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447808

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Pensioners: Income
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 is taking to protect pensioners' incomes in (a) Kettering and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	24226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>This Government wants all pensioners to have a decent and secure income in retirement. We are committed to the ‘triple lock’, the guarantee that the basic and new State Pension will increase by the highest of the growth in average earnings, price increases or 2.5%. From April 2016, the full basic State Pension will rise to £119.30 a week, an increase of £3.35 and the biggest real terms increase to the basic State Pension since 2001. This will benefit many of the 18000 recipients of State Pension in Kettering and the 10 million recipients in England.</p><p>For the poorest pensioners, from April 2016 Pension Credit will top up income to a guaranteed minimum level of £155.60 for a single person and £237.55 for couples. We are protecting key benefits for older people including Winter Fuel Payments, free eye tests, free NHS prescriptions, free bus passes and free television licences for those aged 75 and over.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 09:52:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

447814

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Birkenhead to him dated 19 January 2016 on the state pension.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	24182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested in the Rt. Hon Member’s letter was sent to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on Friday 29 January 2016.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 13:27:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

447815

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Occupational Money Purchase Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the distribution of contributions to defined-contribution pension schemes for each (a) income level and (b) age.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	24178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>There are no breakdowns available by income level either for DC personal pensions or for DC workplace pensions.</p><p>There is also no breakdown available by age for DC personal pensions, but data on the distribution of employee contribution rates to workplace DC schemes, by age, can be found within Reference Table 5.1 of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2014 publication available here: <del class="ministerial"><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-400776" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-400776</a></del> <ins class="ministerial"><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm:77-387081" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-387081</a></ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 12:46:31 question first ministerially corrected 11/02/2016 10:09:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 42084 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

447816

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the distribution of deemed contributions to defined-benefit pension schemes for each (a) income level and (b) age.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	24179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Distributions of deemed contributions to defined-benefit (DB) schemes broken down by income level or age, are not readily available, and have not been previously published as official statistics.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 12:39:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

447817

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Health
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 who have suffered a six-month or longer period of sickness in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	24187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Department for Work and Pensions does not routinely capture management information on the number of people who have suffered a six-month or longer period of sickness.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 12:36:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

447839

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Local Housing Allowance: Supported Housing
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 loss of income to providers of supported housing from a cap on housing benefit at the rate of local housing allowance.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	24250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>The information is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 09:26:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

447842

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Local Housing Allowance: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on local authority budgets of people in supported housing not remaining in that housing as a result of a cap on housing benefit at the rate of local housing allowance.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	24256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 09:29:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

447446

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
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	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of back-to-work programmes for people with mental health problems; and if he will take steps to change programmes judged to be ineffective.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	23980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Our ambition to halve the disability employment gap has been a key driver in establishing the Work and Health unit with the Department for Health. At least £115m of funding will go to the Work and Health Unit, including an innovation fund to test new ways to join up health and employment to help people with disabilities and health conditions to return to and stay in work.</p><p>Our wider employment programmes provide those with mental health conditions with the appropriate support to find work. Work Choice is an employment programme is specifically for those with a disability or health condition. Of the 14,290 starters who declared either a Severe or Mild to Moderate Mental Health condition as their Primary Disability, 6,650 (over 46%) have achieved a job outcome.</p><p>The Department conducts a monthly review of a sample of claimants from each employment contract, to assess the effectiveness of those programmes and requires providers to rectify any issues identified.</p><p>Further support is available through the Access to Work Mental Health Support Scheme. Last year, it supported 1630 people who declared a Mental Health condition as their Primary Medical Condition – a 15% increase on 2013/14 and a record number for the scheme.</p><p>Over the next three years, we are investing £43 million to develop an evidence base, via a range of voluntary trials, for what works to support people with mental health conditions into employment. Each of the voluntary trials will test a different approach of combined health and employment support.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 13:44:48 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

446905

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a scheme based on the actuarial pension model to increase the speed at which women born in the 1950s qualify for state pension.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	23514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>The State Pension is funded through the National Insurance scheme which does not bear comparison with a commercially operated one.</p><p>Although eligibility for the State Pension is dependent in part on the payment of National Insurance, the National Insurance system is not an individual pension fund. National Insurance credits are available for many people to help them build entitlement towards the State Pension. National Insurance contributions also give entitlement to a range of other benefits such as Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Carer’s Allowance.</p><p>Future entitlement to benefits is a matter for the Government and Parliament to decide, and the changes to the State Pension age have been made in conjunction with introducing the triple-lock protection of the basic State Pension, the introduction of the new State Pension, and the protection of other pensioner benefits.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2016 10:34:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley