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1105110

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	National Insurance Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what benefits credits for approved training, as defined by Section 7 of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 SI 1975/556, were valid for (a) on 26 March 2019 and (b) in 2002.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	237039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>On 26 March 2019, as in 2002, the regulations provide for a person to be credited with earnings for the purposes of entitlement to any benefit for a period where they were undertaking a course of ‘approved training’ as defined.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/04/2019 14:27:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1105111

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	National Insurance Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the age restriction is for credits for approved training under Section 7 of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 SI 1975/556.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	237040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>A person must have reached the age of 18 before the beginning of the tax year in which the course of approved training began.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/04/2019 16:08:07 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1105112

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	National Insurance Credits
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 National Insurance Contributions Series CA12 Training for further employment and your National Insurance record and Section 7 of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 SI 1975/556, whether National Insurance credits for approved training can used towards the Second Contribution Condition for Incapacity Benefit.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	237041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>A person undertaking training approved by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions will be awarded Class 1 National Insurance credits. These credits would have helped to satisfy the second contribution condition for Incapacity Benefit before it was abolished.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/04/2019 12:06:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1086634

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	National Insurance Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether credits for approved training can be used towards (a) the second contribution condition for contribution-based employment and support allowance and (b) contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	230695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>A person undertaking training approved by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions will be awarded Class 1 National Insurance credits. These credits will help to satisfy the second contribution condition for both contributory Employment and Support Allowance and contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/03/2019 16:11:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1054786

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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 plans he has to provide support to UK citizens in receipt of EU pensions in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	216200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK State Pension will continue to be paid worldwide when the UK leaves the EU.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Withdrawal Agreement guarantees that those UK citizens who are within its scope can continue to receive state pensions paid by other EU Member States. In the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the Government has guaranteed that EU citizens resident in the UK by 29 March 2019 will be able to work, study, and access benefits and services on broadly the same terms as now. The Government continues to urge the EU and all its Member States to make the same commitment to protect the rights of UK nationals.</p><p> </p><p>In a Communication COM(2018) 890 on 19 December 2018, the European Commission calls on Member States to protect social security entitlements acquired by citizens who exercised their right to free movement prior to 30 March 2019. This includes exporting State Pensions to UK nationals who acquired these pension entitlements from Member States prior to that date.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 216201 question first answered 11/02/2019 12:35:38 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1054789

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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 contingency plans her Department has to support UK citizens receiving pensions from EU Member States who cannot access those pensions in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	216201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK State Pension will continue to be paid worldwide when the UK leaves the EU.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Withdrawal Agreement guarantees that those UK citizens who are within its scope can continue to receive state pensions paid by other EU Member States. In the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the Government has guaranteed that EU citizens resident in the UK by 29 March 2019 will be able to work, study, and access benefits and services on broadly the same terms as now. The Government continues to urge the EU and all its Member States to make the same commitment to protect the rights of UK nationals.</p><p> </p><p>In a Communication COM(2018) 890 on 19 December 2018, the European Commission calls on Member States to protect social security entitlements acquired by citizens who exercised their right to free movement prior to 30 March 2019. This includes exporting State Pensions to UK nationals who acquired these pension entitlements from Member States prior to that date.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 216200 question first answered 11/02/2019 12:35:38 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

828905

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
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: Drinking Water
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money her Department has spent on bottled water in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	124517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department introduced a policy several years ago to move away from free standing water chillers with plastic bottles. Instead, where water chillers are required to meet a business need, a plumbed-in supply is normally used.</p><p>There remains a very small number of sites where a plumbed-in supply is not practicable, and in these cases, local arrangements may have been made for water chillers. However, no information is held centrally.</p><p>Prior to the policy change, bottled water would have been provided for business meetings as part of any wider refreshment cost, and cannot be identified separately. Water now provided for official meetings is no longer supplied in plastic bottles; refillable glass bottles or water jugs are provided.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 31/01/2018 11:41:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

824575

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on benefit appeals in each year since 2010 by type of benefit payment.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	123376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Department has previously published average costs of PIP and ESA mandatory reconsiderations and appeals, which covers direct staff costs only (see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-pensions-select-committee-pip-and-esa-assessments-inquiry-supporting-statistics" target="_blank">Table 24 of Work and Pensions Select Committee PIP and ESA assessments inquiry: supporting statistics</a>).</p><p> </p><p>The total that DWP has spent on mandatory reconsiderations and appeals includes high level support costs such as management and corporate overheads. These costs cannot be split out from overall Departmental spending on benefit payments, and therefore total Departmental spend on mandatory reconsideration and appeal is not available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123377 question first answered 22/01/2018 14:06:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

824576

registered interest
date	17/01/2018
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: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on mandatory reconsiderations in each year since 2010, by type of benefit payment.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	123377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Department has previously published average costs of PIP and ESA mandatory reconsiderations and appeals, which covers direct staff costs only (see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/work-and-pensions-select-committee-pip-and-esa-assessments-inquiry-supporting-statistics" target="_blank">Table 24 of Work and Pensions Select Committee PIP and ESA assessments inquiry: supporting statistics</a>).</p><p> </p><p>The total that DWP has spent on mandatory reconsiderations and appeals includes high level support costs such as management and corporate overheads. These costs cannot be split out from overall Departmental spending on benefit payments, and therefore total Departmental spend on mandatory reconsideration and appeal is not available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123376 question first answered 22/01/2018 14:06:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

804507

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
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	Food Banks
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 visit (a) a food bank or (b) a soup kitchen in his capacity as Secretary of State in December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	118709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>There are no such plans.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/12/2017 15:12:55 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron