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Income Support
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many families with children have been in receipt of income support for more than one year. [217358]
Mr. Pond: The information is in the table.
| Number of families | |
|---|---|
| Families with children | 843,000 |
| Families with dependants | 880,600 |
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred and quoted in thousands.
2. The figure for families with dependants includes families with children.
3. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
4. Children are defined as aged 0–15 years.
5. Dependants are defined as aged 0–19 years.
Source:
DWP information centre, 5 per cent. samples.
Lie Detectors
Mr. Goodman: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 24 January 2005, Official Report, column 59W on lie detectors, what plans he has to make a formal assessment of the value of voice stress analysis technology with particular reference to benefit delivery. [216042]
Mr. Pond:
We have no plans to make a formal assessment of the value of voice stress analysis technology in respect of benefit delivery.
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MIG
Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many pensioners in the Bridgwater constituency were in receipt of the minimum income guarantee in September 2004; [217352]
(2) how many pensioners in the Bridgwater constituency are (a) eligible for pension credit and (b) in receipt of pension credit. [217398]
Malcolm Wicks: The minimum income guarantee was replaced by pension credit in October 2003. Information on the number of pension credit recipients in Bridgewater in September and December 2004 is given in the following table. Information on the number of people likely to be eligible for pension credit is not available at constituency level. However, we estimate that approximately 350,000 households in the south-west region, corresponding to approximately 450,000 individuals (rounded to the nearest 50,000), are likely to be eligible for pension credit in 2004–05. This is an indicative estimate, subject to a significant margin of error. At the end of December 2004, 219,810 pensioner households in the south-west region, comprising approximately 268,430 individuals, were in receipt of pension credit.
| Households | Individuals | |
|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2004 | 4,615 | 5,740 |
| 31 December 2004 | 4,680 | 5,810 |
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest five.
2. Individual recipients comprise claimants and partners and may contain a small number of partners aged under 60.
3. Parliamentary constituencies are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS directory.
4. The figures for December 2004 are the latest available.
Source:
IAD Information Centre, Department for Work and Pensions, 100 per cent. sample.
New Deal
Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many women in Leigh constituency have participated in (a) the new deal for lone parents and (b) the new deal for partners since 1997; how many lone parents have gained work through the new deal programme; and if he will make a statement. [214584]
Jane Kennedy: 1,180 women have started new deal for lone parents in the Leigh constituency since the beginning of the programme in October 1998. Information on the number of women who have started the new deal for partners is not available at constituency level.
Information on the number of lone parents who have gained work through the new deal for lone parents programme nationally and in the Leigh constituency is in the table.
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| Leigh constituency | |
|---|---|
| Male | 40 |
| Female | 700 |
| Total | 740 |
Notes:
1. Information on the number of people who have participated in the new deal for partners is not available at constituency level.
2. Figures for lone parents who have gained work through other new deal programmes are not available.
3. Totals include those for whom gender is not recorded. For this reason, and because of rounding, components will not necessarily sum to totals.
4. Data is to September 2004.
Source:
New Deal Evaluation Data Base
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of people who have entered the new deal for lone parents have started jobs since the programme was launched; and how many and what percentage of those who have (a) entered the programme and (b) started jobs were in receipt of income support (i) in the UK and (ii) broken down by constituency. [215500]
Jane Kennedy: The available information for Great Britain broken down by constituencies has been placed in the Library.
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many jobs have been created in (a) Lancashire and (b) Chorley by the new deal . [216305]
Jane Kennedy: The new deal is not a job creation scheme. It is designed to help unemployed and disadvantaged people into work or training. It has already been successful in helping more than 1.2 million people into employment, including 28,520 people in Lancashire and 1,580 people in the Chorley constituency.
Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) lone parents and (b) young people have gained work through the new deal programme. [216884]
Jane Kennedy: The available information is in the following table.
| Individuals into work | |
|---|---|
| Lone parents | 296,410 |
| Young people | 580,760 |
Notes:
1. Lone parent data relates to the number of lone parents who have gained a job through the new deal for lone parents programme. Information on the number of lone parents who have gained a job through the other new deal programmes is not available.
2. Young people data relates to the number of people who have gained a job through the new deal for young people programme and people aged 24 and under gaining a job through the new deal for lone parents, new deal for disabled people and new deal for partners programmes.
3. Information on new deal for young people is from January 1998 to September 2004; Information on new deal for lone parents is from October 1998 to September 2004; Information on new deal for disabled people is from July 2001 to September 2004.
4. Information on new deal for partners is from April 2002 to March 2004. new deal for partners information is not available from May 1999 to March 2002 as information broken down by age is not available for this period.
5. All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Source :
DWP Information Directorate
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Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much each organisation contracted to deliver the new deal for disabled people receives in respect of each person they support into work. [217342]
Jane Kennedy: The funding structure of the new deal for disabled people provides the organisations who deliver it, the job brokers, with an initial payment, usually of £304 for each person who registers with them. Further payments are then made for each entry into a job and for each job that is sustained for at least 13 weeks. There is no standard rate for these latter payments. They vary from broker to broker and are consequently commercial in confidence.
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many jobs have been created in Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East under the new deal. [215887]
Jane Kennedy: The new deal is not a job creation scheme. It is designed to help unemployed and disadvantaged people into work or training. It has already been successful in helping more than 1.2 million people into employment, including 2,890 in the Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East constituency.
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