Mentions:
1: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) for allowing the debate, which is a second outing on the issue within a few months.We all agree that occupational - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) consolidated and simplified 10 of the existing codes to make it easier for trustees and those running occupational - Speech Link
Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
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 merits of classifying covid-19 as an occupational disease for healthcare workers; and whether his Department has had discussions with relevant professional bodies on that matter.
Answered by Mims Davies - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The DWP is advised by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), an independent scientific body, on changes to the list of occupational diseases for which Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) can be paid.
The Council considered the available scientific and epidemiological evidence around COVID-19 infection and published a Command Paper entitled, ‘COVID-19 and occupational impacts’ in November 2022 found here.
The Command Paper recommends that the list of prescribed occupational diseases for which IIDB can be paid should be expanded to include health and social care workers with five serious pathological complications following COVID-19 infection.
The Department is currently carrying out a detailed assessment of the report’s recommendations and will respond in due course.
Correspondence Sep. 06 2023
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: Correspondence from the Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions and Health and Social Care relating
Laid - 1 Feb 2024 In Force Not stated
This Order specifies the earnings percentage used to calculate the levy ceiling (article 3) and the amount of the levy ceiling (article 4) for use in relation to the Pension Protection Fund in the financial year beginning on 1st April 2024.
Found: Pension Protection Fund and Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling) Order 2024
Apr. 12 2024
Source Page: Annualised accrued value calculations for Pensions DashboardsFound: Annualised accrued value calculations for Pensions Dashboards
Laid - 4 Mar 2024 In Force 1 Apr 2024
These Regulations amend the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (General Levy) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/626) by replacing paragraphs 2 to 13 of the Schedule to those Regulations. In doing so these Regulations specify the figures that are to be used in calculating the rate at which the general levy for …
Found: Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (General Levy) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It means that most state pensions will gain value relative to that increase. - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) He is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pensions. - Speech Link
3: None are many factors to take into account, such as different tax systems, the cost of living, access to occupational - Speech Link
4: None Additional state pension is the state equivalent of an occupational pension scheme, as he will know. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) That is why we have WorkWell, the back to work plan, and the occupational health group, led by Dame Carol - Speech Link
2: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) We also have WorkWell, and we are looking at occupational health and what tax incentives we might put - Speech Link
3: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) The Department for Work and Pensions has a staggering 288,000 outstanding PIP claims. - Speech Link
4: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) What steps are the Government taking to improve the provision of workplace health services through occupational - Speech Link
5: Mel Stride (Con - Central Devon) regard to long-term sickness and disability, we are working on an array of interventions, including occupational - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None and the Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) (Equal Treatment by Occupational Pension Schemes) Regulations - Speech Link
Written Evidence Jan. 10 2024
Inquiry: Defined benefit pension schemesFound: canteen, at separate times, and told by the directors, the company was going to start their own occupational