Department for Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 29 January 2018.

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  • Universal Credit: Northern Ireland

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the implementation in parts of Northern Ireland of universal credit; and if she...

  • Employment and Support Allowance: Parkinson's Disease

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that those diagnosed with Parkinson's disease are not declared as having a condition which is...

  • Employment and Support Allowance: Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have (a) applied for and (b) received employment and support allowance for inflammatory bowel disease in each year since 2010.

  • Employment and Support Allowance: Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with inflammatory bowel disease applied for mandatory reconsideration of their claim for employment support allowance in each...

  • Social Security Benefits: Appeals

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people waited (a) less than one month, (b) less than two months, (c) less than three months, (d) less than four months, (e) less than...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what written guidance is available to decision-makers to determine applications on universal credit payments being split between members of...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria are applied to decide whether a claimant can have a home assessment for (a) employment and support allowance, (b) personal...

  • Jobcentres: Sign Language

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobcentre staff hold a level 2 British Sign Language qualification.

  • Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Written Statement of 19 January 2018, HCWS414, whether applicants will be entitled to a reassessment if they were given the...

  • Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 19 January 2018, HCWS414, what the timetable is for claimants to be informed if they are entitled...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many additional child maintenance payments were made after investigations by HMRC in each year since 2010.

  • Employment Schemes: Disability

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many businesses have signed up to the Disability Confident scheme.

  • Jobcentres: Local Government

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department estimates it will save by co-locating Jobcentres in local authority premises.

  • Universal Credit: Payments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to reduce the time taken to make payments of universal credit.

  • Universal Credit: Homelessness

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2017 to Question 110143, on how many occasions homeless claimants have had their work search and work...

  • Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential link between the sanctions regime and the mental health and wellbeing of individuals;...

  • Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to mitigate the effect of welfare sanctions on people's mental health and well-being.

  • Social Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2018 to Question 121721, on social fund, if she will place a copy of the 2014 review in the Library;...

  • Social Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on levels of financial and in-kind support provided to low-income families in different local...

  • State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether UK state pensions will be uprated after the UK leaves the EU for (a) UK citizens of pension age who currently live in an EU country...

  • Attendance Allowance and Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to change the application processes for personal independence payment and attendance allowance to allow third parties to...

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to her oral contribution of 23 January 2018, what the evidential basis is for her statement that the Government is spending more on...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2018 to Question 123035, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of introducing an automated...

  • Children: Poverty

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of recent changes in welfare provision on the number of children living in poverty in Oldham West...

  • Department for Work and Pensions: Credit Unions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to offer payroll deduction services for credit union membership to all her Department's employees; and if she will make a...

  • Personal Independence Payment: North West Durham

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of personal independence payment there are in North West Durham constituency.

  • Personal Independence Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people who had a lifetime award for disability living allowance have had a reduction in the amount they are entitled to as...

  • Personal Independence Payment: Motability

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people have had their Motability car removed after being transferred from disability living allowance to personal...

  • Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people claiming personal independence payment that have mental health conditions.

  • Social Security Benefits: Disability

    To ask Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to the hon. Member for St Helen's South and Whiston of 15 December 2017,...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans she has to collate and publish data relating to employment support allowance similar to that which is made available on personal...