Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 7 January 2013.

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  • Carers

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of registered carers in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK.

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people who receive disability living allowance will be assessed for eligibility for the personal independence payment (PIP) by October...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people who receive disability living allowance and have been assessed for the personal independence payment (PIP) will receive (a) no...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his projected cash savings from reforming disability living allowance are in each year from 2013 to 2018.

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the likely (a) annual and (b) quarterly caseload for (i) disability living allowance and (ii) the personal...

  • Emergencies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his letter to the hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West of 30 November 2012, what steps he has taken to communicate...

  • European Social Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will consider the case for targeting the next European Social Fund seven year cycle on boosting employment among parents.

  • Housing Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2012, Official Report, column 319W, on housing benefit: Wales, what meetings he has had on housing...

  • Housing Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households that receive housing benefit have (a) one child, (b) two children, (c) three children, (d) four children, (e) five...

  • Housing Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government about the application of the new burdens...

  • Housing Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Communities and Local Government on the application of the new burdens doctrine...

  • Housing Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of housing benefit have moved from addresses in London to addresses outside London in each of the last 24 months.

  • Housing Benefit: Greater London

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the level of the cap on housing benefit in each London borough in (a) April and (b) October 2013.

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what assessment he has made of the effect of proposals set out in the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 on...

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what consideration his Department gave to deaf people who will rely on lipreading with regards to assessing communication support to...

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the level of personal independence payments in (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14 and (c) 2014-15.

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the savings which will accrue to the Exchequer as a consequence of having moved from disability living allowance...

  • Private Rented Housing: Greater London

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent estimate he has made of the average payment of housing benefit to private sector tenants in each London borough; and what the level...

  • Remploy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what recent discussions he has had with trade union representatives on the Remploy factories which were announced for closure; (2) what...

  • Remploy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what types of jobs have been obtained by former Remploy workers; whether those jobs are full-time or otherwise; and at what level salaries are...

  • Remploy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) if he will publish the names of all former Remploy managers who have been sold or been given any of Remploy's former assets; (2) if he...

  • Remploy: Edinburgh

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of the former employees of the Edinburgh Remploy plant have found employment since the plant closed.

  • Sick Leave

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the level of absence has been in his Department for stress-related sickness in each of the last five years.

  • Sick Leave

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in his Department were given a (a) verbal warning and (b) written warning prior to a period of absence for sickness in each of...

  • Social Rented Housing: Armed Forces

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will give consideration to the exempting of armed forces personnel and their families from the Government's proposed social housing...

  • Social Rented Housing: Armed Forces

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effect of the Government's proposed social housing under-occupation measure on families with one or more...

  • Social Rented Housing: North East

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in (a) the North East, (b) County Durham and (c) North West Durham constituency...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the value has been of (a) unemployment benefit and jobseeker's allowance, (b) child benefit and (c) incapacity benefit and employment and...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse in each of the next three years of uprating benefits in line with his proposal for a...

  • Social Security Benefits: Uprating

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate he has made of the likely effect on measured levels of (a) absolute and (b) relative poverty of the uprating of benefits by...

  • Television: Licensing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of the free television licence for people aged over 75 there were in each year between 1997 and 2012.

  • Unemployment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households that are economically inactive have (a) one child, (b) two children, (c) three children, (d) four children, (e) five...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the case for a higher universal credit income disregard for (a) lone parents and (b) parents in couples who are...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the case for a larger universal credit disregard in London to take into account higher living and childcare...

  • Vocational Guidance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many jobcentres host regular sessions with advisers from the National Careers Service.

  • Winter Fuel Payments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many recipients of the winter fuel allowance there were in each income decile in the most recent period for which figures are available;...

  • Work Capability Assessment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's response to Professor Harrington's Second Independent Review of the work capability assessment, published in...