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426863

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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, how changes made as a result of the Pension Act 2011 were communicated to people affected.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	15254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Following the 2011 changes, which brought about faster equalisation of men’s and women’s State Pension ages and accelerated the timetable for the rise to 66, DWP wrote to all individuals directly affected to inform them of the change to their State Pension age, using the address details recorded by HMRC at the time.</p><p>In addition, the State Pension age equalisation changes were built into the State Pension statement IT system; introduced in 2001. Therefore, statements produced on request using this system would have included women’s new State Pension ages as determined by the 1995 Pensions Act and the 2011 Pensions Act.</p><p>DWP also made information on State Pension age changes and who they affect available on <a href="http://gov.uk" target="_blank">Gov.uk</a>, and provided the online State Pension age calculator to give individuals a quick and simple way to check when they will reach State Pension age.</p><p>We have committed to completing a review of the State Pension age by May 2017. This is an important opportunity to ensure that State Pension age changes are fully considered by Government and well understood by those they affect.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 16:35:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

426864

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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, how many (a) men and (b) women were affected by the changes made in the Pension Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	15255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>Estimates of the number (a) men and (b) women affected by the changes made to State Pension age are presented in Table 5 of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment, published in November 2011, available at</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf</a></p><br /><p>This shows that an estimated 2.34 million men and 2.64 million women would have an increase in the State Pension age under the Pensions Act 2011 compared to the legislated position prior to the passing of the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p>The Impact Assessment examines the fiscal costs and benefits of increasing women’s State Pension age from 63 to 65 between April 2016 to November 2018; and increasing men’s and women’s State Pension age from 65 to 66 between December 2018 and October 2020. A Gender Impact assessment is provided in the Annex of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment.</p><br /><p>Women born in 1952 were not affected by the changes to State Pension age in the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 15278 15279 question first answered 12/11/2015 11:03:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

426865

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact assessment his Department carried out on women directly affected by the Pension Act 2011 before those changes came into effect.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	15278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>Estimates of the number (a) men and (b) women affected by the changes made to State Pension age are presented in Table 5 of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment, published in November 2011, available at</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf</a></p><br /><p>This shows that an estimated 2.34 million men and 2.64 million women would have an increase in the State Pension age under the Pensions Act 2011 compared to the legislated position prior to the passing of the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p>The Impact Assessment examines the fiscal costs and benefits of increasing women’s State Pension age from 63 to 65 between April 2016 to November 2018; and increasing men’s and women’s State Pension age from 65 to 66 between December 2018 and October 2020. A Gender Impact assessment is provided in the Annex of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment.</p><br /><p>Women born in 1952 were not affected by the changes to State Pension age in the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 15255 15279 question first answered 12/11/2015 11:03:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

426866

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average change in income for a woman born in 1952 is as a result of the provisions of the Pension Act 2011.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	15279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>Estimates of the number (a) men and (b) women affected by the changes made to State Pension age are presented in Table 5 of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment, published in November 2011, available at</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181462/pensions-bill-2011-ia-annexa.pdf</a></p><br /><p>This shows that an estimated 2.34 million men and 2.64 million women would have an increase in the State Pension age under the Pensions Act 2011 compared to the legislated position prior to the passing of the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p>The Impact Assessment examines the fiscal costs and benefits of increasing women’s State Pension age from 63 to 65 between April 2016 to November 2018; and increasing men’s and women’s State Pension age from 65 to 66 between December 2018 and October 2020. A Gender Impact assessment is provided in the Annex of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment.</p><br /><p>Women born in 1952 were not affected by the changes to State Pension age in the Pensions Act 2011.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 15255 15278 question first answered 12/11/2015 11:03:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

426867

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Preston
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what facilities are available to enable staff based at the Carer's Allowance Unit in Preston to pay money from their wages into the Guild Money credit union.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	15229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text The department has a confirmed list of approved organisations for which Consolidated Voluntary Deductions (CVD’s) may be made. However, this does not include the Guild Money Credit Union. Carer’s Allowance staff entering into arrangements with the Guild Money Credit Union should therefore arrange their payments through other methods such as direct debit through their bank or building society. answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2015 15:27:11 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

426427

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the social security benefits budget last had a clean and unqualified audit report from the NAO.
tabling member printed	Lord Inglewood
uin	HL3366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>It is the DWP consolidated resource account (not budget) that is audited each year by NAO.</p><br /><p>In his certificate of the 2014/15 accounts the Comptroller and Auditor General stated to the House of Commons that, in his opinion, the Department’s financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the Department’s and the Departmental Group’s affairs as at 31 March 2015.</p><br /><p>The consolidated resource account has been given a qualified regularity opinion in each of the years that it has been audited (since 1999-00) because of the level of fraud and error in certain benefits.</p><br /><p>The qualification is due to material amounts of fraud &amp; error in benefit expenditure. In the 14/15 accounts this was estimated at 1.9% of benefit expenditure, the eventual outturn was 1.8%.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 19/11/2015 14:40:21 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1980 label Biography information for Lord Inglewood

426446

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Employment Schemes: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve social support for unemployed young people, in particular in adapting to changing technology.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>As our Manifesto said, we are committed to abolishing long-term youth unemployment and ensuring that young people are either earning or learning.</p><br /><p>DWP provides a broad range of additional support, over and above the standard Jobcentre Plus offer, to all young people on benefit, which is tailored to their needs. Through the Youth Obligation, from day 1 young people will participate in an intensive support regime equipping them with the skills to not only find a job but build capability to sustain work, and after 6 months they will be supported to apply for an apprenticeship, traineeship, gain work skills or go on a work placement. In addition, if needed, young people already receive support to help them to make and manage their claims on-line and to acquire and improve their digital skills.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 19/11/2015 16:17:03 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

426477

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	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 steps he is taking to ensure that people eligible to join the Class 3A voluntary contribution scheme are made aware of it.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	14986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2015 answer text <ol><li>A nationwide communications campaign, called ‘State Pension top up’, has been in place since 2014 to raise awareness of the Class 3A voluntary contribution scheme both before and after its launch on 12 October 2015. This campaign has included the creation of dedicated webpages on GOV.UK, including a calculator tool which has been used over 82,000 times since scheme launch. Printed and digital leaflets have been produced alongside advertising both online, and through national and regional press.</li></ol><br /><p>For over a year prior to launch, individuals were able to register by phone or email for scheme updates.</p><br /><p>The scheme has also achieved widespread coverage, particularly around its launch, in the national and specialist press read by the scheme’s target audience. DWP has worked directly with financial advisory bodies and key pensions industry experts to raise awareness of the scheme.</p><br /><p>DWP officials have attended conferences around the country with IFAs to explain the scheme and Ministers have written articles and conducted interviews on national, regional and international broadcast channels.</p><br /><p>As of 8 November 2015, the scheme had attracted 3460 applications.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/11/2015 13:44:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

426485

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	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 estimate he has made of the proportion of people eligible for the Class 3A Voluntary National Insurance Contribution Scheme that have signed up to that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	15099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold application data for the State Pension top up (Class 3A) at a regional or constituency level. To obtain this would incur a disproportionate cost. Across the UK we have received 3193 applications for State Pension top up (Class 3A) in the scheme’s first 3 weeks.</p><br /><p>Up to c. 12m individuals are eligible for the scheme depending upon personal circumstances. In the first 3 weeks of operation there were 3193 applications for State Pension top up (Class 3A).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 15091 question first answered 13/11/2015 13:38:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

426486

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	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, how many people have signed up to the Class 3A Voluntary National Insurance Contribution Scheme in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Pendle constituency.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	15091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold application data for the State Pension top up (Class 3A) at a regional or constituency level. To obtain this would incur a disproportionate cost. Across the UK we have received 3193 applications for State Pension top up (Class 3A) in the scheme’s first 3 weeks.</p><br /><p>Up to c. 12m individuals are eligible for the scheme depending upon personal circumstances. In the first 3 weeks of operation there were 3193 applications for State Pension top up (Class 3A).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 15099 question first answered 13/11/2015 13:38:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson