Asked by: Craig Mackinlay (Conservative - South Thanet)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will assess the costs and benefits of classifying parentally-agreed child support as income for means-tested benefits.
Answered by Priti Patel
In order to help encourage parents to take financial responsibility for their children and maximise the amount of maintenance that flows from the non-resident parent to the child, child maintenance payments made under the statutory scheme or through a family based arrangement are not treated as income for means tested benefits.
Asked by: Craig Mackinlay (Conservative - South Thanet)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners who were living in countries where their pensions were frozen have moved back to the UK in each year since 2009.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The requested information is within the table below. This shows the numbers of pensioners who had been overseas and receiving a non-uprated pension who have returned to the UK during the year and were no longer having their pension non-uprated:
| Year | Numbers previously overseas resident with non-uprated pension who lived in the UK one year later |
| 2009 | 2,000 |
| 2010 | 3,000 |
| 2011 | 3,000 |
| 2012 | 3,000 |
| 2013 | 2,000 |
| 2014 | 2,000 |
Source:
DWP 100% WPLS
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000.
2. The period referenced in the table is from 1st March to the following last day in February.