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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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