Oral Question·Department for Education
“If he will replace the existing government performance tables of schools with a broader set of indicators including more qualitative data on pupil well-being.”
Tabled: 4 September 2018Answered: 10 September 2018
Asked by
Layla Moran
Liberal Democrat — Oxford West and Abingdon
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Torsten Bell)
To tackle pensioner poverty, we are both increasing the state pension and running the biggest ever pension credit take-up campaign. Raising the new state pension in line with the triple lock over this Parliament is set to increase it by over £2,000 a year, while 60,000 extra pension credit awards were made in the year to July compared with the previous 12 months.