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789185

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Support for Mortgage Interest: North West Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of people in North West Durham Constituency will be affected by the Support for Mortgage Interest benefit becoming a loan.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	113010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>There are an estimated <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/603004/outturn-and-forecast-spring-budget-2017.ods" target="_blank">124,000 SMI claimants</a>. We are not able to provide estimates of SMI claimants at a constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/11/2017 12:26:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

789187

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2017 to Question 106439, on pensions, other than Master Trusts, if the Government will establish an approved list of regulated pension schemes with regulated underlying investments that are deemed safe; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	112927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>It is not the Government’s role to determine whether the individual underlying investments of pension schemes are safe or not. The Government has, however, legislated to require trustees or managers of occupational pension schemes to ensure the quality and security of their scheme’s investment portfolio. This includes ensuring that scheme assets are predominantly invested in investments admitted to regulated markets.</p><p> </p><p>Pension providers of workplace personal pensions need to be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in order to carry out this activity. The FCA is also responsible for the regulation of the investment market and financial advisers. FCA already holds a register of firms that are or have been regulated by them or the Prudential Regulation Authority. The register is open to the public. FCA also produces a warning list that the public, including trustees, can use to check an investment or pension opportunity to avoid scams.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/11/2017 12:05:42 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

789188

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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, when he will respond to the consultation, Pension Protection Fund: draft regulations to take account of bridging pensions, published on 31 August 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	112928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>This consultation, which closed on 1 October 2017, sought views on the approach to address the bridging pensions anomaly within Pension Protection Fund compensation. The vast majority of consultation respondents agreed that the anomaly should be addressed. However, a significant number were in favour of an alternative approach which more closely reflected the original pension scheme rules and after careful consideration, the Government has decided to proceed with this alternative. On Friday 17 November 2017, my Department launched a technical consultation on the draft regulations to implement this scheme rules based approach.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/11/2017 12:19:49 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

789189

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Work Capability Assessment: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that training offered to those carrying out work capability assessments complies with statutory obligations under the Autism Act 2009.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	112979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The Autism Act 2009 does not impose any specific statutory obligations on DWP or its Providers. The Department is, however, fully committed to improving the services it provides for people with autism. Part of the Department’s Autism Strategy Action Plan focuses on key areas for improvement, including promotion of the autism agenda to our Assessment Provider, Centre for Health and Disability Assessments. In order to improve the skills and knowledge of Healthcare Professionals that undertake Work Capability Assessments, the Department supported the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments in the development of condition specific training on autism which is quality assured by external reviewers.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/11/2017 15:50:57 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

789190

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Employment
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 change in the rate of (a) employment and (b) unemployment since 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	112991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Since May-July 2016, the employment rate has increased by 0.6 percentage points to reach 75.0 per cent in July-September 2016. The unemployment rate has decreased by 0.7 percentage points to 4.3 per cent over the same period, the lowest rate since 1975.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/11/2017 12:13:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

789192

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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: Repayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his Department has issued on the effect of pension clauses.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	112905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on the number of pensioners who have had a reduction to the size of pension pay-outs is not collated centrally and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>This private arrangement is a feature of what are sometimes called integrated pension schemes. These schemes were designed to avoid additional contributions from sponsors and members by taking account of some or all of the State Pension when calculating the amount of occupational pension payable. The arrangement is set out in scheme rules which would have been available to members when they joined the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Such arrangements are not a Department for Work and Pensions matter. There are no plans to legislate to compel schemes to withdraw an integration arrangement. Any retrospective change would impose significant additional unplanned costs. Pension scheme rules on the calculation of benefits are many and varied, and must remain a matter for employers and scheme trustees to decide.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not issued any guidance on the effect of integrated pension schemes. However, there is an information note for Trustees, which is available on The Pensions Regulator website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/docs/changes-state-pension-age-dwp-june-2016.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/docs/changes-state-pension-age-dwp-june-2016.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 112571 112660 question first answered 20/11/2017 14:58:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

789193

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Work Capability Assessment: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether people administering work capability assessments are required to undertake training on autism and autistic spectrum disorders; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	112878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>All Healthcare Professionals conducting Work Capability Assessments receive extensive training regarding autism spectrum disorders as part of their initial new entrant training. This training programme includes simulated assessments covering claimants with autism and learning disabilities to allow Healthcare Professionals to develop appropriate consultation skills. All Healthcare Professionals have access to condition specific information on autism which is quality assured by external reviewers. Healthcare Professionals are further supported by Functional Champions who are available to provide advice to Healthcare Professionals on particular conditions including autism before, during or after an assessment.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/11/2017 15:48:03 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

789314

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of personal independence payment claimants are successful on appeal at tribunal.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Laura Pidcock
uin	113054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Between April 2013 and June 2016, the latest dates for which data is available, 4% of Personal Independence Payment decisions were overturned at appeal.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/11/2017 15:43:06 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4665 label Biography information for Laura Pidcock

789316

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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	Rents: Young People
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 aged 18 to 21 currently receive help with rent in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency, (b) the North West and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	113053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. Data will become available as this policy area matures.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/11/2017 12:16:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

789321

registered interest
date	14/11/2017
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: Telephone Services
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 Answers of 9 November 2017 to Question 111087 on telephone services, how many of his Department's telephone lines are (a) 01, 02 or 03, (b) chargeable 08, (c) 0800 or 0808, (d) 084, (e) 087 and (f) any other numbers.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	113076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The breakdown of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) telephone numbers is as follows;</p><p> </p><p>a) There are approximately 80,000 01, 02 telephone numbers that are a mixture of public facing and internal telephone numbers. There are 296 0345 telephone numbers and 18 0300 lines;</p><p>b) DWP does not use any paid 08 telephone numbers;</p><p>c) 74 0800 lines and four 0808 telephone numbers;</p><p>d) DWP has 298 0845 telephone numbers that are no longer in use. Anyone that dials one of our old 0845 telephone numbers will hear a recorded message advising them to redial the 0345 alternative. There is no charge for this call.</p><p>e) DWP does not use any 087 telephone numbers; and</p><p>f) No other numbering ranges are used by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/11/2017 12:09:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane