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172933

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/01/2015
	date	09/01/2015
	date tabled	09/01/2015
	ddp created	09/01/2015 18:21:18
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 20:51:41
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Widowed Parent's Allowance
	house id	1
	identifier	220244
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/01/2015 14:01:49
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of proposed changes to the widowed parent's allowance; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 220244
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	220244
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>Bereavement benefits including Widowed Parent’s Allowance will be replaced by Bereavement Support Payment from April 2017. Those already in receipt of the existing benefit will not be affected by the change.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>An impact assessment was published in April 2014: “Replacement of existing Bereavement Benefits for New Claims from April 2017 – Bereavement Benefits for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century (in Great Britain)”</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311318/pensions-act-ia-annex-d-bereavement-support-payment.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/311318/pensions-act-ia-annex-d-bereavement-support-payment.pdf</a></p> answering member 220
	creator	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

169047

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/12/2014
	date	09/12/2014
	date tabled	09/12/2014
	ddp created	09/12/2014 21:32:56
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 15:34:16
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Funeral Payments: Motherwell and Wishaw
	house id	1
	identifier	217930
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	11/12/2014 12:20:38
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for funeral payments were awarded by his Department in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency in each of the last three years; and what the average such award was in each of those years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Roy
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 217930
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217930
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>DWP does not hold data on Funeral Payments at constituency level.</p> answering member 220
	creator	626 label Biography information for Mr Frank Roy
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	626 label Biography information for Mr Frank Roy

169963

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/12/2014
	date	11/12/2014
	date tabled	11/12/2014
	ddp created	11/12/2014 20:50:30
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 16:38:05
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Winter Fuel Payment
	house id	1
	identifier	218426
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/12/2014 11:58:02
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps =he is taking to ensure that pensioners become better aware of their right to claim winter fuel allowance.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 218426
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218426
	version	3
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>In over 95 per cent of cases, people over women’s State Pension age receive a Winter Fuel Payment automatically, and do not need to make a claim since the Department already holds the information necessary to make the payment.</p><p> </p><p>However, details of eligibility and how to make a claim are available on <a href="http://www.GOV.uk" target="_blank">www.GOV.uk</a></p> answering member 220
	creator	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

171847

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	06/01/2015
	date	18/12/2014
	date tabled	18/12/2014
	ddp created	02/01/2015 17:23:17
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 19:18:47
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Migrants
	house id	1
	identifier	906838
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	06/01/2015 13:15:31
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on amendments required to EU law to limit the access of migrants to national welfare systems.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 906838
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	906838
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>Ministers and officials are in regular dialogue with the European Commission and other Member States about the coordination of social security in the European Union. DWP Ministers and officials have met with a number of their European counterparts in recent months to discuss mutual matters of interest where reforms to the social security coordination system have been discussed.</p> answering member 4084
	creator	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

170553

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/12/2014
	date	15/12/2014
	date tabled	15/12/2014
	ddp created	16/12/2014 00:43:12
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 17:29:51
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Public Health Funerals
	house id	1
	identifier	218762
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	18/12/2014 11:57:14
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of paupers' funerals in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) England and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years for which figures are available.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 218762
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218762
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>My department does not collect data on the number of Local Authority funerals.</p> answering member 220
	creator	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

172617

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/01/2015
	date	07/01/2015
	date tabled	07/01/2015
	ddp created	07/01/2015 23:01:42
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 20:27:21
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	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
	identifier	220107
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	12/01/2015 11:58:29
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the reasons are for the inclusion of French Overseas Departments in the calculation of average temperature for France for the purposes of determining eligibility for winter fuel payments to UK citizens.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 220107
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	220107
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>The French Government treats its French Overseas Departments<em> (départments d’outre mer</em> or DOMs) as integral parts of the French State and so they are not subject to any separate rules relating to the application of EU social security co-ordination.</p><p> </p><p>Winter Fuel Payments are currently available to those entitled in the DOMs, and are not restricted to UK citizens but are available to all EU residents who have an entitlement to a UK Winter Fuel Payment.</p><p> </p><p>The calculation of the average winter temperatures for Spain and Portugal also includes these countries’ respective, relevant overseas territories, where the same EU social security coordination rules apply.</p> answering member 220
	creator	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

173486

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/01/2015
	date	13/01/2015
	date tabled	13/01/2015
	ddp created	13/01/2015 22:43:01
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 21:38:36
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Funeral Payments
	house id	1
	identifier	220516
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	20/01/2015 12:14:04
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2014 to Question 216270, whether the average payment made by the Social Fund Funeral Payment scheme is intended to cover the whole cost of a simple, respectful, low-cost funeral; by what methodology he has assessed the total cost of such a funeral; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 220516
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	220516
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>The Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment has from its creation, as the claim form and guidance makes clear, provided help towards the cost of funerals for eligible claimants. This includes those necessary costs of burial or cremation, which will be met in full and a significant contribution of up to £700 towards other costs.</p> answering member 220
	creator	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

173506

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/01/2015
	date	13/01/2015
	date tabled	13/01/2015
	ddp created	13/01/2015 22:43:16
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 21:41:02
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Workplace Pensions: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	identifier	220645
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/01/2015 14:17:40
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will publish a list of the high charging pension schemes referred to by the Independent Project Board in its report, Defined contribution workplace pensions: The audit of charges and benefits in legacy schemes, published in December 2014.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr William Bain
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 220645
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	220645
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>The recent audit of charges and benefits in legacy pension schemes was undertaken by an Independent Project Board, on which the Department for Work and Pensions was represented. The data collected as part of the legacy audit which was shared with members of the Independent Project Board was aggregated and anonymised. We do not therefore hold provider or scheme specific information.</p> answering member 220
	creator	1610 label Biography information for Mr William Bain
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1610 label Biography information for Mr William Bain

169964

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/12/2014
	date	11/12/2014
	date tabled	11/12/2014
	ddp created	11/12/2014 20:50:31
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 16:38:16
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Winter Fuel Payment
	house id	1
	identifier	218424
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/12/2014 11:45:51
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of eligible pensioners who have not claimed the winter fuel allowance in each year since May 2010.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 218424
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	218424
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p>We do not hold this information.</p> answering member 220
	creator	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

172935

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/01/2015
	date	09/01/2015
	date tabled	09/01/2015
	ddp created	09/01/2015 18:21:20
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 20:51:54
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	identifier	220255
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	14/01/2015 16:48:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in England who have waited more than (a) 30 days, (b) 60 days, (c) 90 days, (d) 120 days, (e) 150 days, (f) 180 days and (g) one year for a personal independence payment application to be completed.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 220255
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	220255
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p /> <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on the 12 January 2015 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=220004" target="_blank">UIN 220004</a></p><p> </p> answering member 1520
	creator	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley