Written questions by Duncan-Jordan.

When his Department plans to publish updated estimates of the fiscal and economic return on investment generated by the Access to Work scheme.

Awaiting answer.

Whether his Department will make n assessment of the potential merits of increased reporting of Financial Investigation Unit decisions and variation outcomes by the Child Maintenance Service.

Awaiting answer.

What percentage of variation applications based on diversion of income by the Child Maintenance Service were successful in the last financial year.

Awaiting answer.

How many Child Maintenance Service cases were referred to the Financial Investigation Unit in the last financial year.

Awaiting answer.

How many variation applications based on diversion of income were received by the Child Maintenance Service in the last financial year.

Awaiting answer.

What the average investigation timescale is for referrals by the Child Maintenance Service to the Financial Investigation Unit.

Awaiting answer.

What analysis has been undertaken as to the reasons why the number of individuals claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP) has risen between 2020 and 2024.

Awaiting answer.

The number of individuals claiming a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for (a) autism as a sole condition and (b) autism as one of multiple conditions.

Awaiting answer.

What estimate he has made of the number of individuals claiming a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for (a) anxiety as a sole condition and (b) anxiety as one of multiple conditions.

Awaiting answer.

What analysis has been undertaken as to the reasons why the number of individuals claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP) has risen since July 2024.

Awaiting answer.

What is the cost of awarding Personal Independence Payments (PIP) to people with (a) ADHD as their sole condition and (b) ADHD as one of multiple conditions.

Awaiting answer.

Whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising the Universal Credit threshold for single parents that work.

Awaiting answer.

What steps his Department plans to take to provide additional practical support to lone parents.

As set out in our Child Poverty Strategy, this government recognises that the right employment support can help lone parents overcome complex barriers to work, increase their hours and earnings, and progress in work. That is why we are driving forward lab...

What assessment has been made of the potential impact of increasing the universal credit child element by £20 a week on child poverty levels.

Awaiting answer.

If he will issue guidance to pension funds on reducing investment in fossil fuels.

Pension fund investment decisions must remain grounded in fiduciary duty. Climate change is a financially material risk, and the existing regulatory framework ensures trustees assess and disclose climate-related risks, including those linked to fossil fue...

Whether he is taking steps to ensure that Job Centres promote the work of Evenbreak.

Awaiting answer.

Whether his Department has conducted an equality impact assessment of the sanctions regime on disabled people, single parents, and young adults.

The Department considers the impacts of conditionality and sanctions in line with the Public Sector Equality Duty, including impacts on disabled people, lone parents, young adults and households with children. The current Universal Credit sanctions regime...

What assessment his Department has made of the impact of benefit sanctions on households with children; and if he will publish the evidence base underpinning that assessment.

The Department considers the impacts of conditionality and sanctions in line with the Public Sector Equality Duty, including impacts on disabled people, lone parents, young adults and households with children. The current Universal Credit sanctions regime...

Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that food insecurity data informs cross government anti poverty strategy.

Robust data is crucial to inform cross government anti-poverty strategy and policy design. The Households Below Average Income and Family Resources (HBAI) publication provides annual high-quality official statistics which are used to track a range of meas...

If she will publish her Department’s analysis of food insecurity trends and the implications for children’s health and educational outcomes.

Statistics on the number of individuals living in food insecure households in the UK are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication, the latest available being  Households below average income: for financial years ending 1995 ...