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Disability Living Allowance

Mr. John Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many and what proportion of claimants expressed as a percentage of all claimants had their disability living allowance withdrawn in (a) the Vale of Glamorgan, (b) Wales and (c) the UK in (i) June, July and August 1998 and (ii) June, July and August 1999. [100164]

Mr. Bayley: The administration of Disability Living Allowance is a matter for Mr. Peter Mathison, Chief Executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to my hon. Friend.

Letter from Norman Haighton to Mr. John Smith, dated 30 November 1999:

The Secretary of State for Social Security has asked Peter Mathison to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question. As he is unavailable I am replying on his behalf. You asked how many and what proportion of claimants, expressed as a percentage of all claimants, had their Disability Living Allowance withdrawn in (a) the Vale of Glamorgan, (b) Wales and (c) the UK in (i) June, July and August 1998 and (ii) June, July and August 1999.

I should explain that we do not keep data specific to the Vale of Glamorgan, and to provide such information routinely would incur high costs.

The Department of Social Security administers benefits for Great Britain only (i.e. England, Scotland, and Wales). Northern Ireland benefits are the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The information that is available for Wales and Great Britain is set out in the attached table.

I hope this reply is helpful.

	June 1998	July 1998	August 1998
Wales
Entitlement withdrawn	56	60	45
Total decisions made in month	1,881	1,946	1,710
Percentage withdrawn against total decisions made	2.98	3.08	2.63
Great Britain
Entitlement withdrawn	4,298	4,605	3,406
Total decisions made in month	46,859	47,566	40,051
Percentage withdrawn against total decisions made	9.17	9.68	8.50

	June 1999	July 1999	August 1999
Wales
Entitlement withdrawn	43	47	48
Total decisions made in month	2,129	2,482	1,905
Percentage withdrawn against total decisions made	2.02	1.89	2.52
Great Britain
Entitlement withdrawn	3,733	3,838	3,750
Total decisions made in month	46,174	49,870	45,286
Percentage withdrawn against total decisions made	8.08	7.70	8.28

Housing and Council Tax Benefits

Jackie Ballard: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what representations he has received about the performance of CSL in relation to the administration of housing and council tax benefits. [100227]

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Angela Eagle: Taunton Deane Borough Council has informed the Department about the level of CSL's performance in their area. The Authority is closely monitoring the situation and has established a clear path forward to secure improvements in the level of CSL's performance. The Authority will keep the Department informed of all significant developments.

HEALTH

Nursing Statistics

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nurses, (b) community

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psychiatric nurses, (c) district nurses, (d) health visitors and (e) midwives there are per capita in each health authority area; and what was the total health spending per capita in each area in (i) the last year for which figures are available and (ii) 1997. [99912]

Mr. Denham: I refer the right hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) on 19 October 1999, Official Report, columns 473-75W on the health spending per capita per health authority area. Data on the numbers of nurses, community psychiatric nurses, district nurses, health visitors and midwives per capita in each health authority area are shown in the tables.

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NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): All Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff, per 1,000 population, by Health Authority, in England as at 30 September 1997whole-time equivalent per 1,000 population

	Total Nursing, midwifery and health visiting	Total Nurses	Registered Midwife	Health Visitor	District Nurse	Community Psychiatric Nurse
England Total	6.91	6.34	0.37	0.20	0.23	0.22
Avon	5.83	5.29	0.35	0.17	0.19	0.12
Barking and Havering	6.67	6.20	0.29	0.18	0.13	0.23
Barnet	5.52	5.06	0.31	0.19	0.22	1.05
Barnsley	6.77	6.11	0.40	0.26	0.18	0.18
Bedfordshire	5.18	4.65	0.33	0.20	0.20	0.09
Berkshire	5.64	5.12	0.31	0.21	0.25	0.11
Bexley and Greenwich	5.85	5.18	0.42	0.26	0.39	0.21
Birmingham	10.06	9.29	0.58	0.21	0.35	0.19
Bradford	6.98	6.17	0.54	0.27	0.21	0.23
Brent and Harrow	5.30	4.84	0.28	0.17	0.13	0.11
Bromley	6.75	6.28	0.27	0.17	0.17	0.84
Buckinghamshire	5.15	4.60	0.31	0.24	0.21	0.25
Bury and Rochdale	5.88	5.16	0.49	0.21	0.33	0.13
Calderdale and Kirklees	6.25	5.63	0.40	0.22	0.19	0.15
Cambridge and Huntingdon	5.27	4.92	0.26	0.09	0.15	0.15
Camden and Islington	17.63	16.97	0.38	0.27	0.11	0.27
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	5.89	5.31	0.37	0.21	0.12	0.27
County Durham	6.10	5.74	0.28	0.10	0.12	0.10
Coventry	7.82	7.19	0.46	0.16	0.16	0.03
Croydon	5.66	4.95	0.42	0.30	0.15	(25)--
Doncaster	7.68	6.96	0.45	0.24	0.17	0.14
Dorset	7.64	7.16	0.26	0.22	0.19	0.19
Dudley	5.81	5.30	0.39	0.16	0.19	0.16
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	4.19	3.74	0.24	0.23	0.23	0.12
East and North Hertfordshire	3.75	3.27	0.30	0.18	0.14	0.12
East Kent	5.82	5.45	0.28	0.08	0.08	1.02
East Lancashire	8.92	8.16	0.47	0.29	0.31	0.16
East London and The City	8.01	7.17	0.58	0.26	0.28	0.13
East Norfolk	6.63	6.26	0.24	0.13	0.21	0.18
East Riding	6.68	6.12	0.38	0.17	0.17	0.80
East Surrey	6.41	5.98	0.26	0.17	0.17	0.17
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove	6.33	5.98	0.15	0.20	0.28	0.41
Enfield and Haringey	5.75	5.20	0.39	0.14	0.19	0.21
Gateshead and South Tyneside	6.95	6.30	0.39	0.25	0.34	0.17
Gloucestershire	6.99	6.42	0.34	0.21	0.25	0.20
Herefordshire	6.62	6.08	0.36	0.18	0.30	0.18
Hillingdon	7.30	6.45	0.84	(25)--	(25)--	0.16
Isle of Wight	7.39	6.75	0.40	0.16	0.32	0.32
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	16.87	15.81	0.61	0.45	0.43	0.43
Kingston and Richmond	1.55	1.46	(25)--	0.12	0.09	0.06
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	8.25	7.58	0.43	0.23	0.31	0.05
Leeds	7.95	7.42	0.32	0.19	0.14	0.14
Leicestershire	6.87	6.35	0.32	0.19	0.14	0.48
Lincolnshire	5.49	5.10	0.21	0.18	0.21	0.18
Liverpool	9.90	9.21	0.41	0.28	0.28	0.15
Manchester	14.36	13.26	0.87	0.21	0.30	0.28
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	9.91	9.02	0.58	0.32	0.32	0.26
Morecambe Bay	8.06	7.58	0.29	0.19	0.39	0.19
Newcastle and North Tyneside	11.29	10.53	0.55	0.21	0.25	0.15
North and East Devon	7.39	6.85	0.38	0.17	0.29	0.21
North and Mid Hampshire	4.58	4.13	0.31	0.14	0.20	0.13
North Cheshire	6.00	5.26	0.38	0.32	0.45	0.22
North Cumbria	6.36	5.86	0.38	0.16	0.25	0.13
North Derbyshire	6.29	5.81	0.27	0.22	0.19	0.11
North Essex	6.80	6.32	0.31	0.16	0.28	0.20
North Nottinghamshire	6.02	5.56	0.31	0.18	0.15	0.33
North Staffordshire	7.61	7.01	0.38	0.21	0.38	0.17
North West Anglia	9.11	8.60	0.29	0.22	0.32	0.17
North West Lancashire	8.90	8.06	0.58	0.28	0.24	0.24
North Yorkshire	5.48	4.98	0.33	0.18	0.28	0.12
Northamptonshire	5.37	4.82	0.34	0.21	0.23	0.13
Northumberland	8.65	8.16	0.23	0.26	0.26	0.45
Nottingham	8.04	7.37	0.45	0.22	0.37	0.36
Oxfordshire	7.42	6.83	0.36	0.21	0.16	0.20
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	4.85	4.28	0.39	0.18	0.24	0.24
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	5.98	5.45	0.42	0.11	0.27	0.22
Rotherham	7.37	6.82	0.35	0.24	0.20	0.16
Salford and Trafford	9.43	8.74	0.45	0.25	0.38	0.22
Sandwell	5.15	4.64	0.31	0.21	0.21	0.14
Sefton	8.48	8.00	0.48	0.03	0.07	0.24
Sheffield	10.18	9.56	0.43	0.19	0.15	0.13
Shropshire	5.16	4.59	0.35	0.21	0.38	0.14
Solihull	1.90	1.71	(25)--	0.20	0.24	0.15
Somerset	4.77	4.34	0.31	0.12	0.18	(25)--
South and West Devon	7.16	6.53	0.41	0.22	0.22	0.19
South Cheshire	4.49	4.00	0.37	0.12	0.25	0.09
South Derbyshire	4.54	4.18	0.21	0.16	0.17	0.11
South Essex	6.46	5.95	0.32	0.20	0.28	0.16
South Humber	6.36	5.68	0.45	0.23	0.23	0.13
South Lancashire	5.41	4.83	0.29	0.29	0.35	0.23
South Staffordshire	5.00	4.46	0.31	0.24	0.08	0.20
Southampton and South West Hampshire	7.21	6.71	0.31	0.19	0.15	0.11
St. Helens and Knowsley	5.65	5.16	0.27	0.21	0.18	0.27
Stockport	12.55	10.87	1.03	0.65	0.72	0.24
Suffolk	6.36	5.88	0.27	0.21	0.26	0.20
Sunderland	8.06	7.44	0.38	0.24	0.34	0.17
Tees	8.02	7.38	0.38	0.25	0.27	0.14
Wakefield	8.10	7.44	0.44	0.22	0.22	0.54
Walsall	5.73	5.04	0.46	0.19	0.34	0.23
Warwickshire	4.57	4.09	0.34	0.12	0.18	0.12
West Hertfordshire	4.22	3.84	0.19	0.19	0.11	0.59
West Kent	5.86	5.28	0.39	0.19	0.21	0.14
West Pennine	6.09	5.50	0.36	0.25	0.23	0.19
West Surrey	6.17	5.78	0.17	0.23	0.23	0.27
West Sussex	5.85	5.37	0.28	0.20	0.24	0.13
Wigan and Bolton	3.18	2.76	0.31	0.10	0.09	0.10
Wiltshire	9.03	8.23	0.55	0.25	0.23	0.18
Wirral	8.69	7.96	0.46	0.24	0.21	0.27
Wolverhampton	7.76	7.14	0.41	0.25	0.21	0.17
Worcester and District	6.68	6.01	0.39	0.26	0.34	0.24

(25) less than 0.01 per 1,000 population

Notes:

Figures exclude learners and agency staff.

Total Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff figure includes Practice nurses.

Total Nurses figure include Practice nurses.

Source:

Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census

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NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): All Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff, per 1,000 population, by Health Authority, in England as at 30 September 1998 whole-time equivalent per 1,000 population

	Total Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff	Total Nurses	Registered Midwife	Health Visitor	District Nurse	Community Psychiatric Nurse
England Total	6.92	6.35	0.37	0.20	0.23	0.23
Avon	5.91	5.43	0.32	0.16	0.18	0.12
Barking and Havering	6.54	6.04	0.31	0.18	0.13	0.36
Barnet	5.37	4.92	0.27	0.15	0.21	0.87
Barnsley	6.88	6.23	0.35	0.26	0.18	0.22
Bedfordshire	5.26	4.71	0.34	0.22	0.18	0.13
Berkshire	5.64	5.09	0.35	0.20	0.22	0.11
Bexley and Greenwich	5.89	5.20	0.46	0.23	0.35	0.49
Birmingham	10.52	9.65	0.65	0.22	0.37	0.21
Bradford	7.16	6.35	0.52	0.27	0.21	0.25
Brent and Harrow	5.45	4.95	0.32	0.17	0.13	0.11
Bromley	6.56	6.06	0.27	0.24	0.20	0.81
Buckinghamshire	5.25	4.74	0.34	0.19	0.15	0.21
Bury and Rochdale	5.98	5.29	0.49	0.20	0.36	0.13
Calderdale and Kirklees	6.39	5.79	0.39	0.22	0.31	0.22
Cambridge and Huntingdon	5.24	4.89	0.26	0.09	0.13	0.15
Camden and Islington	17.25	16.65	0.35	0.24	0.11	0.24
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	5.59	5.02	0.35	0.20	0.12	0.35
County Durham	5.84	5.40	0.30	0.15	0.30	0.07
Coventry	9.13	8.48	0.53	0.16	0.16	0.03
Croydon	5.41	5.03	0.12	0.27	0.15	(26)--
Doncaster	7.92	7.20	0.45	0.24	0.21	0.14
Dorset	7.48	7.00	0.27	0.20	0.19	0.19
Dudley	5.97	5.46	0.35	0.16	0.16	0.19
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	4.53	4.10	0.22	0.21	0.25	0.19
East and North Hertfordshire	3.90	3.40	0.30	0.18	0.14	0.10
East Kent	5.99	5.56	0.25	0.20	0.37	0.37
East Lancashire	8.65	7.88	0.47	0.29	0.29	0.18
East London and The City	7.95	7.20	0.57	0.20	0.20	0.11
East Norfolk	6.67	6.29	0.25	0.13	0.22	0.19
East Riding	6.67	6.13	0.37	0.17	0.17	0.82
East Surrey	7.83	7.22	0.38	0.24	0.21	0.19
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove	6.26	5.93	0.15	0.17	0.29	0.54
Enfield and Haringey	5.67	5.16	0.39	0.14	0.19	0.19
Gateshead and South Tyneside	7.19	6.54	0.40	0.25	0.34	0.34
Gloucestershire	7.14	6.57	0.36	0.23	0.22	0.34
Herefordshire	6.43	5.90	0.30	0.24	0.30	0.18
Hillingdon	5.73	5.02	0.72	(26)--	(26)--	0.16
Isle of Wight	7.95	7.40	0.39	0.16	0.39	0.39
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	16.30	15.25	0.64	0.41	0.38	0.38
Kingston and Richmond	2.31	2.19	(26)--	0.12	0.09	0.06
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	8.68	7.85	0.48	0.36	0.47	0.25
Leeds	7.70	7.18	0.33	0.19	0.12	0.14
Leicestershire	6.61	6.12	0.32	0.17	0.12	0.33
Lincolnshire	5.81	5.34	0.29	0.18	0.22	0.16
Liverpool	10.10	9.43	0.39	0.28	0.30	0.15
Manchester	14.10	13.08	0.81	0.23	0.30	0.28
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	8.48	7.58	0.59	0.32	0.19	0.16
Morecambe Bay	8.54	8.06	0.29	0.19	0.35	0.48
Newcastle and North Tyneside	8.83	8.40	0.32	0.11	0.13	0.11
North and East Devon	7.64	7.07	0.40	0.17	0.31	0.23
North and Mid Hampshire	4.51	4.09	0.29	0.13	0.18	0.20
North Cheshire	6.41	5.64	0.42	0.35	0.42	0.22
North Cumbria	6.42	5.92	0.34	0.16	0.22	0.13
North Derbyshire	6.24	5.73	0.27	0.24	0.24	0.16
North Essex	6.84	6.39	0.30	0.17	0.29	0.22
North Nottinghamshire	6.09	5.63	0.28	0.18	0.15	0.33
North Staffordshire	7.89	7.29	0.38	0.21	0.43	0.32
North West Anglia	9.32	8.58	0.48	0.24	0.29	0.22
North West Lancashire	9.05	8.19	0.60	0.28	0.24	0.24
North Yorkshire	4.93	4.51	0.28	0.15	0.24	0.07
Northamptonshire	5.39	4.84	0.36	0.19	0.23	0.13
Northumberland	12.11	11.24	0.45	0.39	0.42	0.42
Nottingham	8.00	7.33	0.47	0.20	0.37	0.26
Oxfordshire	7.10	6.53	0.36	0.21	0.16	0.19
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	5.05	4.48	0.39	0.17	0.13	0.24
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	5.78	5.16	0.44	0.18	0.20	0.20
Rotherham	7.51	6.92	0.35	0.24	0.20	0.16
Salford and Trafford	9.39	8.67	0.45	0.25	0.34	0.25
Sandwell	5.40	4.89	0.31	0.24	0.24	0.21
Sefton	8.62	8.13	0.45	0.03	0.07	0.31
Sheffield	10.20	9.56	0.43	0.21	0.15	0.15
Shropshire	5.32	4.72	0.37	0.23	0.37	0.16
Solihull	1.85	1.65	(26)--	0.19	0.24	0.39
Somerset	4.72	4.27	0.33	0.12	0.16	(26)--
South and West Devon	7.30	6.67	0.41	0.20	0.17	0.31
South Cheshire	4.49	4.00	0.37	0.12	0.27	0.09
South Derbyshire	4.60	4.23	0.21	0.16	0.24	0.11
South Essex	6.40	5.94	0.28	0.18	0.28	0.14
South Humber	6.58	5.93	0.45	0.19	0.23	0.13
South Lancashire	5.21	4.64	0.29	0.29	0.32	0.22
South Staffordshire	5.13	4.63	0.29	0.22	0.10	0.29
Southampton and South West Hampshire	7.21	6.73	0.30	0.18	0.13	0.13
St. Helens and Knowsley	5.59	5.11	0.24	0.21	0.15	0.27
Stockport	12.77	11.20	0.89	0.65	0.72	0.27
Suffolk	6.35	5.89	0.27	0.19	0.22	0.19
Sunderland	8.28	7.66	0.41	0.21	0.31	0.21
Tees	8.54	7.89	0.38	0.27	0.25	0.23
Wakefield	8.31	7.68	0.41	0.22	0.19	0.56
Walsall	5.93	5.21	0.50	0.19	0.34	0.23
Warwickshire	3.79	3.39	0.30	0.10	0.14	0.08
West Hertfordshire	4.14	3.76	0.17	0.19	0.13	0.66
West Kent	5.70	5.17	0.35	0.18	0.24	0.26
West Pennine	6.23	5.66	0.32	0.25	0.21	0.19
West Surrey	6.28	5.74	0.31	0.22	0.22	0.25
West Sussex	4.77	4.40	0.24	0.15	0.19	0.09
Wigan and Bolton	3.18	2.79	0.28	0.10	0.09	0.12
Wiltshire	8.75	7.96	0.54	0.25	0.21	0.18
Wirral	8.80	8.16	0.46	0.18	0.18	0.24
Wolverhampton	8.03	7.16	0.62	0.25	0.21	0.17
Worcester and District	7.13	6.43	0.41	0.30	0.35	0.32

(26) less than 0.01 per 1,000 population

Notes:

Figures exclude learners and agency staff.

Total Nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff figure includes Practice nurses.

Total Nurses figure includes Practice nurses.

Source:

Department of Health Non-Medical Workforce Census

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