Tommy Sheppard

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to ensure that people with incurable, chronic conditions do not undertake repeated fit-for-work assessments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has given to staff working for his Department on dealing with claimants with chronic, incurable diseases.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on (a) poor and (b) slow service at HM Passport Office in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the application processing timescale published by HM Passport Office for passport applications for children who are overseas.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 5 March 2014, Official Report, column 851W, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have died within six weeks of their benefits being stopped in each of th...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of extending the franchise in all elections to 16 and 17 year olds on voter turnout.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the financial and practical barriers experienced by asylum seekers who are resident in Scotland being required to attend Home Office appointments in England as part of t...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers resident in Scotland have been required to attend Home Office appointments in England as part of their asylum application in each of the last five calendar years; how many of t...