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- Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Universal Credit (21 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how he plans to reflect the number of universal credit recipients in the monthly labour market statistics during the transition from jobseeker's allowance to universal credit.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Housing Benefit (21 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many claimants were assessed as a member of a protected group and exempt from housing benefit restrictions for 52 weeks, on the grounds that an occupant of their home had died within the previous 12 months in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012; (2) how many claimants in employment at the time of their initial claim were awarded...
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Jobcentre Plus: Walthamstow (21 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library a copy of (a) the league table and (b) the stricter benefit regime figures referred to in the internal staff memorandum by the Walthamstow Jobcentre adviser manager, dated 20 February 2013.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (IT System) (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: The Secretary of State will recall that I wrote to him in November 2010 to warn that the IT system could not possibly be delivered in the time scale he was claiming—unfortunately, that has proved to be the case. In November 2011, he announced that 1 million people would be receiving universal credit by April 2014. What is his latest estimate of the number of people who will be receiving...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (IT System) (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: In November 2011, 1 million people were going to be claiming by next April: now, the Secretary of State has not the faintest idea how many there will be—so much for this project being on schedule. There were supposed to be four pathfinders, but now there is only one, under which the only people who can get universal credit are those in the most straightforward circumstances. How long...
- Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Jobseeker’s Allowance (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office whether claimants of jobseeker's allowance (JSA) not currently receiving benefit because they have received a sanction, but otherwise meeting the conditions for entitlement to JSA, are included in the JSA claimant count published in the monthly labour market statistics.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Statistics (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on how many occasions his Department has been rebuked by the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority for misusing statistics since May 2010.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Statistics (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the letter sent to him from the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, dated 9 May 2013, whether he plans any changes to his Department's procedures in response.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many universal credit staff ambassadors are working with Ashton-under-Lyne Jobcentre Plus to assist with the introduction of universal credit.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department has spent on external consultants for the universal credit project, in addition to spending on the universal credit IT system, since May 2010.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Universal Credit (20 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which external consultants have worked on the universal credit project, other than on the universal credit IT system, since May 2010.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (16 May 2013)
Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have entered employment as a result of the application of the benefit cap; and if he will make a statement.