David Linden

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to promote claiming pension credit in order to claim help towards the cost of glasses.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to promote claiming pension credit in order to receive free NHS dental treatment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to promote claiming pension credit, in order to receive support with council tax.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to increase pension credit uptake.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to promote the uptake of pension credit.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his definition is of the word discount in the context of his announcement on 4 February 2022 of a £200 repayable sum to be deducted from domestic energy bills.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2022 to Question 113818 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, what the evidential basis is on the effectiveness of sanctions to support her Department's ren...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2022 to Question 113818 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, whether her Department has commissioned further research into benefit sanctions.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2022 to Question 113818, whether the research found evidence that people affected by sanctions became destitute.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2022 to Question 113818 on Social Security Benefits: Disqualification, on what date the decision was made to withhold publication of the research; who was involved i...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place a copy of the minutes of the meeting between the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work and The Centre for Social Justice on 13 July 2021 in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to section 1.5.4 of the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, what steps she is taking to ensure that workers living in areas with lower access to jobs as a result of the local tra...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has conducted a review of the adequacy of the rate of Statutory Sick Pay since the introduction of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994, excluding the annual upratin...

To ask the Prime Minister, if he will make it his policy to establish a standing permanent select committee of the House to scrutinise his proposed Office of Prime Minister, as announced on 31 January 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department has not yet published its 2019 research on the effectiveness of benefit sanctions; and if she will place a copy of that research in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants are in the intensive work search group.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications have been made to the Kickstart scheme as of 14 January 2022; and of those applications how many (a) have been accepted, (b) have been refused due to suspected fraud, (c) have been...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish opening dates for each of her Department's confirmed temporary job centres.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the letter of 19 October 2021, reference DL10799, from the hon Member for Glasgow East.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the effects on benefit claimants of her Departments decision not to publish entitled The Uses of Health and Disability Benefits, commissioned by her Department from the...