Rachel Reeves

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value is of payments made directly to landlords for universal credit claimants in (a) total and (b) each local authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments to universal credit claimants have been made direct to a landlord (a) in total and (b) in each local authority area to date.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claimants (a) in total and (b) in each local authority area have a housing cost element in their payment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants (a) in total and (b) in each local authority are in arrears on rent payments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of universal credit claimants who have a housing cost element in their payment (a) in total and (b) in each local authority area are in arrears on rent payment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of universal claimants who will be self-employed once universal credit is fully rolled out.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of his Department's procurement expenditure was awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises in (a) direct procurement and (b) indirect procurement spend in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many apprenticeships his Department and its agencies employed in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014; and how many he expects to employ in (i) 2015 and (ii) 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of his Department's contracts were awarded to small and medium- sized enterprises in (a) direct procurement spend and (b) indirect procurement spend in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 an...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the universal credit system will accept claims from those who are self-employed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how of his Department's contracts were awarded to small and medium sized enterprises in (a) direct procurement spend and (b) indirect procurement spend in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013; ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the IT system developed by his Department for universal credit will be fully operating; and when this system will start to be decommissioned to make way for the digital solution developed by the Ca...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the IT system being developed by his Department for universal credit will be fully operating.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in which (a) areas and (b) jobcentre plus offices universal credit will be available to couples in (i) June, (ii) July and (iii) August 2014.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2014, Official Report, column 174W, on universal credit, whether he has approved the Department for Work and Pensions' business case for the implementation of universal...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of the average claim for housing benefit made by those (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed was in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of housing benefit claimants were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of housing benefit paid to claimants who were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current total remuneration package is for the Chief Executive of HM Passport Office.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the business case for the universal credit programme.