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810025

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Welfare State: Reform
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they have taken to assess the impact of welfare reforms since 2012 on homelessness; and if such assessments have been undertaken, what were the conclusions.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL4371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The causes of homelessness are numerous and complex. There is currently no clear evidence of the impact of welfare reform amongst all of the other potential causes of homelessness; homelessness reflects a combination of individual, local and national factors. The Department for Work and Pensions will continue to work with the Department for Communities and Local Government to improve our understanding of local housing markets and welfare reform, helping us evaluate fully the causes of homelessness. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced on 30 November 2017 that his Department, working with Department for Work and Pensions, will be commissioning a feasibility study to determine how we can carry out robust and useful research into the causes of homelessness and rough sleeping.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 08/01/2018 13:30:02 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

810058

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Workplace Pensions: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the outcome was of the Government's consultation entitled Defined Benefits Schemes: Security and Sustainability which ended on 14 May 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	120524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government published a consultation entitled Security and Sustainability in Defined Benefit Schemes on 20 February 2017. The 12-week consultation closed on 14 May 2017. Over 800 responses were received from pension scheme members (active and deferred), pensioners, scheme trustees, employers and national pension associations. We are in the process of analysing these results and we will publish a white paper in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/01/2018 12:22:24 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

810059

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Pensions: Uprating
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 bring forward legislative proposals to require all pension schemes to index according to inflation for pre-1997 components of defined benefit pensions.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	120525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>If a pensioner’s pre-1997 defined benefit pension rights include a Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) earned after April 1988, that element must be increased by inflation, capped at 3 per cent.</p><p> </p><p>Defined benefit pensions accrued after 1997 are subject to statutory limited price indexation: inflation capped at 5 per cent for pensions accrued between April 1997 and April 2005 and inflation capped at 2.5 per cent for pensions accrued after April 2005.</p><p> </p><p>We have no plans to change this.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/01/2018 12:13:35 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

810102

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Arrears
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a claimant is provided by his Department with a written breakdown of monies paid in cases where welfare arrears are paid to that claimant.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	120568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>What a claimant receives varies depending on the benefit being claimed. However, the Department can provide a breakdown of arrears if a claimant or their representative requests one.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/01/2018 11:07:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

810141

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Universal Credit: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many responsible carers with children have been sanctioned under the universal credit provisions in the last four quarters.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	120607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 08/01/2018 16:20:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

810169

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what cost benefit analysis his Department uses to measure the effectiveness of the Access to Work programme.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	120635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>We are in the process of commissioning a piece of feasibility work to investigate robust methods for estimating the quantitative impact of Access to Work on employment entry and retention</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/01/2018 14:26:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

810170

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recommendations advanced in independent reviews of the operation of (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment support allowance his Department has (i) accepted and (ii) implemented.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	120636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government has welcomed the publication of both the first and second statutory Independent Reviews of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) carried out by Paul Gray. Paul Gray made a total of twenty-eight recommendations and the Government has accepted or partially accepted all of them.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its response to the second Independent Review on 18 December 2017. Annexes A and B in our response sets out the progress we have made since the first Independent Review on implementing the recommendations and what we will do next to further improve PIP .</p><p> </p><p>The DWP had a statutory commitment to independently review the Employment and Support Allowance Work Capability Assessment (WCA) annually for the first five years. Professor Malcolm Harrington carried out the first three Independent Reviews and Dr Paul Litchfield carried out the remaining two. In all, the Department accepted and implemented over 100 recommendations.</p><p>The Government responses to the Independent Reviews of PIP can be found at:</p><p>The first response to the first review -<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessments-first-independent-review-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessments-first-independent-review-government-response</a></p><p>The second response to the first review – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessments-first-independent-review-second-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessments-first-independent-review-second-government-response</a></p><p>The response to the second review - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessment-second-independent-review-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-pip-assessment-second-independent-review-government-response</a></p><p>The Government responses to the reviews of the WCA can be found at:</p><p>Year 1 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-1" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-1</a></p><p>Year 2 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-2</a></p><p>Year 3 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-3" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-3</a></p><p>Year 4 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-4</a></p><p>Year 5 - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-5" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-the-work-capability-assessment-independent-review-year-5</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/01/2018 14:47:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

810173

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations
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 publish the total number of people who were awarded a score of zero in the assessment of the (a) mobility and (b) daily living components of the personal independence payment in each month of the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	120639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The table below gives statistics on the number of cases given a total of zero points at assessment for the a) mobility and b) daily living components of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in each month for 1<sup>st</sup> November 2016 to 31<sup>st</sup> October 2017, the most recent twelve months for which data is available.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 – number of cases scoring zero points at assessment for PIP</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Zero mobility, non-zero daily living</p></td><td><p>Zero daily living, non-zero mobility</p></td><td><p>Zero mobility and zero daily living</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 2016</p></td><td><p>6,430</p></td><td><p>460</p></td><td><p>11,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2016</p></td><td><p>5,070</p></td><td><p>370</p></td><td><p>8,890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 2017</p></td><td><p>5,760</p></td><td><p>460</p></td><td><p>9,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 2017</p></td><td><p>5,100</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>9,420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 2017</p></td><td><p>5,930</p></td><td><p>440</p></td><td><p>10,860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 2017</p></td><td><p>4,660</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>8,290</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2017</p></td><td><p>5,980</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>11,720</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2017</p></td><td><p>6,350</p></td><td><p>520</p></td><td><p>12,930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2017</p></td><td><p>6,700</p></td><td><p>630</p></td><td><p>13,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug 2017</p></td><td><p>5,680</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>12,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep 2017</p></td><td><p>5,540</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>12,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 2017</p></td><td><p>6,940</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>15,320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>70,150</p></td><td><p>5,780</p></td><td><p>137,380</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: PIP Computer System</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/01/2018 14:43:09 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

810199

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	Older Workers
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 have been helped to (a) remain in and (b) return to work by the Fuller Working Lives initiative in (i) the UK, (ii) Wales and (iii) Gower constituency.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	120665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The data requested is not held, however the number of older workers in the UK currently stands at 10 million workers aged 50 years with over 8.8 million individuals aged 50-64 in employment; an increase of 1.2 million people compared to five years ago. There are 1.2 million individuals in employment aged 65 and over.</p><p> </p><p>Employment rates for older workers have also been increasing steadily. In the past ten years, the employment rate for people aged 50-64 has increased by 6.0 percentage points (from 65.2% in 2007 to 71.2% in 2017). The employment rate for individuals aged 65 and over has almost doubled to 10.1%, from 5.1% twenty years ago.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on estimates of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other employment-related statistics for the UK can be found in the “UK labour market: December 2017” statistical bulletin published at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/december2017" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/december2017</a></p><p> </p><p>Further information on labour market statistics for separate UK countries, as well as local areas, can be found at the NOMIS website:</p><p><a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to supporting people aged 50 years and over to remain in and return to work; the ‘Fuller Working Lives: A Partnership Approach’ strategy was published on 2nd February. This, crucially, is led by employers, but it also sets out the case for action by individuals, and the role of Government in supporting them in planning their careers and their approach to retirement. The Strategy and supporting evidence base are available at the attached web address:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fuller-working-lives-a-partnership-approach" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fuller-working-lives-a-partnership-approach</a></p><p> </p><p>Analysis on the headline measures that the government uses to monitor progress on Fuller Working Lives can be found in this statistical release:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/economic-labour-market-status-of-individuals-aged-50-and-over-trends-over-time-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/economic-labour-market-status-of-individuals-aged-50-and-over-trends-over-time-september-2017</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 08/01/2018 16:10:04 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

810207

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
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	State Retirement Pensions
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) Gower, (b) Wales and (c) the UK are not eligible for the new state pension due to having less than 10 years of national insurance contributions.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	120673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The New State Pension was introduced for those persons reaching State Pension age on, or after, 6<sup>th</sup> April 2016. Our latest data on the number of qualifying years people have are for the 2015/16 financial year, so we do not yet have any data on the numbers of people reaching State Pension age under the New State Pension with less than 10 years of National Insurance contributions.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 08/01/2018 16:05:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi