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| Table 5: Pensioner couples and single pensioners in receipt of income support and average weekly payments of benefit for the London boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea, August 1997 | ||||
| Number (Thousand) | Average weekly payments (£) | |||
| London borough | Pensioner couples | Single pensioners | Pensioner couples | Single pensioners |
| Notes: 1. Figures relate to claimants aged 60 and over. 2. Figures are subject to a high degree of sampling error and should only be used as a guide. Particular care should be taken with those numbers marked *. 3. Figures have been derived by applying five per cent proportions to 100 per cent. WPLS totals. 4. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest hundred and displayed in thousands. 5. Average weekly payments are rounded to the nearest penny. Source: DWP Information Directorate five per cent, sample August 1997 | ||||
Road Safety
Mr. Kidney: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his Department’s assessment is of the use by employers of the Health and Safety Executive and Department of Transport guidance on Driving While at Work published in September 2003. [101877]
Mrs. McGuire: No formal assessment has been undertaken of the use made by employers of “Driving at Work”.
The Health and Safety Executive and the Department for Transport (DfT) are working together on a number of projects aimed at promoting the benefits of managing work-related road safety. As part of this work, DfT plans to evaluate the effectiveness of available guidance material.
Social Fund
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Social Fund loans were (a) paid back in full and (b) were not paid in full in each of the last 10 years; and what the total value of unpaid loans was in each year. [106025]
Mr. Plaskitt: The available information is in the tables.
| Number of loans paid back in full | |||
| Thousand | |||
| Budgeting loans | Crisis loans | Total | |
| Notes: 1. The table gives the number of loans where full payment was completed in the given year, although the loan may have been taken out in an earlier year. 2 Figures may not sum due to rounding. Source: Analysis of age-of-debt scans (loans recorded on the Social Fund computer system) | |||
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what was the average Social Fund (a) loan and (b) grant payment was in each year since the Social Fund began. [106026]
Mr. Plaskitt: The available information is in the table.
| Average initial social fund award | |||
| £ | |||
| Budgeting loan | Crisis loan | Community care grant | |
| Note: Figures do not include awards made after review. Source: DWP Social Fund Policy, Budget and Management Information System (except that the numbers of initial awards for 1999-2000 are taken from a scan of the social fund computer system, as data are unavailable from the usual source). | |||
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individual loans were made by the Social Fund in each year since its inception. [106028]
Mr. Plaskitt: The information is in the table.
| Number of initial Social Fund loans | |
| Thousand | |
| Note: Figures do not include awards made after review. Source: Secretary of State’s annual reports on the Social Fund. | |
The number of initial budgeting loan and crisis loan awards for a particular year are included in the Secretary of State’s annual report on the Social Fund. The most recent for 2005-06 can be seen on the DWP website at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/2006/annual-report-social-fund.pdf
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many applications to the Social Fund were refused in each of the last 10 years. [106029]
Mr. Plaskitt: The information requested is in the table.
| Social Fund applications initially refused | |
| Total (Thousand) | |
| Note: The total includes refusals for maternity payment, sure start maternity grant, funeral payment, community care grant, budgeting loan and crisis loan. Source: Secretary of State’s annual reports on the Social Fund. | |
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average length of repayment was for the term of a Social Fund loan in each of the last 10 years. [106030]
Mr. Plaskitt: The information is not available.
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