Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 10 May 2004.

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  • Over-70s Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the £100 payment for people aged 70 or over that was announced in the 2004 Budget statement will be made.

  • Child Support Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the Child Support Agency will be able to refund the money owed to the constituent of the hon. Member for Walsall, North, ref: 321042956341.

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the hon. Member for Walsall, North will receive a reply from the Chief Executive of the Child Support Agency to his letter of 24 March...

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he intends to reply to the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton dated 1 April with regard to Mr. Alan McCabe.

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of families containing one or more children in receipt of disability living allowance have incomes below 60 per cent. of median...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of (a) single people under pension age, (b) couples under pension age and (c) adults under pension age have incomes below 60...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of (a) single female pensioners, (b) single male pensioners, (c) pensioner couples and (d) all pensioners have incomes below 60...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will extend eligibility for the higher rate of the mobility component of the disability living allowance to people who become disabled...

  • Disabled Workers

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will make a statement on the measures introduced to improve the working conditions of disabled workers in South Ribble over the last...

  • Incapacity Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of incapacity benefit claimants covered by the new incapacity benefit pilot projects in (a)...

  • Incapacity Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of possible savings generated by the new incapacity benefit pilot projects in each year from 2004–05 to...

  • Incapacity Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of extending the new incapacity benefit pilot projects to all incapacity benefit claimants.

  • Incapacity Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of (a) the start-up costs and (b) the annual running costs of the new incapacity benefit pilot projects, broken down...

  • Incapacity Benefit (Rhondda)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in each ward in the Rhondda constituency have received incapacity benefit in each year since 1992.

  • Income-related Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of employees in his Department are in receipt of income-related benefits.

  • Jobcentre Plus

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) disabled access audit of 1 Steephill Road, (b) consultation document dated June 2002 and list...

  • Mayor of London (Meetings)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on what dates he has held official meetings with the Mayor of London since July 2000; and what the subject of each meeting was.

  • Me

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many ME sufferers were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful in their applications for disability living allowance in the last 12 months.

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent on advertising the Pick it Up, It's Yours campaign in (a) national newspapers and (b) the regional and local press; and what...

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of (a) single men, (b) single women and (c) couples are expected to be entitled to pension credit in October; and...

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department advertises pension credit in any language other than English.

  • Pensions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if the Government will make changes to the current system to ensure that all women have access to a basic state pension in their own right.

  • Property Disregards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for what reason the rules relating to property disregards are different for pensioners moved from income support to pension credit.

  • Recruitment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of recruitment of civil servants for the Department was in each financial year since 1996–97, broken down by (a) delegated...

  • Social Security Advisory Committee (1 annotation)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he will publish the Quinquennial Review into the Social Security Advisory Committee.

  • Statutory Maternity Pay

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many women have (a) requested and (b) received statutory maternity pay since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the...

  • Sure Start Maternity Grant

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many mothers in Battersea have (a) applied for and (b) obtained the Sure Start maternity grant.

  • Winter Fuel Allowance (Oldham, West and Royton)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many senior citizens in Oldham, West and Royton have benefited from the winter fuel allowance since 1997.