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437250

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how agreement was sought on how to amend the investment regulations as recommended in the report by the Law Commission, Fiduciary Duties of Investment Intermediaries, published in June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	19619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>Between February and April 2015, the Government consulted on amending the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations in line with the Law Commission’s recommendations. 47 responses were received, from a variety of organisations. While these responses demonstrated some support for changing the regulations, having considered the range of responses the Government concluded that there was not a compelling case to amend these regulations.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 18/12/2015 12:22:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

433592

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Labour Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many civil servants in his Department are in the redeployment pool.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	18347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP does not have a redeployment pool. Currently there are 40 individuals within the Department who are seeking redeployment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/12/2015 13:56:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

432634

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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 take steps to ensure that all UK Pension schemes are aware of (a) the findings of the Law Commission's report on Fiduciary Duties of Investment Intermediaries, published in June 2014, HC 368, and (b) related guidance to be issued by the Pensions Regulator.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	17910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>The Pensions Regulator has already taken steps to ensure that occupational pension schemes are aware of the findings of the Law Commission’s report on fiduciary duties.</p><br /><p>In October 2014 The Pensions Regulator emailed over 37,000 pension scheme trustees to make them aware of the Law Commission’s report, and the guidance produced by the Law Commission on pension trustees’ duties.</p><br /><p>The Pensions Regulator has also updated its ‘trustee toolkit’ training materials to reflect the Law Commission’s findings, and is updating its investment guidance with new material with reflects the Law Commission’s conclusions. This includes the revised Code of Practice and guidance for running defined contribution schemes, which is currently published for consultation.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/12/2015 09:22:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

432055

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish responses to the Government's consultation entitled, Changes to the Investment Regulations following the Law Commission's report, Fiduciary Duties of Investment Intermediaries, published on 26 February 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	17482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government plans to publish these responses shortly. They will be available on the Gov.Uk website.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/12/2015 16:10:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

432056

registered interest
date	24/11/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Employment Agencies
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 cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	17556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The actual Departmental cost of using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in each of the last 5 years is:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>3,944</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13 ¹</p></td><td><p>394,511</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14 ¹</p></td><td><p>362,616</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15 ¹</p></td><td><p>141,232</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>¹ Includes Child Maintenance Group expenditure which joined DWP in August 2012.</p><p>Data excludes NDPBs</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/11/2015 15:31:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

427299

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Debts Written Off
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 3 November 2015 to Question 13612, what the total monetary value is of the debts written off since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	15437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>In 2014-15 overpayments in the benefit system have fallen to a record low. In the same period the Department has recovered over £1.3bn of debt and has written off less than 0.3% (£0.4bn) of the value of all benefit payments. <br>Overpayments are written off for a variety of reasons including cases where the debtor is deceased with no estate. The total value of debts written off from 2010 to 2015 is less than 0.3% (£1.8bn) of the value of all benefit payments during that period.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 15:30:50 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

426251

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
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	Workplace Pensions
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 amend the Investment Regulations for Occupational Pensions Funds to require them to set out within their Statement of Investment Principles their approach to considering environmental, social and governance risks and to stewardship.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	14812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2015 answer text <p>Earlier this year the Government consulted on whether to amend the reference to social, environmental, or ethical considerations ,in the Occupational Pension Schemes (Investment) Regulations 2005, and whether to require trustees to state their approach to the Stewardship Code. The Government plans to respond to this consultation shortly.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/11/2015 14:55:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

426367

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Freedom 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 average time his Department took to respond to freedom of information requests in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	14909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government publishes statistics on the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 within central government, including on timeliness. These can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/11/2015 16:05:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

424394

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases of debt repayment to his Department have been cancelled in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The latest preliminary figures for 2014/15 estimate Fraud and Error levels as £3.2 billion, or 1.9% of benefit expenditure. The net figure after recoveries is £2.3bn, or 1.4%. This means that DWP Fraud and Error is at its lowest ever level.</p><p>We have interpreted this question to mean the volume of debts written off since 2010. The totals represent the number of transactions where debts have been written off either in full or in part, i.e. where some element remains recoverable.</p><p>The vast majority of these transactions are either cases where the Department has no legal right to recover or overpayments under £65 which are not value for money to pursue.</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Year</td><td>2010-11</td><td>2011-12</td><td>2012-13</td><td>2013-14</td><td>2014-15</td><td>To 30 Sept 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Total Write Off</td><td>1,312,421</td><td>1,198,463</td><td>1,513,404</td><td>1,460,734</td><td>1,213,838</td><td>571,008</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/11/2015 13:56:02 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 26905 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

424395

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total value is of outstanding benefit overpayments due to be recovered by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The latest preliminary figures for 2014/15 estimate Fraud and Error levels as £3.2 billion, or 1.9% of benefit expenditure. The net figure after recoveries is £2.3bn, or 1.4%. This means that DWP Fraud and Error is at its lowest ever level.</p><p>The total value of outstanding benefit overpayments as of 1 October 2015 is £2.5 billion. This represents less than 1.5% of the total benefit expenditure of £168 billion for 2014 – 2015.</p><p>The Department recovered over £1.3 billion of debt in 2014-2015, including benefit debts.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/11/2015 10:46:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 26901 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh