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90264

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2014
	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	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, what estimate he has made of the total overpayments being collected by the Financial Assistance Scheme from recalculations of annual entitlement related to services after 1997 and any changes to annuity or notional annuity income.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	207917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 08/09/2014 12:41:33 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

93874

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	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, what estimate he has made of the cost to the Financial Assistance Scheme of recalculating annual entitlement related to services after 1997 and changes to annuity or notional annuity income in respect of (a) each individual overpayment and (b) total overpayments.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	210857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>No such estimate has been made.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 21/10/2014 10:44:25 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

168741

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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	Pension Protection Fund
	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 sufficiency of the payment protection fund budget in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to meet current and backdated claims.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	217645
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>I have understood the question to be about the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), which pays compensation to members of eligible pension schemes where the employer is insolvent and the scheme can not afford the PPF level of compensation.</p><p> </p><p>The Board of the PPF is responsible for ensuring that it has sufficient funds to pay compensation. The Fund only has to meet the costs of compensation payments as they fall due.</p><p>The funding of the PPF has been designed to be robust in the long term.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 11/12/2014 12:00:51 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

168727

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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	Children: Maintenance
	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 make an assessment of the effect of the inclusion of a threshold of a 25 per cent change in income before child maintenance payments are adjusted in the 2012 child maintenance scheme on people paying child maintenance who are (a) self-employed and (b) in insecure work.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	217727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>At this point in time there are no plans to include this in the overall impact assessment of the reforms.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 11/12/2014 11:55:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

169621

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	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	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 criteria he used to determine that the threshold at which a change in income can lead to an adjustment in child maintenance payments should be set at 25 per cent.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	218234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>In determining the level of threshold the criteria considered were: to set a threshold which offered a stable maintenance liability to provide greater certainty to both parents whilst also remaining fair in dealing with unexpected and major changes in circumstances; and, to also set the threshold at a level which supports operational efficiency and secures the right balance between recalculating maintenance and collection and enforcement activity.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 15/12/2014 12:43:46 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

176736

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	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	Welfare Assistance Schemes
	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 received access grants from the Local Welfare Assistance fund in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 in Birmingham.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	222723
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>This information is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. We have a record of the total funding allocated to the local authority, but how the local authority has spent the money would need to be provided by that local authority.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 03/02/2015 11:20:44 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

228344

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	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	Pensions
	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 make an assessment of the consequences for his policies of the cost benefit analysis of the uprating of frozen pensions contained in the report from the International Consortium of British Pensioners, published in October 2014; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	228254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no consequences for the Coalition Government’s policy on the up-rating of UK State Pension paid to people living overseas, which has been supported by successive post war Governments.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to unfreeze UK State Pensions paid in those overseas jurisdictions where there is no legislative requirement to uprate.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 23/03/2015 14:55:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden