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89983

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2014
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance
	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) the UK, (b) the South West and (c) Bristol North West constituency are unemployed but unable to claim jobseeker's allowance because they are deemed to have a sufficient level of personal savings.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	207604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 04/09/2014 11:23:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

454337

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average financial cost is to an individual woman who has seen her state pension age increased by the maximum 18 months.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	28107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 October 1954 will have their state pension age increased by the maximum 18 months.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to assess the income of every individual due to their differing characteristics. The impact on a small number of hypothetical cases was modelled for the 2011 Pensions Act Impact Assessment.</p><p> </p><p>These show how women born in 1954, affected by the maximum 18 months increase, could see their total state and private pension income change, compared to the previously legislated timetable.</p><p> </p><p>Women who continue to work will also receive additional income from employment. It may also be possible for women to receive other working age benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The impacts can be found in Table 8 of Annex A of the Impact Assessment at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2011-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2011-impact-assessment</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department published analysis on the impact of the new State Pension (nSP) in January 2016 showing that three million women gain on average over £11pw extra State Pension by 2030:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-state-pension-impact-on-an-individuals-pension-entitlement-longer-term-effects" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-state-pension-impact-on-an-individuals-pension-entitlement-longer-term-effects</a></p><p>On average women will still receive 10% more new State Pension than men over their lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>The change in State Pension age is designed to equalise State Pension age between men and women and to remove a long standing inequality, while the new State Pension improves outcomes for women, bringing forward by a decade the point at which women have equivalent State Pension outcomes to men (by the early 2040s instead of the early-2050s).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/03/2016 16:50:27 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

480673

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2016
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on jobseeker's allowance claimants taking up volunteer work of the requirement for them to spend 35 hours each week searching for work; and whether that assessment was conducted prior to implementation of that policy.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	31780
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no requirement for Jobseekers Allowance claimants to undertake 35 hours of job search a week. Claimants must however be actively seeking work in each week of their claim. This means they are expected to do all that they reasonably can to give them the best prospects of securing employment.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the benefits that volunteering can offer in enhancing a claimant’s prospects of finding suitable employment. Time spent volunteering may therefore be taken into account when considering whether a person has taken all appropriate steps to actively seek work each week.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 30/03/2016 14:11:28 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

506774

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2016
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many allegations of fraudulent benefit claims made by members of the public led to (a) benefits being stopped and (b) prosecutions in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	32921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 32920 question first answered 18/04/2016 14:21:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

506773

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2016
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many allegations of fraudulent benefit claims have been reported by members of the public in each year since 2010; and by what means such allegations were reported.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	32920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel grouped question UIN 32921 question first answered 18/04/2016 14:21:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

475858

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2016
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to monitor the ongoing effect of changes to employment and support allowance on people with disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	31071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department is committed to monitoring the impacts of its policies. We will monitor the impact of the ESA WRAC change through regular national statistics.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/03/2016 13:59:58 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

48898

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support people with the rising cost of funerals.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	196806
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Social Fund Funeral Payment scheme continues to provide help towards a simple, respectful, low-cost funeral. In 2012/13, over 35,000 awards were made worth £42.7 million, with an average award of £1,225.</p><p> </p><p>Social Fund Budgeting Loans are also available to those on income related benefits to cover costs relating to funeral expenses.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, any arrears of benefit which were due to the deceased at date of death are disregarded. This means that such arrears are no longer deducted from the funeral payment award.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

63441

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	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	Independent Living Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that adequate support exists for those affected by the abolition of the Independent Living Fund beyond the year of guaranteed funding made available to local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	201841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Last year's Spending Review determined budgets for 2015/16 only. This applies to all aspects of government expenditure not just ex-ILF funding. Budgets for later years will be determined in a later Spending Review; the timing of this is not known but it is likely to be after the next general election.</p><p>Following the closure of the ILF it will be the responsibility of the Department of Health and the devolved administrations to ensure that they reflect the needs of ILF users in future funding bids.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/06/2014 16:09:23 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

49057

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department takes into account the differences in the positions of men and women in preparing for retirement when devising its policy on pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	197054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Yes. The Department for Work and Pensions is committed to fully meeting our legal obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty, which is part of the Equality Act 2010. We have embedded equality analysis into the processes we use to develop, deliver and evaluate our policies, practices and services. This ensures that we continue to assess the likely and actual effects of what we do on people with protected characteristics to help inform our decision making processes.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

225098

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	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	Employment Schemes: Bristol
	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 found employment through (a) the Work Programme, (b) the Youth Contract and (c) an apprenticeship in (i) City of Bristol and (ii) Bristol North West constituency in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	226398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested for part (a), the number of people placed into employment from the Work Programme, is not available.</p><p> </p><p>The information we do have shows the number of Work Programme Job Outcomes, by various geographies and this can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p>The data requested for (b) and (c) is not available. The latest published information on Youth Contract starts and apprenticeship starts can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-contract-starts-and-payments-april-2012-to-november-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-contract-starts-and-payments-april-2012-to-november-2014</a> and</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/03/2015 17:13:10 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie