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1685223

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date	25/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cost of Living: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of increases in the cost of living on rural households.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	901282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to helping people who need it the most, wherever they are. Distributional analysis published at Autumn Statement 2023 shows that low-income households will receive the largest benefit as a percentage of income from government decisions.</p><p> </p><p>Taken together, cost of living support to households is worth £104 billion, or £3,700 per household on average, across 2022-25.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 01/02/2024 08:16:56 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1645752

registered interest
date	19/06/2023
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: Regulation
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 adequacy of legislation on private pension schemes for (a) support for pensioners during the cost-of-living crisis and (b) introducing an ethics code in the decision of payments.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	190219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>Employers have legal obligations to provide minimum levels of pension provision for certain groups of employees. As long as they comply with those obligations it is up to the individual employer to decide on the nature of the scheme and the exact benefits which are provided.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 27/06/2023 12:48:33 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1645753

registered interest
date	19/06/2023
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: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the merits of pension regulatory regimes of EU member states.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	190220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>We continually engage and learn from international work, including on the latest developments and findings on the pension regimes in EU member states. This routinely informs policy development in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 27/06/2023 15:07:46 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith