We will be extending seven contracts with organisations delivering relationship support provision and related services. These services include preventative support for couples during key transition points in their relationships; targeted support for parents with complex needs; work to promote healthy relationships and encourage the take-up of support services; help for...

We will be extending seven contracts with organisations delivering relationship support provision and related services. These services include preventative support for couples during key transition points in their relationships; targeted support for parents with complex needs; work to promote healthy relationships and encourage the take-up of support services; help for...

My Right Honourable Friend [The Minister for Pensions] (Steve Webb MP) has made the following Written Statement.

We will be extending seven contracts with organisations delivering relationship support provision and related services. These services include preventative support for couples during key transition points in their relationships; targeted support for parents...

My Right Honourable Friend [The Minister for Pensions] (Steve Webb MP) has made the following Written Statement.

We will be extending seven contracts with organisations delivering relationship support provision and related services. These services include preventative support for couples during key transition points in their relationships; targeted support for parents...

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support they provide as part of their homelessness prevention strategy to help prevent relationship breakdown.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what support they provide as part of their homelessness prevention strategy to help prevent relationship breakdown.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to review their policies and resources which support relationships, in the light of recent research by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Salvation Army which suggests that relationship breakdown is the most common cause of homelessness.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to review their policies and resources which support relationships, in the light of recent research by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Salvation Army which suggests that relationship breakdown is the most common cause of homelessness.

My Lords, this is the first set of new state pension regulations to be made under the Pensions Act 2014; further secondary legislation will follow over the next 12 months in the run-up to the introduction of the new state pension in April of next year. These draft regulations are...

My Lords, this is the first set of new state pension regulations to be made under the Pensions Act 2014; further secondary legislation will follow over the next 12 months in the run-up to the introduction of the new state pension in April of next year. These draft regulations are...

My Lords, I will address my remarks, if I may, to Part 4 of the regulations—that is, Regulation 13. As I understand it, the regulations effectively replace what is called the home responsibility

protection with a 10-year minimum qualifying period for a UK state pension. Prior to 2010, we had...

My Lords, I will address my remarks, if I may, to Part 4 of the regulations—that is, Regulation 13. As I understand it, the regulations effectively replace what is called the home responsibility

protection with a 10-year minimum qualifying period for a UK state pension. Prior to 2010, we had...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very helpful explanation of the regulations and the noble Lord, Lord German, for his contribution, too. Generally speaking, the regulations seem to broadly reflect the intention of the legislation, so I shall concentrate on only two or three points on which I...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very helpful explanation of the regulations and the noble Lord, Lord German, for his contribution, too. Generally speaking, the regulations seem to broadly reflect the intention of the legislation, so I shall concentrate on only two or three points on which I...

I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these regulations. I will try to cover the points raised; where I fail to do so, I certainly undertake to write to noble Lords. I turn first to the points made by the noble Lord, Lord German, on an...

I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these regulations. I will try to cover the points raised; where I fail to do so, I certainly undertake to write to noble Lords. I turn first to the points made by the noble Lord, Lord German, on an...

Did the Minister say that nobody would be worse off? Did he mean that?

Did the Minister say that nobody would be worse off? Did he mean that?

I hope I did not, because I am not sure that is the case. If I did, I certainly correct that point. I am not sure that nobody will be worse off. I could not say that.

When that story broke, as it were, this was not new news; it was...

I hope I did not, because I am not sure that is the case. If I did, I certainly correct that point. I am not sure that nobody will be worse off. I could not say that.

When that story broke, as it were, this was not new news; it was...

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Lords motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.

Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.