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Thomas Telford School
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what level of financial sponsorship is provided to Thomas Telford School by (a) the Mercers' Company and (b) Tarmac plc. [47765]
Jacqui Smith: Thomas Telford School, as a City Technology College, is legally an independent school, and so my Department does not hold details of the financial sponsorship provided to it. However, such information can be obtained from the school's annual accounts, which they are required to publish annually, available from Companies House for a nominal fee.
Vandalism
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the acts of vandalism which have been perpetrated (a) inside and (b) on the outside of her Department's buildings in the last 12 months. [49507]
Maria Eagle: The following table details the acts of vandalism which have been perpetrated (a) inside and (b) on the outside of the Department's buildings in the last 12 months.
| Site | Inside | Outside |
|---|---|---|
| Darlington | None | None |
| London | Four blocked toilets. Lift door scratched. | None |
| Runcorn | None | Two external windows broken. Perimeter fence damaged |
| Sheffield | None | None |
Youth Services
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much public funding was available for youth services in (a) the constituency of Ruislip-Northwood, (b) the London borough of Hillingdon, (c) Greater London and (d) England in each of the last 10 years. [47662]
Maria Eagle:
Youth services are funded through the local authority and information about the level of funding is collected by local education authority (LEA) area. This information has only been available separately since 2000. It is not possible to provide
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information about Youth Service funding below LEA level in order to show the funding for Ruislip-Northwood.
Youth Service funding levels are as follows:
Notes:
1. The data are drawn from section 52 Budget statements submitted to the Department by all 150 local education authorities.
2. The 2001–02 and 2002–03 figures also include any Local Authority Youth Service provision that contributed to the delivery of the Connexions Service plus any Connexions Service specific funding.
3. 2005–06 data are subject to change by LEAs.
WORK AND PENSIONS
Administration Costs
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total administration costs for his core Department are; and whether these are regarded as (a) identifiable and (b) non-identifiable for the purposes of public expenditure statistical analyses. [39844]
Mrs. McGuire: The departmental report for 2005 (Cm 6539) contains administration costs for the years 1999–2000 to 2007–08 along with a breakdown by client group. In addition the most recent Public Expenditure Out-turn White Paper (Cm 6639) contains the provisional 2004–05 departmental administration costs out-turn.
These costs include both identifiable and non-identifiable items for the purposes of public expenditure statistical analyses.
Attendance Allowance
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many care home residents in Scotland lost their entitlement to attendance allowance in each year since 2002 because their personal care costs were met under the free personal care arrangements; and what the financial effect on his Department was of this loss of entitlement. [46146]
Mrs. McGuire: The administration of attendance allowance is a matter for the chief executive of the Disability and Carers Service, Mr. Terry Moran. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
In response to your recent Parliamentary Question, the Minister for Disabled People, Anne McGuire MP, promised you a substantive reply from the Chief Executive of the Disabled and Carers Service.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many care home residents in Scotland lost their entitlement to attendance allowance in each year since 2002 because their
- personal care costs were met under the free personal care arrangements; and what the financial effect on his Department was of this loss of entitlement.
The requested information is not available and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. I can however provide some general information about the position.
The rules governing the payment of attendance allowance and the care component of disability living allowance preclude the payment of these benefits to people in care homes who have been receiving help with their care home costs from public funds for more than four weeks. Such help includes the £145 per week payments that local authorities in Scotland make to people aged 65 or over in care homes under the free personal care arrangements introduced by the Scottish Executive in July 2002.
We estimate that since that date, receipt of those payments has resulted in the withdrawal of attendance allowance or the care component of disability living allowance from some 6,400 care home residents in Scotland. At current benefit rates, we estimate that maximum annual cost of continuing to pay the benefits to those residents would be about £20 million.
Mr. Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average time taken (a) to process a claim for attendance allowance and (b) to begin payments once a claim has been approved was in each of the last five years. [48348]
Mrs. McGuire [holding answer 2 February 2006]: The administration of attendance allowance is a matter for the chief executive of the Disability and Carers Service, Mr. Terry Moran. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken (a) to process a claim for attendance allowance and (b) to begin payments once a claim has been approved was in each of the last five years.
The Minister for Disabled People, Anne McGuire MP, promised you a substantive reply from the Chief Executive of the Disability and Carers Service.
(55) Year to date information as at December 2005.
Benefit Claimants
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people claimed (a) incapacity benefit and (b) disability living allowance in Stroud constituency in each year since 1997. [50455]
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Mrs. McGuire: The information is in the table.
Notes:
1. For incapacity benefit the parliamentary constituency figures for the years 1997 to 1998 have been produced using the five per cent data and have been rated up proportionally using the Great Britain WPLS 100 per cent. IB/SDA back-cast totals.
2. For disability living allowance benefit the parliamentary constituency figures for the years 1997 to 2001 have been produced using the five percent. data and have been rated up proportionally using the Great Britain WPLS 100 per cent. DLA back-cast totals.
3. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
4. IB/SDA 'Claimant' figures include all incapacity benefit (IB) and severe disablement allowance, including IB credits only cases.
5. There will be an overlap between each years figures as claimants can receive both IB/SDA and DLA.
Source:
DWP Information Directorate, five percent. Samples and Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 percent. data.
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