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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

447302

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	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, how many women born between 6 April and 5 December 1953 will be affected by the increase to the state pension age under the provisions of the Pension Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	24024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Of the group stated in the question only women born on or after 6 April 1953 are affected by the changes in State Pension age in the 2011 Pensions Act.</p><p>The faster increase to 65 under the Pensions Act 2011 affect an estimated 230,000 women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. This figure, rounded to the nearest 10,000, is for Great Britain and is based on DWP calculations using ONS statistics.</p><p>During the passage of the Pensions Bill 2011 the Government tabled an amendment so that the maximum delay to State Pension age relative to the previously legislated timetable that any individual faced was 18 months. This amendment affected people born between 6 January 1954 and 5 September 1954. The analysis accompanying this amendment is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/182066/pensions-bill-spa-info.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/182066/pensions-bill-spa-info.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 23847 question first answered 28/01/2016 17:06:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

447303

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	Housing Benefit: Cardiff South and Penarth
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 have been affected by the under-occupancy penalty in Cardiff South and Penarth constituency in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	24026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Information concerning how many people have been affected by the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy in Cardiff South and Penarth constituency in each of the last 12 months is published and can be found at the link below:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 12:51:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

447304

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	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 the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland will receive a reply to his letter of 14 December 2015 addressed to Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	23842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Permanent Secretary replied to the hon. Member on 28 January 2015.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/01/2016 17:34:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman