Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Food Banks: South EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) food banks there are, (b) donations made to food banks and (c) people who used foodbanks in (i) Slough and (b) the South East in 2024.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on the number food banks there are, nor the number of donations made to food banks in (i) Slough and (ii) the South East in 2024.Regional breakdowns of the number of individuals living in households that accessed a...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: DiscriminationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51925More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help end discrimination against disabled people.
Answer: I refer the Hon. member to the answer I gave on 5 February to PQ 27692.
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51922More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support young people in Slough into (a) employment, (b) education and (c) training.
Answer: As announced in the “Get Britain Working” White Paper, we are launching a new Youth Guarantee for all young people aged 18-21 in England to ensure that they can access quality training opportunities, an apprenticeship or help to find work. The Youth Guara...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: MenopauseDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51911More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that employers are supporting women managing menopause in the workplace.
Answer: On 18th October 2024 the Secretary of State for DWP appointed Mariella Frostrup as the new Menopause Employment Ambassador. The Menopause Employment Ambassador will work closely with employers across the country to improve workplace support for women expe...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: ComputersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the median age is of computers issued to officials in their Department.
Answer: The median age of computers issued to officials in DWP is 2 years.
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Premises: Assistance AnimalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33973More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has taken steps to record the number of access refusals to people accompanied by (a) guide and (b) assistant dogs from (i) businesses and (ii) services.
Answer: I am replying to this parliamentary question as I have responsibility for the Disability Unit which has overall policy responsibility for assistance dogs. The Disability Unit has not taken steps to record the number of access refusals of assistance dogs i...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness Premises: Assistance AnimalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has taken steps to increase public awareness of legislation relating to access rights for (a) guide and (b) other assistance dog owners.
Answer: The Equality Act 2010 places a general duty on businesses and service providers to make reasonable adjustments to allow disabled people, including people with assistance dogs, access to goods and services so they are not placed at a substantial disadvanta...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the level of fraud in the welfare system.
Answer: Fraud and error in the welfare system has reduced in recent years, from 4.0% in 2021/22 to 3.7% in 2023/24. This is still not good enough, so we are not resting. We agreed £8.6bn of savings at the Autumn Budget 2024, which is the biggest fraud and error p...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: DiscriminationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to help end discrimination against disabled people.
Answer: This Government is committed to creating a more inclusive society, ensuring disabled people receive the support they need and working with them so that their views and voices are at the heart of everything we do.Our Equality (Race and Disability) Bill wil...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27608More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's target response time is for correspondence from Rt hon. and hon. Members.
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions follows the Cabinet Office Guide to Handling Correspondence which is published on Gov.uk. This guide sets out how departments should respond to correspondence from elected officials. The department aims to respond with...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMobility Foundation: FinanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding her Department has provided the Mobility Foundation in each of the last five years; and for what purpose.
Answer: The Motability Foundation charity, which is independent of government, oversees Motability Operations in its delivery of the Motability Scheme. The Motability Scheme does not receive any direct funding from the Department for Work and Pensions. The Depart...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChild Benefit: SloughDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families in Slough constituency have been affected by the two-child benefit cap in each year since 2017.
Answer: The number of Universal Credit households affected by the two-child limit in the Slough parliamentary constituency in each year since 2019 is as follows. Month/Year Households affected by the two-child policyApril 2019 50April 2020 290April 2021 560April ...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: PolicyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how their Department defines strategy.
Answer: The definition is detailed in the Functional Standards Common Glossary, which is published on the gov.uk website.
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14674More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the average time taken to respond to hon. Members correspondence to her Department.
Answer: The Department attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence and keeps this under constant review. The Cabinet Office publishes statistics on Departmental performance which can be found on the gov.uk website and can be v...
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: Data ProcessingDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12976More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps they are taking to use (a) artificial intelligence and (b) data to help increase their Department's productivity.
Answer: DWP is committed to improving its productivity, including through artificial intelligence and effective use of data. The department is safely accelerating our use of AI to make a real difference for both employees and citizens. We test the feasibility of ...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure timely responses to Pension Credit applications.
Answer: The Department has secured funding for additional staffing to assist with the processing of the additional Pension Credit claims being made. The Department is significantly increasing the resource on Pension Credit to ensure it processes claims as quickly...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFood PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the level of food insecurity in (a) England and (b) the South East.
Answer: This government is committed to tackling poverty and reducing mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Statistics on the proportion of people living in food insecure households at regional level are published annually in the Households Below Average Inc...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: PublicityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of sending targeted letters directly to people who are potentially eligible to claim Pension Credit.
Answer: In November we will be writing to approximately 120,000 pensioners who are in receipt of Housing Benefit and who may also be eligible for, but not currently claiming, Pension Credit. We will be inviting these pensioners to claim Pension Credit by the 21 D...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
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