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693394

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
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	Long Term Unemployed People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress the Government has made in reducing long-term unemployment in areas of high unemployment in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	65085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>According to the Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey, long-term unemployment has fallen nationally by 86,000 (17.5%) over the past 12 months. Equivalent figures are not available below national level due to the limitations of the sample size of the ONS survey.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/02/2017 16:18:38 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

692446

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken to ensure that more women participate in pension schemes and company share ownerships.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	64798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment was designed to help more people save for their retirement, including groups who historically have been less likely to save, such as women and lower earners. The policy is working, with over 7.3 million people enrolled by the end of January 2017. Around two thirds of women are in the eligible target population for automatic enrolment and 10 million workers are estimated to be newly saving or saving more as a result of Automatic Enrolment by 2018, of which 3.6 million are women.</p><p> </p><p>Since the introduction of automatic enrolment, the private sector has seen the largest increases in participation in workplace pensions and by 2014 there was no gender gap in participation. As of 2015 female participation in the private sector had actually risen to a slightly higher level of 70 per cent compared to 69 per cent for male eligible employees. This represents a 30 percentage point increase for women from 2012 (whilst participation for men has increased by 26 percentage points) continuing the upward trend since the introduction of automatic enrolment.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government’s decision to freeze the value of the automatic enrolment earnings trigger at £10,000 in 2017/18 is estimated to result in around 70,000 extra people being brought into automatic enrolment of whom around 50,000 (75 per cent) are women.</p><p> </p><p>As part of my Department’s review of automatic enrolment, which we have embarked on this year, we will look at how we can build on its success so that it continues to meet the needs of individual savers, including women. In addition to considering those not currently benefitting from the policy, this review will look at strengthening the evidence base concerning future contributions, and how we can maximise engagement with work place pension saving.</p><p>The government believes that employee share ownership in its various forms can help drive productivity and increase employee engagement. To support employee share ownership the government provides four tax-advantaged employee share schemes, which provide certain tax benefits for individuals acquiring shares in the company they work for.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 24/02/2017 13:22:29 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

692447

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the ratio of men to women who have applied for auto-enrolment pensions.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	64799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment works by requiring employers to enrol all eligible jobholders in to a workplace pension and make a contribution into it. Eligible jobholders do not need to apply to be automatically enrolled. However, those who are not eligible can ask to join their employer’s pension, known as ‘opting-in’, if they choose. Eligible employees are those who are aged 22 to State Pension age; earn £10,000 per year or more; are not already in a qualifying pension scheme and; who ordinarily work in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Automatic enrolment has been a great success with 7.3 million people enrolled at the end of January 2017. Automatic enrolment is being rolled-out gradually from October 2012 – February 2018 starting with the largest employers down to the smallest. We do not have the data that would show the ratio of men to women within the cohort of people who have already been automatically enrolled. However, there is data available that shows the increases in participation since automatic enrolment began in 2012.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, overall participation of female eligible employees was 58 per cent, compared to male participation at 52 per cent. In 2015, the participation of female eligible employees was 78 per cent with overall male participation at 73 per cent.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 24/02/2017 13:12:19 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

692653

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Jobcentres: Liverpool
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 Proposal for the future of Liverpool Edge Hill and Liverpool Wavertree jobcentres, published in January 2017, (a) how many work coaches will be available to serve claimants who previously used the jobcentres in Wavertree and Edge Hill and (b) for how many hours a week such coaches will be available.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	64888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Detailed site level information on anticipated work coach levels is not yet available, but we are recruiting and expect to have more work coaches in 2018 than we have today.</p><p> </p><p>Our services will continue to be available from Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm and the face to face support our work coaches offer at Jobcentres will remain a core part of the service we deliver.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 24/02/2017 14:39:03 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

692655

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Housing Benefit: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what special provision is made for veterans aged under the age of 25 related to housing benefit eligibility, and how many veterans have benefited from such provision in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	64784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Housing Benefit provisions permit local authorities to disregard beyond the standard disregard of £10 a week the whole or part of any war disablement pensions, war widow’s pensions, war widower’s pensions and guaranteed income payments under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Most local authorities operate a disregard scheme, but as they meet the costs it is a matter for each authority to decide the extent of the disregards they operate.</p><p> </p><p>There are no special provisions in Housing Benefit specifically for veterans under the age of 25, therefore the information requested is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/02/2017 13:29:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

692658

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	Workplace Pensions
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 is taking to increase the amount which people individually save through auto-enrolment into pension schemes.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	64795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>Automatic enrolment into workplace pensions was introduced to enable more people to save for their retirement. At the end of January 2017, more than 7.3 million people had already been automatically enrolled.</p><p> </p><p>Minimum contributions are currently a total of 2 per cent (with at least 1 per cent from the employer). The amount people save through automatic enrolment is already set to increase to 5 per cent (with at least 2 per cent from the employer) in April 2018 and 8 per cent (with at least 3 per cent from the employer) in April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Automatic enrolment has reversed the decline in private pension saving since the last decade. As part of the review of the policy we have embarked on this year, we will look at how we can build on this success. In addition to considering those not currently benefitting from the policy, we will also look at strengthening the evidence base concerning future contributions, and how we can maximise engagement with work place pension saving. <br></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 24/02/2017 13:05:48 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

692659

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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 and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to introduce new rules which will not require reassessments for employment and support allowance for people with severe life-long conditions; and if he will publish the criteria by which severe life-long conditions are defined as such for the purposes of exemption from those assessments.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	64797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>This change will come into effect in Autumn 2017 and will apply to those placed in Employment and Support Allowance’s Support Group and the Universal Credit equivalent.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently working with stakeholders to develop the new criteria and, when finalised, the amended guidance will be incorporated in to the next update to the Work Capability Assessment Handbook published on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/02/2017 12:53:24 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

692660

registered interest
date	21/02/2017
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	ASW: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when (a) he and (b) Ministers of his Department last met representatives of Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme members.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	64781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>No meetings have taken place in this parliament between the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, or his Ministers and representatives of Allied Steel and Wire pension scheme members.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 24/02/2017 12:58:16 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

692068

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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	Long Term Unemployed People: Wolverhampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on tackling long-term unemployment in Wolverhampton North East constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	64511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/02/2017 16:10:39 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

692069

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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	Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assistance his Department provides to people over 55 to help them prepare for retirement.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	64581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The government provides free, impartial guidance, for people aged 50 and over, through Pension Wise, to help them make informed and confident decisions about how they use their defined contribution pension savings in retirement. It is available online, via the telephone and face to face.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 23/02/2017 16:31:30 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon