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OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Bosnia
Mr. Peter Bottomley : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the pledges made by the United Kingdom and others ; and if he will list the pledges which have been converted into cash for relief supplies for Bosnia.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have committed over £70 million in humanitarian relief to the former Yugoslavia. Of this, £41 million has been pledged multilaterally through the EC and over £29.5 million in direct bilateral assistance. Most of this is focused on central Bosnia. I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Mr. Hendry) on 23 November, columns 452-53 , for details of how we are spending these funds. Comprehensive figures for the commitments made by other donors are not available.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Benefits Agency Fraud
Mr. Hutton : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether the feasibility study into the market testing of sector fraud within the Benefits Agency has been completed ; and if he will make a statement.
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Miss Widdecombe : The study commissioned into the feasibility of market testing all or part of the fraud work has not yet been completed. Once the eventual findings have been considered decisions will be taken on the extent to which market testing should be applied to this area of work.
Disabled People
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will compensate disabled people who are unable to make an application to the independent living fund because of delays in the processing of attendance allowance and disability living allowance claims.
Mr. Scott : We have no plans to provide such compensation. The independent living fund is an independent charitable trust which is managed by trustees, who deal with all administrative matters.
Disability Allowances
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number of claims received by his Department for the disability working allowance in each month since its introduction ; and if he will provide a breakdown by region.
Mr. Scott : A regional breakdown is not available. The total number of claims received in each month is as follows :
1992 |Total ---------------------- March |4,153 April |4,124 May |2,570 June |2,700 July |2,344 August |2,081 September |2,085 October |1,432 November |1,431 December |1,008
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will provide a breakdown by number and percentage of the total number of (i) initial and (ii) renewal claims for disability working allowance received by his Department that were refused on the grounds that (a) the claimant was not in remunerative work, (b) the claimant's income was above the limit, (c) the claimant was not in receipt of a qualifying benefit, (d) the claimant was receiving family credit, (e) the joint income of the claimant and his or her partner exceeded the limit, (f) the claimant was working less than 16 hours a week or (g) for other reasons.
Mr. Scott : By 2 January the total number and percentage of claims refused in each category was as follows :
Claims refused
|Number |per cent.
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Not in work or working less than 16 hours a week
New claims |11,069 |57
Renewals |61 |33
Income of claimant and partner exceeds DWA level
New claims |2,150 |11
Renewals |108 |57
No qualifying benefit
New claims |5,128 |27
Renewals |8 |4
Receiving family credit
New claims |494 |3
Renewals |0 |0
Other reasons
New claims |448 |2
Renewals |12 |6
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many applications for the disability working allowance have been received by his Department to date ; and if he will provide a breakdown by (a) the number and percentage of these that resulted in an award, (b) the number and percentage of these that were refused and (c) the number and percentage of these that are awaiting a decision.
Mr. Scott : By 2 January 1993, 24,280 claims had been received with following results :-
|Number |Percentage
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Awards |3,360 |14
Refused |19,480 |80
Awaiting further information |625 |3
Withdrawn before decision |815 |3
Mr. Scott : The disability living allowance and attendance allowance claim packs were developed in close consultation with disabled people and the organisations that represent them. We continue to consult widely both formally and informally. A reprint of the claim packs is being produced for April 1993. A table of the organisations we have consulted since 30 November 1992 is as follows.
DLA claim pack--Draft consultation with outside organisations 1. Access Committee for England
2. Action for Blind People
3. ADSS Disabilities Committee
4. Age Concern
5. Alzheimer's Disease Society
6. Arthritis Care
7. ASBAH (Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus) 8. Association for Speech Impaired Children
9. Association of Hospice Social Workers
10. Association of County Councils
11. Association for Residential Care
12. Association of Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children
13. BACUP
14. Barnados
15. BCODP (British Council of Organisations of Disabled People) 16. Birmingham Welfare Rights
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17. British Association of Social Workers18. British Epilepsy Association
19. British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association
20. British Association of Social Workers
21. British Medical Association
22. British Diabetic Association
23. Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund
24. Carers' National Association
25. Caring for People with Disabilities
26. Caring Costs
27. Central London Social Security Advisers Forum
28. CHAR
29. Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
30. College of Occupational Therapists
31. Council on Disability for Shetland
32. Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust
33. Cystic Fibrosis
34. Derbyshire Centre for Independent Living
35. DHSS NI
36. Disability Alliance
37. Disabled Living Foundation
38. Disablement Income Group
39. Disablement Income Group (Scotland)
40. District Nursing Association (UK)
41. Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board
42. Federation of Independent Advice Centres
43. Good Practices in Mental Health
44. Health Visitors Association (Services) Ltd
45. Haemophilia Society
46. Help the Aged
47. Herfordshire Welfare Benefits Advisers
48. Huntingdon's Disease Association
49. Independent Living
50. Independent Health Care Association
51. Joint Committee on Mobility for Disabled People
52. Lancashire County Council Welfare Rights Service
53. Leonard Cheshire Foundation
54. MENCAP
55. MIND (National Association for Mental Health)
56. Motor Neurone Disease Association
57. Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
58. Muscular Dystrophy Group
59. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association
60. NACAB (National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux) 61. National Deaf Children's Society
62. National Schizophrenia Fellowship
63. National Association for Health Authorities
64. National Council for Voluntary Organisations
65. National Information Forum
66. National Schizophrenia Fellowship
67. National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
68. National Association of Voluntary Help Organisations 69. National Association for Limbless Disabled
70. National Care Homes Association
71. NFBUK (National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom) 72. Northern Ireland Council on Disability
73. Parkinson's Disease Society of the United Kingdom
74. People First
75. PHAB
76. Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled
77. RADAR (Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation) 78. RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind)
79. RNID (Royal National Institute for the Deaf)
80. Sandwell Social Services Department
81. Schizophrenia Association of Great Britain
82. Scottish Association for Mental Health
83. Scottish Council on Disability
84. Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped
85. SENSE (National Deaf-Blind and Rubella Association) 86. Social Work Department. St. Georges Hospital, Lincoln 87. Soldiers, Sailors and Airmans Families Association
88. Spinal Injuries Association
89. SSAC
90. Terrence Higgins Trust
91. The Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disablement
92. The Disabled Drivers Association
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93. The Spastics Society94. Wales Council for the Deaf
95. Wales Council for the Disabled
96. Wales Council for the Blind
97. Wandsworth Social Services Department
98. Oakleaf Enterprise
99. London Borough of Hounslow
100. Tower Hamlets Law Centre
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