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644000

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
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	Carer's Allowance
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 will lose entitlement to carer's allowance as a result of increases to the national minimum wage taking their income over the earning limit for that allowance.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	54762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The impact that a carer’s earnings, including those receiving the National Minimum Wage, will have on their entitlement to Carer’s Allowance (CA) will depend on the number of hours they work a week and their net salary for CA purposes once allowable deductions have been made.</p><p> </p><p>The CA earnings limit will be increasing from £110 to £116 a week from April 2017. This 5% increase outstrips the current average increase in earnings. Up to 2,000 carers will benefit from this change.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/11/2016 13:03:25 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

644004

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
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	Jobcentres: Older 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 older people champions are employed in job centres.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	54707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>We have seven older claimant champions across the jobcentre network, one operating in each of the GB regions. These were introduced in April 2015 to increase awareness among Work Coaches of the barriers faced by older claimants. The Champions work collaboratively with 34 District Leads, along with other colleagues, to raise the profile of older claimants at an operational level, highlight the benefits of employing older people and provide advice and best practice to share nationally.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 54708 question first answered 29/11/2016 16:03:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

644005

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
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	Jobcentres: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the role is of older people champions in job centres.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	54708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>We have seven older claimant champions across the jobcentre network, one operating in each of the GB regions. These were introduced in April 2015 to increase awareness among Work Coaches of the barriers faced by older claimants. The Champions work collaboratively with 34 District Leads, along with other colleagues, to raise the profile of older claimants at an operational level, highlight the benefits of employing older people and provide advice and best practice to share nationally.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 54707 question first answered 29/11/2016 16:03:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

644007

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
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	Employment Schemes: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent from the public purse through the Work Choice programme on employment support in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	54673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Departmental Annual Report for 2015/2016 includes the final outturn numbers for Employment Programmes from 2011/12 to 2015/16 (page 123 of the report), which includes Work Choice.</p><p> </p><p>The annual spend on Work Choice for the years requested is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Amount £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/11/2016 13:13:31 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

644010

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
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	Welfare Reform and Work Bill
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 the oral contribution by the Minister of State for Welfare Reform of 27 January 2016, in the House of Lords, Official Report, column 1315, on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill, whether the £60 to £100 million per year proposed under his Department's Green Paper on work, health and disability to be spent on supporting employment and support allowance claimants into work is in addition to or instead of funding currently being spent in the Work Programme and in Work Choice.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	54869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The £60 - £100 million per year is additional funding that will deliver a broad range of employment and health support. This will be in tandem with the change to the ESA Work-Related Activity Component and UC Limited Capability for Work element. As set out in the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper some of it will be used to fund additional places on Work Choice and the Work and Health Programme when it is launched.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/11/2016 13:18:22 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

644013

registered interest
date	24/11/2016
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	Universal Credit
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 the oral contribution of the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work of 17 November 2016, Official Report, columns 462 to 464, whether the hardship fund, flexible support fund and other third-party deals will compensate new claimants in full for the loss of the work-related activity group payments.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	54827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>We remain committed to ensuring that people have the best support possible to move closer to the labour market and, when they are ready, into work. The change to the ESA work-related activity component will only apply to new claims. There will be no cash losers among those who are already in receipt of ESA and we aim to protect existing ESA claimants who temporarily leave the benefit to try out work and then return to ESA. We will bring forward draft regulations in due course setting out the detail.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/11/2016 17:40:35 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

642868

registered interest
date	23/11/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many UK pensioners whose pensions are frozen because they live overseas have moved back to the UK in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>There were 2,190 recipients of the UK State Pension who were resident overseas with non-uprated State Pensions on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2015 and who were resident in the UK on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2016.</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100% data.</em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><ol><li><em>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. </em></li><li><em>The administrative data on State Pension represents snapshots of information. To answer the question two snapshots of data have been compared but there could have been additional movements of residency during this time that would not be captured – for example if someone moved back to the UK but then left again before 31<sup>st</sup> May 2016.</em></li></ol> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 29/11/2016 12:35:02 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

643161

registered interest
date	23/11/2016
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	State Retirement Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on the minimum written notice to be given to people who will be affected by future changes to the state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	54428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government has committed not to change the legislation relating to State Pension age for those people who are within 10 years of reaching it. This provides these individuals with the certainty they need to plan for the future</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the importance of ensuring people are aware of any changes to their State Pension age and we use a number of different means to do this. In the past, these have included writing to people and targeted communications campaigns. However, we continue to look at the most effective way to ensure people are aware of any changes. Anyone can find out their State Pension age with our online calculator or the ‘Check your State Pension’ statement service.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2016 12:16:49 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

643162

registered interest
date	23/11/2016
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	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 recent assessment he has made of the effect on mutual societies of changes in assessing the relative risk under the Pension Protection Fund levy.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	54472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is an independent body which pays compensation to members of defined benefit occupational pension schemes where the sponsoring employer becomes insolvent and the scheme is unable to cover the accrued pension liabilities. The PPF is funded from a combination of the transferred scheme funds, recoveries from the insolvent employer, investment return and a levy on eligible schemes. Under the Pensions Act 2004, the levy is set by the PPF independently of the Government.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 29/11/2016 11:34:39 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

643163

registered interest
date	23/11/2016
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 Security Benefits: Scotland
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 estimate of the number of people in Scotland subject to a benefit sanction who have used food banks in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	54545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 29/11/2016 15:00:50 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier