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	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Sikhs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Sikhs are employed in her Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department encourages all of its employees to provide details of their personal diversity information. This action is voluntary and information is captured via employee input onto the HR SOP system.</p><p> </p><p>Details on whether someone is a Sikh is captured via input of religious belief information.</p><p> </p><p>As at 31<sup>st</sup> December, 12,211 employees (14.8% of DWP’s workforce), have input information on their religious belief. This includes 166 employees who have recorded their information as Sikh, and 852 employees who chosen the ‘prefer not to say’ option.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2019 12:15:22 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1047096

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many resettled refugee families arriving in the UK since 2015 under the (a) Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme, (b) Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme and (c) Gateway Protection Programme are subject to the benefit cap.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	211734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this data on our administration system for capped households under Housing Benefit or Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2019 13:13:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1047556

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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: Females
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why the Department for Work and Pensions' Independent Case Examiner’s Office has closed its review of complaints regarding the changes in women's state pension age.
	tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
	uin	HL13049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>When a department and independent bodies face a legal case, they have to review whether they continue to assess claims or await determination of the legal case. This has been the policy under all governments, Labour, Coalition, and Conservative, for decades.</p><p>The Independent Case Examiner (ICE) closed all live cases which concerned complaints about the state pension age for women (WASPI) when they became subject to legal proceedings, as is required under its governance contract. In the event the legal proceedings fall away or there is no determination on the matters which form the basis of the WASPI complaints, the ICE could consider reopening the cases at the request of the Department.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 29/01/2019 13:52:41 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1047554

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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: Females
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce transitional state pension arrangements for women born in the 1950s who are adversely affected by the change of the state pension age introduced in (1) the Pensions Act 1995, and (2) the Pensions Act 2011.
	tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
	uin	HL13047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>This matter has been comprehensively debated on many occasions in Parliament. The Government will not be making changes to its policy on State Pension age for women born in the 1950s.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already introduced transitional arrangements, costing £1.1 billion. This concession reduced the proposed increase in State Pension age for over 450,000 men and women, and means that no woman will see her pension age change by more than 18 months, relative to the original 1995 Act timetable.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will not be making any further concessions in addition to those arrangements already made for women affected by the acceleration of increases in State Pension age.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 29/01/2019 13:04:13 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1047555

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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: Females
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many women born in the 1950s and who retired between the age of 60 and the revised state pension age are in receipt of Universal Credit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
	uin	HL13048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The available information is shown below and shows the number of women aged 60 and above who are on Universal Credit by employment status as of December 2018.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of Women on Universal Credit by age group and employment status, December 2018, Great Britain:</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Age group</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Employment Status</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>60-65</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Over 65</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Not in employment</strong></p></td><td><p>25,800</p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>26,003</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>In employment</strong></p></td><td><p>10,181</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>10,223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>35,978</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>36,221</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong> Stat-Xplore, Department for Work and Pensions.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not centrally collate information on a person’s retirement status except when State Pension is being claimed. This would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 29/01/2019 13:47:38 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington