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1469153

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
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, which countries the UK has (a) bilateral or (b) reciprocal agreements on provision of the State Pension; when each of those agreements was made, whether UK pensioners resident in those countries receive yearly increases; and how many UK pensioners there were in each country as of 9 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	15166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK State Pension is payable worldwide and is up-rated annually in countries where there is a legal requirement to do so. This is a longstanding policy which has been supported by successive governments for over 70 years.</p><p> </p><p>As of November 2020, 473,842 State Pension recipients residing in the European Union or countries which are members of the European Free Trade Association (Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein) receive annual up-rating under various EU-Exit related agreements, including the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement, which entered into force in 2020 and the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Other countries with which the UK has a reciprocal agreement also allowing for State Pension up-rating, the date in which the particular agreement was made, and the number of State Pension recipients residing in these countries (as of November 2020) are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Barbados (1992) – 3,849 recipients.</li><li>Bermuda (1969) – 718 recipients.</li><li>Bosnia-Herzegovina* (1958) – 31 recipients.</li><li>Israel (1957) – 5,077 recipients.</li><li>Jamaica (1997) – 10,807 recipients.</li><li>Kosovo* (1958) – no data.</li><li>Mauritius (1981) – 1,007 recipients.</li><li>Montenegro* (1958) – 0 recipients.</li><li>North Macedonia* (1958) – 121 recipients.</li><li>Serbia* (1958) – 9 recipients.</li><li>Philippines (1989) – 3,144 recipients.</li><li>Turkey (1961) – 1,870 recipients.</li><li>USA (1984) – 126,977 recipients.</li></ul><p> </p><p>*Following the break-up of Yugoslavia, the UK agreement with former Yugoslavia now covers Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Croatia and Slovenia are EU Member States covered by the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The UK also has reciprocal social security agreements with New Zealand (1983) and Canada (1995) covering provisions for State Pension, but these agreements do not provide for annual up-rating. As of November 2020, 63,930 State Pension recipients reside in New Zealand and 126,426 recipients reside in Canada.</p><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p> </p><p>State Pension statistics by country of residence are currently available to November 2020 and these are available on Stat-Xplore here: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a></p><p><strong>     </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/06/2022 13:34:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1466482

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
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, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Benefit Expenditure and caseload tables 2022, what the level of expenditure on Category D retirement pensions is in each year from 2019-20; what estimate she has made of the level of fluctuations from year to year in the total amount paid; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	10014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>The table below shows the total level of expenditure on Category D retirement pensions for each financial year from 2019/20 to 2026/27. The year-on-year change is also included in the table to show the fluctuations in total Category D expenditure over this period. The increase in outturn in 2020/21 relates to the Department’s estimated liability due to underpaid Category D State Pension. The increase in forecast in 22/23 reflects the increased expenditure for the year in which it will be repaid to customers.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ million, nominal terms</p></td><td><p>19/20</p></td><td><p>20/21</p></td><td><p>21/22</p></td><td><p>22/23</p></td><td><p>23/24</p></td><td><p>24/25</p></td><td><p>25/26</p></td><td><p>26/27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Outturn</p></td><td><p>Outturn</p></td><td><p>Forecast</p></td><td><p>Forecast</p></td><td><p>Forecast</p></td><td><p>Forecast</p></td><td><p>Forecast</p></td><td><p>Forecast</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>State Pension (non contributory 'Category D')</p></td><td><p>£119</p></td><td><p>£275</p></td><td><p>£149</p></td><td><p>£271</p></td><td><p>£187</p></td><td><p>£174</p></td><td><p>£180</p></td><td><p>£188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year on year change</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£156</p></td><td><p>-£126</p></td><td><p>£122</p></td><td><p>-£84</p></td><td><p>-£13</p></td><td><p>£6</p></td><td><p>£8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p /><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2022" target="_blank">Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/06/2022 14:48:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1458473

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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, for what reason her Department does not allow full backdating of state pension credits for non-working claimants who claim child benefit late.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	155756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>There are no credits for State Pension purposes alone. Child Benefit claims give eligibility for National Insurance credits, which count for a range of contributory benefits and the new State Pension. The Government believes that three months is a reasonable period to backdate claims for Child Benefit. A longer period of backdating would make it harder to verify evidence and establish entitlement, since Child Benefit relies upon being responsible for a child each week.</p><p> </p><p>Qualifying Years of National Insurance which count towards State Pension eligibility can be built through a number of ways; National Insurance (NI) contributions whilst working or self-employed; by being credited with NI credits including for Child Benefit; and through making voluntary NI contributions. Additionally, individuals may build up sufficient qualifying years, over an expected working life of 50 years, even if there are some gaps in their NI record; most individuals under the age of 50 will get a full State Pension with 35 qualifying years.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/04/2022 14:51:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1458477

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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 assessment her Department has made of the impact of the reduction in claims for child benefit since August 2012 on entitlement to the full state pension by gender.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	155757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>Qualifying Years of National Insurance (NI) which count towards State Pension eligibility can be built through a number of ways; NI contributions whilst working or self-employed; by being credited with NI credits including for Child Benefit; and through making voluntary NI contributions. Additionally, individuals may build up sufficient qualifying years for the full rate of the new State Pension, over an expected working life of 50 years, even if there are some gaps in their NI record. Most individuals under the age of 50 will get the full rate of the new State Pension with 35 qualifying years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/04/2022 14:55:38 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1435520

registered interest
date	25/02/2022
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, when the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman asked for further information on the ongoing case regarding communication of changes to state pensions; when her Department was asked to supply additional information; on what date her Department plans to submit that information; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	129833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>It would not be appropriate to comment whilst the investigation is ongoing; and section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/03/2022 14:40:25 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1435315

registered interest
date	24/02/2022
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 the average processing time is for a new state pension claim; how many unprocessed claims for new state pensions her Department holds; what steps she is taking to tackle delays in processing new state pension claims; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	129245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>We have deployed significant additional resource onto processing new state pension claims following a backlog in 2021. As a result, all claims received by DWP for UK State Pension should be paid on time, other than for those customers where further information is required or evidence is awaited. State Pension is paid in arrears and, in most instances, the first payment will be due four weeks after the customer’s 66<sup>th</sup> Birthday.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/03/2022 15:50:39 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1422837

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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 staff in her Department are working on the State Pension underpayment correction exercise; and if she will recruit additional staff to work on that exercise.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	125509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>DWP currently has 488 members of staff working on the State Pension Correction Exercise Team and we are planning to increase resources in this area of our business throughout 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/02/2022 15:44:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1422917

registered interest
date	18/02/2022
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 steps her Department took to ensure that people who were not able to claim their deferred pension as a one-off lump sum, those who reached pension age after 6th April 2016, were aware of this change.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	John Nicolson
uin	125255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions carried out a comprehensive communications campaign on State Pension reforms, beginning in 2014 for the reforms which were introduced in April 2016. The campaign included advertisements in newspapers, online and on radio stations across the country as well as working through stakeholders to raise public awareness of the changes.</p><p>The awareness-raising campaign directed people to a significant package of online information about the State Pension at <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>. Specific information about deferral rules can be found at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/deferring-state-pension/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/deferring-state-pension/</a></p><p>Letters inviting people to claim their State Pension also provided details of the changes to the deferral rules.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/02/2022 15:54:25 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4415 label Biography information for John Nicolson

1418604

registered interest
date	01/02/2022
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 recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of making the state pension accessible to people whose life expectancy is reduced as a result of illness.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	115911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>There has been no recent assessment.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/02/2022 15:23:57 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1416937

registered interest
date	26/01/2022
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 recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the State Pension as a result of the double lock rule in the context of increases to the rate of inflation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	112609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>The Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Act 2021 introduced a double lock and allowed the Government to increase pensions by the higher of inflation or 2.5%. From April, State Pensions will be increased by 3.1%, using the consistent mechanism used each year for determining the rate of price increases for pensions and benefits. This represents an additional £4bn spend on pensioner benefits in 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last two years, the basic and new State Pension have increased by more than 5.6%. This means that from April, the full yearly amount of the basic State Pension will be around £720 more in 2022/23 than if it had been up-rated by prices since 2010. That’s a rise of over £2,300 in cash terms.</p><p> </p><p>A full impact assessment for The Social Security (Up-rating of Benefits) Act 2021 is available here: <a href="https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9311/CBP-9311.pdf" target="_blank">CBP-9311.pdf (parliament.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The government remains committed to implementing the Triple Lock in the usual way for the remainder of the Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/02/2022 12:00:14 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell