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Oral questions

27 October 2025 at 2:30pm

Department for Work and Pensions

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.
Liberal Democrat, Newbury
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.
Liberal Democrat, Carshalton and Wallington
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.
Labour, Derby South
3. UIN 906003: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to support people with health conditions into work.
Labour, Exeter
4. UIN 906004: tabled on 21 October 2025
How many people are in receipt of Carer’s Allowance.
Liberal Democrat, Winchester
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.
Labour, Dulwich and West Norwood
6. UIN 906006: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to support young people into employment, education or training.
Labour, Bathgate and Linlithgow
7. UIN 906007: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to reduce the number of children in poverty.
Scottish National Party, Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
8. UIN 906008: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to improve the Access to Work scheme.
Labour, Battersea
9. UIN 906009: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to ensure that skills provision meets the needs of employers.
Liberal Democrat, Thornbury and Yate
10. UIN 906010: tabled on 21 October 2025
What changes have been made to the Access to Work scheme in this parliamentary session.
Liberal Democrat, Newton Abbot
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.
Labour, Llanelli
12. UIN 906012: tabled on 21 October 2025
What assessment he has made of trends in the level of child poverty in Cornwall.
Liberal Democrat, North Cornwall
13. UIN 906013: tabled on 21 October 2025
What recent progress he has made on establishing the Youth Guarantee trailblazer scheme.
Labour, Glasgow West
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.
Liberal Democrat, Eastbourne
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.
Liberal Democrat, North Shropshire
16. UIN 906016: tabled on 21 October 2025
What steps he is taking to support people with health conditions into work.
Labour, South Shields
23. UIN 906023: tabled on 21 October 2025
Labour, Monmouthshire
1. UIN 906026: tabled on 21 October 2025
Labour, Crawley
2. UIN 906028: tabled on 21 October 2025
Labour, Cramlington and Killingworth
3. UIN 906029: tabled on 21 October 2025
Liberal Democrat, Glastonbury and Somerton
4. UIN 906030: tabled on 21 October 2025
Liberal Democrat, North Shropshire
5. UIN 906031: tabled on 21 October 2025
Labour, Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme
6. UIN 906032: tabled on 21 October 2025
Labour, Kensington and Bayswater
7. UIN 906033: tabled on 21 October 2025
Liberal Democrat, Eastleigh
8. UIN 906034: tabled on 21 October 2025
Labour, Coatbridge and Bellshill
9. UIN 906035: tabled on 21 October 2025