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	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	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, whether all women born in the 1950s affected by the change in state pension age have now been informed by letter of such changes.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	121165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government sent letters to women affected by the 1995 Act changes between April 2009 and March 2011 using the address details held by HMRC at that time.</p><p>The timetable for equalising State Pension age for women and men to 65 and the subsequent increase to 66 was accelerated by the Pensions Act 2011 following sharp increases in life expectancy projections. A concession was made prior to the passing of the 2011 Act which reduced the maximum delay that anyone would experience in claiming their State Pension, relative to the previous timetable, to 18 months compared to the original proposal. Following the Pensions Act 2011 the Government wrote to all those directly affected to inform them of the changes to their State Pension age between January 2012 and November 2013.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Background to direct mail outs: </strong></p><ul><li><strong>Apr 09 – Mar11:</strong> All those affected by the 1995 Act changes alone (those born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953) were sent letters informing them of the change to their State Pension age. Letters went to approximately 1.2 million women between 2009 and 2011.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><strong>Jan 12 – Nov 13: </strong>All those affected by the 2011 Act changes (those born between 6 April 1953 and 5 April 1960) were sent letters informing them of the change to their State Pension age. This involved mailing more than 5 million letters <del class="ministerial">with an accompanying leaflet</del> to those affected, between January 2012 and November 2013.</li><li><ins class="ministerial">Both lots of letters had appropriate supporting information.</ins></li></ul> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2018 10:42:39 question first ministerially corrected 18/12/2018 17:16:05 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 33458 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

818749

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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	Winter Fuel Payment: British Nationals Abroad
	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 recalculate winter fuel payments for eligible claimants living in other EU member states using postcode enumerators to devise a more accurate system than measuring the national average of temperatures in each such country.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	121513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>There are no plans to use post code enumerators to determine the eligibility of Winter Fuel Payments for those living in other member states for the reasons set out in the explanatory memorandum to The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2014/3270, details of which can be found in the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3270/memorandum/contents" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3270/memorandum/contents</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2018 16:46:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

818783

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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 Credit: Greater London
	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 living in Greater London have claimed Pension Credit in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	121547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of claimants of Pension Credit in Greater London in each year since 2010 can be found in the table below:</p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Greater London</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2010</p></td><td><p>296,047</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2011</p></td><td><p>291,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2012</p></td><td><p>281,819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2013</p></td><td><p>271,908</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2014</p></td><td><p>261,387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2015</p></td><td><p>248,039</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2016</p></td><td><p>234,855</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2017</p></td><td><p>223,286</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This information is published and available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2018 16:50:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms