Work and Pensions (including Topical Questions)
MPs question a government minister
This is a routine oral questions session for the Department for Work and Pensions, where MPs can question the Secretary of State and ministers on departmental matters including welfare policy, employment support, and related social security issues. Topical questions allow MPs to raise urgent, current issues affecting working people and benefit claimants.
The Work and Pensions Department oversees welfare spending (the largest area of government expenditure), employment support, and pensioner benefits. These sessions enable parliamentary scrutiny of policies affecting millions of UK workers, unemployed people, disabled people, and pensioners, and allow MPs to raise constituent concerns about benefit access and employment rights.
35 questions
What steps he is taking to improve his Department's response times to correspondence.
Adam DanceLiberal DemocratsYeovil
Afzal KhanWhat steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to try work without automatically triggering a benefits reassessment.
Ben ColemanLabourChelsea and FulhamWhether he plans to introduce curfew orders for parents who are non-compliant with child maintenance payments.
Dr Kieran MullanConservativeBexhill and BattleWhat steps he is taking to support young people with special educational needs and disabilities into employment.
Gregory StaffordConservativeFarnham and BordonIf he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory right to food for people in poverty.
Ian ByrneLabourLiverpool West DerbyWhat assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in resolving cases in a timely manner.
Iqbal MohamedIndependentDewsbury and BatleyWhat steps he is taking to help increase the number of apprenticeships available to young people.
James AsserLabourWest Ham and BecktonWhat recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of compensating 1950s-born women impacted by the maladministration of State Pension age changes.
James MacClearyLiberal DemocratsLewesWhat recent progress he has made on the expansion of Youth Hubs.
Jeff SmithLabourManchester WithingtonWhat 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.
Jim ShannonDemocratic UnionistStrangfordWhat recent progress the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment has made on its programme of work.
Kim JohnsonLabourLiverpool RiversideWhether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of publishing levels of welfare spending on foreign nationals by benefit type.
Lee AndersonReform UKAshfieldWhat assessment he has made of trends in the level of unemployment.
Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeFyldeWhat steps his Department is taking to support young people into employment, education or training.
Mr Bayo AlabaLabourSouthend East and RochfordWhat steps he is taking to support young people into employment, education or training.
Sarah EdwardsLabourTamworthWhat assessment he has made of the adequacy of the proportion of Disability Living Allowance for children applications that have been approved by his Department within its target timeframes in the last two years.
Sarah OlneyLiberal DemocratsRichmond ParkWhat recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, published on 21 March 2024.
Seamus LoganScottish NationalAberdeenshire North and Moray EastWhat steps he is taking to help ensure that disabled people can stay in employment.
Siân BerryGreen Party of England and WalesBrighton PavilionWhat steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to process Access to Work claims.
Tom GordonLiberal DemocratsHarrogate and KnaresboroughWhat steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to try work without automatically triggering a benefits reassessment.
Tom RutlandLabourEast Worthing and ShorehamWhat steps he is taking to improve his Department's response times.
Vikki SladeLiberal DemocratsMid Dorset and North PooleWhat steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to process Access to Work claims.
Wendy ChamberlainLiberal DemocratsNorth East FifeWhat assessment he has made of the adequacy of rates of Statutory Sick Pay.
Yuan YangLabourEarley and WoodleyIf his Department will review the adequacy of the treatment of redundancy payments by the Child Maintenance Service.
Zöe FranklinLiberal DemocratsGuildford
Charlie Dewhirst
Dr Roz Savage
Lorraine Beavers
Matt Bishop
Mr Lee Dillon
Patrick Hurley
Rachel Blake
Rupert Lowe
Steve Yemm
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