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749505

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date	06/07/2017
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	Pension Rights: Equality
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 will take to eliminate inequalities in pension rights.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	3448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The decision was made in 1995 to equalise the State Pension age for men and women. This addressed a longstanding inequality in pension age. If State Pension ages had not been equalised, women would be spending over 40% of their adult life in retirement. Men’s and women’s State Pension age will equalise in November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The new State Pension is much more generous for many women, who have been historically worse off under the old system. By 2030, over 3 million women stand to gain an average of £550 extra per year as a result of recent changes.</p><p> </p><p>Automatic enrolment into workplace pensions was designed to help more people save for their retirement, including groups who historically have been less likely to save, such as women and lower earners. In 2012, overall workplace participation by eligible female employees was 58 per cent, compared to male participation at 52 per cent but since the introduction of automatic enrolment, the participation of female eligible employees has increased to 80 per cent in 2016 with overall male participation at 76 per cent.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the current review of automatic enrolment, the Government has committed to look at the existing coverage of the policy and consider the needs of those not currently benefiting from automatic enrolment. The review will have regard to the Equality Act, as well as the need to balance the needs of individual savers, with affordability for employers and value for money for tax payers.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/07/2017 15:52:52 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

748720

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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 and Support Allowance
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 has spent (a) sanctioning and (b) monitoring Employment and Support Allowance claimants over the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	3252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not separately identify the cost of sanctioning and monitoring claimants by benefit type.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 11/07/2017 09:32:14 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

748721

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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 and Support Allowance
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 potential effect of the abolition of the Employment and Support Allowance Work-Related Activity component on the incidence of claimant poverty.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	3253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>There will be no cash losers among those who are already in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and we have laid regulations to protect existing ESA claimants, including those who temporarily leave the benefit to try out work and then return to ESA.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its assessment of the impacts of the change to the work-related activity component on 20 July 2015. <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-006B.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 11/07/2017 09:26:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

748722

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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 and Support Allowance: Scotland
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 applying for Employment and Support Allowance in Scotland had to wait more than six weeks to receive their benefit in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	3254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/07/2017 09:38:27 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley