and (ii) other fund held by the Church Commissioners; and what document defines each such charitable

28 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Police: Aviation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with police forces on aerial service needs.

28 Oct 2024 · Home Office

National Police Air Service

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) relevant stakeholders on levels of police grants in the context of procuring new aircraft for the National Police Air Service.

Source: official written-questions record.