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date	31/10/2014
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: Financial Assistance Scheme
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 estimate the number of members of pension schemes who did not receive a tax-free lump sum on receipt of pension in the few months prior to the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) regulations adopted in April 2010, which allowed members who were not already in receipt of pension payments to give up some of their FAS assistance for a lump sum payment on transfer of the scheme to FAS.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Sandra Osborne
uin	212827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The FAS may pay members of schemes which transfer their assets to government a tax-free lump sum when payments begin, provided their scheme has not paid them during the winding up period. In the three months from January to March 2010, 263 such members were paid a scheme pension and did not receive a tax-free lump sum.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/11/2014 12:33:14 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	576 label Biography information for Sandra Osborne

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date	15/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how long each claimant has waited for the review and completion of a compensation claim under the War Pension and the Armed Forces Compensation System Schemes since the inception of those schemes.
tabling member constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
tabling member printed	Sandra Osborne
uin	210757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The length of time each claimant has waited for the review and completion of a compensation claim under the War Pension and Armed Forces Compensation System since the inception of those schemes, in 1921 and 2005 respectively, is not available and can be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, the information below provides the average length of time taken to process claims under the War Pensions Scheme and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme in each year since 2009. Information before 2009 is not available.<br><br>WAR PENSIONS SCHEME<br>2009-10 45 working days<br>2010-11 39 working days<br>2011-12 51 working days<br>2012-13 82 working days<br>2013-14 110 working days<br>Year to date 103 working days<br><br>ARMED FORCES COMPENSATION SCHEME<br>2009-10 80 working days<br>2010-11 93 working days<br>2011-12 125 working days<br>2012-13 164 working days<br>2013-14 109 working days<br>Year to date 89 working days</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/10/2014 16:19:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	576 label Biography information for Sandra Osborne