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385418

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will develop a single and clear set of guidelines for micro-businesses who will be required to automatically enrol their employees with a pension scheme for the first time to ensure that they can access the information they require cost-effectively.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	3931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department continues to work with The Pensions Regulator to support micro employers in meeting their automatic enrolment duties as simply and cost effectively as possible. This includes working with accountants, bookkeepers, payroll bureaus and other intermediaries to ensure they are ready to support smaller employers effectively.</p><p> </p><p>The first cohort of the smallest employers began to comply with their automatic enrolment duties from 1 June this year. We continue to receive feedback about the experience of employers. We are learning all the time and have adapted and improved the process and the support available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 3932 question first answered 02/07/2015 13:29:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385419

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department plans to offer micro-businesses in adapting to new automatic enrolment pension provisions; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	3932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department continues to work with The Pensions Regulator to support micro employers in meeting their automatic enrolment duties as simply and cost effectively as possible. This includes working with accountants, bookkeepers, payroll bureaus and other intermediaries to ensure they are ready to support smaller employers effectively.</p><p> </p><p>The first cohort of the smallest employers began to comply with their automatic enrolment duties from 1 June this year. We continue to receive feedback about the experience of employers. We are learning all the time and have adapted and improved the process and the support available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 3931 question first answered 02/07/2015 13:29:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385420

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations he has received on the potential risk of pensions auto-enrolment packages and products being mis-sold to micro-businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	3933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department continues to work with The Pensions Regulator to support the smallest employers in meeting their automatic enrolment duties as simply and cost effectively as possible. The Regulator has provided guidance for employers on choosing a pension scheme and is continuing to consider how best to support employers in this important decision.</p><p> </p><p>The Government introduced a package of measures in April to strengthen governance in schemes used for automatic enrolment and protect members from high or inappropriate charges. This includes the introduction of a 0.75 per cent cap on charges in the default funds of schemes used for automatic enrolment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/07/2015 13:41:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

387137

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	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	Housing Benefit: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2015 to Question 1696, what his timetable is for changing automatic entitlement to housing benefit for people aged 18 to 21.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	5083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p>As set out in the 8<sup>th</sup> July’s budget, this policy will be introduced for certain new Universal Credit claims from April 2017. All claimants that are receiving Housing Benefit will not be affected by this policy.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/07/2015 10:07:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385967

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has made to the Health and Care Professions Council on its decision to increase the mandatory registration fee for care workers.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	4437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is a self-financing, independent regulator that is accountable to Parliament through the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA). The PSA assesses the HCPC’s performance, conduct audits, scrutinise their decisions and report to Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is for the council of the HCPC to set their fees at a level which ensures they can fulfil their statutory role of protecting, promoting and maintaining the health and safety of the public.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department understands that the HCPC publicly consulted on raising its registrant fee and as part of that process explained the raise was for a number of reasons: to fund the periodic fee it is required to pay the PSA; to enable the HCPC to operate more flexibly and efficiently; and to ensure the HCPC’s financial viability in the medium to long term.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 06/07/2015 16:34:39 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385968

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase mental health funding in real terms in the next spending review period.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	4432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>Spending on mental health is estimated to have increased by £302 million in 2014/15, with total mental health spending rising from £11.362 billion in 2013/14 to £11.664 billion planned in 2014/15, an increase of 0.6% in real terms. In the planning requirements for 2015/16, commissioners were required to invest additionally in mental health in line with their increase in allocation. The total planned additional spend is £376 million, an increase of 4.5%.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From March this year NHS England has led the Mental Health Taskforce. The Taskforce brings together health and care leaders and experts in the field, including people using services, to lead a programme of work to create a mental health Five Year Forward View for the National Health Service in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Mental Health Taskforce will:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- oversee the publication of a new ‘life course’ national mental health strategy published in the summer of 2015, which builds on recent policy;</p><p> </p><p>- address equality and human rights commitments relating to the mental health of our population;</p><p> </p><p>- take a collective approach to cross-system leadership in development of the strategy and propose robust approaches to implementation following publication;</p><p> </p><p>- make comprehensive recommendations on the mechanisms and data requirements to implement the mental health strategy and to monitor delivery and outcomes of it;</p><p> </p><p>- ensure that priorities, costs and benefits within the strategy are assessed;</p><p> </p><p>- identify strategic and directional risks and issues, and work to resolve these; and</p><p> </p><p>- ensure that people with personal experience of mental health problems, their families and carers, and wider stakeholders are engaged appropriately and consistently in the delivery, monitoring and governance of the strategy.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>This will inform considerations for mental health funding in the next spending review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 06/07/2015 13:24:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385969

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Health and Care Professions Council's decision to increase the mandatory registration fee for care workers on recruitment and retention of highly motivated staff in that profession.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	4438
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) does not regulate care workers. The HCPC currently regulates arts therapists, biomedical scientists, chiropodists/podiatrists, clinical scientists, dietitians, hearing aid dispensers, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, paramedics, physiotherapists, practitioner psychologists, prosthetists/orthotists, radiographers, social workers in England and speech and language therapists.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is for the council of the HCPC to set their fees at a level which ensures they can fulfil their statutory role of protecting, promoting and maintaining the health and safety of the public.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All health and care professional regulators review their fees on an on-going basis. We are not aware of any evidence to suggest that this increase of £10 per year will impact on recruitment and retention.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 06/07/2015 16:27:19 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385970

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Professional Organisations: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on how much each professional membership body in the health and social care sector has increased its mandatory registration fee by in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	4439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The annual registrant fee levels for the nine professional health regulators at 1 July 2014, and at 1 July 2015, are shown below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Regulator</p></td><td><p>Fee at 1 July 2014 (£)</p></td><td><p>Fee at 1 July 2015 (£)</p></td><td><p>% change</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nursing and Midwifery Council</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health and Care Professions Council</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Medical Council</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>420</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Optical Council</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Osteopathic Council</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Dental Council</p></td><td><p>576</p></td><td><p>890</p></td><td><p>54.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Pharmaceutical Council</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>372</p></td><td><p>372</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Chiropractic Council</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 06/07/2015 13:15:11 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385966

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of (a) the likely numbers of British citizens resident elsewhere in the EU who would return to live in the UK in the event of a British exit from the EU and (b) the potential effect of such returnees on public services.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	4435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), is focused on success: he believes he can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and will be campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/07/2015 15:56:03 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins