What I’m doing in Parliament - Seema Malhotra MP

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department is providing for universal credit claimants to undertake courses to reskill.

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's planned expenditure on staff costs for 2020-21 as listed on page 170 of her Department's Annual Report and...

Unemployment

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her latest estimate is of the (a) job vacancy rate and (b) unemployment rate in each region and nation of the UK.

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department’s policy is from 1 July 2020 on applying benefit sanctions for claimants who have been assessed as failing to comply...

Social Security Benefits

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department’s policy is on length of time to be allocated to benefit claimants for (a) first claimant commitment interviews, (b)...

Economic Update

Commons debates

I am genuinely surprised that the Chancellor has not today brought forward a flexible furlough scheme for aviation, which he knows will have a longer recovery tail. I hope that, as he keeps in...

Jobcentres: Staff

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the ratio of work coaches to work coach managers at jobcentres in each year since 2013.

Coronavirus: Children

Department of Health and Social Care

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on home visiting community phlebotomy for children with serious health conditions which require them to...

Unemployment: Coronavirus

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support local authorities to introduce employment strategies in response to covid-19 related unemployment.

Employment Schemes: Young People

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what changes she has made to the Youth Obligation Support Programme in response to the covid-19 outbreak; and what employment support her...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what consultation her Department is undertaking with (a) unions, (b) job centres and (c) staff on re-introducing the universal credit...

Universal Credit

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of (a) the number of additional full-time equivalent (i) staff and (ii) work coaches her Department would require...

Employment Schemes: Young People

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on the Youth Obligation Support Programme in the 2019-20 financial year; how many young people entered the Youth...

Employment

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Department for Work and Pensions Committee report, DWP's response to the coronavirus outbreak,...

Supporting Employment After Covid-19

Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra made a speech in the House of Commons

New analysis suggests that up to 1 million people could be added to the current jobless total unless more support is provided from August, with sectors like aviation being harder hit. We have...

Schools: Sports

Department for Education

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has for the funding of school sport in the academic year 2020-21.

Actors and Theatres: Coronavirus

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support he is providing to (a) self-employed actors and (b) theatres who lost income as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

Jobcentres: Staff

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many additional work coaches she plans to recruit by September 2020.

Universal Credit: Ethnic Groups

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2020 to Question 55987, what information her Department holds on the ethnicity of universal credit...

Unemployment

Department for Work and Pensions

Seema Malhotra received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support for searching for work her Department is providing to jobseekers.