Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 18 March 2011.

Alert me about debates like this

  • Child Tax Credit

    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...

  • Child Tax Credit

    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...

  • Cold Weather Payments: Care Homes

    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.

  • Crisis Loans

    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...

  • Crisis Loans

    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...

  • Crisis Loans

    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...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    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...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    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...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    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.

  • Disability Living Allowance: Care Homes

    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...

  • Disability Living Allowance: Autism

    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...

  • Employment Schemes

    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.

  • Fit for Work

    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...

  • Independent Living Fund

    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.

  • Minister for Social Development

    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.

  • New Deal Schemes and Future Jobs Fund

    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...

  • Pensions: Financial Assistance Scheme

    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.

  • Personal Income

    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...

  • Poverty: Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has for the funding of child poverty pilots after March 2011.

  • Remploy: Durham

    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.

  • Social Fund

    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...

  • Social Security Benefits

    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...

  • Social Security Benefits

    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...

  • Social Security Benefits

    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...

  • Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

    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...

  • Squatting

    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...

  • Universal Credit

    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...

  • Universal Credit

    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...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether self-employed persons will be eligible for universal credit payments.

  • Universal Credit

    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...

  • Universal Credit

    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.

  • Universal Credit: Council Tax Benefits

    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.

  • Winter Fuel Payments: Berkshire

    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...

  • Work Capability Assessment

    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...

  • Work Capability Assessment (1 annotation)

    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...