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	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	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	Disability: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to close the pay gap between disabled workers and other workers.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	12631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all disabled people have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. Work is an important part of this, which is why we committed to halving the disability employment gap in our manifesto – we want to ensure that many more disabled people who can and want to work have that opportunity.</p><p>Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people (and other groups) from discrimination at work, including unequal pay (in relation to the disabled person's gender) and less favourable treatment, which may require the employer to provide a reasonable adjustment.</p><p>The National Living Wage - which will ensure that all low wage workers, including those with disabilities, can take a greater share of the gains from growth - will come into force from 1 April 2016.</p><p>Disability Confident works with an increasing number of employers to promote the benefits of employing disabled people, encouraging good practice, challenging prejudicial attitudes, increasing understanding of disability, removing barriers, and helping to ensure that disabled people have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.</p><p>Access to Work provides support above and beyond employers’ reasonable adjustments. Every year, Access to Work supports tens of thousands of disabled workers to enter or retain employment and progress in their careers.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/10/2015 14:00:49 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

457629

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2016
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on legal costs related to the under-occupancy penalty.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	29705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government has incurred approximately £387,155 to date on legal costs associated with judicial review challenges to the under-occupancy penalty.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this figure includes VAT where this is payable (e.g. on Counsel’s fees) and disbursements but does not include costs attributable to the time spent by Government advisory lawyers, as time spent by such advisory lawyers is not recorded in a manner that allows it to be attributed to individual cases. This figure does not include all of Counsel’s fees incurred in relation to the Supreme Court hearing of MA &amp; Others/A and Rutherford v the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (29 February to 2 March) which have not yet been billed.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/03/2016 17:24:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

515019

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	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 estimate his Department has made of the number of people who will receive a lower state pension under the single-tier pension system.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	35166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested can be found in the <em>Impact of the New State Pension (nSP) on an Individual’s Pension Entitlement – Longer Term Effects of nSP</em> published in January 2016. The link can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/491845/impact-of-new-state-pension-longer-term-reserach.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/491845/impact-of-new-state-pension-longer-term-reserach.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Figure 1 of the assessment shows the proportion of all pensioners from 2016 until 2060 at each time point with changed notional State Pension outcomes under the new State Pension.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 03/05/2016 12:01:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram