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690482

registered interest
date	17/02/2017
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	Sick Leave: Musculoskeletal Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many fit notes were issued to people as a result of musculoskeletal conditions in (a) England and (b) Leeds in (i) 2015 and (ii) 2016.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	64195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>At present we do not hold any data relating to fit notes so are unable to provide the information requested. We are working with NHS Digital towards making anonymised fit note statistics available. These statistics will include information on the main diagnosed condition (ICD-10) and the location of the Clinical Commissioning Group which will allow the number of fit notes issued for both England and Leeds to be identified.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/02/2017 12:37:24 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

690483

registered interest
date	17/02/2017
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, if he will set out a timetable for the automatic enrolment review.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	64197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>On 12 December 2016, I set out the scope of the 2017 review of automatic enrolment. On 8 February 2017 I set out further detail on the review, including its terms of reference and the membership of the external advisory group. We will publish a report to Parliament towards the end of 2017.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 23/02/2017 16:35:40 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

690485

registered interest
date	17/02/2017
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: Musculoskeletal Disorders
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 in (a) England and (b) Leeds are in receipt of employment and support allowance as a result of disability related to a musculoskeletal condition.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	64196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>The information available for the number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants by disability is published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/default.asp</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/newuser.asp</a></p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/02/2017 12:32:28 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

690495

registered interest
date	17/02/2017
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	Sick Leave: Musculoskeletal Disorders
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 in (a) England and (b) Leeds have been signed off work permanently as a result of disability related to a musculoskeletal condition in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	64134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2017 answer text <p>This information is not available.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/02/2017 12:27:29 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

678739

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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 estimate he has made of the number of people excluded from auto-enrolment as a result of changes to the earnings trigger in the Pensions Act 2011 and reviews subsequent to that Act.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	61621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold the information in the format you have requested.</p><p> </p><p>The 2011 Pensions Act implemented workplace pension reform measures from the independent Making Automatic Enrolment Work Review. This sought to simplify the automatic enrolment process where possible, balancing the needs of employers and individual savers.</p><p> </p><p>The Act set out a requirement for the automatic enrolment earnings trigger level to be reviewed every tax year. This provides the opportunity to keep the automatic enrolment thresholds up to date and relevant in light of changing economic circumstances and ensures it continues to strike the right balance between maximising the savings incentives for individuals and minimising costs for employers. In doing this, it pays particular attention to the impact of this on groups currently under-represented in pension saving such as women and low earners. Analysis of the impact on the automatic enrolment target group resulting from each of the annual reviews of the earnings trigger and qualifying earnings band can be found at;</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/automatic-enrolment-earnings-trigger-and-qualifying-earnings-band" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/automatic-enrolment-earnings-trigger-and-qualifying-earnings-band</a></p><p><br></p><p>I announced the decision to freeze the automatic enrolment earnings trigger for 2017/2018 at £10,000 on 12 December 2016. This is estimated to result in an additional 70,000 individuals being brought into automatic enrolment, of which around 50,000 (75 per cent) per are women.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/02/2017 15:14:22 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

678740

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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 estimate he has made of the number of people excluded from auto-enrolment as a result of the introduction of the three-month waiting period in the Pensions Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	61622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>The 2011 Pensions Act implemented workplace pension reform measures from the independent Making Automatic Enrolment Work Review which sought to simplify the automatic enrolment process. One of these measures was the introduction of the option of waiting periods for the automatic enrolment of workers into a workplace pension. This helps to reduce burdens on employers by allowing them the flexibility to postpone automatic enrolment if they have temporary or short-term staff who will stop working within three months, need to align automatic enrolment with their other business processes (e.g., payroll), or for any other business reason, while balancing the risk of individuals being excluded from pension saving for extended periods of time.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note, however, that workers can still ask to join the employer’s workplace pension scheme during the postponement period. Indeed, an IFS study published in November 2016 found evidence of a particularly large increase in workplace pension membership among those who have been with their employer for less than 3 months, of 20 percentage points. <a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/research%20summaries/auto_enrolment_1116.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/research%20summaries/auto_enrolment_1116.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/02/2017 15:07:17 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

678748

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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: Statistics
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 increase the maximum age for teacher deaths in occupational data beyond the age of 74.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	61695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>Occupational mortality analyses, based on national data from death certificates, do not include deaths beyond age 74, whether among former teachers or any other occupation. This is because it is known that the accuracy of occupation information recorded on death certificates declines for older ages so currently the data on the last occupation of the deceased is only coded for those aged 16 to 74 in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to increase the maximum age for which information about last occupation of the deceased – whether for teachers or any other occupation – is included in national data for England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 61694 question first answered 02/02/2017 14:48:04 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

678749

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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: Statistics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons 74 is the maximum age at which occupational data include a teacher death.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	61694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>Occupational mortality analyses, based on national data from death certificates, do not include deaths beyond age 74, whether among former teachers or any other occupation. This is because it is known that the accuracy of occupation information recorded on death certificates declines for older ages so currently the data on the last occupation of the deceased is only coded for those aged 16 to 74 in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to increase the maximum age for which information about last occupation of the deceased – whether for teachers or any other occupation – is included in national data for England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 61695 question first answered 02/02/2017 14:48:04 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

659667

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the level of taper rate in universal credit that would mean that households were no worse off under universal credit than they were under tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	57822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The structures of Universal Credit and the legacy benefit systems are different meaning there will be households with higher notional entitlements, and households with lower notional entitlements whatever the taper rate. However, no household will see a decline in the benefit payments purely as a result of the introduction of Universal Credit</p><p> </p><p>The single universal credit taper means that as people’s earnings increase, their Universal Credit payments reduce at a steady rate, so they can be sure they will always be better off working and earning more. We have also announced a 2% improvement in the Universal Credit single taper meaning more support for hardworking families.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 57825 question first answered 21/12/2016 13:55:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

659668

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the effect on the level of income received by households under universal credit relative to what they received under tax credit if the taper rate for universal credit was set at 55 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	57825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The structures of Universal Credit and the legacy benefit systems are different meaning there will be households with higher notional entitlements, and households with lower notional entitlements whatever the taper rate. However, no household will see a decline in the benefit payments purely as a result of the introduction of Universal Credit</p><p> </p><p>The single universal credit taper means that as people’s earnings increase, their Universal Credit payments reduce at a steady rate, so they can be sure they will always be better off working and earning more. We have also announced a 2% improvement in the Universal Credit single taper meaning more support for hardworking families.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 57822 question first answered 21/12/2016 13:55:11 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves