Work and Pensions

– in the House of Commons at on 27 January 2020.

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The Secretary of State was asked—

  • Pension Fund Investments: Climate Change (11 speeches)

    What steps she is taking to work with pension funds to encourage them to make investment decisions that help tackle climate change.

  • Self-Employed People: Support (4 speeches)

    What steps she is taking to support self-employed people.

  • Work Capability Assessments: Claimant Health (8 speeches)

    What recent assessment she has made of the effect on claimant health of the work capability assessment process.

  • Homelessness and Rough Sleeping (21 speeches)

    What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to (a) reduce homelessness and (b) end rough sleeping by the end of the 2019 Parliament.

  • People with Disabilities: Assessments (8 speeches)

    What steps she is taking to reduce the number of assessments undertaken by people with disabilities.

  • In-Work Poverty (16 speeches)

    What recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of in-work poverty.

  • Universal Credit Roll-out (10 speeches)

    What recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the roll-out of universal credit.

  • Benefits: Administrative Errors (11 speeches)

    What assessment she has made of trends in the level of administrative errors made in the processing of applications during the roll-out of (a) universal credit and (b) personal independence...

  • Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination (4 speeches)

    What recent discussion she has had with Cabinet colleagues on protecting employees that are (a) pregnant and (b) eligible for maternity leave against discrimination at work.

  • Universal Credit: Monthly Assessment Period (4 speeches)

    What steps her Department is taking to ensure that the monthly assessment period for universal credit is able to reflect a claimant's fluctuating income.

  • Universal Credit: Personal Finances (4 speeches)

    What recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit on the personal finances of claimants.

  • Contracted-out Health Assessments (4 speeches)

    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...

  • Universal Credit: Transitional Support (12 speeches)

    What steps she is taking to provide support for people who require additional help transitioning to universal credit.

  • Benefits: Tribunal Awards (6 speeches)

    How many and what proportion of applications for (a) disability living allowance, (b) employment and support allowance and (c) personal independence payment that were considered by a tribunal...

  • Topical Questions (40 speeches)

    If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

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