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535896

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date	13/07/2016
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, of the people previously claiming Disability Living Allowance at the higher component of (1) mobility, or (2) care, how many have been assessed for (a) the higher rate, or (b) the standard rate, of (i) the mobility component, or (ii) the daily living component, of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in each year since PIP was introduced.
tabling member printed	Baroness Manzoor
uin	HL1175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) registrations, clearances and claims in payment for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of disability living allowance (DLA)) is published on Gov.UK.</p><p> </p><p>In particular, breakdowns of reassessed claims in payment by type and rate of awards can be found from Stat-Xplore, which is a tool for exploring DWP’s statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not have verified data on the number of DLA claimants who have had their award changed as a result of the move to PIP. We intend to provide more detailed breakdowns of DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes in due course. The Department is working to guidelines set by the UK Statistics Authority to ensure we are able to publish statistics that meet high quality standards at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/07/2016 16:13:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor

535900

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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	Motability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Motability Scheme funds cars, powerchairs and mobility scooters but does not extend to cycles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
uin	HL1179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>Motability is an independent charitable organisation wholly responsible for the Motability scheme. Operational decisions, such as what types of vehicles the scheme should provide, are for Motability to make. They can be contacted at Director of Motability, Motability, Warwick House, Roydon Road, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5PX.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/07/2016 13:59:23 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

535604

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to change the discount rate used to calculate the funding status of defined benefit pension schemes.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL1151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The legislation governing the funding of defined benefit occupational pensions schemes is designed to be flexible, allowing the trustees or managers of these schemes to determine which method and assumptions are to be used in their schemes technical provisions. A number of factors come into play in scheme funding decisions and the Pensions Regulator provides useful guidance for trustees in its codes and supporting guidance and statements.</p><p> </p><p>In determining the discount rate to be used, trustees must act prudently taking into account the yield on assets held by the scheme and / or the market redemption yields on Government bonds or other high-quality bonds.</p><p> </p><p>There is no standard actuarial method and set of assumptions that must be used, however, should the Regulator have concerns about a funding plan it can intervene.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/07/2016 15:22:37 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

535110

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Care Leavers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of Discretionary Housing Payments made in each local authority area in England in 2015–16 were paid to care leavers up to the age of 25.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Listowel
uin	HL1106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1107 HL1108 question first answered 13/07/2016 14:27:54 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2054 label Biography information for The Earl of Listowel

535111

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Care Leavers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the value of Discretionary Housing Payments made to care leavers up to the age of 25 in each local authority area in England in 2015–16.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Listowel
uin	HL1107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1106 HL1108 question first answered 13/07/2016 14:27:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2054 label Biography information for The Earl of Listowel

535112

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Discretionary Housing Payments: Care Leavers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many care leavers under the age of 25 in each local authority area in England received Discretionary Housing Payments in 2015–16.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Listowel
uin	HL1108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL1106 HL1107 question first answered 13/07/2016 14:27:54 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2054 label Biography information for The Earl of Listowel

533704

registered interest
date	07/07/2016
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made an assessment of the amount of benefits to which people are entitled that go unclaimed.
tabling member printed	Baroness Thomas of Winchester
uin	HL1072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>On 28th June 2016 the Department for Work and Pensions published the report “Income-related benefits: Estimates of take-up in 2014/15”. The full report has been published online.</p><p> </p><p>For Great Britain, the following estimates are available for 2014/15:</p><ul><li>Pension Credit: Up to £3.1 billion of available Pension Credit went unclaimed;</li><li>Housing Benefit: Up to £4.6 billion of available Housing Benefit went unclaimed;</li><li>Jobseeker’s Allowance (Income-based): Up to £2.4 billion of available Jobseeker’s Allowance (Income-based) went unclaimed.</li><li>Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance (Income-related): Up to £2.9 billion of available Income Support and Employment and Support Allowance (Income-related) went unclaimed.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 18/07/2016 13:58:00 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3785 label Biography information for Baroness Thomas of Winchester

529944

registered interest
date	29/06/2016
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	High Speed 2 Railway Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether jet engine oils and hydraulic and de-icing fluids contain substances that attract harmonised and notified hazard classifications under the CPL Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.
tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
uin	HL872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>Suppliers of jet engine oils, hydraulic and de-icing fluids are required to provide information on their products and on certain hazardous components under the direct-acting EU CLP Regulation. Some hazardous components/substances in these oils and fluids may attract harmonised hazard classifications under the CLP Regulation.</p><p>Information for users of these products about hazardous components/substances must be included in the safety data sheets required by the REACH Regulation ((EC) No 1907/2006) and, where appropriate, on the labels for these products before the products can be placed on the market in the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 11/07/2016 14:59:18 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar

525448

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
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	Public Sector: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the Office for National Statistics report on the levels of (1) persistent, and (2) overall, poverty rates in the United Kingdom, what new actions they intend to take to eradicate poverty and the causes of poverty in this Parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>This Government’s welfare reforms are focused on supporting people to find and keep work whilst ensuring that we are protecting the most vulnerable. At the end of the Parliament we will be spending over £60bn – 3% of GDP – supporting people on low incomes.</p><p> </p><p>We know that work is the best route out of poverty. Evidence shows that almost three-quarters of poor workless families who found full employment escaped poverty; and that the highest poverty exit rate of 75% was for families that moved from part to full employment. The number of children living in workless households is down by 449,000 since 2010</p><p> </p><p>Our new life chances approach to poverty and disadvantage will include a set of indicators to measure progress in tackling the root causes of poverty such as worklessness, educational attainment and family stability.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL721 question first answered 29/06/2016 16:17:39 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

525449

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
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	Public Libraries: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what amount and proportion of funding from their poverty prevention programmes currently in operation has been allocated to (1) preventing the underlying causes of poverty, (2) dealing with emergency effects of poverty, (3) managing the ongoing effects of poverty, and (4) alleviating the effects of poverty, in (a) each of the last five years, and (b) to date in 2016.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>This Government’s welfare reforms are focused on supporting people to find and keep work whilst ensuring that we are protecting the most vulnerable. At the end of the Parliament we will be spending over £60bn – 3% of GDP – supporting people on low incomes.</p><p> </p><p>We know that work is the best route out of poverty. Evidence shows that almost three-quarters of poor workless families who found full employment escaped poverty; and that the highest poverty exit rate of 75% was for families that moved from part to full employment. The number of children living in workless households is down by 449,000 since 2010</p><p> </p><p>Our new life chances approach to poverty and disadvantage will include a set of indicators to measure progress in tackling the root causes of poverty such as worklessness, educational attainment and family stability.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL720 question first answered 29/06/2016 16:17:39 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird