Department for Work and Pensions

written question – answered on 10 February 2020.

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  • Social Security Benefits: Northumberland

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much has been paid in working-age benefits to claimants in (a) Wansbeck constituency and (b) postcode areas (i) NE61, (ii) NE62, (iii)...

  • Bereavement Support Payment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Work and Pensions Select Committee report on Bereaved Support Payments, published on 22 October 2019, what the expected...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether funding is available to existing universal credit claimants to pay for childcare so that they are not required to pay up front and...

  • Carers: Unpaid Work

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessments he has made of the adequacy of financial support available from the public purse for unpaid carers.

  • Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending her Department's requirements on the use of audio recording equipment to make...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value is of child maintenance debts her Department (a) has written off and (b) estimates will be written off in (i) Scotland and (ii)...

  • Housing Benefit: Foster Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many foster carers are subject to the spare room subsidy in England and Wales.

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential incentive for mixed-aged couples to live alone as a result of the changes to pension credit...

  • Pension Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to increase the number of people claiming pension credit in the last 12 months; and what progress she has...

  • Personal Independence Payment: Vulnerable Adults

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the personal independence payment assessment process in (a) identifying the most...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants have moved into employment since the roll out-of universal credit in each year for which figures are available.

  • Buildings: Disability

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 in relation to levels of disabled access to Centres...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to ensure that claimants who are found to be eligible for employment support allowance but don't receive...

  • Disability Living Allowance: Older People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to exempt people of state pension age in receipt of disability living allowance from further reassessments for...

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, under what circumstances a deduction of earnings order under the Child Maintenance Service is no longer appropriate.

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will extend the powers that are available to the Child Maintenance Service for the collection of child maintenance.

  • Children: Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims from a non-resident parent for a recalculation of child maintenance as a result of a change in the income of that parent were...

  • Disability

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2020 to Question 10758 on EnAble Fund for Elected Office, when her Department plans to publish its...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what circumstances the Independent Serious Case Panel is instigated.

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who sits on the Independent Serious Case Panel.

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes the Independent Serious Case Panel uses when investigating cases.