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1105618

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Workplace Pensions
	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 working on the Automatic Enrolment Programme are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	237607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Automatic Enrolment has transformed workplace pension’s savings. To date, in excess of 10million eligible workers have been automatically enrolled, by over 1.4million employers. A link to the 2017 Automatic Enrolment Review can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/668971/automatic-enrolment-review-2017-maintaining-the-momentum.PDF" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/668971/automatic-enrolment-review-2017-maintaining-the-momentum.PDF</a></p><p> </p><p>The current resourcing is 26 full time equivalent civil servants and this headcount consists of programme management, policy, analytical and stakeholder partnering expertise.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/04/2019 16:32:36 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1150463

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	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: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which public appointments she is responsible for.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	1579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The public appointments that the department is responsible for making are set out in the Schedule to the Public Appointments Order in Council 2019. <a href="https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-Public-Appointments-Order-In-Council.pdf" target="_blank">https://publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-Public-Appointments-Order-In-Council.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/10/2019 14:17:42 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1221382

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Pension Credit: Hemsworth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of pensioners in Hemsworth constituency are in receipt of pension credit.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	70315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2020 answer text <p>As of November 2019, there were 2,626 Pension Credit claimants in Hemsworth.</p><p>The department does not hold information on the number of pensioners in Hemsworth constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/07/2020 12:47:15 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1388762

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2021
	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	Pensioners: Wakefield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made the potential merits of (a) providing additional financial support to pensioners during winter 2021-22 and (b) assessing the impact of additional support on the financial wellbeing of pensioners in (a) Hemsworth constituency and (b) Wakefield local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	94290
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>The State Pension is the foundation of support for older people. Under this Government, the full yearly amount of the basic State Pension is now over £2,050 higher in cash terms than in 2010.</p><p>Around 1.4 million eligible pensioners across Great Britain receive some £5 billion in Pension Credit which tops up their retirement income and is a passport to other financial help such as support with housing costs, council tax, heating bills and a free TV licence for those over 75.</p><p>We recognise that some people may still require extra support over the winter, which is why vulnerable households across the country can now access an additional £500 million support fund to help them with essentials. The Household Support Fund will provide £421 million to help vulnerable people in England with the cost of food, utilities and wider essentials. Up to 50% of the Fund is available for councils to spend on households without children, including those of State Pension age. Barnsley local authority has been allocated £2,351,263.96. The Barnett Formula will apply in the usual way, with the devolved administrations receiving almost £80 million.</p><p>In addition, Winter Fuel Payments will continue to be payable to customers of State Pension age. We will pay £200 to households with a customer aged between 66 and 79 and £300 to a household with someone aged 80 or over. We pay over 11m Winter Fuel Payments annually at a cost of £2bn which is a significant contribution to winter fuel bills.</p><p>Cold Weather Payments help vulnerable people in receipt of certain income-related benefits to meet additional heating costs, during periods of unseasonably cold weather between 1 November and 31 March. This includes older people in receipt of Pension Credit. Those eligible will continue to automatically receive £25 when the average temperature has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, 0°C or below over seven consecutive days.</p><p>The Warm Home Discount Scheme provides those in receipt of Pension Credit guarantee credit a discount of £140 on their energy bill providing their supplier is part of the scheme.</p><p>Furthermore, the Government continues to protect benefits for older people including free eye tests, NHS prescriptions and bus passes.</p><p>No such assessments have been made for Hemsworth constituency or Wakefield local authority. However, the latest statistics show that in the three years to 19/20, absolute poverty for pensioners in Yorkshire and the Humber, after housing costs, had reduced significantly.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 05/01/2022 12:17:42 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1457262

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of parents who are required to pay child maintenance but are failing to meet that requirement.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	153753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Service (CMS) compliance statistics for Paying Parents are published quarterly and can be found in “Table 2: Compliance (Collect and Pay) by quarter” of the “CMS Paying Parents” section of Stat-Xplore here: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/04/2022 15:22:13 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1457264

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of parents in receipt of child maintenance who have (a) contacted the Child Maintenance Service about late payment and (b) successfully received full payment of arrears.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	153754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/04/2022 15:17:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486088

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2022
	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: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	29886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. As Contracts Finder was implemented in 2016, not all records before this time are held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to funding, under the Governments Transparency agenda, all spend data over £25,000 is published and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-payments-over-25-000#2022" target="_blank">DWP: departmental spending over £25,000 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>For the Department, there are 166 contracts with a value between £1 million and £3 million, and 69 contracts with a value over £3 million, due to be agreed in the next 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers represent the anticipated forecast number of contracts that may be agreed within the next 12 months to 31/07/2023. These figures are unsupported by any necessary dependent approval governance and/or change in demand signal.</p><p> </p><p>For the Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies, there are 11 contracts with a value between £1 million and £3 million, and 4 contracts with a value over £3 million, due to be agreed in the next 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>Due to a number of organisational and staff changes since 2010, information on Departmental spend on monitoring each contract and the number of officials working on them, is not readily available and would require a very high degree of manual processing. To provide this information would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 12/07/2022 14:06:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486560

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2022
	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: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>Details of Government contracts from 2016 above £10,000, and £25,000 in the wider public sector, are published on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Governments Transparency agenda, all spend data over £25,000 is published and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-payments-over-25-000#2022" target="_blank">DWP: departmental spending over £25,000 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 13/07/2022 13:35:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486915

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2022
	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: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	31731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>We have taken “legal dispute” to mean a case where DWP has instructed the litigation team at the Government Legal Department (GLD) to act on its behalf and “associated agencies” to include the arms’ length bodies (ALBs) and agencies included in this list: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations" target="_blank">Departments, agencies and public bodies - GOV.UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>On this basis, the figures that we have been supplied by GLD litigation are calculated from 1st January each year are and are up to 30th June 2022:</p><p> </p><p>2020 £6,271,760</p><p> </p><p>2021 £6,566,573</p><p> </p><p>2022 £3,262,113</p><p> </p><p>These figures are inclusive of;</p><p> </p><ul><li>VAT</li><li>Bills to ALBs from GLD litigation and to DWP agencies, and</li><li>Costs awards either against or in favour of DWP, its ALBs or agencies</li></ul><p> </p><p>The figures are exclusive of;</p><p> </p><ul><li>Expenditure on advisory teams, which may include advice on disputes within the scope of their work, and</li><li>Employment advisory work.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/07/2022 13:21:24 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1487831

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2022
	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: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	33699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) publishes details about headcount and payroll costs for permanent staff and contractors on GOV.UK, monthly.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-workforce-management-information" target="_blank">DWP workforce management information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The DWP consultancy spend for the financial years ending 2020 through to 2022 is shown below.</p><p> </p><p>2019/20 £4,570,665</p><p>2020/21 £1,284,861</p><p>2021/22 £1,041,058</p><p /><p>Information on the name of each consultancy contracted for each of the financial years is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/07/2022 13:30:45 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett