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Lead member
Baroness Taylor of Bolton
Answering member
Baroness Shephard of Northwold
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Type
Business statements
Date
26 February 1998
Reference
307 c495-7
House
House of Commons
Lead member
Baroness Taylor of Bolton
Answering member
Baroness Shephard of Northwold
Department
Leader of the House of Commons
Type
Business statements
Date
15 January 1998
Reference
304 c485-7
House
House of Commons

If he will publish tables using the assumptions used in his answer to the honourable Member for Coventry South East on 19th February, Official Report, 167 columns 553-558W, but using expenditure and benefit figures appropriate for families in Great Britain, together with a column showing the extent of the differences...

Asked by
Michael Meacher (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 November 1990
Reference
181 c474W
House
House of Commons

If he will conduct a review of the social security provisions which are currently applied to refugees newly arrived in the United Kingdom. - No plans to do so.

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 November 1990
Reference
181 c237W
House
House of Commons

If he will increase the resources made available to publicise the availability of social security assistance available to refugees newly arrived in the United Kingdom.

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 November 1990
Reference
181 c237W
House
House of Commons

What savings are made to the social security budget by reducing income support available to asylum seekers. - None. The income support budget takes into account the provision for asylum seekers allowed under the rules.

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 November 1990
Reference
181 c237W
House
House of Commons

What is the estimated cost of sending out questionnaires to recipients of child benefit as a result of the benefit changes recently announced; and to what categories of recipients the questionnaires were sent. - Includes figure.

Asked by
Dennis Canavan (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 November 1990
Reference
181 c213W
House
House of Commons

What changes he intends to introduce to improve the levels of income support payable to 16 and 17 year olds.

Asked by
Paul Flynn (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
22 November 1990
Reference
181 c212-3W;181 c212W
House
House of Commons

What representations have been received by his Department with regard to the proposal to abolish housing benefit for residents of registered care homes.

Asked by
David Hinchliffe (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 November 1990
Reference
181 c59W;181 c58W
House
House of Commons

How many residents of registered care or nursing homes would have their entitlement to housing benefit ended as a result of the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1990; to assess the implications of the regulations for the residential security of those residents in registered residential care and nursing...

Asked by
David Hinchliffe (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 November 1990
Reference
181 c58-9W;181 c58W
House
House of Commons
What lessons he estimates may be learned from a study of other countries' systems of social security.
Asked by
Peter Thurnham (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
19 November 1990
Reference
181 c12-3
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Baroness Shephard of Northwold (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
19 November 1990
Reference
181 c12-3
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Baroness Shephard of Northwold (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
19 November 1990
Reference
181 c12-3
House
House of Commons

Whether he has any plans to further amend regulation 3 of the Income Support Regulations 1987 (SI 1967). - No current plans to do so.

Asked by
Lord Pendry (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 November 1990
Reference
180 c210W
House
House of Commons

Whether he has any plans to bring forward proposals to repeal or amend: (a) section 22(3) and (b) section 22(4) of the Social Security Act 1986 & any plans to repeal or amend paragraph 13, schedule 2, of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (SI 1967). - Inc figures.

Asked by
Lord Pendry (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 November 1990
Reference
180 c209W
House
House of Commons

If he will publish his latest estimates of the number of employees who will cease to qualify for the higher rate of statutory sick pay as a result of the recently announced changes to the scheme; and if he will show a breakdown of the figures for male and female...

Asked by
Lord Blunkett (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 November 1990
Reference
180 c65-6W
House
House of Commons

What his Department's Central Unit is doing to expedite the payment of housing benefit to women and children in refuges and to rectify the situation in those cases where underpayments have occurred; & how many complaints regarding problems with housing payment to women in refuges have been received by central...

Asked by
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 October 1990
Reference
178 c482W;178 c480-1W
House
House of Commons

If he will comment on consultations with the hostels sector on transitional protection payments for hostels from April 1991. - Includes ref to 177 c953W.

Asked by
Robin Squire (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 October 1990
Reference
178 c482W;178 c480W
House
House of Commons

What sums of money are being paid in hostel transitional protection payments by the Central Unit within his Department; how many hostels are in receipt of these payments; what arrangements he has agreed for dealing with these payments from 1st April 1991; and which organisations have been consulted. - Includes...

Asked by
Robin Squire (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 October 1990
Reference
178 c481-2W;178 c480W
House
House of Commons

How his Department's Central Unit will ensure that those refuges entitled to receive hostel transitional protection will receive it; & how hostel transitional protection compensatory payment is to be implemented when it becomes permanent funding from April 1991. - Includes ref to 177 c953W.

Asked by
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Social Security
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
30 October 1990
Reference
178 c482W;178 c480W
House
House of Commons