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EU Law
Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what (a) statutory instruments and (b) other regulations her Department has brought forward in this Parliament to meet obligations arising from EU law. [304181]
Jonathan Shaw: Central records of statutory instruments made under specific powers have only been maintained by the statutory instruments registrar since 2001. A record has been maintained since that time of statutory instruments made under powers in the European Communities Act 1972, but no record has been maintained of statutory instruments made under other legislation in order to meet obligations arising from EU law. It would be disproportionately costly to seek to find out now what statutory instruments have been made under such other legislation. There are no central records maintained of "other regulations". Since 2001 my department has made 39 statutory instruments (including one for which the Privy Council Office was technically responsible) under powers contained in the European Communities Act 1972. A list of those instruments is set out in the following table
Pathways to Work
Miss Begg: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of those on the Pathways to Work programme are expected to move into work. [310624]
Jonathan Shaw: The information requested is not available in the requested format.
Official statistics for the number of job outcomes for those participating in JCP-led and provider-led pathways are available on the Department's website
This shows that since October 2003 and as of January 2009 more than 173,000 people have moved into work through pathways (147,960 in Jobcentre Plus areas, 25,220 in provider led areas.) The next release of these statistics will be on 26 January 2010.
Pensions
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if she will estimate the cost to the public purse of increasing (a) additional pension, (b) increments to basic pension, (c) increments to additional pension, (d) increments to graduated retirement benefit, (e) increments to the inheritable lump sum, (f) contracted-out deduction from additional pension in respect of pre-April 1988 contracted-out earnings, (g) contracted-out deduction from additional pension in respect of contracted-out earnings from April 1988 to 1997, (h) graduated retirement benefit, (i) increase of long-term incapacity for age, (j) basic pension addition at the age of 80 years, (k) increase of long-term incapacity for age and (l) invalidity allowance (transitional) for state pension recipients by 2.5 per cent. in 2010-11. [308336]
Angela Eagle: The following table provides estimates of the total cost of increasing the following benefits for state pension recipients by 2.5 per cent in 2010-11:
| Total cost (£ millions) | |
| Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest million. 2. Where a value of zero is indicated, this means the total cost is less than one million pounds. 3. It is not possible to provide costings for (c) increments to additional pension, (e) increments to the inheritable lump sum, and (i) increase of long-term incapacity for age, with our current models. 4. Costs of contracted out deductions: (f) contracted-out deduction from additional pension in respect of pre-April 1988 contracted-out earnings; and (g) contracted-out deduction from additional pension in respect of contracted-out earnings from April 1988 to 1997, are included in (a) additional pension. Source: DWP, Forecasting Division. | |
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