Substantive questions at 2:30pm (17)
What assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department’s policies of the report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies entitled How do people already out of employment fare when the state pension age rises, published on 17 September 2025.
1. UIN 906001: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps his Department is taking to assess the effectiveness of the Access to Work scheme in helping to enable long-term career progression for disabled people.
2. UIN 906002: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that post-16 education provides the necessary skills to support the economy.
3. UIN 906003: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to support people with health conditions into work.
4. UIN 906004: tabled on 21 October 2025
How many people are in receipt of Carer’s Allowance.
5. UIN 906005: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that post-16 education provides the necessary skills to support the economy.
6. UIN 906006: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to support young people into employment, education or training.
7. UIN 906007: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce the number of children in poverty.
8. UIN 906008: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to improve the Access to Work scheme.
9. UIN 906009: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to ensure that skills provision meets the needs of employers.
10. UIN 906010: tabled on 21 October 2025
What changes have been made to the Access to Work scheme in this parliamentary session.
11. UIN 906011: tabled on 21 October 2025
If he will take legislative steps to ensure that companies who previously provided indexation of pension rights accrued before April 1997 but have since lapsed, reintroduce indexation from April 2026.
12. UIN 906012: tabled on 21 October 2025
What assessment he has made of trends in the level of child poverty in Cornwall.
13. UIN 906013: tabled on 21 October 2025
What recent progress he has made on establishing the Youth Guarantee trailblazer scheme.
14. UIN 906014: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps his Department is taking to ensure that benefit sanctions are proportionate when considering neurodiverse claimants.
15. UIN 906015: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to help tackle the potential impact of the lack of indexation on pre-1997 pensionable service in defined benefit pension schemes on people affected.
16. UIN 906016: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to support people with health conditions into work.
23. UIN 906023: tabled on 21 October 2025
Topical questions at 3:15pm (9)
1. UIN 906026: tabled on 21 October 2025
2. UIN 906028: tabled on 21 October 2025
3. UIN 906029: tabled on 21 October 2025
4. UIN 906030: tabled on 21 October 2025
5. UIN 906031: tabled on 21 October 2025
6. UIN 906032: tabled on 21 October 2025
7. UIN 906033: tabled on 21 October 2025
8. UIN 906034: tabled on 21 October 2025
9. UIN 906035: tabled on 21 October 2025
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