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169666

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the proportion of people whose defined contribution pension fund is in the ranges (1) £0 to £5,000, (2) £5,000 to £10,000, (3) £10,000 to £15,000, (4) £15,000 to £20,000, (5) £20,000 to £25,000, (6) £25,000 to £30,000, (7) £30,000 to £35,000, (8) £35,000 to £40,000, (9) £40,000 to £45,000, (10) £45,000 to £50,000, and (11) over £50,000.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL3653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Estimates of defined contribution wealth in the accumulation phase have been made by DWP using the Wealth and Assets survey (WAS). The analysis excludes individuals with zero DC wealth and includes all adults aged 16 and over.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Distribution of individuals with wealth in DC pensions not yet in payment, 2010/12</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>DC Wealth in Accumulation phase</p></td><td><p>% of individuals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £0 and £4,999</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £5,000 and £9,999</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £10,000 and £14,999</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £15,000 and £19,999</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £20,000 and £24,999</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £25,000 and £29,999</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £30,000 and £34,999</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £35,000 and £39,999</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £40,000 and £44,999</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>between £45,000 and £49,999</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>greater than £50,000</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: DWP analysis of ONS WAS data from 2010-12 (Wave 3)</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 17/12/2014 17:40:23 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

169670

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	G4S
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether G4S was considered for the delivery of call centres dealing with enquiries associated with Universal Credit; if so, when such consideration ceased; and whether any payments were made to G4S in respect of any such work.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:</p><p>2010/11 - £81,433</p><p>2011/12 - £17,947,271</p><p>2012/13 - £32,123,087</p><p>2013/14 - £46,377,724</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3658 HL3659 HL3660 HL3661 question first answered 17/12/2014 17:37:48 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

169671

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	G4S
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether G4S was considered for any work other than call centres associated with Universal Credit; if so, when such consideration ceased; and whether any payments were made to G4S in respect of any such work.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:</p><p>2010/11 - £81,433</p><p>2011/12 - £17,947,271</p><p>2012/13 - £32,123,087</p><p>2013/14 - £46,377,724</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3657 HL3659 HL3660 HL3661 question first answered 17/12/2014 17:37:48 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

169672

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	G4S
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments have been made to G4S in respect of the Department for Work and Pensions Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:</p><p>2010/11 - £81,433</p><p>2011/12 - £17,947,271</p><p>2012/13 - £32,123,087</p><p>2013/14 - £46,377,724</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3657 HL3658 HL3660 HL3661 question first answered 17/12/2014 17:37:49 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

169673

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	G4S
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments have been made to G4S in respect of the Department for Work and Pensions Community Work Placements programme.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:</p><p>2010/11 - £81,433</p><p>2011/12 - £17,947,271</p><p>2012/13 - £32,123,087</p><p>2013/14 - £46,377,724</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3657 HL3658 HL3659 HL3661 question first answered 17/12/2014 17:37:49 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

169674

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	G4S
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments have been made to G4S by the Department for Work and Pensions in total in each of the years 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14.
tabling member printed	Lord Harris of Haringey
uin	HL3661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:</p><p>2010/11 - £81,433</p><p>2011/12 - £17,947,271</p><p>2012/13 - £32,123,087</p><p>2013/14 - £46,377,724</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3657 HL3658 HL3659 HL3660 question first answered 17/12/2014 17:37:48 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2671 label Biography information for Lord Harris of Haringey

167612

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
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	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Lord Freud in the Grand Committee debate on the Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Targets) Regulations 2014, that the facts Lord McAvoy had quoted were "simply not true" (HL Deb, 25 November, col GC 263), how they were not true.
tabling member printed	Lord McAvoy
uin	HL3387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>I wrote to the Noble Peer on this issue on 4<sup>th</sup> December 2014. I have placed a copy of this letter in the library of the House and have also attached it to this response.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2014 15:43:27 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud attachment 1 file name Letter to Lord McAvoy 4.12.14.PDF title Letter to Lord McAvoy 4th Dec 2014
tabling member	4158 label Biography information for Lord McAvoy

166851

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
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: EU Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what effect they expect the Prime Minister’s proposals for curbs on welfare benefits for European Union migrants to have if implemented.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>In his speech on 28 November, the Prime Minister announced a number of proposals to restrict EU migrants’ access to welfare benefits. He made clear that the intention of his proposals was to make the immigration system fairer and reduce the current high level of migration from within the EU into the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 08/12/2014 12:14:09 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

166639

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have carried out any forecasts of the level of child poverty between now and 2020; and if so, whether they will be made public.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL3230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government does not produce forecasts of the number of children living in income poverty as the number of children in poverty is dependent on factors which cannot be reliably predicted, such as the median income.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does measure annual child poverty statistics through the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income in the UK have consistently been reported since 1998/99; these are available for each financial year up to 2012/13, the latest period for which estimates are available.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no assessment of the impact on child poverty of the combined tax and benefit changes announced since May 2010. Available survey data does not allow the Government to robustly assess the combined effects of tax and benefit policy on households with children.</p><p> </p><p>However, this Government has taken unprecedented steps to assess the effects of its policy decisions across the distribution of household income, by publishing analysis of the cumulative effects of the tax and welfare measures announced at each fiscal event since the June Budget 2010. The latest analysis can be found in Chapter 2 of the attached report.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3231 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:55:04 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

166640

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
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	Poverty: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have calculated the impact on child poverty of the combined tax and benefit policy changes announced to date since May 2010.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL3231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not produce forecasts of the number of children living in income poverty as the number of children in poverty is dependent on factors which cannot be reliably predicted, such as the median income.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does measure annual child poverty statistics through the National Statistics Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. Estimates of the number and proportion of children in relative and absolute low income in the UK have consistently been reported since 1998/99; these are available for each financial year up to 2012/13, the latest period for which estimates are available.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no assessment of the impact on child poverty of the combined tax and benefit changes announced since May 2010. Available survey data does not allow the Government to robustly assess the combined effects of tax and benefit policy on households with children.</p><p> </p><p>However, this Government has taken unprecedented steps to assess the effects of its policy decisions across the distribution of household income, by publishing analysis of the cumulative effects of the tax and welfare measures announced at each fiscal event since the June Budget 2010. The latest analysis can be found in Chapter 2 of the attached report.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud grouped question UIN HL3230 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:55:04 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans