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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]
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.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Bridgend constituency have ceased to receive carers' allowance having reached pensionable age 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.
The information requested is not available. Such information as is available is in the following table:
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.
You asked 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.
The Minister for Disabled People, Anne McGuire MP, promised you a substantive reply from the Chief Executive of the Disability and Carers Service.
The information requested is not available. Such information as is available is in the following table:
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]
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 199495 to 200405". 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 199495 to 200405'. 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.
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 199495 to 200405'. 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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