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date	02/10/2023
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	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimates they have made, if any, of the cost savings that would result from increasing the minimum years of National Insurance contributions required for a full State Pension from 35 to 45.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL10441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The number of Qualifying Years required for a full State Pension strikes a balance between achieving wide coverage, maintaining the contributory principle and ensuring the overall affordability of the State Pension.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 16/10/2023 16:45:14 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

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registered interest
date	22/03/2023
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	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that there are sufficient telephone lines and call handlers available to ensure that those people wanting to top up gaps in the National Insurance contributions between tax years April 2006 and April 2016 are able to do so before the deadline of the 31 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	171358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>DWP have been proactively monitoring the increase in call demand since the 22<sup>nd</sup> of February, regularly adapting its telephony interactive voice response (IVR) approach and also updated Social Media messaging to assist our customers’ experience.</p><p> </p><p>DWP are working together with HMRC on an ongoing basis and are flexing personnel resources where possible being mindful of other DWP service lines.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 27/03/2023 16:41:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight