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385420

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	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 representations he has received on the potential risk of pensions auto-enrolment packages and products being mis-sold to micro-businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	3933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department continues to work with The Pensions Regulator to support the smallest employers in meeting their automatic enrolment duties as simply and cost effectively as possible. The Regulator has provided guidance for employers on choosing a pension scheme and is continuing to consider how best to support employers in this important decision.</p><p> </p><p>The Government introduced a package of measures in April to strengthen governance in schemes used for automatic enrolment and protect members from high or inappropriate charges. This includes the introduction of a 0.75 per cent cap on charges in the default funds of schemes used for automatic enrolment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/07/2015 13:41:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385419

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	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 support his Department plans to offer micro-businesses in adapting to new automatic enrolment pension provisions; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	3932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department continues to work with The Pensions Regulator to support micro employers in meeting their automatic enrolment duties as simply and cost effectively as possible. This includes working with accountants, bookkeepers, payroll bureaus and other intermediaries to ensure they are ready to support smaller employers effectively.</p><p> </p><p>The first cohort of the smallest employers began to comply with their automatic enrolment duties from 1 June this year. We continue to receive feedback about the experience of employers. We are learning all the time and have adapted and improved the process and the support available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 3931 question first answered 02/07/2015 13:29:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385418

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	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	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 his Department will develop a single and clear set of guidelines for micro-businesses who will be required to automatically enrol their employees with a pension scheme for the first time to ensure that they can access the information they require cost-effectively.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	3931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department continues to work with The Pensions Regulator to support micro employers in meeting their automatic enrolment duties as simply and cost effectively as possible. This includes working with accountants, bookkeepers, payroll bureaus and other intermediaries to ensure they are ready to support smaller employers effectively.</p><p> </p><p>The first cohort of the smallest employers began to comply with their automatic enrolment duties from 1 June this year. We continue to receive feedback about the experience of employers. We are learning all the time and have adapted and improved the process and the support available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 3932 question first answered 02/07/2015 13:29:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385421

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the transport capital infrastructure spending announced in each Budget Statement in each year since 2011 was allocated to each (a) region and (b) constituency of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	4040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>Total public expenditure on transport by country and region is outlined in the HM Treasury Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses series.　 This includes a breakdown of capital expenditure. Transport capital spending by constituency of the UK and by Budget statement is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 01/07/2015 15:02:15 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

385422

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the Challenge Fund has been allocated in each region since that fund was announced.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	4033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>From the £5.8 billion the Department for Transport (DfT) announced in December 2014 to be allocated to local highway authorities in England for highways maintenance between 2015 and 2021, we have allocated £275 million between 2015 and 2017 for a local highways maintenance Challenge Fund for major maintenance projects. We announced on 24 March 2015 those schemes which would receive funding. The allocation by region is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DfT funding £m</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>24.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>53.26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>11.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>50.27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>19.53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>55.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>51.87</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Further information can be found at the following weblink:</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p><a href="http://maps.dft.gov.uk/challenge-fund/index.html" target="_blank">http://maps.dft.gov.uk/challenge-fund/index.html</a></p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>For a selection of schemes, the Department has requested further information from local highway authorities to ensure that they are in a position to proceed. Subject to this, it is expected that the Department would begin to allocate funding to the authorities this summer.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 30/06/2015 14:14:12 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins