Oral Questions to the Secretary of State for Social Security |
*1 |
Mr Keith Simpson (Mid Norfolk): What plans she has to link state pensions to whichever of prices or earnings is rising faster. |
| (23052) |
*2 |
Mr Bill Rammell (Harlow): If she will make a statement on the progress of the review of pensions. |
| (23053) |
*3 |
Mr Huw Edwards (Monmouth): How many families are in receipt of family credit in (a) Monmouthshire and (b) Wales. |
| (23054) |
*4 |
Mr Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East): What estimate she has made of future income inequality rates amongst pensioners. |
| (23055) |
*5 |
Ms Margaret Moran (Luton South): What plans she has to take action to reduce the numbers of false national insurance numbers in circulation. |
| (23056) |
*6 |
Mr Richard Allan (Sheffield, Hallam): What estimate she has made of the number of new applicants for lone parent benefits from Yorkshire in the year beginning April 1998. |
| (23057) |
*7 |
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich): What was the average payment of maternity grant to mothers in the Crewe and Nantwich constituency in (a) 1996-97, (b) 1995-96 and (c) 1994-95; and how many received sums of £15,000 to £20,000. |
| (23058) |
*8 |
Ms Dari Taylor (Stockton South): What plans she has to increase the pension entitlement of women. |
| (23059) |
*9 |
Mr Robert Key (Salisbury): What plans she has to change the status of actors with respect to national insurance contributions. |
| (23060) |
*10 |
Mrs Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside): If she will make a statement on her plans to help pensioners with their fuel bills. |
| (23061) |
*11 |
Helen Jones (Warrington North): What proposals she has to tackle organised landlord benefit fraud. |
| (23062) |
*12 |
Mrs Virginia Bottomley (South West Surrey): If she will make a statement on the future of child benefit. |
| (23063) |
*13 |
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North): If she will make a statement on proposed changes to disability benefits. |
| (23064) |
*14 |
Mr Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside): How much extra money will be provided for payments to pensioners for heating in the current financial year; and if she will make a statement. |
| (23065) |
*15 |
Mr Don Foster (Bath): When she expects to announce the outcome of the pensions review. |
| (23066) |
*16 |
Mr John Swinney (North Tayside): How many pensioners have received the additional payments for winter fuel bills announced by the Chancellor in the Budget; when he expects that all pensioners eligible will have received this payment; and if he will make a statement. |
| (23067) |
*17 |
Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden): If she will make a statement on the planned meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in March. |
| (23068) |
*18 |
Mr John Wilkinson (Ruislip-Northwood): What plans she has to make payment of the state old age pension subject to a test of the recipient's means. |
| (23069) |
*19 |
Christine Russell (City of Chester): If she will report progress on welfare reform with particular reference to disability benefits. |
| (23070) |
*20 |
Ms Beverley Hughes (Stretford and Urmston): What plans the Ministers for Women have to introduce measures to tackle violence against women. |
| (23071) |
*21 |
Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington): What plans she has to change the current arrangements for maternity benefit; and if she will make a statement. |
| (23072) |
*22 |
Mr David Amess (Southend West): If she will make a statement on her plans for the reform of disability benefits. |
| (23073) |
*23 |
Ms Patricia Hewitt (Leicester West): What estimate she has made of the number of women currently in employment who would not qualify for maternity pay. |
| (23074) |
*24 |
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Chorley): What estimate she has made of (a) the number of women in the UK on a salary of over £100,000 and (b) the annual cost which they impose on the welfare budget. |
| (23075) |
*25 |
Mr Stephen Timms (East Ham): What action the Government is taking to help the least well-off pensioners. |
| (23076) |
*26 |
Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South): If she will make a statement on the Government's proposals to tackle organised landlord fraud. |
| (23077) |
*27 |
Mr Gerald Howarth (Aldershot): What plans she has to review the working of child benefit. |
| (23078) |
*28 |
Mr Richard Page (South West Hertfordshire): How many women did not name the father of the child on the birth certificate in the last year for which figures are available. |
| (23079) |
*29 |
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold): What plans she has to apply an affluence test to the basic state pension. |
| (23080) |
*30 |
Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North): If she will take steps to link the calculation of the state pension to average earnings. |
| (23081) |
*31 |
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby): What assessment she has made of the merits of subjecting the state pension to a means test. |
| (23082) |
*32 |
Norman Baker (Lewes): When the Minister of State for Social Security and Welfare Reform plans to publish his report on welfare reform. |
| (23083) |
*33 |
Mr Stephen Day (Cheadle): By how much he estimates lone parents will be better off in work than on benefits following reform of their benefit entitlement. |
| (23084) |
*34 |
Mr Malcolm Chisholm (Edinburgh North and Leith): What assessment she has made of the effect of lone parent benefit reductions on the New Deal for Lone Parents. |
| (23085) |
*35 |
Mr Matthew Taylor (Truro and St Austell): What reviews of disability benefit her Department has undertaken since 1st May. |
| (23086) |
*36 |
Mr Shaun Woodward (Witney): How participation in the Welfare to Work scheme will affect the status of those claiming disability living allowance. |
| (23087) |
*37 |
Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay): What are the latest estimated costs of the disability benefits integrity projects; and if she will make a statement. |
| (23088) |
*38 |
Mr Ian Davidson (Glasgow, Pollok): If she will make a statement on the available penalties for fraud in the benefit system. |
| (23090) |
*39 |
Dr Julian Lewis (New Forest East): What plans she has to reform child benefit. |
| (23091) |
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