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1003624

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	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	HSBC: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what representations she has received on the HSBC Midland Bank pension clawback; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	189598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p><strong>Successive governments including the Labour government 1997-2010, Coalition and present Conservative government have had a consistent position on this issue.</strong> The Department for Work and Pensions receives a number of written representations on the Midland Pension Scheme, which is now part of the HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme, about its integrated pension (or claw-back) policy from individuals and from Members of Parliament writing on their behalf, as it does on many issues.</p><p> </p><p>The Governments position on this issue was set out in response to a written parliamentary question on this subject, which can be accessed here.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-11-13/112544/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-11-13/112544/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/11/2018 17:12:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1005810

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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, if she will a publish a list of newspapers in which adverts on the change to the state pension age for women were placed since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	190376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>As reported in the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee report; <em>Communication of state pension age changes</em>, published in March 2016, there were more than 600 mentions of state pension age equalisation in the national broadsheet and tabloid press between 1993 and 2006 – an average of just under one per week – on “front pages, News and City sections as well as personal finance pages”, and most concentrated “in 1993-95 and again from 2005-06”.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not have any records that suggest it has used paid newspaper advertising since 2010 specifically to advertise State Pension age changes.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 20/11/2018 18:02:03 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1005811

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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 letters were sent notifying recipients of the change in the state pension age for women since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	190377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>People can access the online ‘Check your State Pension’ service through GOV.UK to get a forecast of their State Pension. This includes information about their retirement date, how they may be able to improve the amount of State Pension they are entitled to, as well as providing a view of their National Insurance contribution record. Check Your State Pension service has provided more than ten million online estimates since its introduction in 2016.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The following tables show the number of letters sent out to those people born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1960, affected by State Pension age increase in the 1995 and 2011 Pensions Acts. Letter volumes since 2010 can clearly be identified.</p><p>The volumes recorded in the second table have been rounded to the nearest 1000 and include mailings undertaken as part of a communications research project, and those sent to men who were also affected by the 2011 Act. It is not possible to provide the volumes sent to women only in relation to the 2011 Act, as we do not hold the information split by gender.</p><p> </p><p>Communication to those affected by the 1995 Act</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Customer’s date of birth</p></td><td><p>Mailing Date</p></td><td><p>Number of letters sent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/50 -05/07/50</p></td><td><p>April 2009</p></td><td><p>99,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/07/50 - 05/10/50</p></td><td><p>Jul 2009</p></td><td><p>96,356</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/50 - 05/04/51</p></td><td><p>Oct 2009</p></td><td><p>191,465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/51- 05/10/51</p></td><td><p>Jan 2010</p></td><td><p>196,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/51 – 05/04/52</p></td><td><p>Apr 2010</p></td><td><p>188,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/52 – 05/10/52</p></td><td><p>Feb 2011</p></td><td><p>196,594</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/52 – 05/04/53</p></td><td><p>Mar 2011</p></td><td><p>191,665</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Communication to those affected by the 2011 Act</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Customer’s date of birth</p></td><td><p>Mailing Date</p></td><td><p>Number of letters sent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/53 – 05/12/53</p></td><td><p>Jan 2012</p></td><td><p>275,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/12/53 – 05/10/54</p></td><td><p>Feb 2012</p></td><td><p>646, 000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/54 – 05/04/55</p></td><td><p>Feb 2012</p></td><td><p>375, 000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/55 – 05/04/60</p></td><td><p>Oct 2012 – Nov 2013</p></td><td><p>4,475,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To clarify, mailings undertaken as part of the communications research project have been included in the above table.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 190378 question first answered 20/11/2018 15:56:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1005812

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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, on what date the first letters notifying recipients of the change in the state pension age for women were sent since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	190378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>People can access the online ‘Check your State Pension’ service through GOV.UK to get a forecast of their State Pension. This includes information about their retirement date, how they may be able to improve the amount of State Pension they are entitled to, as well as providing a view of their National Insurance contribution record. Check Your State Pension service has provided more than ten million online estimates since its introduction in 2016.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The following tables show the number of letters sent out to those people born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1960, affected by State Pension age increase in the 1995 and 2011 Pensions Acts. Letter volumes since 2010 can clearly be identified.</p><p>The volumes recorded in the second table have been rounded to the nearest 1000 and include mailings undertaken as part of a communications research project, and those sent to men who were also affected by the 2011 Act. It is not possible to provide the volumes sent to women only in relation to the 2011 Act, as we do not hold the information split by gender.</p><p> </p><p>Communication to those affected by the 1995 Act</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Customer’s date of birth</p></td><td><p>Mailing Date</p></td><td><p>Number of letters sent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/50 -05/07/50</p></td><td><p>April 2009</p></td><td><p>99,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/07/50 - 05/10/50</p></td><td><p>Jul 2009</p></td><td><p>96,356</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/50 - 05/04/51</p></td><td><p>Oct 2009</p></td><td><p>191,465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/51- 05/10/51</p></td><td><p>Jan 2010</p></td><td><p>196,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/51 – 05/04/52</p></td><td><p>Apr 2010</p></td><td><p>188,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/52 – 05/10/52</p></td><td><p>Feb 2011</p></td><td><p>196,594</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/52 – 05/04/53</p></td><td><p>Mar 2011</p></td><td><p>191,665</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Communication to those affected by the 2011 Act</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Customer’s date of birth</p></td><td><p>Mailing Date</p></td><td><p>Number of letters sent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/53 – 05/12/53</p></td><td><p>Jan 2012</p></td><td><p>275,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/12/53 – 05/10/54</p></td><td><p>Feb 2012</p></td><td><p>646, 000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/10/54 – 05/04/55</p></td><td><p>Feb 2012</p></td><td><p>375, 000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/04/55 – 05/04/60</p></td><td><p>Oct 2012 – Nov 2013</p></td><td><p>4,475,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To clarify, mailings undertaken as part of the communications research project have been included in the above table.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 190377 question first answered 20/11/2018 15:56:43 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

155586

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	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	Members: Correspondence
	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 arrange for his Department's Permanent Secretary to respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Cardiff West concerning Mr Robert Shafer.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	214331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Permanent Secretary wrote to the hon. Member on 12 November 2014.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 17/11/2014 13:49:52 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

435964

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	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	Food Banks
	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 list the (a) location and (b) dates of visits he has made to food banks since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	18925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP Ministers have visited a number of third sector organisations, faith groups, civil society organisations and charities, including food banks since May 2010.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/12/2015 15:39:20 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

438122

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	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	Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2015 to Question 18925, which visits referred to that (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department made included a visit to a food bank.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	19845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Ministers have conducted visits to food banks in various capacities, including in their roles as Members of Parliament.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 17/12/2015 13:51:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

487112

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2016
	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: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the top five reasons were for imposing sanctions on jobseeker's allowance claimants in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	32501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The available information for the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance sanction decisions, by referral reason, is published and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started---SuperWEB2.html</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/04/2016 12:36:47 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

487127

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2016
	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	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of (a) jobseeker's allowance and (b) employment and support allowance sanctions imposed by his Department in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	32546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not make an estimate of the value of benefit withdrawn as a result of benefit sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 11/04/2016 10:51:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

637220

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2016
	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 Rented Housing: Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse has been of Government legal action in respect of the case brought by the Rutherford family on the spare room subsidy.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	53044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The case brought by the Rutherford family was heard with six other cases, therefore separate figures for individual cases are not available. The legal costs (to 9 November 2016) of the Supreme Court proceedings for Rutherford and the other joined cases are £206,841.65.</p><p>The total legal costs of the High Court proceedings for Rutherford and the Court of Appeal proceedings for “A” and Rutherford are £91,772.28.</p><p>These figures include VAT where payable (for example on Counsel’s fees) and disbursements but does not include costs attributable to time spent by Government advisory lawyers, as time spent by such advisory lawyers is not recorded in a manner that allows it to be attributable to individual cases.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/11/2016 10:02:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan