Work and Pensions

written question – answered ar 14 Mawrth 2013.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

  • Access to Work Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people participating in (a) the Work programme and (b) Work Choice have received Access to Work support after finding employment in...

  • Carbon Monoxide: Alarms

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether information supplied by his Department to recipients of the (a) winter fuel payment and (b) cold weather payment states the importance...

  • Child Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much remains outstanding in child maintenance arrears in (a) Airdrie and Shotts and (b) Scotland in 2012.

  • Child Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what child support arrears are owed by non-resident parents to parents with care, by parliamentary constituency, in the most recent period for...

  • Community Care Grants: Kilmarnock

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was awarded in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency under each category of the community care grant in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.

  • Community Care Grants: Kilmarnock

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many items were awarded in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency under each category in the community care grant in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12.

  • Crisis Loans: Birmingham

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in each Birmingham borough received a crisis loan in each of the last three years.

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) whether existing claimants of disability living allowance will risk losing benefits if they fail to reapply for the personal independence...

  • Disability Living Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what safeguards are in place for existing claimants of disability living allowance who have to apply for the personal independence payment for...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his policy is on whether a claimant of employment and support allowance in the support group who is referred to the Work Choice scheme...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether a claimant of employment and support allowance in the support group who asks to be referred to Work Choice will have to claim...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether disability employment advisers are prohibited from referring a claimant of employment and support allowance in the support group to the...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what support is available to those in the support group of employment and support allowance who wish to voluntarily undertake employment support.

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance is given by his Department to disability employment advisers on situations in which people in the support group of employment and...

  • Employment and Support Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether claimants of employment and support allowance in the support group are able to be referred to a work psychologist.

  • Habitual Residence Test

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when his Department intends to introduce the new habitual residence test.

  • Habitual Residence Test

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what changes he plans to make to the habitual residence test for (a) citizens of the European Area entering the UK and (b) non-EU citizens...

  • Housing Benefit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether he has any plans to widen the definition of exempt accommodation in relation to support lodgings for housing benefit purposes.

  • Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his policy is on the exemption of families with severely disabled people from the social rented sector under-occupancy penalty.

  • Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what criteria will be used to determine eligibility for the hardship fund for the social rented sector under-occupancy penalty.

  • Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what criteria will be used to determine exemptions from the social rented sector under-occupancy penalty for (a) people with children with...

  • Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people who require full-time care and (b) households with severely disabled children that will...

  • Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Rotherham constituency (a) have been and (b) will be affected by the (i) housing benefit cap, (ii) social sector size...

  • Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people live in supported lodgings and are exempt for housing benefit purposes in (a) Garston and Halewood constituency, (b)...

  • Incapacity Benefit: Greater Manchester

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he expects the reassessment of individuals in Stalybridge and Hyde constituency in receipt of incapacity benefit to be complete.

  • Jobseeker's Allowance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether people who have had their jobseeker's allowance stopped as a result of missing a single adviser appointment and who are on hardship...

  • Members: Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he intends to reply to the letter dated 24 January 2013 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman) with regard...

  • Mobility

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the support available to disabled people who require a large wheelchair accessible vehicle and as such face...

  • Pensions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what appeals process exists for claimants who, when checking their pension entitlement, find that not all contributions that they have paid...

  • Remploy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average redundancy settlement paid to former Remploy workers has been.

  • Remploy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many former Remploy workers who wish to establish a social enterprise have received working capital from his Department as part of the...

  • Remploy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what arrangements have been made for the disposal of any specialised equipment in Remploy factories.

  • Social Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the guidance made available by (a) local authorities in England, (b) the Welsh Government and (c) the Scottish...

  • Social Fund: Wales

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent discussions he has had with Welsh Ministers on the devolution of the discretionary social fund.

  • Social Fund: Wales

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much funding has been allocated to the Welsh Government to administer the discretionary element of the social fund in each of the next five...

  • Social Fund: Wales

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will take steps to ensure that Jobcentre Plus staff in Wales are aware of the changes to the discretionary social fund to be administered...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 27 February 2013, Official Report, column 561W, on Social Security Benefits: Greater London, what the minimum (a)...

  • Social Security Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many claimants of (a) carer's allowance, (b) the middle rate of the care component of disability living allowance (DLA) and (c) the higher...

  • Social Security Benefits: Greater London

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 28 February 2013, Official Report, column 609W, on social security benefits: Greater London, how many of his...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) when the most recent gate review for the universal credit project was; at what stage of the gateway review process it applied; and what...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what contingency plans his Department has put in place in case of handling errors in universal credit assessments that result in underpayments...

  • Universal Credit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what impact assessments have been completed by his Department on the effects of the non-categorisation of supported lodging schemes as exempt...

  • Vacancies: North Yorkshire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the most recent job vacancy figures for Thirsk, Malton and Filey are.

  • Work Capability Assessment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effect of work capability assessments on the well-being of people who have a lifelong serious medical condition.

  • Work Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will review existing Work Programme contracts to provide added incentives to providers who achieve successful job outcomes with clients...

  • Work Programme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when support for participants who complete the full two years of the Work programme without finding a job will be put into place.