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1645667

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2023
	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	Youth Services: Unemployed People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseekers (a) were referred to and (b) engaged with Youth Hub services (i) in 2021-22, (ii) in 2022-23 and (iii) between 1 April 2023 and 19 June 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	190115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>The DWP Youth Offer provides individually tailored work coach support to young people aged 16 to 24 who are in the Universal Credit Intensive Work Search group. This includes the Youth Employment Programme, Youth Employability Coaches and Youth Hubs across Great Britain. Young people are referred to the most appropriate part of the Youth Offer depending on their individual circumstances.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>FY21/22</p></td><td><p>FY22/23</p></td><td><p>01 April – 31 May 2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Youth Offer</p></td><td><p>278,100</p></td><td><p>284,800</p></td><td><p>44,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Youth Employment Programme</p></td><td><p>253,600</p></td><td><p>266,000</p></td><td><p>40,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Youth Hub</p></td><td><p>14,600</p></td><td><p>14,700</p></td><td><p>2,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Youth Employability Coach</p></td><td><p>21,500</p></td><td><p>18,100</p></td><td><p>2,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>A claimant can start on multiple strands of the Youth Offer. E.g. a claimant can enrol on the Youth Employment Programme and be referred to a Youth Hub. Therefore, the sum of those enrolled on the Youth Employment Programme, referred to a Youth Hub and referred to a Youth Employability Coach will be greater than the total number of individuals supported by the Youth Offer for each financial year.</li><li>A claimant can start on the Youth Offer multiple times. E.g. a claimant could be referred to a Youth Hub in FY21/22 and referred to a Youth Employability Coach in FY22/23. Therefore, some individuals will be included in the totals for more than one financial year.</li><li>This data is produced from a manual process and although care is taken when processing and analysing Youth Hub and Youth Employability Coach referrals, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which features manual data. Therefore, Youth Hub and Youth Employability Coach figures are likely to underestimate the number of young people who have received Youth Hub and/or Youth Employability Coach support.</li><li>When a claimant enrols on the Youth Employment Programme or is referred to a Youth Hub or Youth Employability Coach they are classified as having started on the Youth Offer. We do not have a separate measure of engagement.</li><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.</li></ol> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/06/2023 15:58:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1645663

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2023
	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	Youth Services: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hub work coaches are employed by his Department as of 19 June 2023; and how many were employed on the same date in (a) 2022 and (b) 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	190114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>Youth Hubs are part of the wider DWP Youth Offer which also includes the Youth Employment Programme and Youth Employability Coaches. Youth Hubs across Great Britain bring together employment support from a Jobcentre Plus Work Coach and place-based support from local partnerships to help young people into work. The support offered in a Youth Hub is dependent on local needs and includes skills, training, employment provision and dedicated support services.</p><p> </p><p>Due to changes in claimant needs new Youth Hubs may open, and existing Youth Hubs may close. The number of open Youth Hubs and their required Youth Hub Work Coach resource may therefore fluctuate, as claimants access wider Youth Offer support.</p><p> </p><p>The figures included offer a Full Time Equivalent (FTE) of Youth Hub Work Coaches. As some Youth Hub Work Coaches may work part-time in a Youth Hub, or across multiple Youth Hubs, we do not expect this number to be equivalent to the number of Youth Hub sites.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Role</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>ABM FTE</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>May-23</p></td><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>May-21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Youth Hub Work Coach</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: DWP’s internal Activity Based Model (ABM)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><ul><li>Data is correct as of end of May 2021, 2022, and 2023.</li><li>Data is drawn as at the end of each month. Therefore, the end of May figure has been used for 2021 and 2022, and for consistency the same has been used for 2023.</li><li>Figures were derived from the Department’s Activity Based Model (ABM), which provides Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures based on point in time estimate by Line Managers. They cover only FTE of staff with paid employment. They have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>The number of Youth Hub Work Coaches is unpublished management information, collected and intended for internal department use and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics standard. As the Department holds the information, we have released it.</li><li>Youth Employability Coaches and other Jobcentre staff may also work from Youth Hubs which is not reflected in this data.</li></ul></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/06/2023 16:59:27 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1666227

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2023
	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	Youth Services: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Youth Hub work coaches are employed by his Department as of 19 October 2023; and how many were employed on the same date in (a) 2022 and (b) 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	203494
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>As referenced in <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-06-19/190114" target="_blank">PQ190114</a>, due to changes in claimant needs new Youth Hubs may open, and existing Youth Hubs may close. The number of open Youth Hubs and their required Youth Hub Work Coach resource may therefore fluctuate, as claimants access wider Youth Offer support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Role</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>ABM FTE </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-23</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sep-21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Youth Hub Work Coach</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: DWP’s internal Activity Based Model (ABM)</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Data is correct as of end of September 2021, 2022, and 2023.</li><li>Data is drawn as at the end of each month. Therefore, the end of September figure has been used for 2021 and 2022, and for consistency the same has been used for 2023.</li><li>Figures were derived from the Department’s Activity Based Model (ABM), which provides Full Time Equivalent (FTE) figures based on point in time estimate by Line Managers. They cover only FTE of staff with paid employment performing activities as Youth Hub Work Coaches. They have been rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>The number of Youth Hub Work Coaches is unpublished management information, collected and intended for internal department use and has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics standard. As the Department holds the information, we have released it.</li><li>Youth Employability Coaches and other Jobcentre staff may also work from Youth Hubs which is not reflected in this data.</li></ul> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/10/2023 15:36:56 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1645662

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2023
	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	Youth Services: Location
	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 publish a list of Youth Hub locations in Great Britain as of 19 June 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	190113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>Youth Hubs are part of the wider DWP Youth Offer which also includes the Youth Employment Programme and Youth Employability Coaches. Youth Hubs across Great Britain bring together employment support from a Jobcentre Plus work coach and place-based support from local partnerships to help young people into work. The support offered in a Youth Hub is dependent on local needs and includes skills, training, employment provision and dedicated support services.</p><p> </p><p>The below list of open Youth Hubs is valid as of 19 June 2023. Due to changes in local needs new Youth Hubs may open, and existing Youth Hubs may close. The number of open Youth Hubs may therefore fluctuate.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Youth Hub Name</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central and West Scotland</p></td><td><p>Glasgow Central Based East Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Glasgow Kelvin College Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Glasgow/Central Base/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Invest Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Kilmarnock Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East and North Scotland</p></td><td><p>Aberdeen NESCol Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Alloa FV College Campus Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dundee and Angus College Kingsway</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dundee Angus</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dundee Helm</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dundee Street League Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Elgin Youth Employability Hub @ Moray Pathways</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Forth Valley College</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Stirling Community Enterprise Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>West Fife Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>West Lothian College</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London &amp; Essex</p></td><td><p>Barking BLC Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Enfield / Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Grays Inspire Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hackney Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hammersmith &amp; Fulham Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Haringey Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Islington / Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Make It Happen Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Opportunity Space (Greenwich and Bexley)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Opportunity Space Lewisham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Westminster/ Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North and East Midlands</p></td><td><p>Harworth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Leicester Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Lincoln / The Network / Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Northampton Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Norwich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>YES Derbyshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Central England</p></td><td><p>Accrington Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Barnsley Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Barrow Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Blackpool Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Bradford / Vibe / Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Burnley Thrive Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Crossfield House Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dewsbury Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Doncaster Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Fleetwood Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hemsworth Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Huddersfield Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Keighley Vibe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Kendal/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Leeds Dewsbury Road</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Pendle Yes Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Penrith Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Rotherham Community &amp; Employment Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sheffield East Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sheffield South East Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sheffield South Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sheffield Specialist Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sheffield United Community Foundation Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sheffield Wednesday Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Skelmersdale Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Wakefield Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Whitehaven/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Workington/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East England</p></td><td><p>Darlington/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Durham LA/Peterlee/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Durham Works</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>DurhamLA/Stanley/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hartlepool/Enterprise Centre/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Redcar &amp; Cleveland/Grangetown/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Stockton/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West England</p></td><td><p>Altrincham Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Ellergreen/North/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Farnworth Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Halton Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hyde &amp; Denton Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Leigh Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Liverpool Reach Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Liverpool/MYA/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Liverpool/Thrive/Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Manchester Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Merseyside Community Training (Quinnovations)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Oldham Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Partington Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Power in partnership (Widnes)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Rochdale Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sefton Youth Hub - The Big Onion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>St Helens Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Stockport Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Westhoughton Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Wigan Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East England</p></td><td><p>Addlestone Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Ashford Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Brighton and Hove Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Brooklands College Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Camberley Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Crawley Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Epsom Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hastings Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Rosehill Community Centre Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Staines Elmsleigh Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Woking Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Worthing Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West England</p></td><td><p>Bristol Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Havant Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Plymouth Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Southampton Central Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>Cwmbran All About Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Newport Central Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Newport East Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Newport North All About Youth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Swansea Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>Bilston YH</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Birmingham Library Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Birmingham Lighthouse Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Birmingham South Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Coventry Job shop Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Dudley Skills Shop Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Solihull Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Telford Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Wolverhampton The Way Youth Hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Worcester County Council</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/06/2023 16:11:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1645661

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2023
	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	Youth Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on Youth Hubs in each financial year since they were launched; and how much his Department is forecast to spend on Youth Hubs in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25, (c) 2025-26, (d) 2026-27 and (e) 2027-28.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	190112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>Youth Hubs are run in partnership with, and are hosted in the premises of, partner organisations. Where appropriate, partners can submit a grant application to receive funding to support the operational running of a Youth Hub. However, not all Youth Hubs are supported by grant funding and others will have identified alternative funding, e.g. Community Renewal Funds, to establish Hubs.</p><p> </p><p>The information regarding the Department’s spend on grants to support the opening and operation of Youth Hubs in each financial year since they were launched is not held.</p><p> </p><p>The indicative Youth Hub Work Coach costs for the previous three financial years are:</p><p> </p><p>2020/2021 - £1.1m</p><p>2021/2022 - £5.4m</p><p>2022/2023 - £4.8m</p><p><em><br> </em>NB:</p><ul><li>This excludes estates, digital, support and other operations costs.</li><li>This data is derived from DWP's Activity Based Model (ABM) and/or Departmental Activity Based Model (DABM) and is unpublished management information which was collected for internal Departmental use only. It has not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standards.</li><li>The data is frequently revised and changes to definitions / benefits / DWP structure effect comparisons over time. It should therefore be treated with caution and must be seen as an indication of cost, rather than the actual cost.</li><li>Youth Employability Coaches and other Jobcentre staff may also work from Youth Hubs which is not reflected in this data.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The forecast spend for Youth Hubs for the current Spending Review period is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2023/2024 - £11.5m</p><p>2024/2025 - £13.0m</p><p><br> NB:</p><ul><li>These figures include costs for Youth Hub Work Coaches and additional funding to support Community Grants through the Flexible Support Fund, for the operational running of Youth Hubs.</li><li>These forecast figures are subject to revision and final costs will be subject to demand.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Spring Budget 2023 committed to the extension of the Youth Offer until 2028, funding beyond 2024/2025 will be determined by a future spending review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/06/2023 16:53:44 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1627146

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2023
	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	Workplace Pensions: Women
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of women automatically enrolled in workplace pension schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	184666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>As a result of the rollout of automatic enrolment, the Government has ensured millions more women save into a pension, many for the first time. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/workplace-pension-participation-and-savings-trends-2009-to-2021" target="_blank">DWP Analysis</a> shows that in 2021, 87% of women working in the private sector who were eligible for Automatically Enrolled (AE) were contributing to a pension, up from 40% in 2012.</p><p>The Government recognises that there is still more to be done, which is why we remain committed to implementing the 2017 AE Review measures. This will involve lowering the age for automatic enrolment to age 18 and removing the lower earnings limit (LEL) to make contributions payable from the first pound of earnings. Lowering the age will bring more women, alongside men, into AE, while removing the LEL will disproportionately benefit lower earners, including people working in multiple low-paid part time jobs who are predominantly women.</p><p>In addition, the earnings trigger, which is one of the key factors that determines who gets enrolled into a workplace pension scheme through AE, has been maintained at its current level of £10,000 a year since 2014. Our decision to ensure the earnings trigger maintains its value for 2023/24, has meant that 32,000 more savers have been brought into pension saving compared to increasing the trigger in line with average weekly earnings. 62% of these new savers will be women.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 18/05/2023 10:44:11 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1440140

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2022
	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	Workplace Pensions: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's consultation on exempting performance fees from the consumer price cap on pensions used for automatic enrolment, what assessment she has made of the potential for member detriment as a result of fund managers or pension providers changing their fee structures to add new performance-related fees or increase existing performance fees.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	138298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2022 answer text <p>The charge cap has been and continues to be successful in achieving its objective to protect members from poor value for money charges. In 2020, I committed to the continued existence of the charge cap.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time, I am determined to make it easier for pension schemes to invest in illiquid assets and get better outcomes for savers. The Pension Charges Survey 2020 showed that two thirds of defined contribution schemes had zero direct investments in illiquid assets – which include infrastructure and green energy projects and venture capital investments which have the potential to achieve long-term benefits to savers. The survey also highlighted that when it came to diversifying the investment portfolio the performance fees that often form part of many of the opportunities within illiquid asset classes were seen as one of the barriers.</p><p> </p><p>In November 2021, I launched a consultation entitled ‘Enabling investment in productive finance’ to explore whether the removal of well-designed performance fees from the regulatory charge cap would improve member outcomes in the long-term by making it easier to pay such fees when investing in illiquid assets. A fundamental part of this is also ensuring trustees can exercise their fiduciary duty and protect members from high and unfair charges. There is no compulsion to pay performance fees but if trustees believe that there is an opportunity to improve member outcomes, we do not want to hold them back from seizing this.</p><p> </p><p>We received 54 responses to the consultation from pension schemes, asset managers, consumer rights groups and others on the impact our proposal would have on member protection and in helping to deliver better outcomes for pension savers. This included evidence of the impact any changes would have.</p><p> </p><p>We aim to publish a summary of the input and the views we received, as well as the Government’s proposed next steps in the coming weeks as part of a wider set of proposals and reform that the Government plans to bring forward to help pension scheme trustees access as wide a range of assets as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 138299 138300 138301 question first answered 16/03/2022 14:56:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1440142

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2022
	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	Workplace Pensions: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's Pension Charges Survey 2020, what assessment she has made of the proportion of pension contribution schemes that plan to make allocations to real assets but are unable to do so as a result of the existing consumer price cap of 0.75 per cent in the context of the findings of that survey that average fees were 0.29 per cent in single employer schemes and 0.48 per cent in multi-employer schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	138300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2022 answer text <p>The charge cap has been and continues to be successful in achieving its objective to protect members from poor value for money charges. In 2020, I committed to the continued existence of the charge cap.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time, I am determined to make it easier for pension schemes to invest in illiquid assets and get better outcomes for savers. The Pension Charges Survey 2020 showed that two thirds of defined contribution schemes had zero direct investments in illiquid assets – which include infrastructure and green energy projects and venture capital investments which have the potential to achieve long-term benefits to savers. The survey also highlighted that when it came to diversifying the investment portfolio the performance fees that often form part of many of the opportunities within illiquid asset classes were seen as one of the barriers.</p><p> </p><p>In November 2021, I launched a consultation entitled ‘Enabling investment in productive finance’ to explore whether the removal of well-designed performance fees from the regulatory charge cap would improve member outcomes in the long-term by making it easier to pay such fees when investing in illiquid assets. A fundamental part of this is also ensuring trustees can exercise their fiduciary duty and protect members from high and unfair charges. There is no compulsion to pay performance fees but if trustees believe that there is an opportunity to improve member outcomes, we do not want to hold them back from seizing this.</p><p> </p><p>We received 54 responses to the consultation from pension schemes, asset managers, consumer rights groups and others on the impact our proposal would have on member protection and in helping to deliver better outcomes for pension savers. This included evidence of the impact any changes would have.</p><p> </p><p>We aim to publish a summary of the input and the views we received, as well as the Government’s proposed next steps in the coming weeks as part of a wider set of proposals and reform that the Government plans to bring forward to help pension scheme trustees access as wide a range of assets as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 138298 138299 138301 question first answered 16/03/2022 14:56:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1550273

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2022
	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	Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with (a) ministerial colleagues and (b) stakeholders on extending (a) eligibility and (b) minimum contributions for automatic enrolment in workplace pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	107097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>We have been clear that the next step for Automatic Enrolment is the implementation of the 2017 Review measures in the mid-2020s. These measures will improve pension eligibility and contribution levels, in particular for low and medium earners.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, we are supporting better planning for retirement saving and financial well-being – Pensions dashboards will help individuals plan for later life.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 107096 question first answered 14/12/2022 12:33:02 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1580387

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	Workplace Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's Automatic enrolment review 2017, what his Department's timeline is for publishing proposals to extend automatic enrolment in workplace pensions.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	131215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>We remain committed to the implementation of the 2017 Review ambitions in the mid-2020s.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 30/01/2023 16:50:49 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth