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1010730

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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	Johnston Press: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,what the Pension Protection Fund has determined the value of Johnston Press pension deficit to be.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	193593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Johnston Press Pension Plan is currently in the Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) assessment period, where it will be assessed whether the scheme’s funding level is sufficient to secure pensions to its members at least equal to the level of compensation the PPF would pay. If the scheme’s funding is not sufficient, then it will transfer into the PPF and compensation will be paid at 100 per cent for individuals over their scheme’s retirement age at the date of the insolvency, and 90 per cent of the member’s accrued benefits, subject to an overall cap for everyone else. Benefits accrued post 1997 will be linked to PPF indexation going forward.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>There are around 5,000 pension scheme members who will be affected.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator and the PPF are working together with the administrators to understand the circumstances surrounding the sale and its implications for the Johnston Press Pension Plan.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/11/2018 14:41:05 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

931942

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	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	National Insurance Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to publicise eligibility for Specified Adult Childcare Credits to (a) grandparents and (b) other family members who care for a child under 12 when the (a) parent or (b) main carer is at work.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	158350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>Since Specified Adult Childcare credits were introduced by the Coalition Government on 6 April 2011, HMRC management information shows more than 19,000 people providing childcare to a related child have benefitted from a transferred child benefit credit.</p><p> </p><p>A communications campaign to raise awareness began when the credits were introduced. The Department also provided information to stakeholder organisations to encourage wider awareness raising. Gov.uk contains full details of Specified Adult Childcare credits and how to apply for them. This information is signposted to individuals when they request a State Pension forecast at the Check your State Pension service, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk<strong>/</strong>check<strong>-</strong>state-pension</a>. Since February 2016 over 9 million visits have been made to this service.</p><p> </p><p>These credits can be backdated until 6 April 2011 and the Government encourages everyone who is eligible to apply.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 158349 question first answered 04/07/2018 16:39:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

931941

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	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	National Insurance Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken since 2011 to publicise eligibility for Specified Adult Childcare Credits to (a) grandparents and (b) other family members that care for a child under 12 years old while the (i) parent or (ii) main carer is working.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	158349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>Since Specified Adult Childcare credits were introduced by the Coalition Government on 6 April 2011, HMRC management information shows more than 19,000 people providing childcare to a related child have benefitted from a transferred child benefit credit.</p><p> </p><p>A communications campaign to raise awareness began when the credits were introduced. The Department also provided information to stakeholder organisations to encourage wider awareness raising. Gov.uk contains full details of Specified Adult Childcare credits and how to apply for them. This information is signposted to individuals when they request a State Pension forecast at the Check your State Pension service, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/check-state-pension" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk<strong>/</strong>check<strong>-</strong>state-pension</a>. Since February 2016 over 9 million visits have been made to this service.</p><p> </p><p>These credits can be backdated until 6 April 2011 and the Government encourages everyone who is eligible to apply.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 158350 question first answered 04/07/2018 16:39:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

1010728

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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	Johnston Press: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information she holds on the (a) number of past and present employees of Johnston Press who will be affected by its decision to transfer its pension scheme to the Pension Protection Fund and (b) potential proportionate change in the value of the pensions of those employees.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	193592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The Johnston Press Pension Plan is currently in the Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) assessment period, where it will be assessed whether the scheme’s funding level is sufficient to secure pensions to its members at least equal to the level of compensation the PPF would pay. If the scheme’s funding is not sufficient, then it will transfer into the PPF and compensation will be paid at 100 per cent for individuals over their scheme’s retirement age at the date of the insolvency, and 90 per cent of the member’s accrued benefits, subject to an overall cap for everyone else. Benefits accrued post 1997 will be linked to PPF indexation going forward.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>There are around 5,000 pension scheme members who will be affected.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator and the PPF are working together with the administrators to understand the circumstances surrounding the sale and its implications for the Johnston Press Pension Plan.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 193594 question first answered 26/11/2018 12:10:29 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

1010735

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	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	Johnston Press: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information her Department holds on the steps the JPI Media Board will take to mitigate pension losses and to stabilise the pension scheme for employees of Johnston Press.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	193594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The Johnston Press Pension Plan is currently in the Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) assessment period, where it will be assessed whether the scheme’s funding level is sufficient to secure pensions to its members at least equal to the level of compensation the PPF would pay. If the scheme’s funding is not sufficient, then it will transfer into the PPF and compensation will be paid at 100 per cent for individuals over their scheme’s retirement age at the date of the insolvency, and 90 per cent of the member’s accrued benefits, subject to an overall cap for everyone else. Benefits accrued post 1997 will be linked to PPF indexation going forward.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>There are around 5,000 pension scheme members who will be affected.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Regulator and the PPF are working together with the administrators to understand the circumstances surrounding the sale and its implications for the Johnston Press Pension Plan.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 193592 question first answered 26/11/2018 12:10:29 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

869470

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2018
	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	National Insurance Credits: National Insurance Credits: Scotland
	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 number of grandparents in Scotland who (a) who are eligible for adult specified childcare credit and (b) are eligible for that credit but are not claiming it.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	133984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Specified Adult Childcare credits were introduced in April 2011. These effectively allow an individual who successfully claims Child Benefit and already has a qualifying year, for example through paying Class 1 NI contributions to transfer their credits to grandparents and other specified adults under State Pension age who care for children aged under 12 whilst they are at work.</p><p> </p><p>No information is held on the number of people in Scotland who are eligible for Specified Adult Childcare credits, or who may be eligible but are not claiming it.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 27/03/2018 11:09:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

900058

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2018
	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: Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the economic effect of changes to the state pension age for women born in the 1950s in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	141895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>Successive governments have not done a constituency specific assessment of the economic effect of changes to the State Pension age for women born in any individual constituency. Therefore this process is not proposed for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/05/2018 15:04:54 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

909075

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	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, how her Department plans proactively to advise women affected by changes in the state pension age of the official complaints procedure to the Independent Case Examiner's Office.
	tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
	tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
	uin	146344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department has a two tier complaints process which considers formal complaints about our service.</p><p> </p><p>Complaints received from women born in the 1950s and affected by changes in State Pension age are handled in line with the overall Departmental complaints process.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/05/2018 14:15:08 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird