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Carer's Allowance

Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Bridgend constituency have ceased to receive carer's allowance having reached pensionable age in each of the last five years. [59981]


 
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Mrs. McGuire: The administration of carer's allowance is a matter for the chief executive of the Disability and Carers Service, Mr. Terry Moran. He willwrite to my hon. Friend with the information requested.

Letter from Terry Moran:


State pension claimants in Bridgend parliamentary constituency with underlying entitlement to carer's allowance but not in receipt of carer's allowance
Thousand

Number
August
20050.1
20040.1
20030.1
September
20020.1
2001




Notes:
1.Definitions and conventions: —" nil or negligible, ." not applicable; caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 100 and displayed in thousands.
2.Totals show the number of people not in receipt of an allowance and where they are recorded as being in receipt of state pension on the carer's allowance computer system.
3.Parliamentary constituency of claimant (Westminster): These constituencies are used for the Westminster parliament. For the May 2005 general election, the constituencies in Scotland changed. These constituencies are included in the tables from May 2005 onwards. Prior to that, these new constituencies are shown as missing.
Source:
DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.



Julie Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many carers aged 60 and over in each Welsh parliamentary constituency receive the non-standard rate of carer's allowance, broken down by sex. [60410]

Mrs. McGuire: The administration of carer's allowance is a matter for the chief executive of the Disability and Carers Service, Mr. Terry Moran. He will write to my hon. Friend with the information requested.

Letter from Terry Moran:


 
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Carer's allowance cases in payment by parliamentary constituency as at August 2005 for people aged 60 and over
Thousand

Number
Wales3.0
Aberavon0.1
Alyn and Deeside0.1
Blaenau Gwent0.1
Brecon and Radnorshire0.1
Bridgend0.1
Caernarfon
Caerphilly0.1
Cardiff, Central
Cardiff, North
Cardiff, South and Penarth0.1
Cardiff, West0.1
Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr0.1
Carmarthen, West and South Pembrokeshire0.1
Ceredigion0.1
Clwyd, South0.1
Clwyd, West0.1
Conwy
Cynon Valley0.1
Delyn
Gower0.1
Islwyn0.1
Llanelli0.1
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney0.1
Monmouth0.1
Montgomeryshire
Neath0.1
Newport, East0.1
Newport, West0.1
Ogmore0.1
Pontypridd0.1
Preseli Pembrokeshire0.1
Rhondda0.1
Swansea, East0.1
Swansea, West0.1
Torfaen0.1
Vale of Clwyd0.1
Vale of Glamorgan0.1
Wrexham0.1
Ynys Mon0.1




Notes:
1.Definitions and conventions: —" nil or negligible; ." not applicable; caseload figures are rounded to the nearest hundred and displayed in thousands; Totals may not sum due to rounding.
2.Caseload (thousands) totals show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and excludes people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended.
3.Parliamentary constituency of claimant (Westminster) These constituencies are used for the Westminster parliament. For the May 2005 general election, the constituencies in Scotland changed. These constituencies are included in the tables from May 2005 onwards. Prior to that, these new constituencies are shown as missing.
Source:
DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.



Child Poverty

John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the level of child poverty in Easington constituency in the last five years. [61133]


 
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Margaret Hodge: Specific information regarding low income for Wales, Scotland and the English regions of Great Britain is available in the latest publication of Households Below Average Income 1994–95 to 2004–05". The threshold of below 60 per cent. contemporary median income is the most commonly used in reporting trends in low income.

The data source does not allow us to provide robust estimates below regional level and, therefore, estimates for the number of children living in poverty in Easington for the past five years are not available.

Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of children in Wales were living in poverty in (a) 1979, (b) 1997 and (c) 2005. [58462]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 14 March 2006]: Specific information regarding low income for Wales and other regions of Great Britain is available in the latest publication of the 'Households Below Average Income 1994–95 to 2004–05'. The threshold of below 60 per cent. contemporary median income is the most commonly used in reporting trends in low income.

The specific information requested is not available; however I have provided three-year averages showing the proportions of children in low income households in Wales on both before and after housing costs bases in the following table. Similar figures for the proportions of children living in poverty in 1979 are not available.
Percentage of children living in households with contemporary income less than 60 per cent. of median income: Wales

Before housing costsAfter housing costs
1996–97 to 1998–992834
2002–03 to 2004–052328




Source:
Family Resources Survey



Mr. Crabb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children were living in poverty in (a) Wales and (b) Pembrokeshire in each year since 1997. [58463]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 14 March 2006]: Specific information regarding low income for Wales and other regions of Great Britain is available in the latest publication of the 'Households Below Average Income 1994–95 to 2004–05'. The threshold of below 60 per cent. contemporary median income is the most commonly used in reporting trends in low income.

The specific information requested is not available; however I have provided three-year averages showing the numbers of children in relative low income households in Wales on both before and after housing costs bases in the following table. The data source does not allow us to provide robust estimates below regional level so estimates for the numbers of children living in poverty in Pembrokeshire are not available.
 
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Numbers of children (in millions) living in households with relative income less than 60 per cent. of median income since 1997: Wales

Three-year moving averagesBefore housing costsAfter
housing costs
1996–97 to 1998–990.180.23
1997–98 to 1999–20000.180.23
1998–99 to 2000–010.180.23
1999–2000 to 2001–020.170.21
2000–01 to 2002–030.160.20
2001–02 to 2003–040.150.19
2002–03 to 2004–050.150.18




Source:
Family Resources Survey




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