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1355304

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Listed Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 10 September 2021 to Question 44160 on Department for Work and Pensions: Listed Buildings, if he will publish a list of the (a) properties classified as heritage assets owned by his Department, (b) the most recent estimate of the value of those properties and (c) the annual income derived from those properties as opposed to the details of the body responsible for advising him on those properties' management.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	49015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>DWP does not own any of the buildings, every building we occupy is leased.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP is advised on the management of designated heritage assets in its portfolio by Historic England’s Government Historic Estate Unit. Further details can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/our-planning-services/advice-for-government-historic-estates/" target="_blank">https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/our-planning-services/advice-for-government-historic-estates/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/09/2021 15:52:07 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1355368

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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	Post Office Card Account
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Post Office Card Accounts are active in (a) Newcastle upon Tyne East constituency, (b) Newcastle upon Tyne and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	49035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>As of August 2021 there were less than 350k active Post Office Card Accounts. This is down from 1 million in 2019.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We do not hold information on Post Office card account customers in specific geographical areas as sought.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/09/2021 13:56:19 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

1355424

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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	Average Earnings
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 oral contribution of 7 September 2021, Official report, column 185, whether her Department has made an assessment of the level of wage growth which discounts the impact of furlough during the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will publish the legal advice referred to in her oral contribution.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	49219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>Legal advice is privileged. This has been the situation under successive governments.</p><p> </p><p>As the Office for National Statistics have stated, there is no single accepted approach to assessing underlying growth. They have published information that identifies temporary factors, called base and compositional effects, which have been caused by the pandemic and have increased the headline growth rate in earnings above the underlying rate. They have published a range of possible growth rates, but stressed that these should be treated with caution</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/09/2021 13:37:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1355430

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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 and State Retirement Pensions: Post Office Card Account
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 in receipt of (a) benefits and (b) state pension who have not registered a bank account with her Department still receive payments through a Post Office card account.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	49174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>As of August 2021 there were less than 350k active Post Office Card Accounts. This is down from 1 million in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The exact number of Post Office card account customers in receipt of a) benefit and b) State Pension is not available for a variety of reasons.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/09/2021 13:53:23 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1355431

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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: Post Office Card Account
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments her Department has made to Post Office card accounts in each of the last five months.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	49175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-21</p></td><td><p>701,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-21</p></td><td><p>654,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-21</p></td><td><p>596,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-21</p></td><td><p>543,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-21</p></td><td><p>488,200</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Government payments into a Post Office card account do not reflect the number of customers as multiple payments can be made into an account during a month depending on varying pay dates of State Pension and benefits.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/09/2021 13:50:15 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1355450

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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	Immigration: Hong Kong
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 length of time taken by her Department was from an application being received to issuing National Insurance numbers to those people arriving from Hong Kong with British national overseas status.
tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
tabling member printed	Sir Graham Brady
uin	49032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>Demand for the National Insurance Number (NINo) service is currently high with the average time taken to process applications around 13 weeks. This is for all employment inspired applications including people arriving from Hong Kong with British National Overseas status.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is currently recruiting and training additional staff to reduce these waiting times.</p><p> </p><p>The Department expedites NINo applications for those who require one in order to receive Social Security Benefits.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/09/2021 15:53:51 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

1355482

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September to Question 41749 on State Retirement Pensions, Administrative Delays, how many staff have been redeployed from universal credit to retirement services.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	49121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>The Department is re-deploying circa 700 staff from other areas across DWP to help to stabilise the service further.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/09/2021 15:01:56 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1355483

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Staff
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 working for her Department are employed on a fixed-term contract; and how many of those contracts are due to end each month in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	49122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>DWP has 14,651 employees on Fixed Term Contracts as of 31 August 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The full breakdown by month is not currently held centrally. We have recently extended a number of contracts and are in the process of updating our records on the HR and Payroll system.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/09/2021 15:56:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1355487

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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: Canada
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she or Ministers in her Department have met with representatives of the Canadian Government to discuss frozen pensions.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	49236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government last received correspondence from the Canadian Government in November 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not routinely place its correspondence with foreign Government officials in the Library. However, the Department responded to Canadian officials explaining the Government’s longstanding policy position.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental Ministers have not met Canadian Ministers to discuss the issue of frozen pensions and there are no plans for such a meeting.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 49237 49238 49239 49240 question first answered 21/09/2021 16:24:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1355488

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
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: Canada
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to meet with representatives of the Canadian Government to discuss frozen pensions.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	49237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government last received correspondence from the Canadian Government in November 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not routinely place its correspondence with foreign Government officials in the Library. However, the Department responded to Canadian officials explaining the Government’s longstanding policy position.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental Ministers have not met Canadian Ministers to discuss the issue of frozen pensions and there are no plans for such a meeting.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 49236 49238 49239 49240 question first answered 21/09/2021 16:24:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden