Jonathan Ashworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Health and Disability White Paper, CP 807 published on 15 March 2023, (a) what plans he has to introduce a 'tell us once' service for DWP communications and (b) when he expects to ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published on 15 March 2023, when the new advice and information service for employers to support ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Health and Disability White Paper published 15 March 2023, what new support is being tested under the pilot Access to Work enhanced package; and how long that pilot is expected to last.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people received support from the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service in each of the last five financial years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper, published on 15 March 2023, how he will test the use of financial incentives to encourage employe...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish a regional breakdown of the number of people receiving (a) Employment and Support Allowance and (b) the health-related elements of Universal Credit who do not receive Personal Indepen...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the (a) demographic and (b) socio-economic characteristics of people receiving (i) Employment and Support Allowance and (ii) the health-related elements of Universal Credi...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 75 of HM Treasury's Spring Budget 2023 document HC 1183, whether he will publish further details of the costs associated with the policy to pay Universal Credit childcare support ...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an equalities impact assessment of the proposal to end Work Capability Assessments and remove the Limited Capability for Work Related Activity element from Universal Cred...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish further details on the Universal Support programme announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Spring Budget 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of households eligible to receive the second Cost of Living Payment 2022 that have not received it as of 15 March 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that the child element of Universal Credit and associated entitlement for all children is not withheld when verification is pending for one child.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on correcting the automated process to add Universal Credit claimant's data to their state pension records; and when that process will be completed.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls were made to the Universal Credit hotline in the last month; how many of those calls were answered; and what the average waiting time was for a call to be answered.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the gender pension gap.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, as of 10 March 2023, how many people identified as having been underpaid with respect to their State Pension have died before repayments were made.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the average cost associated with overturning an ESA decision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people his Department estimates will be eligible for payments due to an underpayment of the State Pension as of 10 March 2023; and what the average underpayment is.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to identified cases of State Pension underpayment, what is the total amount to be repaid outstanding as of 10 March 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about his Department have been received in each month since 1 January 2020; and how many of those complaints have been referred to the Independent Case Examiner.