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Table 2: Women pensioners living in households with less than 60 per cent. contemporary mean income—Great Britain
	Number BHC (Million)	Proportion BHC (Percentage)	Number AHC (Million)	Proportion AHC (Percentage)
1996-97	2.6	40	2.8	44
1997-98	2.6	41	2.7	43
1998-99	2.8	43	2.8	44
1999-2000	2.6	41	2.7	42
2000-01	2.7	42	2.6	41
2001-02	2.7	42	2.7	42
2002-03	2.6	40	2.6	41
2003-04	2.5	38	2.6	39
2004-05	2.4	36	2.3	35
Notes: BHC=Before Housing Costs AHC=After Housing Costs Source: Family Resources Survey

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Table 3: Disabled people( 1) living in households with less than 60 per cent. contemporary median income—Great Britain
	Number BHC (Million)	Proportion BHC (Percentage)	Number AHC (Million)	Proportion AHC (Percentage)
1996-97	1.8	21	2.6	30
1997-98	2.2	22	2.9	29
1998-99	2.3	23	3.0	30
1999-2000	2.2	22	2.9	30
2000-01	2.3	22	2.9	28
2001-02	2.3	23	2.8	29
2002-03	2.2	22	2.7	26
2003-04	2.2	21	2.5	25
2004-05	2.1	21	2.4	24
(1)Disabled people is the total of disabled children, disabled working age and disabled pensioners. Notes: BHC=Before Housing Costs AHC=After Housing Costs Source: Family Resources Survey

Table 4: Disabled people( 1) living in households with less than 60 per cent. contemporary mean income—Great Britain
	Number BHC Million)	Proportion BHC (Percentage)	Number AHC (Million)	Proportion AHC (Percentage)
1996-97	3.3	37	3.7	41
1997-98	3.8	39	4.1	42
1998-99	4.1	40	4.4	43
1999-2000	3.8	40	4.2	43
2000-01	4.1	40	4.4	43
2001-02	4.0	41	4.1	42
2002-03	4.0	38	4.3	41
2003-04	3.8	37	4.0	40
2004-05	3.8	37	4.0	39
(1) Disabled people is the total of disabled children, disabled working age and disabled pensioners. Notes: BHC=Before Housing Costs AHC=After Housing Costs Source: Family Resources Survey

Remploy

Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when approval was given for the Chief Operating Officer of Remploy to take on additional or external commitments as (a) a member of the Competition Commission’s Reporting Panel, (b) a member of the Foster Review of further education and (c) a company secretary of Hill Executive Action Ltd.; and who has responsibility for approving such commitments. [80392]

Mrs. McGuire: During 2005 approval was given by Remploy for the Chief Operating Officer to be a member of the Competition Commission’s Reporting Panel and a member of the Foster Review of further education. The Chief Operating Officer’s commitments as Company Secretary of Hill Executive do not have any impact on her role as Chief Operating Officer and, as such, do not require approval by Remploy.

Approval for additional or external commitments must be given by either the Chairman or the Chief Executive of Remploy.

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Shrewsbury Senior Citizens Forum

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will give a Government grant to help Shrewsbury Senior Citizens Forum run their association. [74332]

James Purnell: Senior citizens’ forums are independent of Government and responsible for financing themselves as such we have no plans to offer a Government grant to Shrewsbury Senior Citizens’ Forum.

Sure Start Maternity Grant

Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many women in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster have received the Sure Start maternity grant since 2001. [88383]

Mr. Plaskitt: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following tables.

Sure Start Maternity Grants for South East Yorkshire Social Fund District
	Number of awards
2001-02	2,360
2002-03	2,690
2003-04 to 30 April	180

Sure Start Maternity Grants for area covered by Barnsley and Rotherham Jobcentre Plus District
	Number of awards
2003-04 from 1 May	2,220
2004-05	2,320
2005-06	2,250

Sure Start Maternity Grants for area covered by Barnsley and Rotherham Jobcentre Plus District and Sheffield Jobcentre Plus District
	Number of awards
2004-05	4,930
2005-06	4,780
2006-07 to 30 June	1,200

Sure Start Maternity Grants for area covered by the interim Doncaster District
	Number of awards
2003-04 1 to 31 May	130

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Sure Start Maternity Grants for area covered by Doncaster Jobcentre Plus District
	Number of awards
2003-04 from 1 June	1,550
2004-05	1,760
2005-06	1,770
2006-07 to 30 June	450
Notes: 1. Data are only available by Jobcentre Plus District, and, before Jobcentre Plus Districts were used for the administration of the social fund, by social fund district. 2. Barnsley and Doncaster both used to be part of South East Yorkshire Social Fund District. In May 2003, Barnsley became part of the new Barnsley and Rotherham Jobcentre Plus District and Doncaster became part of the interim Doncaster District. In June 2003, the Doncaster Jobcentre Plus District was formed by removing the Isle of Axholme from the interim Doncaster District. Although Barnsley and Rotherham Jobcentre Plus District and Doncaster Jobcentre Plus District merged on 1 April 2005, they continued as separate districts for Social Fund purposes. 3. In April 2006, Barnsley and Rotherham Jobcentre Plus District was merged with Sheffield Jobcentre Plus District to form Yorkshire and Humberside Social Fund, S. Yorkshire District. The third table allows comparison between data for 2006-07 and earlier years. 4. Different tables thus refer to different areas and so data in one table are not comparable with data in another. 5. Figures are for all awards, irrespective of whether the award was made to the mother or her partner. 6. Some women will have received more than one Sure Start Maternity Grant since 2001-02. 7. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: DWP Social Fund Policy, Budget and Management Information System

Unemployment

Mr. Kemp: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of people in the (a) Houghton and Washington East constituency and (b) Sunderland city council area were unemployed in each year since 1997; and what estimate he has made of change in the total amount paid in benefits due to the change in employment levels over the period. [87370]

Mr. Plaskitt: The information is not available in the format requested. Information on the number of people in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance in the Houghton and Washington East constituency and Sunderland city council area is in the table, together with the proportion of the working-age population for the local authority; no proportion of population is available for constituencies.

JSA claimants in Houghton and Washington East parliamentary constituency and Sunderland local authority area: June 1997 to June 2006
As at June each year	Houghton and Washington East PC	Sunderland LA claimants	Sunderland LA percentage population
1997	2,603	10,777	6.1
1998	2,254	9,488	5.4
1999	2,475	9,532	5.5
2000	2,180	8,695	5.0
2001	2,056	7,611	4.4
2002	1,823	6,891	4.0
2003	1,667	6,250	3.5
2004	1,300	5,128	2.9
2005	1,256	5,278	3.0
2006	1,474	6,048	3.4
Notes: 1. Jobseeker’s Allowance figures are un-rounded and percentages rounded to one decimal place. 2. Jobseeker’s Allowance figures are not seasonally adjusted. Source: Count of unemployment-related benefits, Jobcentre Plus computer systems (including clerically held cases). ONS Mid-year population estimates.

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