Asked by: James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in South Suffolk constituency are in receipt of the Winter Fuel Allowance.
Answered by Emma Reynolds - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
Annual statistics on the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients and households by local authority and by Westminster parliamentary constituency are made publicly available via GOV.UK. The latest release contains data on individual and household level statistics for winter 2022 to 2023. For Winter 2022 to 2023, 24,610 people received a Winter Fuel Payment in South Suffolk constituency.
Asked by: James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answers of 29 January 2016 to Question 23225 and of 28 April 2016 to Question 35312, what progress his Department has made on bringing forward changes to secondary legislation provisions of the Pensions Act 2014 relating to Pension Protection Fund capping.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
Before the long service cap can be implemented a number of changes need to be made to secondary legislation, so that it will operate as intended in all cases. While progress is being made in deveoping this legislation, we cannot at this time commit to a particular implementation date which, in any case, would be subject to the wishes of Parliament.
Asked by: James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2016 to Question 23225, what progress his Department has made on bringing forward changes to secondary legislation that are necessary to implement the relevant provisions of the Pensions Act 2014.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
Work on the changes needed to secondary legislation in relation to the Pension Protection Fund long service cap has begun. I am not, at this stage, able to say when these changes will be brought forward.
Asked by: James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will introduce legislative proposals to amend the provisions of the Pensions Act 2014 relating to the Pension Protection Fund capping to provide assistance to scheme members whose employers have entered into administration; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The Government is committed to the implementation of the Pension Protection Fund long service cap as described in the Pensions Act 2014.
Before the primary legislation can be brought into force, a number of changes need to be made to secondary legislation, so that it will operate as expected in all cases. Therefore we cannot, at this time, commit to a particular implementation date.