Oral questions

What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of compensating 1950s-born women impacted by the maladministration of State Pension age changes.

What steps he is taking to improve his Department's response times.

What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing compensation to women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the State Pension age.

What steps he is taking to help increase the number of apprenticeships available to young people.

What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in resolving cases in a timely manner.

What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the proportion of Disability Living Allowance for children applications that have been approved by his Department within its target timeframes in the last two years.

Whether he plans to introduce curfew orders for parents who are non-compliant with child maintenance payments.

If his Department will review the adequacy of the treatment of redundancy payments by the Child Maintenance Service.

What assessment he has made of the adequacy of rates of Statutory Sick Pay.

What steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to try work without automatically triggering a benefits reassessment.

What assessment he has made of trends in the level of unemployment.

What steps his Department is taking to ensure that disabled people are able to try work without automatically triggering a benefits reassessment.

What recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report entitled Women’s State Pension age: our findings on injustice and associated issues, published on 21 March 2024.