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447302

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women born between 6 April and 5 December 1953 will be affected by the increase to the state pension age under the provisions of the Pension Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	24024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Of the group stated in the question only women born on or after 6 April 1953 are affected by the changes in State Pension age in the 2011 Pensions Act.</p><p>The faster increase to 65 under the Pensions Act 2011 affect an estimated 230,000 women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. This figure, rounded to the nearest 10,000, is for Great Britain and is based on DWP calculations using ONS statistics.</p><p>During the passage of the Pensions Bill 2011 the Government tabled an amendment so that the maximum delay to State Pension age relative to the previously legislated timetable that any individual faced was 18 months. This amendment affected people born between 6 January 1954 and 5 September 1954. The analysis accompanying this amendment is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/182066/pensions-bill-spa-info.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/182066/pensions-bill-spa-info.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 23847 question first answered 28/01/2016 17:06:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

447303

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Cardiff South and Penarth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have been affected by the under-occupancy penalty in Cardiff South and Penarth constituency in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	24026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Information concerning how many people have been affected by the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy in Cardiff South and Penarth constituency in each of the last 12 months is published and can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 12:51:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

447304

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland will receive a reply to his letter of 14 December 2015 addressed to Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	23842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Permanent Secretary replied to the hon. Member on 28 January 2015.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:34:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

447305

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what modelling his Department has undertaken on potential transitional arrangements for women born in the period 1951 to 1953 who are affected by accelerated equalisation of the state pension age; and if he will publish the results of any such modelling.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	23847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Of the group stated in the question only women born on or after 6 April 1953 are affected by the changes in State Pension age in the 2011 Pensions Act.</p><p>The faster increase to 65 under the Pensions Act 2011 affect an estimated 230,000 women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. This figure, rounded to the nearest 10,000, is for Great Britain and is based on DWP calculations using ONS statistics.</p><p>During the passage of the Pensions Bill 2011 the Government tabled an amendment so that the maximum delay to State Pension age relative to the previously legislated timetable that any individual faced was 18 months. This amendment affected people born between 6 January 1954 and 5 September 1954. The analysis accompanying this amendment is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/182066/pensions-bill-spa-info.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/182066/pensions-bill-spa-info.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 24024 question first answered 28/01/2016 17:06:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

447306

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of adults with autism are in full-time employment; and what steps his Department is taking to help adults on the autism spectrum into work.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	23990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Government does not collect data specifically on employment rates for people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC).</p><p>Estimates are available from the National Autistic Society (NAS), who suggest that 15% of working age people with autism are in full time employment.</p><p>Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is taking a number of steps to help adults on the autism spectrum into work, including:</p><ul><li>the development of an Autism/ Hidden Impairment Network across Jobcentre Plus;</li><li>the expansion of the Access to Work Mental Health specialist advisory team to cover people with autism and associated hidden impairment conditions;</li><li>work to implement autism specific opportunities on LMS, Jobcentre Plus’s IT system;</li><li>the introduction of a Job-Shadowing Work Placement Initiative for young disabled people (65% of participants in the first tranche had autistic spectrum conditions)</li><li>The formation of an Autism Taskforce involving disability organisations and disabled people.</li></ul><p>DWP has worked in close partnership with the Hidden Impairment National Group (HING) to produce an ‘Uncovering Hidden Impairments’ toolkit, which helps employers to recruit and retain people with hidden impairment conditions.</p><p>DWP is fully committed to the Government’s Autism Strategy. The latest progress report on the Autism Strategy can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-report-on-strategy-for-adults-with-autism" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/progress-report-on-strategy-for-adults-with-autism</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:08:10 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

447335

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Supported Housing: Local Housing Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what savings to the Exchequer are expected by capping the cost of Local Housing Allowance for people living in sheltered and supported housing.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	24048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:07:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

447338

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Discretionary Housing Payments: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of what proportion of the difference between the local housing allowance rate and the actual cost of rent and service charge in supported and sheltered housing will be met by discretionary housing payments in (a) Birmingham and (b) England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	24029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:10:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

447443

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department makes available for people who are returning to work after a period of ill health.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	24075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has developed Fit for Work to help people who are returning to work after a period of ill health. Fit for Work provides both a supportive occupational health assessment and general health and work advice to employees, employers and General Practitioners (GPs), to help individuals stay in or return to work.</p><p>People who have been unemployed due to ill health may be also eligible for support from a number of other programmes, including:</p><br /><ul><li>Work Choice, which is a specialist disability employment programme that provides tailored support for disabled people who face barriers to finding and retaining work</li></ul><br /><ul><li>Specialist Employability Support (SES), which was launched in 2015, is a new national provision, designed to help unemployed disabled adults with the most complex needs to secure and sustain employment or self-employment.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>The Work Programme, which allows providers the flexibility to design an innovative and personalised approach to help participants back into sustained employment.</li></ul><p>Additionally, an individual who is returning to their current job or a new job after a period of ill health may be eligible for support from Access to Work, which is a discretionary grant scheme that offers financial awards for in-work support for people whose disability or health condition affects the way they work.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 12:57:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

447444

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pension Protection Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to implement the Pension Protection Fund capping change set out in the Pension Act 2014.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	24038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the implementation of the Pension Protection Fund long service cap as described in the Pensions Act 2014.</p><p>Before the primary legislation can be brought into force, a number of changes need to be made to secondary legislation, so that it will operate as expected in all cases. Therefore we cannot, at this time, commit to a particular implementation date.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:34:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

447445

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to publish statistics on national food bank usage.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	23978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to collect or publish statistics on food bank usage.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:20:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees