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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the £10 earnings disregard for war disablements pensioners in receipt of income support was last uprated; and what has been the cumulative increase in the retail price index since that date. - (Holding answer 12 December 2002).

Asked by
David Chaytor (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 December 2002
Reference
396 c1021W;396 c1019W; 86311
House
House of Commons

That this House notes the existing age addition payment to the state pension of 25 pence a week on reaching the age of 80; accepts the widespread evidence that shows that the oldest pensioners tend to be among the poorest in society; acknowledges that the vast majority of those pensioners...

Primary sponsor
Alan Simpson (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
18 December 2002
Reference
438; 438A1
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list each (a) social security benefit and (b) revenue and capital disregard that has not been uprated since (i) 1997, (ii) 1992 and (iii) 1990.

Asked by
David Chaytor (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 December 2002
Reference
86312; 396 c500-1W
House
House of Commons

Written statement on public service pensions. - Inc ref to 394 c16-36WS and inc fig.

Member
Lord Boateng (Labour)
Department
Treasury
Type
Written statements
Date
3 December 2002
Reference
395 c72-3WS
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the evidential basis was for his decision not to increase the earnings disregards for jobseeker's allowance; when this disregard was last increased; and what it would be worth if it had been uprated. - Includes figures.

Asked by
Jim Cousins (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 November 2002
Reference
395 c210W; 83242
House
House of Commons

How and when it came about that British subjects resident in former Yugoslavia are entitled to annual uprating of their state pensions while British subjects resident in Canada are not; and what is the logical principle which justifies the difference between the treatment of British subjects to former Yugoslavia and...

Asked by
Earl Russell (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 November 2002
Reference
641 c25-6WA; HL 12
House
House of Lords

Written statement on the new rates of benefits uprating. (Inc tables).

Member
Andrew Smith (Labour)
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written statements
Date
19 November 2002
Reference
394 c16-36WS
House
House of Commons

Public petition from the British Pensioners and Trade Unions Action Association, Coventry Branch for legislation to introduce a minimum state retirement pension of one third of average earnings for a single pensioner and two thirds for a couple, and to restore the link between pension upratings and average earnings. (Circulated...

Lead member
Jim Cunningham
Type
Paper petitions
Date
19 November 2002
Reference
394 c618
House
House of Commons

Lords statement on welfare to work and benefits uprating.

Lead member
Baroness Hollis of Heigham
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Ministerial statements
Date
18 November 2002
Reference
641 c161-71
House
House of Lords

Statement on welfare-to-work and benefit uprating.

Lead member
Andrew Smith
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Ministerial statements
Date
18 November 2002
Reference
394 c365-80
House
House of Commons

That this House congratulates the National Pensioners Convention on their successful rally held on 11th November; and calls upon the Government to bring forward an increase in the basic state pension to ??100 per week for a single person and ??156 per week for a couple, to restore the link...

Primary sponsor
Alan Hurst (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
13 November 2002
Reference
42
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 15th July 2002 at 389 c114W, on state pensions, if he will increase the basic state pension increments paid to pensioners who retired before April 2002 so that they maintain their original proportionate value as...

Asked by
Lord Willetts (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 November 2002
Reference
74742; 392 c407W;392 c312-3W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the cost of re-introducing the link between the state pension and average earnings. - Includes figures.

Asked by
Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 November 2002
Reference
392 c294W;392 c307W; 79765
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will estimate the (a) net cost of linking pensions to earnings and (b) surplus in the National Insurance Fund in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2010. - Includes figures.

Asked by
Barry Gardiner (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 November 2002
Reference
79362; 392 c294-5W;392 c307W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost to his Department would have been in each of the last five years of unfreezing state pension for those retired abroad in countries without a full reciprocal social security agreement. - Includes table.

Asked by
Lord Boswell of Aynho (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
24 July 2002
Reference
389 c1544-5W;389 c1542-3W; 71183
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his Answer of 19th June, 387 c407-8W, why the Government decided that the higher uprating of the basic state pension should apply to basic state pension increments from April 2002.

Asked by
Lord Willetts (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 July 2002
Reference
389 c114W; 68607
House
House of Commons

Whether an individual who has emigrated to Canada and has not had his national insurance pension uprated receives the full uprating if he returns to the United Kingdom; and whether he continues to receive the uprating if he later decides to emigrate again. [HL 4963].

Asked by
Lord Higgins (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 July 2002
Reference
HL 4963; 637 c91WA
House
House of Lords
Answered by
Baroness Hollis of Heigham (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
26 June 2002
Reference
636 c1352-3
House
House of Lords
1st supplementary on need to start paying increases when pensioners reach 75.
Asked by
Lord Mackie of Benshie (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
26 June 2002
Reference
636 c1352-3
House
House of Lords
Answered by
Baroness Hollis of Heigham (Labour)
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
26 June 2002
Reference
636 c1352-3
House
House of Lords