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228276

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to review the ability of pensions schemes to indirectly invest in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>My Department has not received any recent representations from the pensions industry on investments in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions. Whilst we have no immediate plans to review this specific area, we are undertaking a consultation on whether the current requirements on trustees regarding “social, environmental or ethical considerations” in the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2015 should be amended to help them distinguish between financial and non-financial factors.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 228250 228251 228253 question first answered 23/03/2015 15:04:54 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

228277

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	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 representations he has received from the pensions industry on investment in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department has not received any recent representations from the pensions industry on investments in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions. Whilst we have no immediate plans to review this specific area, we are undertaking a consultation on whether the current requirements on trustees regarding “social, environmental or ethical considerations” in the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2015 should be amended to help them distinguish between financial and non-financial factors.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 228249 228251 228253 question first answered 23/03/2015 15:04:54 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

228278

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Pensions
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 bring forward legislative proposals to ban the indirect investment by pension schemes in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department has not received any recent representations from the pensions industry on investments in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions. Whilst we have no immediate plans to review this specific area, we are undertaking a consultation on whether the current requirements on trustees regarding “social, environmental or ethical considerations” in the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2015 should be amended to help them distinguish between financial and non-financial factors.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 228249 228250 228253 question first answered 23/03/2015 15:04:54 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

228279

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Pensions
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 produce guidance to pensions schemes to assist those schemes in avoiding investment in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Pensions Regulator produces free guidance for trustees via the online Trustee Toolkit. The Trustee Toolkit was updated in October 2014, with new material on the extent to which trustees should take account of social, environmental or ethical considerations when taking investment decisions. This new material reflects the outcomes of the Law Commission’s recent review of fiduciary duties.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/03/2015 14:55:18 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

228280

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	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 his Department has made of the adequacy of current legislation for preventing the indirect involvement of pensions schemes in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	228253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department has not received any recent representations from the pensions industry on investments in companies linked with the manufacture of cluster munitions. Whilst we have no immediate plans to review this specific area, we are undertaking a consultation on whether the current requirements on trustees regarding “social, environmental or ethical considerations” in the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2015 should be amended to help them distinguish between financial and non-financial factors.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 228249 228250 228251 question first answered 23/03/2015 15:04:54 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

228344

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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	Pensions
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 consequences for his policies of the cost benefit analysis of the uprating of frozen pensions contained in the report from the International Consortium of British Pensioners, published in October 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	228254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no consequences for the Coalition Government’s policy on the up-rating of UK State Pension paid to people living overseas, which has been supported by successive post war Governments.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to unfreeze UK State Pensions paid in those overseas jurisdictions where there is no legislative requirement to uprate.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/03/2015 14:55:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

170020

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Pensions
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 proportion of (a) women and (b) men in (i) the UK, (ii) Scotland, (iii) England, (iv) Wales and (v) Northern Ireland aged 56 years who in each of the last four years have had no pension savings.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The exact breakdowns that have been requested are not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/12/2014 11:42:47 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

167860

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
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	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 discussions he has had with employers on the creation of collective defined contribution pension schemes.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	217110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Officials and ministers have had a number of conversations, during the policy development and consultation process, with employers who may be potentially interested in establishing collective arrangements for their employees. We cannot give details of the organisations concerned due to commercial sensitivities. We also sought input about the types of schemes that might be attractive to employers through our Defined Ambition and Collective Industry Working Groups.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/12/2014 12:10:10 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

106383

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
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	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 he plans to take to ensure that consumers are protected from rogue pension schemes.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	213266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Under Project Bloom DWP and other agencies are already working together with the pensions industry to crackdown on pensions scams. Actions include:</p><p> </p><p>· A tightening of HMRC’s pension scheme registration, as called for by industry, including the introduction of a fit and proper person test.</p><p>· A further wave of the Pensions Regulator’s well-received Scorpion information campaign highlighting the threat posed by pension scams, with further waves happening early next year.</p><p>· The launch of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Scamsmart campaign.</p><p>· Police raids.</p><p>· Closing down websites used to facilitate pension scams.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the Pensions Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority work together with trustees and providers to ensure that occupational pension scheme members’ and consumers’ contract based pensions are safe.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/11/2014 12:20:16 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke