Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 16 May 2011.

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  • Attendance Allowance: Norwich City Council

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people were in receipt of attendance allowance in the Norwich city council local authority area in the latest period for which figures...

  • Asthma

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of cases of asthma caused by high exposure to flour within the baking industry.

  • Departmental Mobile Phones

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many officials in his Department are provided with mobile communication devices; and how much his Department spent on mobile telephones and...

  • Departmental Travel

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department has spent on ministerial travel by (a) ministerial car, (b) train, (c) bus, (d) commercial aircraft and (e) private...

  • Departmental Work Experience

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what advice his Department provides to those wishing to (a) work as an intern, (b) undertake a work experience placement and (c) work as a...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many responses he has received to his Department's consultation document on the reform of disability living allowance.

  • Employment Agencies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the number of recipients of employment and support allowance there would be in the (a) work related activity group and (b)...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the proportion of contributory employment and support allowance claimants in (a) the work-related activity group...

  • Employment Schemes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of the new Work programme contractors his Department estimates are planning to sub-contract to voluntary sector organisations in (a)...

  • Employment Schemes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what account his Department took of (a) price and (b) previous performance in the assessment of bids for contracts for the Work programme.

  • Employment: Private Sector

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the sustainability of the increase in the level of private sector employment which took place during the quarter...

  • Health: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what benefits are available to 16 to 18-year-olds with long-term health conditions who are (a) in employment, (b) unable to work as a result of...

  • Housing Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Denbighshire were in receipt of housing benefit in each of the last five years.

  • Industrial Accidents: Eyesight

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the policy of the Health and Safety Commission is on investigation by the Health and Safety Executive of each industrial accident that...

  • Jobcentre Plus

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department monitors the effectiveness of Jobcentre Plus centres in providing long-term employment.

  • Jobcentre Plus: Crimes of Violence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many assaults occurred at Jobcentre Plus establishments and their predecessor benefit offices in each year from 1997 to 2010.

  • Mortgages: Government Assistance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people whose claim for Support for Mortgage Interest ceased as a consequence of the rules on the two...

  • National Insurance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many national insurance numbers were (a) issued and (b) current in each year since 2007.

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what plans he has for the operation of the new housing element of state pension credit.

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether any future recipients of welfare payments to couples where one person is above the qualifying age for state pension credit and their...

  • Sick Leave

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the contribution to meeting his Department's planned efficiency savings which will be made by reducing sickness...

  • Social Security Benefits: Fraud

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many fines were issued for benefit fraud in each year since 2006; and how much was received from such fines in each such year.

  • Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate his Department has made of the likely effect of the cap on benefit entitlement on the financial incentives and disincentives for...

  • State Retirement Pensions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate his Department has made of the likely change in the number of people eligible to receive a state pension in each of the next 10 years.