Monday, 7 October 2019
The Secretary of State was asked—
What progress her Department has made on its review of how the benefits system supports terminally ill people.
What recent assessment her Department has made of the (a) accuracy and (b) efficiency of contracted-out health assessments for (i) employment and support allowance and (ii) personal independence...
What assessment her Department has made of the effect of the introduction of universal credit on the financial circumstances of disabled claimants.
What assessment she has made of the effect of transferring to universal credit on households’ levels of financial resilience.
What recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of in-work poverty.
What recent steps the Government have taken to help young people into employment.
What support her Department is providing to women working for longer before reaching state pension age.
What steps her Department is taking to ensure that universal credit claimants who receive two regular wage payments in the same review period are not penalised.
What steps she is taking to reduce the time taken for universal credit claimants to receive their first payment.
What assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of the spending round 2019.
What steps the Government are taking to increase support for disabled people.
How her Department verifies the identity of universal credit claimants who do not have an (a) home, (b) bank account, (c) driving licence and (d) passport.
What recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of child poverty.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union if he will make a statement on when the Government intend to publish the full legal text of their proposed changes...
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade if she will set out the final schedule of import tariffs proposed in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
We come now to the next urgent question. At the risk of embarrassing him, the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (David Mundell) tells me that this is the first time...
Before I call the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) to ask his urgent question, I must inform the House that I have been advised that Carl Beech has appealed his conviction...
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, following the release of one...
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I wish to make a small correction to the record. In my answer to one of the questions in the previous urgent question, I said that the Henriques report...
I beg to move, That, in pursuance of paragraph 2A of Schedule 3 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009, Mr Peter Blausten be appointed as a lay member of the Speaker’s Committee for the...
I beg to move, That the draft Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointment Functions) (No. 2) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 11 July 2019, be approved. May I say, Madam...
Considered in Committee [Dame Eleanor Laing in the Chair]
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
“(1) Any question or questions asked about gender identity under the Census Act 1920 or the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 must be framed so as to enable statistical information to be...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the Product Safety, Metrology and Mutual Recognition Agreement (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1246), dated 9 September 2019, a copy of which was laid before this...
That the Animal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1229), dated 5 September 2019, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5...
That the Specific Food Hygiene (Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1247), dated 9 September 2019, a copy of which was laid before this House on...
That the Trade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1225), dated 5 September 2019, a copy of...
That the Air Services (Competition) (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1224), dated 5 September 2019, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5...
That the draft Local Loans (Increase of Limit) Order 2019, which was laid before this House on 26 September, be approved.
That the Customs Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1219), dated 4 September 2019, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5 September, be...
That the Financial Services (Electronic Money, Payment Services and Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1212), dated 5 September 2019, a copy of which was laid...
That the Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 1232), dated 5 September 2019, a copy of which was laid before this House on 5 September, be...
I rise to present a petition entitled, “Call to revoke the decision to reclassify Ministers of Religion under immigration rules” on behalf of the residents of Glasgow North East at St...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(David Rutley.)
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