To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of ensuring that childcare is provided for families affected by the total cap on...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of ensuring that childcare is provided for families affected by the total cap on benefit entitlement...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will issue guidance to residential care homes on best practice in distributing cold weather payments to their residents.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment on proposed amendments to payment on account provisions, what estimate he has made of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment on amendments to payment on account provisions, when he expects to publish the details of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment on proposals for the localisation of crisis loans and community grants; what estimate he...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment on reform of disability living allowance, what estimate he has made of the likely cost to...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what training his Department plans to give to people who will be making future assessments on the entitlement to disability living...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his policy is on the application of his proposed reform of disability living allowance to people under the age of 16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will take steps to ensure that people with disabilities living in care homes are able to exercise choice and control following the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what consideration he has given to arrangements for the assessment for disability living allowance of people with autistic spectrum disorders...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will publish his Department's plan for the transition to the Work Programme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what definition of fit for work his Department uses; what proportion of assessment of claimants of employment and support allowance resulted in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effect of the closure of the independent living fund on the number of people requiring residential care.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on what occasions he has met the Northern Ireland Minister for Social Development since his appointment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Glasgow, (b) Scotland and (c) Great Britain participated in (i) New Deal programmes, (ii) the Flexible New Deal and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when the Financial Assistance Scheme values for the Norman Longley Pension scheme will be made available to members of that scheme.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average income was of those in the (a) bottom 90% (b) top five to 10% (c) top 1% to 5%. and (d) top 1% of income in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has for the funding of child poverty pilots after March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has for the future of the Remploy factory in Spennymoor; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the monetary value was of loans and grants from the Social Fund on (a) white goods and (b) bedding in (i) 2008-09 and (ii) 2009-10; and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment on the proposed benefit cap, how many people he expects to (a) have benefits capped and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment on the proposed benefit cap, what proportion of those who are to lose benefit under his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to his Department's impact assessment on welfare services and housing benefit, what safeguards he plans to establish to prevent...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many customers whose benefit entitlement was revised as a result of the trial reassessments of customers receiving incapacity benefit and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many buildings on his Department's estate were occupied by squatters in each year between 2006 and 2010; and on how many occasions his...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many families currently receiving child tax credit would be excluded from universal credit by the proposed capital rules; and whether their...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will publish his Department's estimates of the combined effects of (a) the proposed universal credit and (b) other announced changes in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether self-employed persons will be eligible for universal credit payments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost in 2011 prices of guaranteeing transitional protection to notional losers from the introduction of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what definition of change of circumstances will apply to determine whether claimants have transitional protection for universal credit after 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he plans to take to integrate the payments of universal credit and council tax benefit in the next four years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many claims for winter fuel payments were made by households in (a) Reading West constituency, (b) Reading and (c) Berkshire in each of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure Atos Healthcare has in place champions with additional expertise in mental, cognitive and intellectual...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether Atos Healthcare is subject to a financial penalty in the event that a claimant is found to have been incorrectly deemed fit for work...