Question follow-through · 17669

Jobcentres and Universal Credit: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 15704 on Jobcentres and Universal Credit: Telephone Services, what the costs were to her Department of translation and interpretation for each langu

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
3 Dec 2024
Target answer date
5 Dec 2024
Answer
11 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 15704 on Jobcentres and Universal Credit: Telephone Services, what the costs were to her Department of translation and interpretation for each langu

  2. 5 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Further to our previous answer to Question 15704, we are unable to provide a full response to this follow up question. Following consultation with the supplier we consider the release of the specific costing information requested would prejudice commercia...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to provide a breakdown of all religious festivals celebrated by the Department in 2023.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Fraud: Criminal Investigation

4 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her Department's policy not to initiate fraud investigations under £5,000 on public finances.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Refugees: Universal Credit

6 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2024 to Question 16633 on Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom of Information, if he will publish a breakdown of refugees in receipt of Universal Credit in 2023

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Refugees: Employment and Social Security Benefits

6 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of refugees are (a) employed, (b) unemployed, (c) in receipt of Universal Credit and (d) in receipt of other social security benefits.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Work and Pensions: Training

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish a list of companies contracted by her Department to undertake training for staff.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Work and Pensions: Occupational Health

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff employed by her Department are responsible for staff welfare; and whether her Department has any contracts with external organisations for staff welfare services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pension Service

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contacts to the Pension Service there were in each month of the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

State Retirement Pensions: Death

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of pension payments made to deceased recipients in each of the last ten years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Department for Work and Pensions: Equality

18 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of officials in her Department were hired via positive action schemes in the last financial year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Social Security Benefits: Convictions

7 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people convicted for their involvement in Pakistani heritage grooming gangs were in receipt of (a) Universal Credit and (b) another benefit when they committed their crimes.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Personal Independence Payment: Refugees

28 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many refugees were in receipt of Personal Independence Payment in each of the last five years; and what the cost to the public purse was.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Social Security Benefits: Migrant Workers

29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of low skilled migrants' entitlement to benefits on the public purse.