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| 2013 - Quarter 1 |
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| 28/03/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2013, Official Report, column 773W, on incapacity benefit, how many recipients of incapacity benefit have been referred to Work Choice in (a) Stalybridge and Hyde constituency and (b) Tameside Metropolitan Borough since May 2010. (149868)  | Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde
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| 22/03/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people under the age of 25 are currently in receipt of housing benefit by the smallest reporting unit and by gender with costs for each category. (147723) | Anne McGuire | Stirling
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| 22/03/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants for jobseeker's allowance have been sanctioned for non-compliance in the last 12 months; how many such people speak English as a second language; and how many such claimants had moved to jobseeker's allowance from income support or disability-related benefits. (146919) | Fiona McTaggart | Slough
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| 21/03/2013 | For each local authority for the last three financial years, what were the total amounts of unused Discretionary Housing Payment funding returned to the Government. | Lord German | HOUSE OF LORDS
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| 06/02/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged (a) 16, (b) 17, (c) 18, (d) 19, (e) 20, (f) 21, (g) 22, (h) 23 and (i) 24 years old were in receipt of housing benefit in each year since 1997; and what the annual cost to the Exchequer was of such payments. (140828) | Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire
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| 06/02/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2013, Official Report, column 656W, on work capability assessment, if he will list the number of people reassessed for each time period by medical condition. (141812) | Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West
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| 06/02/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2013, Official Report, column 656W, on work capability assessment, if he will list the number of people reassessed for each time period by medical condition. (141812) - Tables  | Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West
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| 29/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken is for his Department's decision makers to issue a decision to employment and support allowance claimants following receipt of advice from Atos healthcare in the most recent period for which data is available. (132942) | Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East
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| 23/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged 25 years or under claimed housing benefit; and what the total cost was of such claims in each of the last four years (135928). | David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds
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| 21/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire and (c) Scotland have been in receipt of out-of-work benefits for (i) one year, (ii) two years, (iii) three years, (iv) four years, (v) five years and (vi) 10 years. (131815) | Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West
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| 21/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for how many claimants of incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance the primary diagnosis included alcohol abuse, drug abuse or obesity in each financial year between 1997-98 and 2009-10; what the total cost of these benefits was in each year; and how many people with such a primary diagnosis had been claiming those benefits for five years or more. (130572) | Chris Skidmore | Kingswood
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| 21/01/2013 | To ask Her Majesty's Government: What estimate they have made of the number of adults under the age of 25 years who are in receipt of the severe disability premium. [HL3743] | Baroness Grey-Thompson | HOUSE OF LORDS
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| 21/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employment and support allowance and incapacity benefit reassessments were audited through the quality assurance framework (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of the total number of assessments carried out in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012 to date. (133313) | Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West
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| 21/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) Parkinson's disease and (b) progressive conditions have undergone multiple work capability assessments since the introduction of those assessments. [137370] | Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East
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| 21/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with (a) Parkinson's disease and (b) progressive conditions who have undergone multiple work capability assessments have received lower points scores when they have been reassessed. [137372] | Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East
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| 18/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of work capability assessment reassessments have taken place within (a) three months, (b) six months, (c) nine months, (d) 12 months, (e) 15 months, (f) 18 months and (g) more than 18 months of the claimant's previous work capability assessment. (133293) | Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
| 18/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how often on average people with (a) Parkinson's and (b) all progressive conditions are reassessed for their eligibility for enployment and support allowance. (137792) | Sheila Gilmore | Edinburgh East |
| 18/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments were successfully appealed in (a) Bethnal Green and Bow constituency, (b) Tower Hamlets, (c) London and (d) the UK as a proportion of the total number of assessments carried out in 2011-12. (136697) | Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow |
| 18/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has assessed the number of people (a) in each ward and (b) of each ethnicity who have been unemployed in Tower Hamlets for (i) six, (ii) 12 and (iii) 24 months. (136617) | Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow |
| 15/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people aged 25 years or under claimed housing benefit; and what the total cost was of such claims in each of the last four years (135928). | David Ruffley | Bury St Edmunds |
| 09/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2012, Official Report, column 388W, on the work capability assessment, what proportion of those work capability reassessments that took place within (a) three months, (b) six months, (c) nine months, (d) 12 months, (e) 15 months, (f) 18 months and (g) over 18 months of the initial assessment were for those in the (i) work-related activity group and (ii) support group. (134460) | Tom Greatrex | Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
| 09/01/2013 | To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work capability assessments received zero points on initial assessment and were passed on appeal in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many people received between zero and six points in a work capability assessment and were passed on appeal in that period. (133104) | Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire |
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