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date	15/12/2020
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	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, what steps her Department is taking to mitigate the effect of state pension age changes on women born in the 1950s; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	130220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>Since 1995, successive Governments have taken the same approach to this issue. The reforms have focused on maintaining the right balance between the sustainability of the State Pension, fairness between generations and affordability for the taxpayer who funds on-going State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>The welfare system continues to provide a strong safety net for those who cannot work.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2021 13:56:01 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

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registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Unemployment: Wolverhampton North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the reasons why the level of unemployment in Wolverhampton North East constituency is more than twice the national average; and what steps her Department is taking to lower the rate of unemployment in that constituency.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	182761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics estimate between July 2017 to June 2018, with 95% confidence, that the unemployment rate in Wolverhampton North East was between 5.7% and 13.1%, with a central estimate of 9.4%.</p><p> </p><p>Employment in the West Midlands is up by 78,000 on the year and 307,000 since 2010, to 2.78 million.</p><p> </p><p>This Government’s Industrial Strategy sets out how we will build a Britain fit for the future – and help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs with investment in the skills, industries and infrastructure of the future.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/10/2018 12:50:18 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds