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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Further to my FOI FOI2019/08324 can you please let me have copies of any correspondence or talks between the DWP Bill Team and Policy Officials and the Work and Pensions Committee under Anne Begg regarding the new State Pension.

Also can you please tell me

1) Why the DWP made the decision not to tell Work and Pension Committee about not proceeding with the legislation about the consolidation of additional state pension as explained in the Pension Act 2011 which became law in November 2011 as explained in link below.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011....
I assume there must have been correspondence about this so please let me have copies

2)Who and why the decision as mentioned in one above not to tell Parliament about not proceeding with the change in law regarding amalgamation of additional state pension as explained in link above. I assume it would have been discussed in the DWP so please let me have copies of any correspondence or notes of what was said.

3) Why was the decision made not to do an impact assessment regarding not proceeding with what is mentioned in the link above especially as it affected over 10 million people. I assume this must have been discussed in the DWP so please let me have copies of any correspondence or notes of what was said.

Yours faithfully,

C. Thompson

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Dear C Thompson,

I am writing in response to your request for information, received 17th
March.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team

Dear [email address] on behalf of DWP Central FOI Team,

Can you please let me have copies of any information the DWP gave to the Work and Pensions Committee and correspondence the DWP have or had between the DWP and the Work and Pensions committee when Anne Begg was the Chair of the Committee regarding introduction of the new state before it started on 6 April 2016. If you don't have it please tell me who does.

Please note I am not restricting it to correspondence or talks between the DWP Bill Team and Policy Officials only but the whole of DWP.

Yours sincerely,

C. Thompson

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