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1718898

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2024 to Question 21868 on Buses: Carbon Emissions, how many and what proportion of the buses allocated funding under the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme 1 (a) are on the road in each local transport authority and (b) (i) have been and (ii) will be manufactured in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	26803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>This Government has invested £410m into the Zero Emission Bus programmes since 2020, which has funded over <del class="ministerial">5,200</del> <ins class="ministerial">2,200</ins> buses across England.</p><p> </p><p>The Zero Emission Bus Regional Area (ZEBRA) 1 programme was launched in 2021 and awarded £270m funding to 16 local transport authorities (LTAs) in England (outside of London).</p><p> </p><p>ZEBs produced and sold in the UK are supported by a global supply chain; the below table outlines bus manufacturer’s location. The numbers in this table are not official statistics: they are based on the latest information available and are therefore indicative and subject to change.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>ZEBRA 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Transport Authority</p></td><td><p>Number of buses on the road</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer &amp; Location</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire &amp; Peterborough Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of York Council</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire County Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent County Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)   <br /> Irizar (Spain)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester City Council</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>110 – Wrightbus (UK)    <br /> 6 – Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk County Council</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire County Council</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>EvoBus/Mercedes (Germany) Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham City Council</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)   <br /> Bus manufacturer for remaining buses subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxfordshire County Council</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK) <br /> Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth City Council &amp; Hampshire County Council</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>Wrightbus (UK)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>4 – Alexander Dennis Ltd (UK)    <br /> 23 – Pelican/Yutong (UK/China)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warrington Borough Council</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>Volvo (Sweden)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire Combined Authority</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>131 – Wrightbus (UK) <br /> 15 – Mercedes (Germany)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/05/2024 15:07:02 question first ministerially corrected 23/05/2024 08:23:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 35513 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1671792

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	M1: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of accidents at the M1 junction 13 interchange in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Mid Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
uin	2983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>The number of personal injury collisions reported by police is collected via the STATS19 system, <del class="ministerial">which</del> <ins class="ministerial">This</ins> records the road number and location of collisions but does not directly to assign them<del class="ministerial"> to specific</del> <ins class="ministerial">to the confines of a specific </ins>junctions.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 27/11/2023 13:45:22 question first ministerially corrected 27/11/2023 15:00:38 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 3268 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1301871

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
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 additional staff her Department has employed during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	167195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">As of Friday 5 March 2021, the Department of Work and Pensions has recruited 21,709 staff on permanent, temporary, fixed term and agency contracts and also people loaned from other Government Departments</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">From the start of April 2020 to the end of February 2021 an additional 13,242 people have joined DWP as staff employed on its payroll. This figure is based on new joiners only, doesn’t take account of any leavers, and does not include staff loaned from other government departments that didn’t join DWP payroll, or agency workers who are not directly employed by the Department. It also does not include internal movement within DWP into key roles as a result of the impact of COVID-19.</ins></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 16/03/2021 16:56:30 question first ministerially corrected 09/04/2021 13:02:04 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 90758 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1301873

registered interest
date	11/03/2021
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 additional staff her Department has employed on fixed-term contracts during the covid-19 outbreak; and if she will list when each of those contracts will end.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	167196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2021 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Since 1 April 2020 we have recruited 11,400 people on fixed term contracts. Of those who have started since 1 April 2020, we have 10,642 employees who remain in the business. Their contract end dates are set out in the following table reflecting, the position as at 28 February 2021, which is a continuously changing picture, given that people are actively being extended and recruited, and we will also lose people naturally through turnover before their end dates are due.</del></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"> </del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"> </del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"> </del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Contract end dates</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Mar-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2102*</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Apr-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">417*</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">May-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">264*</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Jun-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">130*</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Jul-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">348*</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Aug-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">82*</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Sep-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">234</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Oct-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">135</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Nov-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1523</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Dec-21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">766</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Jan-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1204</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Feb-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1327</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Mar-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">16</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Apr-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1063</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">May-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">728</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Jun-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">81</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Jul-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">142</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Aug-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">55</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Sep-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Oct-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">6</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Nov-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">7</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Dec-22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">5</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Jan-23</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">6</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Total</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>10642</strong></del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">*Some contract end dates for people due to leave in these months are in the process of being extended.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Since 1 April 2020 we have recruited 11,556 people on fixed term contracts. Of those who have started since 1 April 2020, we have 10,507 employees who remain in the business. Their contract end dates are set out in the following table reflecting, the position as at 28 February 2021, which is a continuously changing picture, given that people are actively being extended and recruited, and we will also lose people naturally through turnover before their end dates are due.</ins></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Contract end dates</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Mar-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2102*</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Apr-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">412*</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">May-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">261*</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Jun-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">122*</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Jul-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">348*</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Aug-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">81*</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Sep-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">228</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Oct-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">135</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Nov-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1499</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Dec-21</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">763</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Jan-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1176</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Feb-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1322</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Mar-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">16</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Apr-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1056</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">May-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">707</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Jun-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">78</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Jul-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">125</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Aug-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">54</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Sep-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Oct-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">6</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Nov-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">4</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Dec-22</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Jan-23</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">6</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Total</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>10507</strong></ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">*Some contract end dates for people due to leave in these months are in the process of being extended.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 16/03/2021 17:03:01 question first ministerially corrected 09/04/2021 13:02:22 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 90762 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

1186500

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
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	Winter Fuel Payment: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to extend the winter fuel allowance for recipients who (a) have to self-isolate or (b) are diagnosed with covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	32053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">As both the Prime Minister and Chancellor have made clear, the Government will do whatever it takes to support people affected by COVID 19 and we have been clear in our intention that no one should be penalised for doing the right thing. These are rapidly developing circumstances, we continue to keep the situation under review and will keep Parliament updated accordingly.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">There are no plans to extend the winter fuel allowance scheme. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has, however, published a series of measures designed to help those affected by the coronavirus outbreak with the cost of their energy bills. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Further information on the measures is available here:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-agrees-measures-with-energy-industry-to-support-vulnerable-people-through-covid-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-agrees-measures-with-energy-industry-to-support-vulnerable-people-through-covid-19</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/03/2020 14:36:54 question first ministerially corrected 15/04/2020 15:03:49 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 14287 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1185846

registered interest
date	17/03/2020
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	Winter Fuel Payment: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of an additional fuel payment to pensioners following Government advice for them to stay at home.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	30876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">As both the Prime Minister and Chancellor have made clear, the Government will do whatever it takes to support people affected by COVID 19 and we have been clear in our intention that no one should be penalised for doing the right thing. These are rapidly developing circumstances, we continue to keep the situation under review and will keep Parliament updated accordingly<em>.</em></del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">There are no plans to extend the winter fuel allowance scheme.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has, however, published a series of measures designed to help those affected by the coronavirus outbreak with the cost of their energy bills. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Further information on the measures is available here:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-agrees-measures-with-energy-industry-to-support-vulnerable-people-through-covid-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-agrees-measures-with-energy-industry-to-support-vulnerable-people-through-covid-19</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/03/2020 11:51:44 question first ministerially corrected 15/04/2020 15:03:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 13798 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1126921

registered interest
date	15/05/2019
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: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of uprating state pensions for pensioners who live overseas.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	254754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">All political parties since WW2 have</del> <ins class="ministerial">Successive post-war Governments have followed</ins> the same policy. Up-rating UK State Pensions for recipients who are overseas residents is longstanding; state Pensions are payable worldwide and are up-rated where there is a legal requirement to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The policy on the up-rating of UK State Pensions paid to recipients living outside the UK has been in place for over 70 years. The UK State Pension is payable worldwide without regard to nationality. Entitlement to the UK State Pension is based on the national insurance contributions on a person’s national insurance record. The annual index-linked increases to UK State Pensions are paid to recipients overseas only where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in EEA countries or in countries where there is a reciprocal agreement in place that provides for the up-rating of the UK State Pension. The Government has no plans to change the policy <ins class="ministerial">upheld by all previous Governments, Labour, Coalition and Conservative for the past 70 years.</ins> <del class="ministerial">of all Governments, Labour, Coalition or Conservative since WW2.</del></p><p> </p><p>The estimated costs of up-rating state pensions overseas where they are currently not up-rated are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimated-costs-of-uprating-state-pension-in-frozen-rate-countries</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/05/2019 16:41:54 question first ministerially corrected 20/06/2019 15:16:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 119892 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1023922

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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 complaints of maladministration from women born in the 1950s relating to the change in their state pension age submitted to her Department’s Independent Case Examiner have been (a) resolved, (b) rejected, (c) closed for other reasons.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	201695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Individual government departments have long established complaints procedures. That approach has not changed under Labour governments 1997-2010 or successive governments. The DWP has a two tier complaints process which considers formal complaints about our service<strong>. </strong>Once a complainant has exhausted the DWP complaint process they are signposted to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office if they are dissatisfied with the final response to their complaint. The Independent Case Examiner is independent.</p><p>The table below provides information on the method by which complaints submitted to the Independent Case Examiner’s (ICE) Office, concerning changes to women’s State Pension age, were closed.</p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Reason for complaint closure</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Number</ins> <ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">(a) Resolved (we have interpreted this as meaning closed following issue of an ICE investigation report)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">192</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">(b) Rejected (the complaint failed to meet the ICE acceptance criteria)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,598</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">(c) Paused for other reasons (includes withdrawn complaints and those closed following a High Court decision to grant permission for a Judicial Review of the Departments handling of the change to women’s State Pension age – it is not within the ICE remit to consider issues which are, or have been, subject to legal proceedings.)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,506</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Independent Case Examiner’s Office received the first complaints from women relating to changes in their state pension age in October 2016. The table below provides details of the numbers received in each of the past three reporting years.</ins></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Year (April to March)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Number received</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2016/2017</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">243</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2017/2018</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2981</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2018/2019 (to 13 December 2018)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1072</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/12/2018 15:27:52 question first ministerially corrected 18/12/2018 17:16:19 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 92203 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
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