Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) the UK and (b) resident in overseas countries over the age of 100 received the state pension in each of the last three years; and how many such people lived in each such overseas country in each of those years.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
DWP does not hold information on the number of people over the age of 100 who live in each overseas country.
The table below shows the information requested for numbers aged 100 or over recorded on our State Pension administrative data as of February 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Please note these figures will include dormant cases where no State Pension is in payment but their cases have not been fully closed. This will happen when, for example, the Department has lost touch with a customer or does not have a validated date of death. These cases are suspended, with no payments being made, rather than being completely closed. It is not possible for us to identify and remove these cases from the centrally held figures below.
| February 2014 | February 2015 | February 2016 | |
Abroad not known | - | - | - |
|
Alderney | - | - | - |
|
Australia | 300 | 300 | 300 |
|
Austria | - | - | - |
|
Bangladesh | - | - | - |
|
Barbados | - | - | - |
|
Belgium | - | - | - |
|
Bermuda | - | 0 | 0 |
|
Canada | 100 | 200 | 200 |
|
Chile | 0 | - | 0 |
|
Croatia | - | 0 | 0 |
|
Cyprus | - | - | - |
|
Denmark | 0 | 0 | - |
|
Djibouti | 0 | 0 | - |
|
Dominica | - | - | - |
|
France | - | - | - |
|
French Overseas Departments | 0 | - | 0 |
|
Germany | - | - | - |
|
Ghana | 0 | 0 | - |
|
Gibraltar | 0 | 0 | - |
|
Great Britain | 20,100 | 20,500 | 20,700 |
|
Greece | - | - | - |
|
Grenada | - | - | - |
|
Guernsey | - | - | - |
|
Hong Kong | - | - | - |
|
Hungary | - | - | - |
|
India | - | - | - |
|
Israel | - | - | - |
|
Italy | - | - | - |
|
Jamaica | - | - | - |
|
Jersey | - | - | - |
|
Kenya | - | - | - |
|
Lebanon | - | 0 | 0 |
|
Lithuania | 0 | - | - |
|
Luxembourg | 0 | - | - |
|
Malta | - | - | - |
|
Monaco | - | 0 | 0 |
|
Montserrat | 0 | - | - |
|
Morocco | - | - | - |
|
New Zealand | - | - | - |
|
Nigeria | - | 0 | 0 |
|
Northern Ireland | - | - | - |
|
Norway | - | - | - |
|
Not known | - | - | - |
|
Not yet recorded | - | 0 | 0 |
|
Pakistan | - | - | - |
|
Peru | - | 0 | 0 |
|
Philippines | 0 | - | - |
|
Poland | - | - | - |
|
Portugal | - | - | - |
|
Republic of Ireland | - | - | - |
|
Republic of Yemen | - | - | - |
|
South Africa | - | - | - |
|
Spain | - | - | - |
|
Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | - |
|
St Kitts and Nevis | - | 0 | 0 |
|
St Lucia | - | - | 0 |
|
St Vincent and The Grenadines | - | - | - |
|
Swaziland | 0 | 0 | - |
|
Sweden | - | - | - |
|
Switzerland | - | - | - |
|
Tanzania | 0 | 0 | - |
|
The Czech Republic | - | 0 | 0 |
|
The Netherlands | - | - | - |
|
Tours | - | - | 0 |
|
US Virgin Islands | 0 | 0 | - |
|
USA | 100 | 100 | 100 |
|
Ukraine | - | - | - |
|
United Arab Emirates | - | - | - |
|
Zimbabwe | - | - | - |
|
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|
|
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|
Great Britain | 20,100 | 20,500 | 20,700 |
|
Overseas | 1,200 | 1,300 | 1,300 |
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|
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Total | 21,300 | 21,800 | 21,900 |
|
Source: DWP - Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.
Notes:
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies have spent on infraction proceedings in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my Rt Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office today to UIN: 36288
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many infraction proceedings the EU has initiated against his Department in each of the last 10 years; what the reasons were for each such proceeding being undertaken; and what the outcome was of each such proceeding.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The information requested is publicly available on the website of the European Commission where the infringement cases for each member state can be found. This includes the infringement and the decision. These records go back to 2002 and can be found here.
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government has contributed to the Your first EURES job scheme; how many vacancies have been filled under that scheme in the UK since 2012; and how many UK workers have found work in the EU under that scheme.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The UK Government has not contributed any financial resources to the Your First EURES Job project. As this project is led by the EU Commission, the UK Government does not collect or hold information relating to the number of EU job seekers that have found jobs in the UK, or the number of UK jobseekers that have found work elsewhere in the EU through Your First EURES Job.
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what modelling his Department used to propose the new transitional benefit arrangements for EU migrants; when benefit payments under those arrangements will be greater than zero per cent; and what proportion of benefits EU migrants will be able to claim in each of the next five years.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
These details are a matter for the implementation of the proposal, and further announcements will be made in due course.
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to allow people in receipt of the War Disablement Pension for mesothelioma to apply for the new compensation settlement award.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
Specified payments are set out in the Mesothelioma Scheme Regulations and include payments under the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disability and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006 and payments under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011. If a person is eligible for or in receipt of a war disablement pension under either of these Orders then they are not eligible for a payment under the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (DMPS).
The Department does not intend to change the rules relating to specified payments in relation to DMPS.
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support parents of babies who spend time in neonatal care; if he will take steps to extend the statutory maternity pay of premature babies; and if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of such steps.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
The Government currently has no plans to extend Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) for the parents of premature or sick babies who spend time in neo-natal care.
SMP is designed to help working women during pregnancy and after childbirth by providing a measure of earnings replacement enabling them to stop work for a reasonable period around the birth to prepare for and recover from childbirth.
Working women are generally able to choose when they want their payments to begin and this flexibility in the start date for maternity pay was introduced in response to medical opinion that the woman herself is best able to judge the point at which she should give up work. This ensures sufficient time off to allow for different situations, including instances where babies are delivered at an earlier date and where babies need hospital care following birth.
The standard rate of SMP is part of a package of financial support to working families which includes Statutory Paternity Leave and Pay, Parental Leave and Flexible working. Tax Credits and Child Benefit are also available through HM Revenue and Customs to all families who qualify.
Additionally, the introduction of Statutory Shared Parental Leave and Pay for babies due on or after 5 April 2015 enables eligible mothers, fathers, and partners to choose how to share time off work after their child is born, giving parents much more flexibility in how to use their leave entitlement. This flexibility will be particularly valuable to parents who have to deal with difficult or unexpected circumstances and it allows parents, for the first time, to take leave together in a way that suits them.