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540961

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
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
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 19 July 2016 to Question 42832, if he will allow part payments to cover the one to six day period between people reaching State Pension Age and their allocated pension payday.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	43605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>New rules apply in the new State Pension scheme introduced from 6 April 2016. Individuals who reach State Pension age on or after that date are paid their new State Pension from the date they reach their State Pension age. Payments are made in arrears on a payday based on the individual’s National Insurance number. This means that in most cases the first payment may be in respect of a part of a week – that is from the day the individual reaches State Pension age to their first normal payday. The new State Pension is payable until the date of their death and a part week payment may also apply at the end of their claim.</p><p> </p><p>Under the State Pension system that applies to people who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016, for those who did not move from a working age benefit to State Pension, the State Pension is payable only in full benefit weeks. This means that depending on the individual’s payday, as determined by their National Insurance number, their payment may not have begun from the day they reached their State Pension age. These arrangements for full week payment apply to both the start and the end of their claim for their State Pension and a full week is paid in respect of the week in which their death occurs.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2016 11:30:42 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

541109

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
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 Government: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the introduction of the cost collection process within the Local Government Pension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	43486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2016 10:55:17 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

541118

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
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	Pension Funds
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 review the powers of UK 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	43619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Trustees and managers are responsible for acting in the best interests of beneficiaries, including the investment of members’ funds. They must, under existing obligations, prepare a statement of investment principles. This must set out the extent to which social, environmental, or ethical considerations are taken into account in the selection, retention, and realisation of investments.</p><p> </p><p>We have no immediate plans to change these existing obligations, but will keep them under review.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 43594 question first answered 05/09/2016 11:40:30 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

541119

registered interest
date	20/07/2016
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	Pension Funds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to 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	43594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>Trustees and managers are responsible for acting in the best interests of beneficiaries, including the investment of members’ funds. They must, under existing obligations, prepare a statement of investment principles. This must set out the extent to which social, environmental, or ethical considerations are taken into account in the selection, retention, and realisation of investments.</p><p> </p><p>We have no immediate plans to change these existing obligations, but will keep them under review.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 43619 question first answered 05/09/2016 11:40:30 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

540109

registered interest
date	19/07/2016
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	Pension Funds: Disclosure of Information
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 ensure that pension schemes are obliged to (a) identify and (b) publish details of costs to a pension fund for scheme members.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	43311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to increasing transparency and ensuring that members of pension schemes are able to obtain information about the costs and charges which they bear.</p><p> </p><p>Governance bodies of defined contribution workplace pension schemes are obliged, under existing requirements, to assess costs and charges. We and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are actively considering how to achieve greater transparency and standardisation of transaction costs, and the FCA plans to publish a consultation later this year.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 43312 question first answered 05/09/2016 10:35:04 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

540110

registered interest
date	19/07/2016
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	Pensions: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department plans to take in response to the Report of the Transparency Taskforce, published in May 2016, on the costs and hidden fees associated with investments and pensions.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	43312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to increasing transparency and ensuring that members of pension schemes are able to obtain information about the costs and charges which they bear.</p><p> </p><p>Governance bodies of defined contribution workplace pension schemes are obliged, under existing requirements, to assess costs and charges. We and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are actively considering how to achieve greater transparency and standardisation of transaction costs, and the FCA plans to publish a consultation later this year.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 43311 question first answered 05/09/2016 10:35:04 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

536429

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the payment of pension part weeks to cover the period when recipients reach state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	42832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The new State Pension is payable from the date a person reaches State Pension age until the date of their death. These arrangements form a part of the changes introduced by the Pensions Act 2014 for people who reach State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 19/07/2016 12:58:00 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

536518

registered interest
date	14/07/2016
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	Social Security Benefits: Liverpool City Region
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 receive benefit and pension payments by Simple Payments in the Liverpool City Region.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	42870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The current number of people that receive their benefit or pension payments by Simple Payment in the Liverpool City Region is 1,399.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 19/07/2016 11:44:37 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

532965

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of refugees that have been settled in Cumbria in the last 12 months; and whether she has further plans to settle refugees in Cumbria.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	41841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>Progress on resettlement is reported in quarterly immigration statistics, including the local authorities participating in the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and how many refugees have been resettled in each area. This is a voluntary scheme whereby local authorities sign up to accept refugees on a voluntary basis. No refugees have been resettled to Cumbria under any of our other resettlement schemes.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/07/2016 16:37:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

532518

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of refugees that her Department plans to relocate to Coventry under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme in each of the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	41723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>This is a voluntary scheme whereby local authorities sign up to accept refugees on a voluntary basis. We have asked authorities to think very carefully to ensure they have the infrastructure and support networks needed to deliver the appropriate care and integration of these refugees they plan to resettle.</p><p>The number of people resettled in a particular period will depend on a range of factors. This includes the number of referrals we have received from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the number of confirmed places we have received from local authorities that are suitable for the specific needs of those who have been accepted for resettlement. Progress on resettlement will be reported in quarterly immigration statistics.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 07/07/2016 14:37:35 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham