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731347

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will enter into negotiations with the Mineworkers Pension Scheme Trustees to discuss the current surplus sharing arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The existing surplus-sharing arrangements have worked well to date for the Scheme’s members. The presence of the Government guarantee has enabled the Scheme Trustees to invest so as to target surpluses, which has resulted in a 30% increase in payments to members. The Department cannot unilaterally amend the terms of the scheme, though we would be willing to consider any proposals put forward by the Scheme Trustees.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 28/06/2017 14:16:08 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

754281

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are in receipt of a pension from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme; and how many of those people are in each constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	6298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The scheme is not administered by the Government but by the Scheme Trustees. The Department does not, therefore, hold this information and such requests should be made to the Trustees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2017 16:31:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

754288

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he has received from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme Trustees on surplus-sharing arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	6201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>On two occasions in the past (2000 and 2006), the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme Trustees requested changes to the surplus-sharing arrangements. On each occasion, the Government considered that the existing arrangements were working well and fair to all parties. Since then, the scheme has continued to deliver bonuses to members.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2017 16:17:26 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

758893

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2017 to Question 6201, if he will meet a trustee from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme to discuss the surplus-sharing arrangement.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	9553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>BEIS officials meet the Scheme Trustees regularly to discuss scheme administration and have begun to share objectives for the forthcoming scheme valuation.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 14/09/2017 15:23:52 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

782915

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2017 to Question 9553, if he will publish the Government's objectives for the forthcoming Mineworkers' Pension scheme valuation.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	111202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>Whilst the valuation process is ongoing, it would not be appropriate to publish the Government’s objectives.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/11/2017 12:03:50 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

797866

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that mineworkers in deprived areas have access to a proportionate share of the profits made by the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	116773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The allocation of bonuses from the Trustees’ share of surpluses in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme is a matter for the Trustees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 06/12/2017 16:23:44 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1401686

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make a further assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee's report on the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, published on 27 April 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	904936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>In the Government response to the Select Committee inquiry into the Scheme we highlighted we continue to believe the arrangements agreed in 1994 with the Scheme Trustees still work well and are fair and beneficial to both Scheme members and taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 11/01/2022 13:19:12 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1143075

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the share of the miners' pension scheme’s surplus that goes to former miners.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	284467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 09/09/2019 16:31:11 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1143792

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if she will publish the individual benefits paid to Mineworkers' Pension Scheme members by the Government from surplus receipts.
	tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
	tabling member printed	Nick Smith
	uin	285049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 09/09/2019 16:50:08 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1147969

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the share of the miners' pension scheme’s surplus that goes to former miners.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	293487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 08/10/2019 16:57:14 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly