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	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	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: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much benefit expenditure was withdrawn through sanctions in each month since May 2010; how many claimants have had benefits withdrawn through sanctions in each of those months; and what the average amount withdrawn through sanctions from a claimant was in each of those months.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	222148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As previously replied and reiterated in the Debate on the matter, the Department doesn’t make an estimate of the amount of benefit that would have been withheld as a result of benefit sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 02/02/2015 12:11:19 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

175976

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	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, how much funding has been allocated to universal credit since June 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	222162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information about the funding allocated to Universal Credit is contained within the document: Universal Credit at Work, published by DWP in October 2014</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 02/02/2015 16:24:59 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

175930

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Savings Bonds: Pensioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what criteria he used to determine eligibility for the Pensioner Bonds scheme; and for what reason the qualifying age was set at 65 years.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	222136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Low interest rates have played an important part in stimulating the recovery over the past few years. But there are those – especially pensioners – who rely on a reasonable rate of interest on their savings as a key source of income in their retirement. Therefore these bonds are designed to support them by providing a good return. 65 years was chosen as the requisite age for the Bonds because at this age in 2015 both men and women will be in receipt of a state pension.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/02/2015 16:09:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead