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Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

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.

Mesothelioma

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.

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Mesothelioma diagnoses in connection with a claim to industrial injuries disablement benefit by occupation
	Number
		2002	2003	2004	2005
	All occupations	1,000	1,170	1,345	1,175
11	Corporate managers	15	25	15	15
12	Managers and proprietors in agriculture and services	5	5	—	—
21	Science and technology professionals	60	95	105	90
22	Health professionals	—	—	—	5
23	Teaching and research professionals	5	10	10	10
24	Business and public service professionals	5	5	5	5
31	Science and technology associate professionals	45	40	50	35
32	Health and social welfare associate professionals	5	5	—	10
33	Protective service occupations	10	10	10	5
34	Culture, media and sports occupations	—	—	5	—
35	Business and public service associate professionals	10	10	15	5
41	Administrative occupations	20	20	35	20
42	Secretarial and related occupations	5	5	10	10
51	Skilled agricultural trades	5	5	10	10
52	Skilled metal and electrical trades	270	310	350	290
53	Skilled construction and building trades	265	285	335	315
54	Textiles, printing and other skilled trades	15	25	20	30
61	Caring personal service occupations	5	5	5	5
62	Leisure and other personal services occupations	5	5	10	10
71	Sales occupations	5	10	10	5
72	Customer service occupations	5	—	5	—
81	Process, plant and machine operatives	115	150	160	140
82	Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives	20	35	35	45
91	Elementary trades, plant and storage related occupations	90	110	115	100
92	Elementary administration and service occupations	20	15	20	15
Notes: 1. The table uses the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-8). 2. Figures for 2005 are for nine months only and are provisional. 3. — Nil or Negligible. 4. Numbers are rounded to the nearest five. Source: All figures are from a 100 per cent. sample of clerical forms received from the Disablement Benefit offices.

National Insurance

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 12—whether that is a man or a woman—would 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.

Pension Credit

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)
Belah	225
Belle Vue	295
Botcherby	380
Burgh	45
Castle	305
Currock	255
Dalston	190
Denton Holme	365
Harraby	385
Morton	585
St. Aidans	320
Stanwix Urban(3)	230
Upperby	505
Yewdale	250
Carlisle constituency total	4,280
(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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Pension credit individual beneficiaries for wards in Luton South parliamentary constituency, November 2005
Ward name( 1)	Individual beneficiaries( 2)
Barnfield(3)	170
Biscot	950
Crawley	285
Dallow	885
Parley	830
High Town	350
Round Green	540
South	630
Stopsley	305
Wigmore	360
Caddington, Hyde and Slip End	305
Luton South constituency total	5,420
(1) Wards are based on 2003 ward boundaries. (2) The number of individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners. (3) Only part of Barnfield ward falls within Luton South 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.

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