Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 28 March 2006.

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  • Benefit Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether it is the Government's intention that eventually all distinctions should be abolished between the benefits paid to people who are...

  • Benefit Recipients

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit recipients are in receipt of earned income.

  • Benefit Recipients

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit recipients are in receipt of incapacity benefit at (i) the short term lower rate, (ii)...

  • Benefit Recipients

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Torbay unitary authority and (b) Torbay parliamentary constituency received (i) housing benefit, (ii) income support and...

  • Benefits (Transitional Relief)

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on which occasions since 1990 transitional relief has been provided as part of a benefit rule change.

  • Council Tax

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate he has made using the Government's standard measure of the number of households paying council tax which are in poverty;...

  • Departmental Policies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Islington, South and Finsbury constituency, the effects on...

  • Disabled Person Disregard

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of raising the disabled person disregard for housing benefit and council tax benefit to £82.

  • Disabled Person Disregard

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of extending the disabled person disregard to all recipients of incapacity benefits.

  • Household Income

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of household income came from (a) tax credits, (b) means-tested benefits, (c) other benefits, (d) earned income excluding tax...

  • Income Growth

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the real increase in the income of each income decile was in each year since 1978–79; and if he will make a statement.

  • Jobcentre Plus

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what internet sites operated by Jobcentre Plus are available to jobseekers; and how their existence is publicised.

  • New Deal

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of those entering new deal in 2003 were in work at the end of December 2005.

  • New Deal

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the latest Government estimate is of the (a) gross and (b) net cost per youth job created by the new deal for young people.

  • New Deal

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of those who joined the new deal in 2005 was not doing so for the first time.

  • New Deal

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many benefit claimants have been subject to sanctions for not attending a work-focused interview under the new deal for lone parents (a)...

  • Parliamentary Questions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many parliamentary questions tabled in the last 12 months for answer by him on a named day (a) were transferred and (b) received a...

  • Post Office Card Account

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pilot schemes for the migration of Post Office card account holders to banking facilities will be operating in the eastern region over...

  • Post Office Card Account

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of each payable benefit was transacted through (a) a Post Office card account and (b) another account at a post office in (i)...

  • Private Pensions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) percentage of people living in London who have a private pension; and if he will make a...

  • Replacement Pension Costs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate he has made of the gross annual cost of restoring pensions in full to all those covered by the Parliamentary Ombudsman's...

  • Single Room Rent Restriction

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the Single Room Rent restriction on housing benefit was in each locality in each of the Local Housing Allowance Pathfinder areas in each...