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712526

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2017 to Question 65653, on Department for Work and Pensions: Brexit, what (a) EU agencies and other organisations are within his Department's remit, (b) staff time was spent on engagement with those bodies and (c) financial resources were spent on engagement with those bodies in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	68529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is within this department's remit<em>. </em>This department engages with a range of stakeholders. We do not disaggregate the time and resource spent on this engagement.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/03/2017 16:05:46 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

712527

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the introduction of fees in the Child Maintenance Service on collection rates of child maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	68507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>Evaluation and research on the effects of the introduction of fees and charges in the Child Maintenance Service was published in December 2016, in line with our statutory obligation. The Department expects to publish a Review Report in spring this year, including a summary of the key findings from the research and statistics.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/03/2017 15:08:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

712528

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress his Department has made on behalf of DEC, Compaq and Hewlett Packard pensioners with pre-1997 pension contributions in resolving their case.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Corri Wilson
uin	68483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>I have met senior representatives from the company to present the pensioners’ arguments and make clear my interest in the matter.</p><p> </p><p>However, the company is meeting its legal obligations.</p><p> </p><p>Any increases to pensions in payment are likely to mean significant additional expenditure for any scheme and its sponsoring employer. Therefore, the Government has no plans to require all schemes to pay increases on pre-1997 pensions.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 23/03/2017 15:45:31 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4448 label Biography information for Corri Wilson

712529

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Swine Flu: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on legal fees in all stages of legal proceedings related to Pandemrix.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	68578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department has spent £33,255.39 on legal fees in all stages of legal proceedings related to Pandemrix. This figure represents the costs of external Counsel and services provided by the Government Legal Department’s Litigation team. In addition, the Department has received support from the Government Legal Department’s Advisory team but this was provided as part of a broader fee arrangement and it is therefore not possible to separately identify the fee element relating to any particular case or group of cases.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 23/03/2017 16:37:08 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

712531

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of the appeals process for personal independence payments in each year since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	68616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>We are unable to provide data for the years 2013/14 and 2014/15.</p><p>In 2015/16 DWP’s operating costs for PIP appeals to the First-tier Tribunal were £7,046,850. In the first nine months of 2016/17 they were £7,432,033.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/03/2017 15:40:27 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

712570

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the Green Paper consultation <i>Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability</i>, what assessment they have made of the ability to work of some disabled people with complex needs; and what measures they are taking to support those people.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL6165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to understanding what works for people in the ESA Support Group, many of whom have complex needs, and announced in the Green Paper that we will undertake comprehensive research and develop a large scale trial to test and learn from different approaches of offering employment support to people in this group taking into consideration views and ideas gathered through the consultation, which closed on 17<sup>th</sup> February.</p><p>In the Green Paper, we also announced the details of the Personal Support Package. This package includes a broad spectrum of employment support, with specific provision made for the hardest to help Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants placed in the work-related activity group (and Universal Credit equivalents). This comprises:</p><p> </p><ul><li>More places on the Specialist Employability Support (SES) programme; and</li><li>Trialling and testing new forms of employment support to continue to build our evidence base for the hardest to help, including:</li></ul><ol><li>Testing a jobcentre-led alternative to the SES programme;</li><li>Testing locally delivered Supported Employment; and</li><li>Testing the use of Supported Work Experience for young people.</li></ol> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 03/04/2017 16:50:03 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

712571

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of increasing work-related benefits on the level of other benefits which severely disabled people would be entitled to claim.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL6166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>Increases in the level of Employment and Support Allowance payments – the main income-replacement benefit for disabled people and people who have a health condition – will have no impact on the levels of disability benefits such as Personal independence Payment and Disability Living Allowance, because these benefits are not means-tested.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 29/03/2017 16:03:14 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd

712574

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the rationale for setting a single benefit cap earnings exception threshold in Universal Credit linked to the National Living Wage; and whether this will require under-25s receiving the lower National Minimum Wage, including young lone parents, to work a longer number of hours before qualifying for the exception.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL6169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2017 answer text <p>A threshold linked to the national living wage ensures the work incentive provided by the benefit cap is maintained. The new threshold is consistent with the original intention of the earnings exception threshold by excepting from the cap any household that earns the monthly equivalent of working 16 hours per week at the highest minimum wage rate in force.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has fully considered the position of people who may have to work more than 16 hours to qualify for the exception. More information is in the impact assessment and equality analysis published with the Universal Credit (Benefit Cap Earnings Exception) Amendment Regulations 2017 (SI No: 2017/138). The Government also published a statement in response to comments made by the Social Security Advisory Committee on the amendments.</p><p> </p><p>These documents can be found on: the ‘legislation.gov.uk’ website by searching for year 2017 number 138</p><p>And on the ‘gov.uk’ website by searching ‘universal credit benefit cap earnings exception amendment regulations 2017 ssac report’</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 03/04/2017 17:01:42 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

712576

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to publish their response to the Green Paper consultation <i>Improving Lives: Work, Health and Disability</i>.
tabling member printed	Lord Luce
uin	HL6171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>The consultation on the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper closed on 17<sup>th</sup> February 2017. During the consultation period we engaged with a wide range of stakeholders, and received a large number of responses from people and organisations across society. We are currently evaluating all that we have heard before deciding what our next steps should be. In moving forward we are committed to continuing to engage with stakeholders, to build upon the discussion and debate that has been started by the Green Paper.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 29/03/2017 16:17:45 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	908 label Biography information for Lord Luce

712134

registered interest
date	17/03/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the views of employers and employees on auto-enrolment workforce pensions.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	68353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment is a policy that works. Over 7.5 million individuals have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension by more than 465,000 employers. I am now conducting a review of the policy in order to build on that achievement.</p><p> </p><p>On 8 February 2017 I published a set of initial questions on the main themes, including coverage, engagement and future contributions and invited views and evidence to help inform our considerations. The deadline for responses was 22 March and we are now considering the responses. We are also engaging extensively with stakeholders, and an advisory group of external experts is providing insight, challenge and guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The success of automatic enrolment has been based on a partnership approach and our approach to the review will enable us to understand the views of all stakeholders, including employers and employees.</p><p> </p><p>Towards the end of 2017 we will publish a report to Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 27/03/2017 15:37:11 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson