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1713600

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
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 make an assessment of the potential impact of the rules on the level of National Insurance contributions that are required to receive the full State Pension on people who contracted out.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	23598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>In January 2016, the Department published an impact assessment titled “<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a803fde40f0b62302692669/impact-of-new-state-pension-longer-term-reserach.pdf" target="_blank">Impact of New State Pension (nSP) on an Individual’s Pension Entitlement – Longer Term Effects of nSP</a>”. This included an assessment of the impact that contracting out could have on an individual’s ability to achieve the full rate of the new State Pension.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 29/04/2024 15:48:35 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1694919

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
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 7 March 2024 to Question 16811 on State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions, how many days his Department took on average to reassess a citizen's claim to state pensions following notification of an updated National Insurance record by HMRC in the latest year for which data is available; and how many people waited more than one month for their claim to be reassessed in that period.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	17905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>This information is only available at disproportionate cost to The Department for Work &amp; Pensions as the Department does not have a business requirement for this information to be retained.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 18/03/2024 16:54:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1693395

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
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 make it his policy to (a) collect and (b) publish management information on the number of people who have (i) had changes to their National Insurance record and (ii) are waiting to have their state pension calculation updated.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	16811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>DWP does not publish this information as changes to a citizen’s National Insurance Record forms part of HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) function. When DWP receives notification from HMRC of a change in a citizen’s National Insurance record, DWP reviews the State Pension claim accordingly.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The vast majority of changes to a citizen’s National Insurance Record are processed by DWP within days. However, more complex cases requiring specialist caseworkers can take longer to resolve.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 07/03/2024 14:30:33 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1642656

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of people who will be eligible to purchase extra state pension top-ups by 31 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	188377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The State Pension top up was a scheme introduced on 12 October 2015 and ran until 5 April 2017. The scheme allowed people who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016 to obtain extra State Pension income for life by making a voluntary lump sum National Insurance contribution (class 3A). Data was published <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666282/state-pension-top-up-12-oct-2015-to-17-sept-2017.pdf" target="_blank">State Pension top up: 12 Oct 2015 to 17 Sept 2017 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> that shows that 13,200 people purchased State Pension top ups. The scheme ended on 5 April 2017, so no further people will be eligible to purchase State Pension top ups by 31 July 2023.Please note, this is a different scheme to VNICs.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 188378 question first answered 15/06/2023 09:13:51 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1642657

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an estimate of the number of people who have purchased extra state pension top-ups since 12th October 2015.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	188378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The State Pension top up was a scheme introduced on 12 October 2015 and ran until 5 April 2017. The scheme allowed people who reached State Pension age before 6 April 2016 to obtain extra State Pension income for life by making a voluntary lump sum National Insurance contribution (class 3A). Data was published <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666282/state-pension-top-up-12-oct-2015-to-17-sept-2017.pdf" target="_blank">State Pension top up: 12 Oct 2015 to 17 Sept 2017 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> that shows that 13,200 people purchased State Pension top ups. The scheme ended on 5 April 2017, so no further people will be eligible to purchase State Pension top ups by 31 July 2023.Please note, this is a different scheme to VNICs.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 188377 question first answered 15/06/2023 09:13:51 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1640625

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a compensation scheme for people who paid national insurance contributions when they were aged between 14 and 15 between 1947 and 1957 who have fallen short of the qualifying years for the full state pension by two years or less.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	187000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to assess the merits of introducing a compensation scheme. Following the fundamental reforms of the National Insurance scheme in 1975 the law provided that only paid contributions and credits from the year in which a person reached age 16 to the year before the one in which they reached state pension age should count for the purposes of entitlement to the state pension. The Government has no plans to review the position reached by Parliament and which has been in place for over 40 years.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 05/06/2023 11:19:06 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1602872

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what process is being used to manually correct the NI records for current or former Universal Credit claimants nearing State Pension age; and what steps are being taken to ensure no individuals become eligible to claim their State Pension without their records having been corrected.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	162296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department has been working with HMRC to resolve this issue. We expect NI records will be fully updated by HMRC over the course of 2023/24, any State Pension entitlement will be reassessed, and any underpayment addressed accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/03/2023 13:04:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 62108 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1601817

registered interest
date	07/03/2023
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of (a) extending the transitional arrangements for buying missing national insurance contributions beyond 5 April 2023 and (b) increasing staffing for the relevant HMRC and Pension Centre Helplines.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	160459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2023 answer text <p>I am pleased to confirm that a Written Ministerial Statement (<a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2023-03-07/hcws608" target="_blank">Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament</a>) was made on 7 March 2023 by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury confirming that the deadline for contributions has been extended to 31 July. This is to ensure customers do not miss out on the opportunity to make voluntary NICs for the period between 5 April 2006 to the end of the 2016/17 tax year. All voluntary NICs payments for this period will now be accepted at the existing 2022/23 rates until the 31 July 2023. This extension allows HMRC and DWP the time to process enquiries and payments to ensure people’s State Penson eligibility can be maximised.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 15/03/2023 14:17:01 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1314852

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women (i) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension by paying National Insurance Contributions, (ii) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension through National Insurance credits and (iii) did not build up a qualifying year towards the state pension in (A) 2011-12 and (B) the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	1397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2021 answer text <p>We do not have the specific data. However, the Local Labour Market Statistics of 2019 provides us with a 1% sample data. If that was to be scaled to 100% the probability is that the 100% data would show the following:</p><p> </p><p>The tables below show a breakdown of how qualifying years were built up for the tax years 2011/12 and 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions only</strong></p></td><td><p>13,851,200</p></td><td><p>11,157,100</p></td><td><p><strong>25,008,300</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Credits only</strong></p></td><td><p>2,352,600</p></td><td><p>3,047,500</p></td><td><p><strong>5,400,100</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions and Credits</strong></p></td><td><p>445,700</p></td><td><p>840,200</p></td><td><p><strong>1,285,900</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,649,500</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,044,800</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31,694,300</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No full qualifying year</strong></p></td><td><p>2,546,600</p></td><td><p>2,027,500</p></td><td><p>4,574,100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions only</strong></p></td><td><p>13,863,400</p></td><td><p>12,378,800</p></td><td><p><strong> 26,242,200 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Credits only</strong></p></td><td><p>1,518,900</p></td><td><p>2,918,300</p></td><td><p><strong> 4,437,200 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions and Credits</strong></p></td><td><p>210,300</p></td><td><p>682,700</p></td><td><p><strong> 893,000 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 15,592,600 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 15,979,800 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 31,572,400 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No full qualifying year</strong></p></td><td><p>2,168,900</p></td><td><p>2,017,100</p></td><td><p>4,186,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The line ‘NI Contributions and Credits’ indicates where a qualifying year includes some periods of contributions and some of credits within the year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The line ‘No full qualifying year’ refers to those individuals who may have had some contributions or credits recorded, but did not build a qualifying year in the respective years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/06/2021 10:12:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1314611

registered interest
date	13/05/2021
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	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reforming the qualification criteria for the State Pension to include part year National Insurance contributions.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	1048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2021 answer text <p>There are no plans to change the National Insurance qualifying year definitions for State Pension purposes.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 18/05/2021 12:59:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield