Jonathan Ashworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department provides to local authorities on benefit help and advice to claimants who are losing access to the internet as a result of switching off 2G and 3G connections.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 187983 on Employment Schemes: Disability, for what reason the number of full-time equivalent disability employment advisers employed by his Department ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 2.7(m) of the minutes of the Social Security Advisory Committee meeting held on 25 January 2023, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of advice provided to the committ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference his Department's document entitled The gender pensions gap in private Pensions statistical release on 5 June 2023, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the gender pensions gap (a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Gender Pensions Gap in Private Pensions statistical release on 5 June 2023, whether his Department plans to publish regular updates to those statistics.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2023 to Question187662 on Universal Credit: Deductions, what the (a) number and (b) total amount of debts to the Government registered against Universal Credit household...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 187982 on Jobcentres: Staff, for what reason the number of full-time equivalent work coaches employed by his Department was lower in June 2023 than in ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 May 2023 to Question 186107 on Unemployment: Chronic Illnesses, whether his Department is undertaking further work to establish (a) whether and (b) to what extent there is a...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2023 to Question 188928 on Employment: Finance, if he will publish further details on what comprises (a) S032A001-Employment Programmes, (b) S032A074-Labour Market-Operational Deliv...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to use his Department's machine learning skills recommendation prototype on the gov.uk Find a Job website.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish (a) a list of the 20 Jobcentres trialing the use of artificial intelligence and (b) the evaluation of the trial once concluded.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department uses natural language processing to analyse communications from claimants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish a list of which benefit applications are (a) paper-based and (b) digital.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total number of young people aged 16 to 24 on Universal Credit with (a) limited capability for work and (b) limited capability for work and work-related activity was in (i) 2021-22 and (ii) 202...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of the people in the Universal Credit Intensive Work Search group were aged between 16 and 24 in total in financial year (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support is available to young jobseekers in the Universal Credit Intensive Work Search group who are referred to a Youth Hub which is not available to those accessing services through their local J...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish details on the sixty-five scaled and transitioned automations created by the Intelligence Automation Garage.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on the Youth Employment Programme in each financial year since it was launched; and how much his Department is forecast to spend on the Youth Employment Programme in (a) 20...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using artificial intelligence to help job seekers find employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) planned workforce and (b) budget is for the Intelligence Automation Garage.