The 2019-20 budget for the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is £125.6m.<\/p>
<\/p>
Item<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Financial Services Levy<\/strong><\/p><\/td> General Pensions Levy<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Money Guidance<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £25.9m<\/p><\/td> £0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Debt Advice<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £55.8m<\/p><\/td> £0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Pension Wise<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £31.2m<\/p><\/td> £0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Dashboard<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £4.7m<\/p><\/td> £2.3m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Pension Guidance<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £0<\/p><\/td> £5.7m<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Total<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 117.6m<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £8.0m<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> The budgets for the three legacy organisations (the Money Advice Service, the Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise) in each of the five years up to and including 2018-19 were previously provided in the Answer on 7 October 2019 to Question 292822.<\/p> Since Money and Pensions Service has been constituted with different statutory functions to the legacy organisations no direct comparison can be made between the budget for Money and Pensions Service and those for the previous services.<\/p> <\/p> <\/strong><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 292823, whether the budget for the Money and Pensions Service in 2019-20 is 125.6 million; and what comparative assessment he has made of that budget with the combined budget for the Money Advice Service, the Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise in each of the five years up to and including 2018-19.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 67,500 allegations of mistreatment in care homes received by the Care Quality Commission in 2018, what steps the Government will take to increase prosecution rates.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of Healthy Start vouchers.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department has taken to ensure that women who are unable to use alternative forms of HRT have access to HRT patches.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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