Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the guidance by the Central Digital and Data Office entitled Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published on 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems are used by his Department; and how many red-rated IT systems have been identified since 4 December 2023.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
I refer the hon. Member to a previous response I provided to Question UIN 3652. There have been no changes following the previous response. We continually monitor our Legacy IT systems to ensure any emerging risks are recorded and managed effectively.
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much their Department spent on (a) current and (b) legacy IT infrastructure (i) in total and (ii) purchased in 2013 or earlier in each of the last three years.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
DWP is unable to provide a breakdown of the figures requested as this would require a high degree of manual processing to pull the information together centrally.
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the guidance by the Central Digital and Data Office entitled Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published on 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems are used by their Department.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
As of 21 November 2023, DWP has 6 red-rated legacy IT systems as defined in the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework.
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill on existing case law relating to workplace pensions.
Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
We are considering how best to seamlessly implement the measures in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill whilst minimising the impact on the pension industry and members of occupational pension schemes.
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, what estimate his Department has made of the number of laws that will be need to be reviewed relating to workplace pensions.
Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
A public facing dashboard lists all legislation that falls within the scope of the Retained EU law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, including for my department. This dashboard will be updated on a quarterly basis and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/retained-eu-law-dashboard
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of those eligible for Pension Credit in each region were claiming it in the most recent period for which data are available.
Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Estimates for Pension Credit take-up in a financial year are only available at the Great Britain level and are available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates or take-up” publication, which can be accessed on the statistics section of gov.uk. The latest publication relates to the financial year 2019 to 2020.
Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of people (a) eligible for and (b) claiming Pensions Credit as of 30 January 2023; and if he will publish this information.
Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The latest estimates for Pension Credit take-up in a financial year are available in the “Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up” publication, which can be accessed on the statistics section of gov.uk:
Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The latest available data for those claiming Pension Credit relates to May 2022. As of May 2022, the Pension Credit caseload was 1,369,990.
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on Pension Credit uptake by age.
Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The estimates for Pension Credit take-up 2019 to 2020 can be found on the statistics section of gov.uk. Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial year 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to publish statistics on Pensions Credit uptake for the financial years (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23.
Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In March we will publish the Family Resource Survey for 2021/22. Following this, work will begin to assess whether the data can produce new take-up estimates. In line with the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Statistics I will provide an update at this stage. 2022/23 take up will be published as normal in Autumn 2024. Due to the impacts of the pandemic it will not be possible to publish estimates for 2020/21.
Asked by: Matt Rodda (Labour - Reading East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on taking steps to reduce delays in the State Pension system.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
DWP does not have any UK State Pension claims outstanding where payment is due, other than for those customers where further information is required or evidence is awaited.