Written questions

1,279 written questions tabled, most recent first.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Multiple Sclerosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis who receive income-based Employment and Support Allowance do not also receive Personal Independence Payment.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Multiple Sclerosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis who receive Universal Credit do not also receive Personal Independence Payment.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Multiple Sclerosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis get contributions-based Employment and Support Allowance.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Multiple Sclerosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with Multiple Sclerosis receive Universal Credit.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Multiple Sclerosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with multiple sclerosis who receive a Personal Independence Payment daily living award do not score more than four points in any of the daily living activities.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Green Paper: Pathways to Work, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed changes to (a) health and (b) disability benefits on

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work: Impact Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will undertake a health impact assessment of proposed changes to health and disability benefits in her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Suppor

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to review cross-Government spending on tackling homelessness, in the context of the Spending Review.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the welfare reforms proposed in her Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, last updated 28 March 202

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

School Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure schools fulfil their legal obligations under school food standards to provide free milk for students with their free school (a) breakfast and (b) meal.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

School Milk

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the number of children who are not receiving their free milk entitlement; and if she will take steps to monitor compliance with school food standards.

1 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Business Rates: Public Houses

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to introduce a permanent reduction in business rates for pubs.

1 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Beer: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to extend the freeze on beer duty.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Office for Students: Freedom of Expression

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the Office for Students registered theological colleges’ compliance with academic freedom and freedom of speech obligations.

1 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Social Security Benefits: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how she determines which state benefits are (a) subject to and (b) exempt from tax.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has been made of the potential financial impact of changing the eligibility to the health element of Universal Credit to people aged 22 on disabled young people aged between 18 and up to

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made in the Pathways to Work Green Paper of the adequacy of (a) ill health and (b) disability benefits.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, when she plans to publish further information on how her Department

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what steps she plans to take to help support people with severe lif

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, if she will make an estimate of the number of (a) children and (b)

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pathways to Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with disabilities and long-term health conditions will be supported by the £1bn a year funding outlined in the Green Paper: Pathways to Work, published on 18 March 2025.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) part-time and (b) full-time employment opportunities that will be available by 2029-30 for those disabled people and people with health conditions as outl

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the level of saving from reducing the health element of Universal Credit in cash terms to £50 per week in 2026-27 for new claimants.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the level of saving from freezing the health element of Universal Credit in cash terms at £97 per week until 2029-30 for existing recipients.

31 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Reform

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

28 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, what steps her Department is taking to consul

28 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, by what date she expects to publish accessibl

28 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, published on 18 March 2025, whether disabled people aged between 19 and 2

28 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published on 26 March 2025, what financial support her Department plans to provi

28 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Recycling: Public Houses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fees on the beer and pub sector.

Source: official written-questions record.