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49482

registered interest
date	01/05/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in budgeting loans was spent in each region of the UK in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	197592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1 provides the Budgeting Loan expenditure in each region of Great Britain in the financial years from 2008/09 to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding annual expenditure for Social Fund schemes in Northern Ireland is a matter for Northern Ireland office and is not included in the figures below. Figures are therefore given for Great Britain and not the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Budgeting Loan expenditure by region between 2008/09 and 2013/14</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Budgeting Loan Expenditure per Region (£ million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008/09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>28.4</p></td><td><p>30.3</p></td><td><p>27.9</p></td><td><p>29.1</p></td><td><p>30.0</p></td><td><p>27.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>30.4</p></td><td><p>34.8</p></td><td><p>33.1</p></td><td><p>33.2</p></td><td><p>34.2</p></td><td><p>30.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>64.0</p></td><td><p>64.9</p></td><td><p>58.9</p></td><td><p>57.5</p></td><td><p>54.0</p></td><td><p>47.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>31.2</p></td><td><p>34.3</p></td><td><p>31.9</p></td><td><p>32.6</p></td><td><p>33.8</p></td><td><p>31.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>69.6</p></td><td><p>72.4</p></td><td><p>65.1</p></td><td><p>65.3</p></td><td><p>69.0</p></td><td><p>62.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>49.0</p></td><td><p>51.9</p></td><td><p>48.5</p></td><td><p>48.3</p></td><td><p>49.2</p></td><td><p>44.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>36.3</p></td><td><p>38.1</p></td><td><p>36.6</p></td><td><p>37.1</p></td><td><p>37.7</p></td><td><p>33.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>24.6</p></td><td><p>27.1</p></td><td><p>23.9</p></td><td><p>23.5</p></td><td><p>23.3</p></td><td><p>21.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>28.7</p></td><td><p>30.8</p></td><td><p>27.9</p></td><td><p>27.8</p></td><td><p>28.3</p></td><td><p>26.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>49.1</p></td><td><p>53.1</p></td><td><p>49.3</p></td><td><p>48.5</p></td><td><p>48.7</p></td><td><p>45.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>43.5</p></td><td><p>44.4</p></td><td><p>43.0</p></td><td><p>44.6</p></td><td><p>47.1</p></td><td><p>44.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>454.9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>482.3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>445.9</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>447.5</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>455.3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>416.3</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>1. The information provided is (internal)Management Information. Our preference is to answer all Parliamentary Questions using Official / National Statistics but in this case we only have Management Information available. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official / National statistics, nor does it include the same depth of information. For example the MI does not include expenditure on applications which were processed clerically and have not been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</p><p> </p><p>2. All figures have been rounded to the nearest £100,000. Figures may not sum due to rounding.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

49511

registered interest
date	01/05/2014
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
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 number of businesses in Brigg and Goole constituency that will be issued with staging dates for automatic enrolment between 1 April 2014 and 1 April 2015.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	197610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave the hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon Julian Smith on 30 April, Official Report, Column 729W.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

49247

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter dated 5 March 2014 from the Minister of State for Pensions to the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make national insurance credits available for past periods for service spouses; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	197415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Subject to Royal Assent of the Pensions Bill a duty will be placed on the Secretary of State to make regulations to allow service spouses and civil partners, due to reach State Pension age from 6 April 2016, to apply for National Insurance credits for periods during which they accompanied their husband, wife or civil partner on a posting outside the UK. The regulations will make provision to allow credits for periods between 1975/76 and 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the Ministry of Defence on the finer details of the scheme including the manner in which applications will need to be made and the precise date when the administrative arrangements will be in place.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that up to 20,000 individuals could have a higher single-tier pension from these credits as some individuals may, at state pension age, already have sufficient qualifying years to gain a full single-tier pension.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 197416 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

49248

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter dated 5 March 2014 from the Minister of State for Pensions to the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth, what estimate he has made of the number of service spouses who will be affected by his plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make national insurance credits available for past periods for service spouses.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	197416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Subject to Royal Assent of the Pensions Bill a duty will be placed on the Secretary of State to make regulations to allow service spouses and civil partners, due to reach State Pension age from 6 April 2016, to apply for National Insurance credits for periods during which they accompanied their husband, wife or civil partner on a posting outside the UK. The regulations will make provision to allow credits for periods between 1975/76 and 2010.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the Ministry of Defence on the finer details of the scheme including the manner in which applications will need to be made and the precise date when the administrative arrangements will be in place.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that up to 20,000 individuals could have a higher single-tier pension from these credits as some individuals may, at state pension age, already have sufficient qualifying years to gain a full single-tier pension.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 197415 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

49282

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what powers the Child Maintenance Service has to address non-compliance by employers with a notice of deduction of earnings; and how many cases have there been of such non-compliance in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
uin	197378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>It is a criminal offence under section 32 (8) of the Child Support Act 1991 not to comply with a deduction from earnings order. Failure to comply may result in enforcement action being taken against the employer, which can include a fine of up to £500.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The 2012 child maintenance scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, was opened to all new applicants on 25 November 2013. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics for this scheme. When 2012 system data become available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to cases on the 1993 and 2003 schemes operated by the Child Support Agency (CSA), it is not possible to specify the exact number of instances of non compliance with these orders. This is due to the fact that while data are collected on the numbers of deduction from earnings orders not receiving payment, this can be for reasons other than non-compliance, including time delays of the employer implementing the request and the time to action a change in employment circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>However, information on the number of prosecutions under section 32(8) of the Child Support Act 1991 in cases on the 1993 and 2003 schemes can be found on page 48 of the CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics at the following link:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-december-2013</a>.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

48937

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recovery actions in respect of child support arrears owed to the parent residing in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency were (a) commenced, (b) concluded successfully and (c) suspended in the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	196988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Information on the number of recovery actions in respect of child support arrears owed to the parent with care in the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency is not available as it is not routinely recorded for management information purposes. To provide this would require the creation of new information which could only be completed and appropriately assured at a disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information regarding enforcement actions undertaken by the Child Support Agency (CSA) is published on page 48 of the CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics. This can be found at the following link:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-december-2013</a>.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

48993

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much remains outstanding in child maintenance arrears by (a) UK parliamentary constituency area and (b) local authority area in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	197190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Information on the amount of child maintenance arrears owed by (a) UK parliamentary constituency will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>The information on child maintenance arrears by (b) local authority area is already published and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284686/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_dec13.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284686/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_dec13.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>The table contains outstanding arrears figures as at December 2012 and December 2013 broken down by each local authority. Although arrears figures are available in previously published versions of the regional tables (available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2</a>) these figures are not comparable due to a different methodology.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

49009

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
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 made requests of the pension tracing service to find lost pension pots in each year since May 2010; and how many of these were successful.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Gregg McClymont
uin	197021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Table below shows the total number of Pension Trace requests and those which were successful. Successful Pension Traces are where we are able to provide a customer with contact details of the pension administrator for the particular company or employer they had worked for.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1<sup>st</sup> April 10 to 31<sup>st</sup> March 11</p></td><td><p>Total 76,453 Successful 66,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1<sup>st</sup> April 11 to 31<sup>st</sup> March 12</p></td><td><p>Total 77,757 Successful 67,068</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1<sup>st</sup> April 12 to 31<sup>st</sup> March 13</p></td><td><p>Total 107,335 Successful 94,354</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1<sup>st</sup> April 13 to 31<sup>st</sup> March 14</p></td><td><p>Total 144,169 Successful 126,904</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p> </p><p>The data is from the Pension Tracing System</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont

49010

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
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 to the average UK saver of delaying the pensions charge cap from April 2014 to April 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Gregg McClymont
uin	197020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>There has been no delay to the default fund charge cap. The Government has announced that it will put in place a charge cap set at 0.75% of funds under management for the default funds of all schemes used for automatic enrolment from April 2015. This means we will deliver on the timetable in our consultation document to have a full cap for all qualifying schemes in place by April 2015.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3949 label Biography information for Gregg McClymont

49057

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
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 takes into account the differences in the positions of men and women in preparing for retirement when devising its policy on pensions.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	197054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Yes. The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to fully meeting our legal obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty, which is part of the Equality Act 2010. We have embedded equality analysis into the processes we use to develop, deliver and evaluate our policies, practices and services. This ensures that we continue to assess the likely and actual effects of what we do on people with protected characteristics to help inform our decision making processes.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie