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Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much industrial injuries disablement benefit was underpaid in each year since 1997; and how much was underpaid due to (a) fraud, (b) customer error and (c) official error in each year. [77989]
Mr. Jim Murphy: No estimates of fraud and error are available for industrial injuries disablement benefit.
Mr. Clapham: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many mesothelioma diagnoses have been made by his Department in connection with a claim for industrial injuries disablement benefit in the last three years; and how many of these were posthumous claims for backdated benefit; [79109]
(2) what the occupations were of claimants of industrial injuries disablement benefit for mesothelioma in the last three years. [79110]
Mr. Jim Murphy [holding answer 20 June 2006]: The available information is in the following table. Although included in the table, information on the number of posthumous claims for backdated benefit is not available separately.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether under his proposals for pensions a man with childcare responsibilities requiring a career break will receive national insurance contribution credits. [80316]
James Purnell: As part of our package of proposed reforms, published in Security in retirement: towards a new pensions system (Cm 6841), we want to make the state pension scheme fairer and more widely available. The changes would give people more certainty about what state pension entitlement they are building up, while retaining the contributory principle.
Replacing home responsibilities protection with national insurance credits for those reaching state pension age on or after 6 April 2010 means the person awarded child benefit for a child under age 12whether that is a man or a womanwould be entitled to national insurance credits. The credits, which would count towards both the basic and additional state pension in the same way as paid contributions, would therefore be available to men on career breaks if they were awarded the child benefit.
Mr. Martlew: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents in each electoral ward in Carlisle constituency receive pension credit. [81105]
James Purnell: The information is in the following table.
Pension credit individual beneficiaries in Carlisle, November 2005 | |
Ward name( 1) | Individual beneficiaries( 2) |
(1) Wards are based on 2003 ward boundaries. (2) The number of individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners. (3) Only part of Stanwix Urban ward falls within Carlisle parliamentary constituency. Note: Number of individual beneficiaries are rounded to a multiple of five, therefore ward totals do not always sum to area totals. Source: DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS) 100 per cent. data. |
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents of Luton South receive pension credit, broken down by ward. [80509]
James Purnell: The information is in the following table.
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