David Linden

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme received a decision in each month since August 2020; and what proportion of those decisions were approvals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme are awaiting decision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Glasgow East to the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work sent on 1 February 2022 and sent by email on 8 March 2022 an...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department will respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Glasgow East, emailed on 4 February 2 March and 22 March 2022, reference DL11285.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when his Department plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Glasgow East to the Minister for Afghan Resettlement, emailed on 1 February and 8 March 2022, reference DL...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the public update by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman of 18 February 2022 regarding its investigation into the way her Department communicated changes to women’s State Pe...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason documentation produced by her Department informs claimants of personal independence payments not to send in a supporting letter from their GP.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing repeat disability assessments for people with progressive conditions, such as multiple sclerosis.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 127516, on Cabinet Office: Newspaper Press, for what reasons that answer did not provide the date on which the article was cleared in draft with the No. 10 ...

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2022 to Question 127518, on Cabinet Office: Newspaper Press, for what reason ministerial correspondence emails were not provided as points of contact in the original article...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the report by NatCen Social Research on The Uses of Health and Disability Benefits.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will increase disability benefit payments in line with inflation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the rising cost of living on the adequacy of (a) personal independence payments and (b) universal credit for people with fluctuating conditions i...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the disability benefits assessment process for people with progressive and fluctuating conditions including Multiple Sclerosis.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the way his Department's plans to tax alcohol by product strength with the guidance of the Chief Medical Officer which does n...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies that a 4 per cent alcohol by volume pint of beer or cider contains more alcohol than a Scotch Whisky cocktail but raises less duty under his...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2021, what recent assessment she has made of the ability of the Social Security Advisory Committee to unde...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Benefit sanctions statistics to October 2021, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the absence of benefit sanction (a) decisions a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2022 to Question 122797 on Jobcentres: Staff, whether representatives of PCS Union were consulted on her Way to Work proposals before the policy was announced.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policy of the 20 February 2022 statement of the British Psychological Society expressing concern that the changes to policy announced as part of ...