Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 26 May 2004.

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  • Adult Disadvantages

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will re-calculate the figures on adult disadvantages set out in the answer of 20 March 2003, Official Report, column 911W, to include...

  • Benefits (Blackpool, North and Fleetwood)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many lone parents in Blackpool, North and Fleetwood have gained work through the New Deal programmes.

  • Benefits (Blackpool, North and Fleetwood)

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

  • Careers Guidance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how he will ensure that adults in (a) temporary work and (b) work where their skills are under-utilised will be able to access expert advice...

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) if he will take steps to cease the practice in his Department of sending correspondence without a clearly identifiable signature of the...

  • Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he will reply to the letter to him from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton dated 21 April with regard to Mr. G. Forde.

  • Health and Safety

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he has received the report of the Health and Safety Commission on the effectiveness of the current strategy to promote directors'...

  • Identity Theft

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to reduce identity theft in areas within the remit of his Department and its agencies.

  • National Insurance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his latest estimate is of the expenditure on national insurance rebates for those contracted out of SERPS or the second state pension in...

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his latest estimate is of the number of (a) pensioner households and (b) individual pensioners eligible for pension credit (i) this year...

  • Pensioner Poverty

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what total Government financial support to the poorest 10 per cent. of pensioners was in each of the last 30 years, expressed at today's prices.

  • Pensioner Poverty

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much the poorest third of pensioners received in each year since 1998; and what that sum would have been in each year had the State Pension...

  • Seasonal Fruit Pickers

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what monitoring takes place to ensure the health and safety of seasonal fruit pickers.

  • Spelthorne Borough Council

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much administration grant was paid to Spelthorne borough council in 2003–04 to cover the cost of operating the council tax benefit...

  • Winter Fuel Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the additional £100 being paid to over 70s in Northern Ireland will be included in the winter fuel allowance; and if he will make...