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Mr. Maclean : The recording of "tampering" offences is dependent on the interpretation of the circumstances surrounding each individual incident. An offence regarded as being attempted theft of/from a vehicle is a "notifiable" offence and would be published in the crime statistics. However, an offence deemed to be interference with a motor vehicle is not "notifiable" and would not be shown in the crime statistics.
Fire Fighting, Cleveland
Mr. Bates : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to make a decision on the provision of fire fighting services in Cleveland.
Mr. Charles Wardle : In the light of advice which my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary has received from the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council and from Her Majesty's chief inspector of fire services, he proposes when local government in Cleveland is reorganised, to establish a combined fire authority for Cleveland. The combined authority will take over the functions under the Fire Services Act 1947 which are currently exercised by Cleveland county council, and will consist of members drawn from the four unitary authorities which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment proposes to establish in the Cleveland area when the county council is abolished.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide figures for the amount his Department has been reimnbursed by the Department of Social Security in respect of statutory sick pay provision for each of the past three years.
Mr. Howard : The amounts are as follows :
|£
---------------------------------------
1990-91 |3,408,180.95
1991-92 |2,771,581.37
1992-93 |2,850,542.04
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Public Bodies
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible have been (a) abolished or (b) created since 1979.
Mr. Howard : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 1 February 1994, Official Report, column 611.
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) which of the public appointments for which he is responsible require advance notice to and consultation with the Chief Whip's Office ; and which appointments made since 1979 have been so notified and consulted upon ;
(2) which appointments since 1979 to public bodies or posts for which he is responsible have included candidates nominated by the Chief Whip's Office ; if any nominees by this source have been appointed ; and if he will give details.
Mr. Howard : It is not the practice of Her Majesty's Government to answer parliamentary questions about discussions and consultations between Departments and offices of Government relating to public appointments.
Mandatory Life Sentences
Mr. Forman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what procedures he follows before he decides what tariff period should be set for persons sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment.
Mr. Howard : I refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave on 27 July 1993, Official Report, column 863, in response to a question from my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton (Sir I. Lawrence).
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Metropolitan Police
Sir Ivan Lawrence : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the priorities of the Metropolitan police for 1994-95 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Howard : The priorities of the Metropolitan police for 1994-95 are :
(i) to deliver the standards defined in the Metropolitan police service charter ;
(ii) to increase the number of notifiable offences solved to 190, 000 ;
(iii) to increase the detection rate for burglary to a minimum of 15 per cent. ;
(iv) to improve performance against terrorism ;
(v) to improve performance against the criminal use of firearms ; and
(vi) to improve policing performance and quality of service by restructuring the Metropolitan police service.
Details of each of the priorities and the way in which they address the key objectives for policing I announced on 3 December, Official Report, columns 786-87 , are set out in a corporate strategy document which the Commissioner is, with my approval, issuing today. I am sending copies today to all right hon. and hon. Members whose constituencies fall wholly or partly within the Metropolitan police district and I am arranging for copies to be placed in the Library.
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list for each division of the Metropolitan police the establishment number by rank and the number of people in post by rank at the latest available date ;
(2) if he will list (a) the sectors created in each division of the Metropolitan police, (b) the establishment level by rank for each sector, and (c) the number of people in post by rank in each sector, at the latest available date.
Mr. Charles Wardle : I understand from the Commissioner that information in the form requested is not held centrally. The table shows the figures for police officers in post by rank at area level as at 31 December 1993.
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Metropolitan Police
Area establishment and strength profile by rank as at 31 December 1993
|DAC |Commander |Chief |Superintendent|Chief |Inspector |Sergeant |Constable |Total |Variation
|Superintendent |Inspector
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Area
Establishment |1 |2 |13 |18 |47 |136 |507 |2,525 |3,249
Strength |1 |2 |12 |18 |47 |146 |501.4 |2,508.96 |3,326.36 |-12.46
2 Area
Establishment |1 |2 |11 |22 |39 |132 |470 |2,360 |3,037
Strength |1 |2 |7 |19 |43 |135 |462 |2,326.14 |2,995.14 |-41.86
3 Area
Establishment |1 |2 |13 |19 |46 |128 |470 |2,527 |3,206
Strength |1 |1 |11 |19 |49 |129 |438.15 |2,487.33 |3,180.48 |-25.52
4 Area
Establishment |1 |2 |10 |18 |34 |113 |424 |2,117 |2,719
Strength |1 |2 |10 |16 |38 |110 |433.7 |2,018.29 |2,628.99 |-90.01
5 Area
Establishment |1 |2 |11 |16 |37 |121 |399 |1,866 |2,453
Strength |1 |2 |11 |14 |35 |124.6 |432.2 |1,987.85 |2,607.65 |154.65
6 Area
Establishment |1 |3 |13 |20 |44 |148 |481 |2,400 |3,110
Strength |1 |2 |12 |14 |41 |140 |509.6 |2,400.46 |3,120.06 |10.06
7 Area
Establishment |1 |2 |12 |17 |43 |123 |475 |2,203 |2,876
Strength |1 |1 |11 |17 |37 |126 |480.4 |2,170.3 |2,843.7 |-32.3
8 Area
Establishment |1 |2 |10 |14 |34 |122 |406 |1,777 |2,366
Strength |1 |2 |8 |15 |32 |118 |402.88 |1,829.2 |2,408.08 |42.08
Total Establishment |8 |17 |93 |144 |324 |1,023 |3,632 |17,775 |23,016
Total Strength |8 |14 |82 |132 |322 |1,029 |3,705.33 |17,729.53 |23,020.46 |4.46
Informers
Mrs. Helen Jackson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments have been made by the City of London police to Mr. Totterington-Jarvis for information supplied by him ; and over what period he was acting as an informer.
Mr. Charles Wardle : The use of informants is an operational matter and entirely the responsibility of the chief officer of the police force concerned.
Racial Incidents
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when data will be available on the number of racial incidents recorded by each police force in England and Wales for 1993.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : In common with other statistics, information on reported racial incidents is now provided by police forces on a financial year basis. Information on the number of racial incidents reported to police forces in England and Wales for the year April 1993 to March 1994 will be available in mid-April.
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what procedures his Department has adopted to monitor the incidence of racial harassment and racial attacks in England and Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Every police force in England and Wales is required to monitor the occurrence of racially motivated incidents using a standard definition agreed with the Association of Chief Police Officers, and taking account of Home Office guidance on ethnic classification issued as Home Office circular 70 of 1992. Data are supplied annually to the Home Office via HM inspectorate of constabulary.
Since April 1993, as part of the national package of core performance indicators for the police, each force will be expected to publish annual data on the total number of reported racial incidents in the force area, and the percentage of these in which further investigative action was taken. This information will be used by HM inspectorate of constabulary to monitor police performance. In addition, the British crime surveys of 1988 and 1992 asked ethnic minority victims of crime about racial motivation. A paper on ethnic minorities' experience of crime, including the incidence of racial motivation, is due to be published shortly. The
inter-departmental racial attacks group will be considering the latest available data on racial incidents as part of its continuing work programme.
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of homicides in 1992 in which racial motivation was a factor.
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Mr. Maclean : The information requested is not available. The police are required to make returns of each known homicide to the Home Office, but are not specifically requested to note whether they consider racial motivation to be a factor.
Animal Experimentation
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy that no future licences will be awarded under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which would allow ex-pets to be used in research.
Mr. Charles Wardle : All applications for the use of animals in scientific procedures are considered on their merits, and against the criteria and constraints set out in the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. The Act contains strict provisions to guard against the possibility of stray or stolen dogs and cats being used in experiments.
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy that his Department will not grant licences for research on Dartmoor ponies ; and what account he has taken of article 7(3) of directive 86/609 in considering this matter.
Mr. Charles Wardle : A blanket prohibition would not be appropriate. All applications for the use of animals in scientific procedures are considered on their merits, and against the criteria and constraints contained in the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which is operated in accordance with the requirements of directive 86/609.
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has to ban the import of wild-caught primates for the use in scientific experiments ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Charles Wardle : Substantial progress has been made in reducing the use of wild-caught primates in British laboratories. The Animal Procedures Committee is considering the practical problems in the way of eliminating such use altogether, and I look forward to receiving its advice in due course.
Prison Statistics
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 31 January, Official Report, column 574, what is the expected date of publication of "Prison Statistics, England and Wales 1992".
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Publication of "Prison Statistics, England and Wales 1992" is now planned for June 1994. Summary information was published in March 1993 in Home Office statistical bulletin 7/93 "The Prison Population in 1992".
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Young Offenders
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration he has given to the second report of the Children's Society and Advisory Committee on Young Offenders, "A False Sense of Security", since it was published on 25 November 1993 ; and what proposals he has for action on the findings and recommendations of that report.
Mr. Maclean : The report made 20 recommendations. They were aimed at preventing and reducing youth crime, improving the youth justice system, dealing with persistent offenders and protecting the public from serious offenders. They have all been carefully considered. In brief, the Government's response is as follows :
we have longsupported both community-based crime prevention initiatives-- including youth crime prevention panels which directly involve young people themselves--and also local inter-agency co-operation in the juvenile justice system ;
we were already taking action in relation to some of the committee's concerns, such as making funding available for bail support schemes and setting time limits for the stages in court proceedings ;
we agree that the report has made some useful comments on improving the effectiveness of community supervision programmes ; this is an objective of the review of national standards--announced by my right hon. and learned Friend on 6 October 1993--for such programmes ; we think that the report places a proper emphasis on the need for independently inspected high standards of care in secure accommodation for children and for throughcare programmes aimed at rehabilitating such children : we intend that those standards and those objectives should apply in relation to the new secure training centres ;
we think that the independent sector can play a part in the provision of secure accommodation for young people ;
we do not accept the report's recommendation that plans for secure training centres should not be implemented.
Paper Shredders
Mr. Rooney : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many paper shredding machines there are (a) in his private office and (b) in his Department.
Mr. Howard : In the Home Secretary's private office there are three shredding machines. The other information sought is not centrally recorded and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Killings
Dame Peggy Fenner : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many murders, how many unlawful killings and how many cases of manslaughter were committed in each of the last five years for which figures are available ; and how many killings were committed by people found to have been of diminished responsibility.
Mr. Maclean : The information requested is published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1992"--Cm 2410--chapter 4 and table 4.2.
A copy of this publication is in the Library.
Criminals (Employment Status)
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has on the employment status of persons convicted of crimes in England and Wales in the last five years for which figures are available.
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Mr. Maclean [holding answer 3 February 1994] : The information readily available is given in the table and is taken from a special data collection exercise undertaken in a small number of courts to monitor the implementation of the Criminal Justice Act 1991. The statistics are subject to sampling error and may not be representative of all courts in England and Wales. They will also reflect changes in employment status from the date of arrest. Some research studies on this issue were listed in my reply to the hon. Member on 1 February, Official Report, column 650.
Employment status on date of sentence, for persons sentenced in selected
courts<1> for indictable offences
Percentage of total offenders sentenced
Employment status on |July to August |January to
date of sentence
|1992 |February 1993
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Currently employed (including self
and part time employment) |19 |18
Youth or other training scheme |1 |1
Unemployed |63 |70
Full-time education |3 |3
Other |2 |2
Not known |11 |6
|------- |-------
Total number sentenced
[=100 per cent.] |3,100 |3,600
<1>Magistrates courts -Bow Street, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff Leicester, Maidstone, Newcastle,
Portsmouth and York.
Crown court centres-Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster, Kingston, Knightsbridge, Maidstone,
Newcastle, Preston and Wolverhampton.
Deportations
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been deported from the United Kingdom in each of the last three years ; and what was the nationality of each person who has been deported.
Mr. Charles Wardle [holding answer 27 January 1994] : The information requested is given in the table.
Persons removed from the United Kingdom
under the deportation process<1>
Geographical region |1991 |1992 |1993<3>
and nationality
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All nationalities |2,616 |2,583 |2,254
European Community
Belgium |7 |10 |4
Denmark |- |2 |2
France |4 |5 |6
Germany |5 |5 |10
Greece |2 |2 |3
Ireland |8 |11 |5
Italy |5 |14 |11
Luxembourg |3 |- |-
Netherlands |29 |30 |23
Portugal |- |4 |2
Spain |3 |3 |2
Other Western Europe
Austria |- |- |3
Cyprus |12 |16 |11
Finland |2 |- |1
Malta |1 |1 |1
Norway |2 |2 |1
Sweden |2 |1 |2
Switzerland |1 |1 |3
Turkey |60 |58 |35
Former Yugoslavia |37 |13 |10
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria |8 |1 |13
Former Czechoslovakia |6 |4 |25
Hungary |4 |7 |4
Poland |128 |126 |155
Romania |2 |5 |1
Former USSR |1 |- |6
Americas
Argentina |1 |- |1
Barbados |4 |3 |2
Brazil |67 |76 |51
Canada |8 |18 |10
Chile |4 |3 |6
Colombia |72 |78 |67
Guyana |6 |5 |12
Jamaica |129 |141 |147
Mexico |4 |1 |1
Peru |12 |10 |8
Trinidad and Tobago |2 |9 |5
United States of America |45 |42 |32
Venezuela |2 |2 |2
Africa
Algeria |156 |115 |64
Angola |1 |2 |2
Egypt |39 |30 |27
Ethiopia |2 |- |1
Ghana |137 |140 |132
Kenya |12 |10 |14
Libya |3 |5 |2
Mauritius |20 |29 |11
Morocco |99 |73 |50
Nigeria |640 |623 |440
Sierra Leone |43 |20 |20
Somalia |- |- |-
South Africa |22 |23 |44
Sudan |2 |2 |3
Tanzania |12 |19 |11
Tunisia |10 |10 |10
Uganda |11 |9 |8
Zaire |1 |3 |3
Zambia |11 |23 |15
Zimbabwe |10 |11 |28
Indian sub-continent
Bangladesh |50 |62 |64
India |105 |117 |132
Pakistan |127 |159 |138
Middle East
Iran |4 |10 |4
Iraq |52 |- |1
Israel |14 |10 |10
Jordan |4 |1 |5
Kuwait |- |- |-
Lebanon |4 |1 |3
Saudi Arabia |1 |- |-
Syria |2 |1 |4
Yemen |2 |1 |7
Remainder of Asia
China |1 |3 |7
Indonesia |2 |2 |3
Japan |16 |7 |9
Malaysia |94 |116 |85
Philippines |20 |25 |43
Singapore |1 |1 |3
South Korea |2 |- |1
Sri Lanka |7 |7 |6
Thailand |30 |23 |8
Hong Kong<2> |49 |68 |42
Australasia
Australia |14 |5 |9
New Zealand |10 |9 |16
Others
British Overseas citizens |- |2 |-
Other countries not elsewhere specified |78 |88 |81
Less or nationality doubtful |8 |9 |5
<1> Including persons who departed voluntarily, but excluding illegal entrants removed. In total, some 6,100 persons
were removed as illegal entrants or under the deportation process, including 400 who departed voluntarily, in the 12
months ending June 1993.
<2> British dependent territories citizens and British nationals (overseas) only.
<3> Provisional.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Murdered Service Men (France)
31. Mr. Winnick : To ask the Attorney-General what discussions he has had with his German counterpart on the prosecution of those responsible for the murder of British service men in France in 1940.
The Attorney-General : None. The issue is one for the prosecuting authorities in Germany which have received full co-operation from the Ministry of Defence and our police.
Group Libel
32. Mr. Booth : To ask the Attorney-General what representations he has received on group libel.
The Attorney-General : In March 1992 the then Attorney-General and the Lord Chancellor received a copy of a report on group defamation from the board of deputies of British Jews.
Prosecution Costs
33. Mr. Evennett : To ask the Attorney-General to what extent the cost of prosecution is taken into account when the Crown Prosecution Service decides whether to prosecute.
The Attorney-General : Cost is not a specific factor to be taken into account in the decision whether or not to prosecute. However, as the code for Crown prosecutors makes clear at sections 8(i) and (viii), it may be considered in relation to offences where the penalty is likely to be merely nominal or the guilt of the defendant minimal in relation to that of the principle offenders.
Crown Prosecution Service
34. Dr. Twinn : To ask the Attorney-General how many cases were committed to Crown court for trial by the Crown Prosecution Service in 1993 ; and how many resulted in a conviction.
The Attorney-General : During the period January to September 1993, 76,404 defendants were committed for trial in the Crown court in cases where the Crown Prosecution Service had conduct of the prosecution and, over the same period, 60,758 convictions were recorded.
35. Mr. Jenkin : To ask the Attorney-General to what extent the public interest is considered by the Crown Prosecution Service when a decision to prosecute is made.
The Attorney-General : The decision to prosecute is based, first, on whether there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction. Only if there is such evidence is the public interest considered.
36. Mr. Brazier : To ask the Attorney-General whether a record is kept by him of the reasons for discontinuance of prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service ; and if he will make a statement.
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The Attorney-General : No central record of the reasons for discontinuance of prosecutions is maintained. The Crown Prosecution Service conducted a survey in November 1993 on all cases discontinued by them in that month and I refer my hon. Friend to my written answer to him on 26 January 1994, Official Report, column 246.
Fraud
37. Mr. Flynn : To ask the Attorney-General what further proposals he has to improve the effectiveness of the prosecution in cases of financial fraud.
The Attorney-General : The review of the handling of serious fraud cases which I anounced in October is due to be completed at the end of this month. It will then be considered by the Law Officers and the two directors.
Paper Shredders
Mr. Rooney : To ask the Attorney-General how many paper shredding machines there are (a) in his private office and (b) in his Department.
The Attorney-General : There are no paper shredding machines in my private office.
In the Departments for which I am responsible the numbers are as follows :
|Number
--------------------------------------------------------
The Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers |1
The Treasury Solicitor's Department |13
The Crown Prosecution Service |84
The Serious Fraud Office |3
SOCIAL SECURITY
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will provide figures for the amount his Department has been reimbursed by the Department of Social Security in respect of statutory sick pay provision for each of the past three years.
Mr. Scott : The information is in the table.
Statutory sick pay recovered
|£
------------------------------
1990-91 |5,783,839
1991-92 |4,589,107
1992-93 |4,378,963
Income Support
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many persons without accommodation were income support recipients in England at May 1992 and at the latest available date, breaking down the figures by age and by employment status.
Mr. Burt : The figures for May 1992 are not available. Since publication of these statistics for May 1991, collation of income support information in local benefit offices is no longer undertaken by clerical means but by the income
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support computer system. However, although all main functions are in place, work is incomplete on some functions less central to everyday operation. This includes the process to retrieve information on claimants without an address. Steps are being taken to introduce an appropriate retrieval process from the May 1994 statistical inquiry, information from which is expected to be available in early 1995.Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many (a) families with children are in receipt of income support and (b) how many children are living on income support in the Greenock and Port Glasgow area ; and what were the comparable figures for 1979.
Mr. Burt : The administration of income support is a matter for Mr. Michael Bichard, the chief executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member with such information as is available. Letter from Mr. Michael Bichard to Dr. Norman Godman, dated 4 February 1994 :
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking about families in receipt of income support in the Greenock and port Glasgow area.
The complete range of information you requested is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. This is because statistics which reflect the number of families with children are not collected locally on a routine basis. Children are treated as dependants of their parents and their needs are included within their parents claim.
However, I am able to provide information for Scotland as a whole and this is outlined below. The data has been obtained from the Supplementary Benefit Annual Statistical Enquiry for 1979 and the Income Support Quarterly Statistical Enquiry for February 1993 (These are the latest available figures and are based on a 1 sample of cases).
Year |Families with|Number of -------------------------------------------------------- 1993 |142,000 |255,000 1979 |55,000 |109,000
I hope that this reply is helpful.
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many households, from data taken from the annual statistical inquiry, in 1991, 1992 and 1993, are having weekly deductions made from their income support as appropriate, for (a) electricity and (b) gas of (i) under £2 per week and (ii) in each £1 band above £2 per week up to £40 per week.
Mr. Burt : The available information is in the tables :
Income support recipients with deductions for direct payment of
fuel costs-May 1991 ASE
£ per week |Cases with |Cases with
|deductions for|deductions for
|electricity |gas
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0.01 to 2.00 |1,000 |2,500
2.01 to 3.00 |2,500 |2,000
3.01 to 4.00 |5,500 |4,500
4.01 to 5.00 |7,500 |6,500
5.01 to 6.00 |7,000 |11,500
6.01 to 7.00 |9,500 |12,500
7.01 to 8.00 |7,500 |15,000
8.01 to 9.00 |8,500 |20,000
9.01 to 10.00 |8,000 |16,000
10.01 to 11.00 |6,500 |17,500
11.01 to 12.00 |6,500 |12,000
12.01 to 13.00 |5,000 |8,000
13.01 to 14.00 |4,500 |6,500
14.01 to 15.00 |4,000 |4,500
15.01 to 16.00 |2,000 |2,000
16.01 to 17.00 |2,500 |1,500
17.01 to 18.00 |2,000 |1,000
18.01 to 19.00 |1,000 |500
19.01 to 20.00 |1,500 |500
20.01 to 21.00 |500 |500
21.01 to 22.00 |500 |-
22.01 to 23.00 |500 |-
23.01 to 24.00 |500 |-
24.01 to 25.00 |500 |-
25.01 to 26.00 |500 |-
26.01 to 27.00 |- |-
27.01 to 28.00 |- |-
28.01 to 29.00 |- |-
29.01 to 30.00 |- |-
30.01 to 31.00 |- |-
31.01 to 32.00 |- |-
32.01 to 33.00 |- |-
33.01 to 34.00 |- |-
34.01 to 35.00 |- |-
35.01 to 36.00 |- |-
36.01 to 37.00 |- |-
37.01 to 38.00 |- |-
38.01 to 39.00 |- |-
39.01 to 40.00 |- |-
Over 40.00 |- |-
|------- |-------
Total number of cases
with deductions |96,000 |146,000
Note: The figures have been rounded to the nearest 500, and so do
not necessarily add to the totals given.
Source: Income support statistics annual inquiry, May 1991.
Income Support Recipients with deductions for Direct
Payment of Fuel
Costs-May 1992 ASE
|Cases with |Cases with
|deductions for|deductions for
|electricity |gas
------------------------------------------------------------
0.01-2.00 |500 |1,000
2.01-3.00 |2,500 |1,500
3.01-4.00 |3,500 |4,000
4.01-5.00 |5,500 |8,000
5.01-6.00 |7,500 |14,500
6.01-7.00 |8,000 |19,500
7.01-8.00 |10,000 |20,500
8.01-9.00 |7,000 |21,500
9.01-10.00 |8,500 |27,500
10.01-11.00 |7,500 |23,500
11.01-12.00 |7,000 |14,500
12.01-13.00 |6,000 |10,500
13.01-14.00 |4,000 |6,500
14.01-15.00 |2,500 |5,000
15.01-16.00 |3,000 |4,000
16.01-17.00 |2,500 |2,500
17.01-18.00 |1,500 |1,500
18.01-19.00 |1,000 |1,000
19.01-20.00 |1,000 |1,000
20.01-21.00 |1,000 |1,000
21.01-22.00 |1,000 |1,000
22.01-23.00 |1,000 |500
23.01-24.00 |- |-
24.01-25.00 |- |500
25.01-26.00 |500 |500
26.01-27.00 |500 |500
27.01-28.00 |500 |-
28.01-29.00 |- |-
29.01-30.00 |- |-
30.01-31.00 |500 |-
31.01-32.00 |- |-
32.01-33.00 |- |-
33.01-34.00 |- |-
34.01-35.00 |- |-
35.01-36.00 |- |-
36.01-37.00 |- |-
37.01-38.00 |- |-
38.00-39.00 |- |-
39.01-40.00 |- |-
Over 40.00 |- |-
|------- |-------
Total number |95,000 |192,000
of cases with
deductions
The figures have been rounded to the nearest 500, and so do
not necessarily add to the totals given.
Source: Income support statistics annual inquiry, May 1992
Invalidity Benefit
Mr. Bradley : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many claimants of invalidity benefit (a) under the age of 35, (b) between 35 and 45, (c) between 45 and 55 and (d) over 55 years, receive both an additional pension and an occupational pension ; and how many of these in each age group are (i) women and (ii) men.
Mr. Scott : Information is not available in the form requested. Such information as is available is in the tables.
Invalidity Benefit claimants receiving Additional
Pension as at 4 April
1992-latest date information is available
Age |Total |Men |Women
----------------------------------------------------
Under 35 |112,000 |56,000 |56,000
35 to 44 |142,000 |86,000 |57,000
45 to 54 |257,000 |165,000 |93,000
55 and over |719,000 |609,000 |109,000
|---- |---- |----
Total |1,230,000|916,000 |314,000
Notes:
1. Age as at 31 March 1992.
2. Based on a 1 per cent. sample of claimants of
invalidity benefit in Great Britain, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
3. Figures may not total due to rounding.
Estimated proportion of invalidity benefit
recipients receiving
occupational pension:
Age |Total |Men |Women
|Per cent.|Per cent.|Per cent.
----------------------------------------------------
Under 45 |5 |5 |10
45 to 54 |30 |30 |30
55 and over |55 |55 |35
|-- |-- |--
Total |40 |45 |25
Notes:
1. Source: 1990 and 1991 family expenditure surveys,
figures rounded to nearest 5 per cent.
2. Sample too small to breakdown under 45 age group
further.
Mr. Bradley : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the average amount of (a) additional pension and (b) occupational pension paid to invalidity benefit claimants who are (i) men and (ii) women.
Mr. Scott : As at 4 April 1992, the latest date for which information is available, average amounts of additional pension and occupational pension paid to invalidity benefit claimants was as follows :
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|Additional<1> |Occupational <2>
|pension |pension
|£ |£
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Men |15.21 |65
Women |8.13 |65
<1> Based on a 1 per cent. sample of invalidity benefit claimants
in Great Britain.
<2> Estimated using data from the family expenditure surveys.
Estimate subject to significant margins of error.
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