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1694623

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Financial Statement from 6 March 2024, Official Report, column 851, whether his Department has made an assessment of potential alternative funding mechanisms for the State Pension.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	17581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government believes the double taxation of work is unfair. That is why we’ve cut 4p from employee NICs in the last six months which will mean the average worker receives a tax cut worth £900 this coming year and why we are committed to ending this unfairness.</p><p>Cutting NICs rates does not affect anyone’s entitlement to the State Pension or contributory benefits.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 17582 17583 17584 question first answered 14/03/2024 13:01:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1694625

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance contributions on (a) calculating and (b) accounting pension entitlements.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	17583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government believes the double taxation of work is unfair. That is why we’ve cut 4p from employee NICs in the last six months which will mean the average worker receives a tax cut worth £900 this coming year and why we are committed to ending this unfairness.</p><p>Cutting NICs rates does not affect anyone’s entitlement to the State Pension or contributory benefits.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 17581 17582 17584 question first answered 14/03/2024 13:01:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1694626

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of abolishing National Insurance contributions on how qualifying years for pension entitlement would be (a) calculated and (b) accounted.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	17584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government believes the double taxation of work is unfair. That is why we’ve cut 4p from employee NICs in the last six months which will mean the average worker receives a tax cut worth £900 this coming year and why we are committed to ending this unfairness.</p><p>Cutting NICs rates does not affect anyone’s entitlement to the State Pension or contributory benefits.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 17581 17582 17583 question first answered 14/03/2024 13:01:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1694628

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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: Defamation
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 paragraphs 7.16 and 7.17 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions Ministers in his Department have informed the Law Officers that they are the defendants in a libel action in (a) their personal capacity, (b) their official position and (c) both since 19 December 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	17586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the information requested. As reflected in paragraph 2.13 of the Ministerial Code, ‘The fact that the Law Officers have advised or have not advised and the content of their advice must not be disclosed outside Government without their authority’.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Officers’ Convention, reflected in paragraph 2.13 of the Ministerial Code, is a long-standing convention observed by successive governments. It exists to preserve the ability of ministers to seek the advice of the Law Officers and not to be disadvantaged by disclosing when they have done so, and what advice they received.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 12/03/2024 13:58:37 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1694630

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Vacancies
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 Office for Budget Responsibility publication entitled Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in March 2024, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of the projected labour participation rate on the number of job vacancies over the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	17588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The DWP is not an economic forecaster. This sits with the OBR who have forecast total hours worked in the economy will increase over the next 5 years.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 15/03/2024 10:16:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1694633

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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, how many and what proportion of Universal Credit claimants have received a budgeting advance in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	17591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>Table 1 below provides the number and proportion of Universal Credit households who received a Budgeting Advance in each of the last three years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Universal Credit households who received a Budgeting Advance</p></td><td><p>Proportion of Universal Credit households who received a Budgeting Advance</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2020 - Nov 2021</p></td><td><p>1,045,000</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2021 - Nov 2022</p></td><td><p>1,026,000</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 2022 - Nov 2023</p></td><td><p>1,092,000</p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 1,000.</p><p>2. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>3. Data up to November 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/03/2024 14:47:29 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1694635

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Loans: Repayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the increase in the maximum repayment period on new budgeting advance loans starts is scheduled for December 2024.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	17593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>Universal Credit is an iterative system and all changes to the system are carefully planned and scheduled.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 12/03/2024 17:17:45 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1688960

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's spend on the youth offer was in the last financial year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	14029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department of Work and Pensions Youth Offer provides individually tailored work coach support to young people aged 16 to 24 who are claiming Universal Credit. This support includes the Youth Employment Programme, Youth Employability Coaches for young people with additional barriers to finding work, and Youth Hubs across Great Britain.</p><p>Previously, the Youth Offer was only available for those searching for work. As of the 25 September 2023, this been expanded to include to include additional young people on Universal Credit not currently searching for work, including young parents and carers.</p><p>The information regarding the Department’s total spend on the Youth Offer is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</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>The indicative Youth Hub Work Coach costs for the previous three financial years are:</p><p>2020/2021 - £1.1m</p><p>2021/2022 - £5.4m</p><p>2022/2023 - £4.8m</p><p><br> 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> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/02/2024 17:11:10 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

229255

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma, (c) diabetic retinopathy and (d) cataracts there were in the NHS in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	228836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The following table provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) shows the number of finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma, (c) diabetic retinopathy and (d) cataracts in the National Health Service in England between 2009/10 and 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Age-related Macular Degeneration</p></td><td><p>Glaucoma</p></td><td><p>Diabetic Retinopathy</p></td><td><p>Cataracts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>100,455</p></td><td><p>95,400</p></td><td><p>63,143</p></td><td><p>381,071</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>128,439</p></td><td><p>123,962</p></td><td><p>77,704</p></td><td><p>390,571</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>138,202</p></td><td><p>133,061</p></td><td><p>78,419</p></td><td><p>389,181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>149,635</p></td><td><p>139,385</p></td><td><p>80,615</p></td><td><p>395,882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>152,583</p></td><td><p>156,115</p></td><td><p>93,058</p></td><td><p>437,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics, HSCIC</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>This data includes patients who were treated as inpatients or day cases (admitted patient care) but not patients who were treated as an outpatient.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the data shown above is not a count of people, as the same person may have had an episode of care on more than one occasion within the same year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/03/2015 14:47:03 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

229256

registered interest
date	23/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the rate was of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma and (c) diabetic retinopathy per 100,000 population by age group in (i) 2013-14 and (ii) 2014-15 to date.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	228837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Data is not collected showing the rate of age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy per 100,000 population, by age group.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows the rate of Finished Admission Episodes with a primary diagnosis of (a) age-related macular degeneration, (b) glaucoma and (c) diabetic retinopathy per 100,000 of population, by age group in England for 2013-14 and provisional data for April 2014-November 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"><p>2013-14<br> Rate per 100,000 population</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>April 2014-November 14 (provisional)<br> Rate per 100,000 population</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age Group</p></td><td><p>Age related<br> Macular<br> Degeneration</p></td><td><p>Glaucoma</p></td><td><p>Diabetic Retinopathy</p></td><td><p>Age related<br> Macular<br> Degeneration</p></td><td><p>Glaucoma</p></td><td><p>Diabetic Retinopathy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>11.0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-14</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-19</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20-24</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td><td><p>2.4</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>7.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30-34</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td><td><p>13.2</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td><td><p>10.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35-39</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td><td><p>14.8</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td><td><p>11.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40-44</p></td><td><p>5.9</p></td><td><p>14.6</p></td><td><p>20.8</p></td><td><p>2.2</p></td><td><p>7.8</p></td><td><p>15.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45-49</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>22.0</p></td><td><p>30.4</p></td><td><p>6.4</p></td><td><p>14.9</p></td><td><p>23.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-54</p></td><td><p>17.4</p></td><td><p>31.6</p></td><td><p>45.1</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td><td><p>20.8</p></td><td><p>34.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55-59</p></td><td><p>38.6</p></td><td><p>46.7</p></td><td><p>58.5</p></td><td><p>27.8</p></td><td><p>31.9</p></td><td><p>46.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60-64</p></td><td><p>95.9</p></td><td><p>72.3</p></td><td><p>69.9</p></td><td><p>64.2</p></td><td><p>47.5</p></td><td><p>55.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65-69</p></td><td><p>219.9</p></td><td><p>101.2</p></td><td><p>72.5</p></td><td><p>154.0</p></td><td><p>69.6</p></td><td><p>60.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>70-74</p></td><td><p>466.5</p></td><td><p>147.9</p></td><td><p>77.0</p></td><td><p>331.3</p></td><td><p>100.6</p></td><td><p>65.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>75-79</p></td><td><p>830.2</p></td><td><p>189.2</p></td><td><p>72.5</p></td><td><p>596.0</p></td><td><p>127.6</p></td><td><p>64.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>80-84</p></td><td><p>1,362.5</p></td><td><p>203.7</p></td><td><p>57.9</p></td><td><p>942.9</p></td><td><p>138.7</p></td><td><p>52.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>85-89</p></td><td><p>1,809.6</p></td><td><p>183.8</p></td><td><p>34.0</p></td><td><p>1,281.0</p></td><td><p>119.5</p></td><td><p>35.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>90 and over</p></td><td><p>1,623.6</p></td><td><p>109.5</p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td><td><p>1,239.8</p></td><td><p>69.3</p></td><td><p>13.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The data includes patients who were treated as inpatients or day cases (admitted patient care) but not patients who were treated as outpatients or in primary care. The rate of these diseases is likely to be much higher as some cases would not require a hospital admission.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this is not a count of people as the same person may have had an episode of care on more than one occasion within the same year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/03/2015 14:48:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall