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48993

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much remains outstanding in child maintenance arrears by (a) UK parliamentary constituency area and (b) local authority area in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	197190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Information on the amount of child maintenance arrears owed by (a) UK parliamentary constituency will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>The information on child maintenance arrears by (b) local authority area is already published and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284686/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_dec13.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284686/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_dec13.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>The table contains outstanding arrears figures as at December 2012 and December 2013 broken down by each local authority. Although arrears figures are available in previously published versions of the regional tables (available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2</a>) these figures are not comparable due to a different methodology.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

45721

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people enrolled in hybrid workplace pension schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	194179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2014 answer text <p>The Pensions Regulator provides automatic enrolment data. The most recent information is available at the following location:</p><p><a href="http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/docs/automatic-enrolment-commentary-analysis-2013.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/docs/automatic-enrolment-commentary-analysis-2013.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>This will be updated in July 2014.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 02/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

47738

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what criteria he is distributing the additional £5 million discretionary housing payment for the least densely-populated areas announced on 30 July 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	195839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The £5million rural Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) fund for 2013/14 was allocated to those local authorities (LA) with the smallest population per square metre. The fund was then proportionally distributed using LAs share of the original DHP allocation, i.e. if an LA had an 8% share of the total DHP allocation of the least populated LAs, then they received 8% of the rural fund.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The £5m funding provided in 2014/15 is intended to avoid a disproportionate impact on those affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy in remote and isolated communities. The Government has assessed that the geography in some areas means that potential remedies such as finding work or alternative accommodation, are less readily available, and as a result transitions may take more time.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

47739

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the level of need in rural communities for discretionary housing payments beyond 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	195835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>An assessment has not yet been made about the level of need in rural communities for Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) beyond 2014/15. DHP funding after 2014/15 will be agreed in due course and will be informed by evidence on the use and demand for DHPs, including in rural communities. The Department is currently collecting data on the use of Discretionary Housing Payments in the 2013/14 financial year.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

47740

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to continue discretionary housing payments for rural communities beyond 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	195837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>In January 2014 the Government announced that the additional £5 million funding for the 21 least densely populated local authorities would be maintained in 2014/15. Information about individual DHP allocations to local authorities was published in the Subsidy Circular S1/2014. This can be accessed on the Government website GOV.UK through the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hb-subsidy-circular-s12014-discretionary-housing-payments-for-local-authorities-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hb-subsidy-circular-s12014-discretionary-housing-payments-for-local-authorities-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>An assessment has not yet been made about the level of need in rural communities for Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) beyond 2014/15. DHP funding after 2014/15 will be agreed in due course and will be informed by evidence on the use and demand for DHPs, including in rural communities. The Department is currently collecting data on the use of Discretionary Housing Payments in the 2013/14 financial year.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

49948

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of working age (a) men and (b) women who do not meet the wage criteria for eligibility for auto-enrolment; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The analysis required to answer this question is not currently available. To answer this question requires analysis across a number of data sources to include all women and men of working age. If a robust outcome can be reached it will be published on the DWP website.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

49950

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of women with multiple part-time jobs whose total earnings are above the threshold for automatic enrolment; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>There are 230,000-260,000 female workers with multiple jobs who have total earnings above the automatic enrolment earnings trigger (£10,000 in 2014/15). Just 40,000-50,000 of these are ineligible for automatic enrollment because they earn less than the earnings trigger in any one of their jobs. A majority of these workers have earnings above the lower limit of the automatic enrolment qualifying earnings band (£5,772 in 2014/15) in at least one job and so can opt-in to a pension scheme with a mandatory contribution from their employer. Further detail is available in <em>Workplace Pension Reform: Multiple Jobholders</em>, DWP, available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211729/ad-hoc-multiple-jobs.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/211729/ad-hoc-multiple-jobs.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

49952

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of what constitutes an adequate retirement income; what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) men and (b) women who will achieve this income; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	197763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>In September 2013 we published the “Framework for the analysis of future pension incomes” which contained details of our modelling of adequate retirement incomes. Recognising that an individual's income in working life affects the retirement income that they would deem to be adequate, we use replacement rates (the ratio of retirement income to working age income) instead of a single income value to assess adequacy.</p><p> </p><p>We use the following set of five replacement rate targets as determined in the Pensions Commission's 2004 report to define adequate replacement rates:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Average annual equivalised gross household earnings between 50 and State Pension Age (2014 earnings terms)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Target replacement rate for adequate retirement income</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under £12,300</p></td><td><p>80%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£12,300 to £22,700</p></td><td><p>70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£22,700 to £32,500</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£32,500 to £52,000</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £52,000</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To account for income sharing among couples, we use equivalised household level income for both working age and retirement incomes.</p><p> </p><p>Using the Department's Pensim2 model we look at the simulated replacement rates of individuals reaching State Pension age between 2014 and 2059, yielding around 27.9 million individuals in our adequacy measure.</p><p> </p><p>Our analysis shows that we expect there around 56 per cent (around 15.7 million) of those individuals to have an adequate replacement rate. It also shows that around a) 55 per cent of men and b) 57 per cent of women in our measure will have an adequate replacement rate.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

43271

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that any foreign company found to have abandoned its pension responsibilities to UK pension holders can be made to refund that pension deficit.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave him on 23 January 2014, Official Report, Column 267W.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 19/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

43272

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether members of the Carrington Wire Pension Fund are able to access the Pension Protection Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Carrington Wire Defined Benefit Pension Scheme entered a Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment period in February 2013.</p><p> </p><p>During a PPF assessment period the PPF establishes whether the scheme can afford to secure benefits which are at least equal to the compensation that the PPF would pay. The scheme will transfer to the PPF unless it has sufficient assets to pay benefits greater or equal to PPF compensation levels or it is rescued, for instance, by another employer taking responsibility for it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 19/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis