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889935

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Criminal Records: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the case of R (QSA and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWHC 407 (Admin), if she will assess the equity of the criminal record disclosure regime to ensure that it balances the public interest with the rights of an individual applicant for employment.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	136987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that the disclosure and barring arrangements currently in place provide the right balance between protecting the public, giving employers the information they need to make safer recruitment decisions and allowing ex-offenders to gain employment. The High Court judgment in the case of R (QSA and others) was handed down on 2 March. The Government has been granted permission to appeal the judgment.</p><p> </p><p>Standard and enhanced criminal record certificates are available when an applicant seeks to work with children, vulnerable people or in other specified roles. Under the statutory arrangements, certain old and minor convictions and cautions are not disclosed. Multiple offences for which an individual has received a caution may be filtered. The filtering provisions are not, however, available to anyone who has:</p><ul><li>received more than one conviction;</li><li>been sentenced to custody; or</li><li>received a conviction or caution for a listed offence.</li></ul> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 136990 question first answered 30/04/2018 15:32:36 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

889938

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Criminal Records: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, following the case of R (QSA and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWHC 407 (Admin), if she will ensure that the criminal record disclosure regime enables the filtering of multiple minor offences.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	136990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that the disclosure and barring arrangements currently in place provide the right balance between protecting the public, giving employers the information they need to make safer recruitment decisions and allowing ex-offenders to gain employment. The High Court judgment in the case of R (QSA and others) was handed down on 2 March. The Government has been granted permission to appeal the judgment.</p><p> </p><p>Standard and enhanced criminal record certificates are available when an applicant seeks to work with children, vulnerable people or in other specified roles. Under the statutory arrangements, certain old and minor convictions and cautions are not disclosed. Multiple offences for which an individual has received a caution may be filtered. The filtering provisions are not, however, available to anyone who has:</p><ul><li>received more than one conviction;</li><li>been sentenced to custody; or</li><li>received a conviction or caution for a listed offence.</li></ul> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 136987 question first answered 30/04/2018 15:32:36 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

890056

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	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
	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 provides compensation to people who do not receiver notification of state pension entitlement within two months of their retirement date.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	137107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>DWP aims to award State Pension claims within 10 workings days of the date in which the customer chose their claim to commence.</p><p> </p><p>On the occasions when a customer is dissatisfied with the service provided by the Department, the DWP complaints procedure includes the provision for a special payment to be made for any delays which may have occurred.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/04/2018 14:06:42 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

890054

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes her Department uses to notify people of their state pension entitlement.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	137105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Provided that a person has a National Insurance number, we will normally send them details about their options for claiming their State Pension (including how they can put off claiming State Pension to get extra State Pension), to the address held for them on our computer systems about four months before they reach State Pension age.</p><p>In law, the responsibility for claiming any benefit lies with the person concerned. However, as part of our service to people approaching State Pension age, we provide some initial information about their pension entitlement and invite them to complete their State Pension claim either online, by phone or using the specific claim form.</p><p>We try to contact people to invite them to make a claim to State Pension but this can only succeed where the latest address held on our records is correct. These records are updated when claims are made or, in some cases, when National Insurance contribution queries are investigated. Otherwise, we rely on the individual notifying us of a change of address.</p><p>While a person may not receive their individual notification about claiming their State Pension, most people know when to claim. Each person should make appropriate enquiries about State Pension entitlement if they do not hear from us. There is an extensive range of information about the State Pension and social security benefits online at www.gov.uk.</p><p>Bottom of Form</p><p>When a valid State Pension claim has been made, a DWP decision maker notifies a customer by letter of any entitlement. DWP then issues annual State Pension increase notifications by letter to customers’ based on the Chancellor’s Budget Announcement to confirm the new rate of State Pension payable each April.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/04/2018 14:05:57 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

890298

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have retired in advance of receipt of notification of their state pension entitlement in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	137648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/04/2018 14:06:53 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

890055

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have not received notification of state pension entitlement within two months of retirement in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	137106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/04/2018 14:06:19 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

882504

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of job roles advertised within his Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	135566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>No Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Attorney General’s Office (AGO), or Government Legal Department (GLD) advertised job roles in 2016 and 2017 included a declaration box for candidates to declare a criminal record.</p><p>HMCPSI had one new recruitment in each of these years. The tick box was included in the campaign in 2016, but was removed in 2017.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 30/04/2018 07:07:13 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake