Llun, 13 Mai 2024
The Secretary of State was asked—
What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the average time taken to decide the outcome of personal independence payment applications.
What steps he is taking to help fill job vacancies in St Austell and Newquay constituency.
What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in securing funds from paying parents.
What steps his Department is taking to increase the support available in jobcentres in South East Cornwall constituency.
What plans he has to increase levels of employment.
What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing compensation to women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the state pension age.
If he will make an estimate of the number of in-work universal credit claimants that have had payments stopped due to errors made by his Department in the last 12 months.
What recent estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in poverty.
What steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for Access to Work assessments.
What steps he is taking to help fill job vacancies in Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency.
What steps he is taking to reform the welfare system.
What steps his Department is taking to support people with autism into employment.
What steps his Department is taking to help reduce unemployment.
What steps his Department is taking to support pensioners.
What steps his Department is taking to support pensioners with increases in the cost of living.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
Before we begin the urgent question, I will make a short announcement about the House’s sub judice resolution. A coroner’s inquest has been opened into some of the deaths of men at...
I beg to move, That the draft Procurement Regulations 2024, which were laid before this House on 25 March, be approved. This statutory instrument represents a significant legislative step in...
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Thus far, I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to get a meeting with the Minister for roads and local transport, the hon. Member for Hexham (Guy...
I beg to move, That the draft Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2024, which were laid before this House on 16 April, be approved. I declare my farming interests,...
[Relevant documents: Oral evidence taken before the Procedure Committee on 18 December 2023, on Commons scrutiny of Secretaries of State in the House of Lords, HC 338, Qq15-22 and 48-54;...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mike Wood.)
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