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808260

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2017
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If he will review the implementation of the new state pension ages for women born in the 1950s; and if he will compensate those affected by that change.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
	tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
	uin	902999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>During the passage of the Pensions Act 2011, the Government made a concession worth more than £1bn that benefited more than a quarter of a million women, and limited the increase in any individual’s pension age to 18 months (when compared with the previous timetables)</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/12/2017 17:23:05 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

830019

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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 Wise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the Answer of 19 October 2015 to Question 10807, how many free guidance sessions with Pension Wise have been held for those with defined contribution pensions in each year since October 2015; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of such sessions which will be held in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	124737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of Pension Wise website visits and appointments has grown significantly from a standing start when the service launched in April 2015, and is still rising.</p><p> </p><p>Pension Wise delivered <strong>61,000</strong> face to face and telephone appointments in 2015/16, <strong>66,000</strong> in 2016/17 and is on track to deliver more than <strong>80,000</strong> in 2017/18.</p><p>There have been around 6.2 million visits to the pension wise website since launch.</p><p>In July 2017 Pension Wise introduced digital appointments, which guide users through their pension options, scams and tax implications online. Digital appointments mirror the content provided in a face to face or telephone appointment. So far, Pension Wise has delivered almost <strong>22,000</strong> digital appointments.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 31/01/2018 16:23:20 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

819070

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	HSBC: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of any additional state benefits claimed by HSBC/Midland Bank pensioners as a result of the clawback of their occupational pension.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
	tabling member printed	Jared O'Mara
	uin	121747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not currently collect this data. Information on the number of banks and building societies that utilise a pension integration or “clawback” feature on their occupational pension is not collated centrally and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>No estimate has been made of the cost to the public purse of the longstanding practice of private pensions operating integrated pension scheme arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 121746 question first answered 16/01/2018 12:20:50 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4661 label Biography information for Jared O'Mara

819069

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Financial Institutions: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of banks and building societies that utilise a clawback feature on their occupational pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
	tabling member printed	Jared O'Mara
	uin	121746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not currently collect this data. Information on the number of banks and building societies that utilise a pension integration or “clawback” feature on their occupational pension is not collated centrally and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>No estimate has been made of the cost to the public purse of the longstanding practice of private pensions operating integrated pension scheme arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 121747 question first answered 16/01/2018 12:20:50 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4661 label Biography information for Jared O'Mara

849981

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2018
	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	Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps she is taking to ensure the accuracy of calculations of the contracted-out pension equivalent in state pension forecasts; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	129549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The Contracted Out Pension Equivalent (COPE) estimated amount provided with State Pension forecasts is calculated based on the information held on the individual’s NI record at the time the State Pension forecast is produced.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/03/2018 13:16:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

915199

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Non-departmental Public Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) women and (b) men her Department has appointed to each of her Department's non-Departmental Public Bodies in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds West
	tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
	uin	148759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Data on the gender diversity of new non-executive appointees to public boards for 2012 to 2015 is published on Gov.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-in-public-appointments.</p><p> </p><p>The Commissioner for Public Appointments completes and publishes an annual data survey of all new appointments and reappointments made to boards of public bodies by Government including the overall gender diversity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/06/2018 11:47:08 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

731130

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	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, (a) on which dates and (b) by which means his Department has taken steps to raise awareness by way of publicity about changes to the UK state pension age for women born in the 1950s.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>Between April 2009 and March 2011, the Department mailed women born between 6th April 1950 and 5th April 1953, informing them of their State Pension age under the 1995 Pensions Act. This involved sending 1.16 million letters to the affected women.</p><p>Following the 2011 changes, DWP wrote to individuals directly affected to inform them of the change to their State Pension age. This applied to women born between 6th April 1953 and 5th April 1960. These letters were sent between January 2012 and November 2013. This involved sending 5.77 million letters to the affected men and women.</p><p>In addition to writing directly to those affected, the Government provided a range of information in order for all individuals to be able to find out their State Pension age and conditions of their benefits. For example, following the Pensions Act 1995, State Pension estimates, issued to individuals on request, made the changes clear. Since 2000, the Department has issued 14 million State Pension estimates on request. Between 2003 and 2006, the Department issued about 16 million automatic pension forecasts, which were accompanied by a leaflet about State Pension age including equalisation. DWP also ran a pensions education campaign in 2004, which included informing people of the future equalisation of State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/06/2017 16:22:51 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1122429

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2019
	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: 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, (a) when and (b) with which countries her Department last signed reciprocal agreements on the uprating of pensions of UK residents overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	246456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The UK last signed a reciprocal social security agreement with Ireland on 1 February 2019 to preserve the rights established through the Common Travel Area arrangements and currently facilitated by EU law. The agreement includes the uprating of pensions for UK and Irish nationals living and/or working in each other’s state once the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/05/2019 10:34:49 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

802710

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	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	State Retirement Pensions: 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, at what age female UK citizens living in (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries can claim their state pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	118259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>A woman’s state pension age is not affected by where she is currently residing.</p><p> </p><p>The current timetable for State Pension age is available at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 118260 question first answered 12/12/2017 12:44:26 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1016409

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Christmas Bonus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for how many years the Christmas bonus for recipients of certain benefits has been set at the value of £10.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	196850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Christmas bonus was initially introduced by the then Conservative Government as a one-off payment of £10 in 1972, and has not been uprated by any government since. It was introduced to provide additional financial support at a time of high inflation. It is now an established feature of the social security system. There are no plans to uprate the annual Christmas Bonus.</p><p /><p>The number of benefit recipients forecasted to receive the Christmas bonus for Christmas 2018 can be found in table 1c of the “Outturn and forecast: Autumn Budget 2018” publication.</p><p> </p><p>This information is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2018</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 196849 196851 question first answered 03/12/2018 15:52:47 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens