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428225

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date	13/11/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Industrial Disputes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the value of economic output lost as a result of industrial action in the transport sector in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	16180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>Industrial action in the transport sector has significant and serious disruptive impacts to the country. Indicative analysis undertaken by the Department for Transport to understand the potential immediate costs to the wider economy from a one-off 24 hour National Rail Strike estimated those costs to be around £80million.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 23/11/2015 14:03:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

428228

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date	13/11/2015
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: LGBT+ People
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 extend occupational pensions to include widows from same sex married couples in the same way as widows from other married couples are currently included.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	16179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is considering the findings of the statutory review into survivor benefits in occupational pension schemes that was required by section 16 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. The Review provided important information on the benefits, costs and other effects of eliminating or reducing differences in survivor benefit provision.</p><br /><p>The Government will respond to the Review in due course.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/11/2015 11:59:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

428232

registered interest
date	13/11/2015
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	Welfare Reform and Work Bill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department will provide a definition of the term vulnerable group for the purposes of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill; and with whom his Department will consult on that definition.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	16181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>Our reforms aim to ensure that work always pays more than a life on benefits; that the system is fair to those who pay for it, as well as those who benefit from it; and that support is focused on the most vulnerable which is why we are protecting pensioner benefits and payments for the additional costs of care and disability.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/11/2015 14:47:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett