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387741

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date	06/07/2015
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	Welfare State
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions published in the Tablet on 4 July.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL1118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State received a letter from Ekklesia dated 3 July 2015, which was subsequently published online in the Tablet.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State has responded to this letter from Ekklesia.</p><p> </p><p>It would not be appropriate for us to make public our response to this private correspondence.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 20/07/2015 15:23:55 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

387742

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
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: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to replace benefit sanctions with community service, for those who are unemployed, disabled or in chronic bad health.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL1119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are no current plans to replace benefit sanctions with community service.</p> answering member printed Lord Freud question first answered 13/07/2015 15:52:12 answering member 3893 label Biography information for Lord Freud
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

387743

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date	06/07/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Living Wage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to provide tax incentives to firms and employers paying the living wage to all their workers.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL1120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government wants to move from a low wage, high tax, high welfare society to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society. As the Chancellor announced at the Summer Budget, a new National Living Wage (NLW) will be introduced from April 2016. This will apply to all people over the age of 25, and will directly benefit 2¾ million people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At the same time, the government is increasing the employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) employment allowance from £2000 to £3000. This will reduce the costs of employment for businesses and charities and will mean that a business can employ four people full time on NLW and pay no employer NICs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 15/07/2015 15:18:04 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton