Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department records the number of enquiries received from (a) hon. Members and (b) Members of Devolved (i) Parliaments and (ii) Assemblies on a quarterly basis.
Answered by Andrew Western - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The department receives and responds to enquiries from Members of Parliament and Members of devolved Parliaments or Assemblies but does not collate, report or produce statistics on this.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many written representations on compensation for women affected by changes to the state pension age she has received from Labour (a) hon. Members representing Scottish constituencies and (b) Members of the Scottish Parliament since 5 July 2024.
Answered by Emma Reynolds - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department does not keep this information centrally and therefore it is not readily available. Providing the information that the Department does hold would incur disproportionate costs.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of women born in the 1950s affected by State Pension age changes in each constituency in (a) Scotland and (b) Northern Ireland.
Answered by Emma Reynolds - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
In Scotland, as of the 2022 census there were the following numbers of 1950s-born women in each Scottish constituency:
Constituency | Females aged 63 to 72 in 2022 |
East Renfrewshire | 6,086 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 1,914 |
Midlothian | 5,569 |
North Ayrshire and Arran | 6,866 |
Orkney and Shetland | 2,901 |
Aberdeen North | 6,079 |
Aberdeen South | 5,144 |
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East | 6,279 |
Airdrie and Shotts | 5,342 |
Alloa and Grangemouth | 5,716 |
Angus and Perthshire Glens | 7,146 |
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry | 6,507 |
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber | 7,029 |
Bathgate and Linlithgow | 5,286 |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 6,977 |
Coatbridge and Bellshill | 5,540 |
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy | 5,976 |
Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch | 5,585 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 7,212 |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 6,432 |
Dundee Central | 5,094 |
Dunfermline and Dollar | 5,543 |
East Kilbride and Strathaven | 5,921 |
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh | 4,895 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 4,363 |
Edinburgh South | 5,203 |
Edinburgh South West | 4,699 |
Edinburgh West | 5,847 |
Falkirk | 5,732 |
Glasgow East | 4,516 |
Glasgow North | 3,995 |
Glasgow North East | 4,823 |
Glasgow South | 4,754 |
Glasgow South West | 4,648 |
Glasgow West | 4,880 |
Glenrothes and Mid Fife | 5,958 |
Gordon and Buchan | 5,696 |
Hamilton and Clyde Valley | 5,982 |
Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West | 6,209 |
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire | 6,686 |
Livingston | 5,600 |
Lothian East | 6,023 |
Mid Dunbartonshire | 6,639 |
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey | 6,736 |
Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke | 5,589 |
North East Fife | 6,248 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 5,749 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 5,439 |
Perth and Kinross-shire | 6,664 |
Rutherglen | 6,004 |
Stirling and Strathallan | 5,965 |
West Dunbartonshire | 5,905 |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 6,619 |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 7,240 |
Central Ayrshire | 6,245 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 6,100 |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 6,004 |
The relevant Scottish census data is available here in table UV102a, broken down by United Kingdom Parliamentary Constituency 2024: SuperWEB2(tm) - Table View.
In Northern Ireland, as of the 2021 census there were the following numbers of 1950s-born women in each Northern Irish constituency:
Constituency | Females aged 62 to 71 in 2021 |
Belfast East | 4,825 |
Belfast North | 5,116 |
Belfast South and Mid Down | 5,343 |
Belfast West | 5,081 |
East Antrim | 5,633 |
East Londonderry | 5,771 |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 5,701 |
Foyle | 5,087 |
Lagan Valley | 5,528 |
Mid Ulster | 4,845 |
Newry and Armagh | 5,439 |
North Antrim | 5,656 |
North Down | 6,181 |
South Antrim | 5,286 |
South Down | 5,441 |
Strangford | 5,917 |
Upper Bann | 5,796 |
West Tyrone | 5,234 |
The relevant Northern Irish census data is available in this table: Get data for Single year of age and sex (MS-A09) | NISRA Flexible Table Builder
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many concerns relating to offshore employment (a) met the criteria for follow-up and (b) were investigated in the first six months of 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
In the first six months of 2022:
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the report by MMI Engineering Ltd for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) entitled Study and development of a methodology for the estimation of the risk and harm to persons from wind turbines, RR968, published in 2013, is the most recent HSE study on the methodology for the estimation of the risk and harm to people from wind turbines.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) research report ‘RR968’ remains one of a range of studies, guidance and industry data used to assist in the evaluation of risk to people from wind turbines and operations.
Further, HSE continues to support industry in the development of industry specific guidance for this rapidly developing sector.
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of offshore renewable incidents (a) met the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Incident Selection Criteria and (b) were investigated by HSE in the first six months of 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
In the first six months of 2022:
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many dangerous occurrences relating to the offshore renewables industry were reported to the Health and Safety Executive between January and June 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
In the first six months of 2022:
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many offshore renewable incidents met the Health and Safety Executive's Incident Selection Criteria in the first six months of 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
In the first six months of 2022:
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many planned inspections of offshore renewable energy installations were made in the first six months of 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
In the first six months of 2022:
Asked by: Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party - Aberdeen North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether offshore employees raised concerns relating to offshore employment to (a) HSE and (b) her Department in the first six months of 2022.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The Health and Safety Executive received a total of 11 concerns from employees at offshore sites in the first six months of 2022.