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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

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

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

447450

	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	Universal Credit: Rents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the implementation of universal credit on the level of rent arrears in council homes.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	23992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p>Statistics are published annually on the total value of local authority social housing rent arrears, broken down by Local Authority area. They were most recently published on the Government’s website for 2014-15:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data#2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data#2014-to-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:01:48 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

446898

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2016
	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: Airdrie and Shotts
	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 in Airdrie and Shotts constituency will be affected by changes in the State Pension Age introduced under the (a) Pensions Act 1995 and (b) Pensions 2011 Act.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	23699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 are affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><br /><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953, whilst women born between 6 Dec 1953 and 5 April 1960 are affected by the bringing forward of the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 under the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p>Estimates of the number of women affected at constituency level can be made from the relevant population estimates.</p><br /><p>Parliamentary Constituency (England and Wales) level population estimates, relating to mid-2014 (the latest available) can be found by selecting “SAPE17DT7 - Parliamentary Constituency Mid-Year Population Estimates (experimental), Mid-2014” at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-395002#tab-2014" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-395002#tab-2014</a></p><br /><p>For Scotland, mid-2014, at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates" target="_blank">http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 13:40:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

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

447447

	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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
	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 received a payment from the diffuse mesothelioma payments scheme in (a) July 2012 to March 2014 and (b) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	23924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS) started to take applications from 6 April 2014 (although it accepted applications from individuals diagnosed with diffuse mesothelioma on or after 25 July 2012); therefore no people received payments from the Scheme between July 2012 and March 2014. 255 people received a payment from the Scheme in the financial year 2014/15.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:35:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

447448

	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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
	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 total compensation expected to be paid by insurers to people with mesothelioma who were exposed to asbestos by their employer negligently or in breach of statutory duty over the next (a) five, (b) 10, (c) 20 and (d) 30 years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	23920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not make estimates of the total amount of compensation expected to be paid by insurers to people with mesothelioma who were exposed to asbestos by their employer negligently or in breach of statutory duty.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:39:24 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

447449

	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	Mesothelioma: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made any revisions to (a) the amount his Department forecasts will be required for the diffuse mesothelioma payments scheme and (b) the number of people his Department forecasts will apply to receive payments from the scheme in the first 10 years of its operation since it last published those figures.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	23993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department makes revisions to the DMPS financial forecast annually for the purposes of calculating the levy. A Ministerial written statement (HCWS460) was tabled in the House of Commons on 12 January 2016 and provides details of the DMPS levy for 2015/16.</p><p>Similarly, the Department forecasts the number of applicants annually. In 2014/15, there were 410 applicants to the DMPS. The next set of official DMPS statistics will be released 28 January 2015 and will contain six months’ worth of data on applications for 2015/16. Assumptions could be derived from those figures for the remainder of the year.</p><p>No revisions have been made to longer term forecasts since the DMPS Impact Assessment was published 6 March 2014. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/286525/mesothelioma-payment-scheme-ia-mar-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/286525/mesothelioma-payment-scheme-ia-mar-2014.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:35:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham