Tag: Debbie Abrahams

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-09-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which three transitional options the former Pensions Minister, Baroness Altmann, commissioned from his Department to address the effects on women born in the 1950s following state pension equalisation.

Caroline Nokes

Transitional arrangements are already in place. At the time of the Pensions Act 2011 the Government introduced a concession worth £1.1 billion to limit the impact of the rising State Pension age on those most affected. The concession capped the maximum delay that anyone would face in claiming their State Pension to 18 months rather than two years, relative to the previous timetable. The Government has no plans to introduce further transitional arrangements.

The following link https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-foi-releases-for-march-2016 provides:

• information on the transitional arrangements considered during the passage of the Pensions Act 2011 (see table A); and
• illustrative costings for hypothetical policies including the three requested by the previous Minister for Pensions (see tables B to D).

These options are not under policy consideration.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2015-12-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls were made to the Child Maintenance Options Service in each month since January 2015.

Priti Patel

The number of inbound calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service from January 2015 to the end of October 2015 is shown in the table below:

Month	Number of calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service
Jan-15	33,010
Feb-15	31,020
Mar-15	36,450
Apr-15	33,370
May-15	32,590
Jun-15	37,580
Jul-15	40,530
Aug-15	38,010
Sep-15	45,340
Oct-15	39,800

Notes:

– Data Sourced from Child Maintenance Options Monthly MI Service Pack

– Data rounded to nearest 10

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-01-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what projection his Department has made of the annual spend on the contracted-out element of back to work support for the forthcoming Work and Health Programme; and how that spend compares with the annual spend on the current Work Programme and Work Choice.

Priti Patel

We are currently working on the design of the new Work and Health programme and we will publish the design and funding in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-03-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 February 2016 to Question 28404, on Independent Living Fund, if he will publish (a) the timescale and (b) the terms of reference of the research which the Government plans to conduct.

Justin Tomlinson

We have completed the planning for researching the impact of the ILF’s closure; we will publish the findings when the research is complete.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-03-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of disabled people living in social housing who will be affected by the cap to local housing allowance.

Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not available. As such it is not possible to accurately estimate the number of disabled people living in social housing that will be affected by this policy in 2018.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many stroke survivors are in receipt of social care funded by their local authority.

Alistair Burt

Information collected as part of the Short and Long Term (SALT) data return indicates that in 76 out of 152 local authorities in England 10,545 people who have a reported health condition of stroke received support from their local authority in 2014/15. However, recovering from having a stroke might not be the reason people are receiving this support from their local authority as they might have other conditions as well. The reason for the partial data return is that this is a voluntary data collection by local authorities.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-07-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had discussions with the Equality and Human Rights Commission on its employment of disabled people.

Justin Tomlinson

I have not had any meetings with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to discuss its employment of disabled people.

The Office for Disability Issues has frequent communication with the EHRC who are observers at the bi-annual Fulfilling Potential Forum that I chair which is attended by a range of disability-related stakeholders. Officials from the Office for Disability Issues are also in regular contact with the EHRC in relation to the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People, attending quarterly Treaty Monitoring review meetings.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-09-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates his Department has made of potential cost of proposed transitional measures to address the effects on women born in the 1950s following state pension equalisation.

Caroline Nokes

Transitional arrangements are already in place. At the time of the Pensions Act 2011 the Government introduced a concession worth £1.1 billion to limit the impact of the rising State Pension age on those most affected. The concession capped the maximum delay that anyone would face in claiming their State Pension to 18 months rather than two years, relative to the previous timetable. The Government has no plans to introduce further transitional arrangements.

The following link https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-foi-releases-for-march-2016 provides:

• information on the transitional arrangements considered during the passage of the Pensions Act 2011 (see table A); and
• illustrative costings for hypothetical policies including the three requested by the previous Minister for Pensions (see tables B to D).

These options are not under policy consideration.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what data is collected on the number of people who have primary breast cancer twice.

Mr Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2015-12-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many monthly Child Maintenance Service new applications from January 2015 were (a) former Child Support Agency (CSA) cases affected by reactive CSA case closure, (b) former CSA cases affective by proactive CSA case closure and (c) other new applications.

Priti Patel

From January 2015 to August 2015 there have been approximately 75,200 applications made to the Child Maintenance Service.

6,800 of these were made by former CSA cases affected by reactive case closure, 22,000 were made by former CSA cases affected by proactive case closure and 46,400 were new applications.

Notes:

1. Total Child Maintenance Service applications can be found in table 1 of the Child Maintenance Service 2012 Scheme Experimental Statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme
2. A system issue has been identified which impacts New Application Intake figures. Investigations have been carried out which identified incorrect duplication of New Applications. Figures have been adjusted to account for these duplicates
3. Cases have been linked between CSA systems and CMS Systems using the paying and receiving parents national insurance numbers.
4. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

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