Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions

– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 October 2018.

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The Secretary of State was asked—

  • Disabled Entrepreneurs (10 speeches)

    What steps the Government are taking to assist disabled entrepreneurs.

  • Universal Credit Roll-out (26 speeches)

    What assessment she has made of her Department’s preparedness for the roll-out of universal credit to people in receipt of working tax credits.

  • Job Creation (11 speeches)

    What estimate the Government have made of the number of jobs created in the UK since 2010.

  • Contracted-out Health Assessments (14 speeches)

    What recent assessment she has made of the (a) accuracy and (b) efficiency of contracted-out health assessments for employment and support allowance and personal independence payment.

  • Transition to Universal Credit (10 speeches)

    What assessment she has made of the effect on the public purse of the five-week wait to transition to universal credit.

  • Universal Credit: Blind and Partially Sighted People (4 speeches)

    What steps her Department has taken to ensure that claiming universal credit online is accessible to blind and partially sighted people.

  • Universal Credit: Scotland (10 speeches)

    What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the advice and support offered to recipients of universal credit in Scotland.

  • Universal Credit: Household Debt (16 speeches)

    What assessment her Department has made of recent trends in the average level of household debt for people in receipt of universal credit.

  • Universal Credit (11 speeches)

    What steps the Government have taken to improve universal credit since autumn 2017.

  • Benefits System: Claimants’ Needs (6 speeches)

    What steps the Government are taking to ensure that the benefits system is able to meet the changing needs of claimants.

  • Work: People with Disabilities (8 speeches)

    What steps the Government are taking to help people with disabilities into work.

  • Pensions Dashboard (17 speeches)

    What steps the Government have taken to enable industry to deliver the pensions dashboard.

  • Universal Credit Roll-out (6 speeches)

    What progress she has made on the roll-out of universal credit throughout the UK.

  • Topical Questions (39 speeches)

    We now come to topical questions. Brevity is of the essence.

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