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1023922

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	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, how many complaints of maladministration from women born in the 1950s relating to the change in their state pension age submitted to her Department’s Independent Case Examiner have been (a) resolved, (b) rejected, (c) closed for other reasons.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	201695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Individual government departments have long established complaints procedures. That approach has not changed under Labour governments 1997-2010 or successive governments. The DWP has a two tier complaints process which considers formal complaints about our service<strong>. </strong>Once a complainant has exhausted the DWP complaint process they are signposted to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office if they are dissatisfied with the final response to their complaint. The Independent Case Examiner is independent.</p><p>The table below provides information on the method by which complaints submitted to the Independent Case Examiner’s (ICE) Office, concerning changes to women’s State Pension age, were closed.</p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Reason for complaint closure</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Number</ins> <ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">(a) Resolved (we have interpreted this as meaning closed following issue of an ICE investigation report)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">192</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">(b) Rejected (the complaint failed to meet the ICE acceptance criteria)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,598</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">(c) Paused for other reasons (includes withdrawn complaints and those closed following a High Court decision to grant permission for a Judicial Review of the Departments handling of the change to women’s State Pension age – it is not within the ICE remit to consider issues which are, or have been, subject to legal proceedings.)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,506</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Independent Case Examiner’s Office received the first complaints from women relating to changes in their state pension age in October 2016. The table below provides details of the numbers received in each of the past three reporting years.</ins></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Year (April to March)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Number received</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2016/2017</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">243</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2017/2018</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2981</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2018/2019 (to 13 December 2018)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1072</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/12/2018 15:27:52 question first ministerially corrected 18/12/2018 17:16:19 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman previous answer version 92203 answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1462111

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	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	Social Security Benefits: Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason people with fetal valproate spectrum disorder, which is a life-long disability, are required to re-apply for personal independence payment and disability living allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>Entitlement to Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a health condition or disability, rather than the health condition or disability itself. Award rates and their durations are set on an individual basis, based on the claimant’s needs and the likelihood of those needs changing, including where childhood developmental milestones are reached. Award reviews allow for the correct rate of DLA or PIP to remain in payment, including where needs have increased as a consequence of a congenital, degenerative or progressive condition.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/05/2022 13:45:41 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

782897

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons claimants are required to have 35 years of national insurance contributions instead of 30 years to qualify for the new state pension.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	111223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>Direct comparisons between the old State Pension and the new State Pension are not appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>People reaching State Pension age before 6 April 2016 could be entitled to a basic State Pension and an additional State Pension. The full amount of the basic State Pension (£122.30 a week for 2017/18) was reached after 30 qualifying years of National Insurance contributions or credits. The amount of additional State Pension was based on earnings over a full working life and its value ranges from £0.01p a week to over £160 a week. Legislation requires that the basic State Pension is uprated by at least the increase in earnings each year and the additional State Pension by at least the increase in prices.</p><p> </p><p>The new State Pension replaced the old system for people reaching State Pension age from 6 April 2016 with a single pension which, after a transition period which recognises people’s National Insurance records in the old system, will require 35 qualifying years to achieve the full amount of £159.55 a week. Legislation requires the new State Pension is uprated by at least earnings each year.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in <em>The single-tier pension: a simple foundation for saving (Command 8528), </em>the objective of the new State Pension is to provide a foundation for private saving by individuals and is designed to deliver an amount set at or above the level of the weekly means test which most people should be able to achieve. The new State Pension system has been designed to provide a simpler, sustainable system for decades to come, correcting some of the historic unfairness in the previous system, in particular for women, self-employed people and lower paid workers.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 111220 111224 question first answered 06/11/2017 16:36:38 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

782903

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons the maximum amount available under the new state pension is higher than the maximum amount available under the old state pension.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	111220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>Direct comparisons between the old State Pension and the new State Pension are not appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>People reaching State Pension age before 6 April 2016 could be entitled to a basic State Pension and an additional State Pension. The full amount of the basic State Pension (£122.30 a week for 2017/18) was reached after 30 qualifying years of National Insurance contributions or credits. The amount of additional State Pension was based on earnings over a full working life and its value ranges from £0.01p a week to over £160 a week. Legislation requires that the basic State Pension is uprated by at least the increase in earnings each year and the additional State Pension by at least the increase in prices.</p><p> </p><p>The new State Pension replaced the old system for people reaching State Pension age from 6 April 2016 with a single pension which, after a transition period which recognises people’s National Insurance records in the old system, will require 35 qualifying years to achieve the full amount of £159.55 a week. Legislation requires the new State Pension is uprated by at least earnings each year.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in <em>The single-tier pension: a simple foundation for saving (Command 8528), </em>the objective of the new State Pension is to provide a foundation for private saving by individuals and is designed to deliver an amount set at or above the level of the weekly means test which most people should be able to achieve. The new State Pension system has been designed to provide a simpler, sustainable system for decades to come, correcting some of the historic unfairness in the previous system, in particular for women, self-employed people and lower paid workers.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 111223 111224 question first answered 06/11/2017 16:36:38 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1503892

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Employment and Support 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 and what proportion of people affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance have (a) applied for and (b) received compensation; and whether her Department has contacted every person eligible for compensation.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	45546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 07/09/2022 11:21:16 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1023921

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	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, how many complaints of maladministration from women born in the 1950s relating to the change in their state pension age have been submitted to her Department’s Independent Case Examiner in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	201694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Individual government departments have long established complaints procedures. That approach has not changed under Labour governments 1997-2010 or successive governments. The DWP has a two tier complaints process which considers formal complaints about our service<strong>. </strong>Once a complainant has exhausted the DWP complaint process they are signposted to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office if they are dissatisfied with the final response to their complaint. The Independent Case Examiner is independent.</p><p>The table below provides information on the method by which complaints submitted to the Independent Case Examiner’s (ICE) Office, concerning changes to women’s State Pension age, were closed.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 201695 question first answered 17/12/2018 15:27:52 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1551786

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2022
	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	Cold Weather Payments: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Wales were eligible for the Cold Weather Payment and lived in a postcode area where Cold Weather Payments were made in that year (a) overall and (b) by whether eligibility derived from (i) receipt of pension credit or (ii) universal credit or other legacy benefits for each of the last 10 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	110790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>Please see below Cold Weather Payments for Wales, by year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Cold Weather Triggers</p></td><td><p>Total households eligible</p></td><td><p>Total households eligible, in receipt of Pension Credit (as a subset of total households)</p></td><td><p>Number of payments made</p></td><td><p>Number of payments made to Households in receipt of Pension Credit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/22</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>245,000</p></td><td><p>81,000</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/21</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>250,000</p></td><td><p>87,000</p></td><td><p>140,000</p></td><td><p>47,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19/20</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>228,000</p></td><td><p>91,000</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/19</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>240,000</p></td><td><p>96,000</p></td><td><p>64,000</p></td><td><p>24,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17/18</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>244,000</p></td><td><p>101,000</p></td><td><p>330,000</p></td><td><p>135,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16/17</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>251,000</p></td><td><p>111,000</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>252,000</p></td><td><p>117,000</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/15</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>230,000</p></td><td><p>128,000</p></td><td><p>8,000</p></td><td><p>5,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><em>Data unavailable</em></p></td><td><p><em> Data unavailable</em></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><ul><li>A household is classed as eligible for Cold Weather Payments if it satisfies eligibility criteria, such as receipt of a qualifying benefit</li><li>A household will receive at least one Cold Weather Payment if it satisfies eligibility criteria and a cold weather trigger occurs in their postcode area, hence years with fewer cold weather triggers, fewer households were in receipt of at least one payment.</li><li>Total Households eligible in receipt of UC or other legacy benefits is equivalent to total eligible households minus total eligible households in receipt of pension credit.</li><li>For the year 2013/14, the estimated number of eligible households in Wales is not published.</li><li>For year 2012/13 data broken down for Wales was not published, and therefore is not included here.</li><li>Figures are rounded to nearest 1000</li></ul> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 19/12/2022 14:41:33 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

983090

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many notifications of entitlement to pension credit were confirmed (a) in writing and (b) over the phone in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	176592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong>The DWP provides confirmation of a customer’s Pension Credit entitlement in writing, by post, after a valid claim has been made. The DWP also provides customers with a pre-claim telephone service for those who wish to enquire whether they may be entitled to Pension Credit. This process involves the customer providing the DWP with income and capital information and using an online calculator to initially assess whether entitlement may exist. This information then enables the customer to make an informed decision whether to make a Pension Credit claim to the DWP.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/10/2018 14:41:48 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1673297

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	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	War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Social Security Benefits
	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 are in receipt of payments from the (a) War Pensions and (b) Armed Forces Compensation Scheme are also in receipt of (i) Universal Credit, (ii) Child Tax Support, (iii) Income Support, (iv) Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, (v) Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, (vi) Working Tax Credit and (vii) Pension Credit.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	3914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2023 answer text <p>The requested information is not held by the department.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/11/2023 12:35:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

760956

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	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: Criminal Records
	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 claiming jobseeker's allowance in (a) Ceredigion, (b) Wales and (c) the UK have a criminal record.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	105372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 09/10/2017 16:38:00 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake