Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Andrew Bowie and Guy Opperman

Monday 15th October 2018 Commons Chamber

[Guy Opperman]

Is it not rich that the Labour party, which never came up with or implemented a pensions dashboard, is criticising us, who are doing exactly that? Let me make it acutely clear that this is a party that works together, and that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I, and all the members of the DWP team, are completely behind the pensions dashboard.

[Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (Con)]

13. What progress she has made on the roll-out of universal credit throughout the UK.

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[Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (Con)]

T9. How many people in West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine have benefited from automatic enrolment thus far?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Guy Opperman)]

Some 10,000 of my hon. Friend’s constituents are benefiting from automatic enrolment, with thanks to the 1,800 employers involved, and nationally workplace pension provision for women and young people has now doubled in the last five years.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Andrew Bowie and Guy Opperman

Thursday 17th May 2018 Commons Chamber

[Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (Con)]

Women used to lag well behind men in terms of workplace pensions. Will the Minister update the House on the current situation?

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Guy Opperman)]

It is true that women used to lag behind men in terms of workplace pensions, but at 73% their participation rates are now equal to those of men in the private sector. Thanks to auto-enrolment, 10,000 men and women in my hon. Friend’s constituency now have a private pension. Thanks are also due to the 1,670 employers assisting them.