To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of lone parent families subject to the benefit cap on Universal Credit have a child aged under 2 years old.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the statement by the Minister of Immigration on 21 June (HC Deb, cols 508–20) that vulnerable EU citizens applying for settled status will be provided with assistance at contact centres, whether comparable suppor...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to implement the recommendation in the Social Security Advisory Committee’s report Young People Living Independently, published in May, to extend the exemption for care leavers from the Shared Accommodatio...
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they conduct ethnic monitoring of social security benefits, including Universal Credit; and if so, whether this system collects data on the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the removal of non-asylum immigration cases from the scope of legal aid on young migrants with limited leave to remain.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to collect information on self-identified care leavers in the Universal Credit system in a way that would allow aggregate statistics to be compiled, as is the case for those claiming Jobseeker's ...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how long it takes for an asylum seeker to receive a decision on their application for section 4 support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999; if successful in their application, how soon they should receive that suppor...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 3 July (HL8777), how many Gypsy and Traveller Universal Credit applicants and claimants have been able to set up and manage their claims face-to-face or via the freepho...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the research by Women's Aid in its report Nowhere to Turn, published 4 July; and, in particular, of the number of victims of domestic abuse who were unable to access a refug...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of domestic abuse victims who are unable to access refuge services because they have no recourse to public funds.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that the Homeless Code of Guidance for Local Authorities clarifies that all individuals fleeing domestic abuse are in priority need, regardless of whether they have other forms of vulnera...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 6 June (HL Deb, cols 1303 and 1305), when the landlords consultative panel for the Right to Rent scheme will next meet; what plans they have to reconstitute the pan...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the rollout of Universal Credit on the Gypsy and Traveller communities, particularly in relation to the reliance on digital access.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what are their policy objectives for the Tier 1 investor visa scheme.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the research by the No Accommodation Network in its report Mind the Gap: Homelessness Amongst Newly Recognised Refugees, published on 26 May, that the 28 days move on period...
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Buscombe on 15 May (HL7464), what plans, if any, they have to (1) place in the Library of the House, and (2) publish, the findings of the recent exercise to monitor the impact of t...
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many registrations for British citizenship for children at a fee of £1,012 they anticipate processing in 2018–19; and how much they estimate (1) they will generate in revenue from such registrations, and (2) this will c...
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the concept of relative poverty.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likely impact of the compliant environment immigration policy on the roll-out of Universal Credit.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 29 March (HL6647), whether they will now publish the outcome of the Family Test Assessment on the policy to limit Tax Credits and Universal Credit support to two children.