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	registered interest
	date	05/09/2018
	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	Self-employed: 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 steps her Department has taken to encourage self-employed individuals to participate in a private pension scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	170738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>As part of its review of automatic enrolment, published in December 2017, the Government looked at the position of the self-employed and private pension saving. The review established that the 4.8 million people who are self-employed in the UK are a hugely varied population with different income and savings needs for their retirement. Overall, participation rates for the self-employed have been on the decline in recent years, falling from 31 per cent in 2006/7 to 14 per cent in 2016/17. While pension participation rates have fallen for the self-employed, analysis has shown that the self-employed have, on average, broadly comparable levels of total assets to employees’ (PPI report on policies for increasing long-term saving of the self-employed). However, analysis has shown the distribution of assets to be different for employees compared to the self-employed – employees tend to have a higher level of private pension wealth compared to the self-employed and the self-employed tend to have higher levels of property wealth relative to employees.</p><p> </p><p>The review found that there is currently no single or simple and straightforward mechanism to bring self-employed people into workplace pension saving. Nor is there any consensus or evidence about the best approach to increasing pension saving among this group.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to work towards implementing our manifesto commitment to improve retirement savings among the self-employed by testing targeted interventions to understand what works in practice. We will provide more information about the trial areas later this year, following our feasibility work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 170737 question first answered 11/09/2018 16:15:25 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1303569

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Export Health Certificates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether export costs have increased and revenue has been lost due to the time taken to resolve export health certificate administrative problems for products of animal origin at Border Control Posts; and what plans he has to speed up the UK’s administrative processes to make the delivery of goods to the EU more efficient for UK distributors.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
	uin	170738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>We do not routinely track the costs of export certification, which is a commercial matter between certifiers and exporters. We have always been clear that new processes would apply for exports of products of animal origin to the EU, from 01 January 2021. Before then we introduced efficiency measures for exporters, including guidance for logistics hubs and consolidation of loads. These measures have reduced exporters’ administrative requirements and through consolidation the total number of export health certificates required for EU exports. We are working to improve the online process of applying for export heath certificates to reduce errors and speed up certification.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 22/03/2021 16:36:58 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1606064

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2023
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Barristers: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what her Department's policy is on the parity of fees for prosecution and defence counsels.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	170738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Equality of arms between defence and prosecution is an important principle within the criminal justice system. Following last year’s increase to defence counsel fees, as recommended by the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid, this Government is providing additional funding to uplift the fees CPS pays to prosecution counsel. This funding restores parity between defence and prosecution counsel.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 28/03/2023 14:38:31 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby