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The NHS funds via Exchequer funding a number of addiction services many of which will treat problem gamblers.
The gambling industry also provides funding to tackle problem gambling via payments to the Responsibility in Gambling Trust. The trust has recently announced that the gambling industry has committed to meeting the 3m funding target for 2006.
Judo
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether access to a judo UK coaching certificate is dependent on membership of any organisation. [130097]
Mr. Caborn: Sports coach UK is the lead agency responsible for supporting the recognised governing bodies to develop and implement the UK coaching certificate (UKCC).
Sports coach UK advise that a UKCC qualification for judo has now been submitted but is not yet endorsed. Access to existing sport specific UKCC qualifications is not limited to members of specified governing bodies.
Manchester City Council
Mr. Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what was discussed at her meeting with the leader and chief executive of Manchester city council on 5 February. [129983]
Tessa Jowell [holding answer 26 March 2007]: I discussed a range of issues with the leader and chief executive of Manchester city council on 5 February.
As part of this discussion I explained the next steps in the process of finalising the local authority areas for the 17 new casinos permitted under the Gambling Act 2005, following the publication of the Casino Advisory Panel report on 30 January; the requirement to consult Scottish and Welsh Ministers; the need to give the panel’s report detailed consideration before deciding whether to accept their recommendations; and the need for Parliament to approve that decision.
Millennium Commission
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the topics were of the 10 Millennium Commission documents destroyed in the Iron Mountain fire in July 2006. [130549]
Mr. Caborn: As noted in the reply given by Lord Davies of Oldham in another place on 2 November 2006, House of Lords, Official Report, column WA65, 509 boxes of Millennium Commission records were destroyed in a fire at the warehouse in Twelvetrees Crescent, Bow, London in July 2006. As further noted in the reply given by Lord Davies in another place on 22 January 2007, House of Lords, Official Report, column WA205, 10 documents within these 509 boxes are likely to have contained references to the millennium dome.
Work and Pensions
Asylum Seekers
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how much was paid (a) gross and (b) net of asylum support in backdated payments of income-related benefits to those granted refugee status in each year since 2000; [129946]
(2) how many asylum seekers have received backdated payments of income-related benefits since 2000. [129947]
Mr. Plaskitt: The information is not collected centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Benefit Fraud
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of benefit fraud he estimates to be due to identity fraud, broken down by benefit; and if he will make a statement. [116589]
Mr. Plaskitt: Identity-related benefit fraud represents between 3 and 6 per cent. of total fraud.
We are not able to provide a breakdown by benefit but the evidence suggests that identity-related benefit fraud is concentrated mainly in the income-related benefits.
Where identity fraud is discovered, we take strong action. So far, in 2006-07, we have undertaken 315 successful prosecutions.
We intend to go further, and will take advantage of the opportunities from biometric development and other cross-government initiatives as they become available.
Benefit Overpayments
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how much (a) pension credit, (b) income support and (c) jobseeker’s allowance was overpaid to claimants due to the claimant in question moving abroad in each of the last five years; and how much in each category was overpaid due to (i) fraud and (ii) error; [118810]
(2) what estimate he has made of the total amount of social security benefits overpaid to claimants due to (a) fraud and (b) error who were ineligible for benefits (i) because they lived abroad, (ii) due to long-term hospitalisation, (iii) due to prison detention, (iv) because the claimant had a partner and claimed as a single person, (v) because of claimant identity discrepancies and (vi) because of false claimant documentation in each of the last five years. [118816]
Mr. Plaskitt: Estimates are not available for all benefits as a whole. Estimates of overpayments due to false claimant documentation are not available.
The available information is in the following tables.
| Overpayment of benefit due to living abroad | ||||||
| £ million | ||||||
| Income support | Jobseeker’s allowance | Pension credit | ||||
| Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | |
| Overpayment of benefit due to hospitalisation | ||||||
| £ million | ||||||
| Income support | Jobseeker’s allowance | Pension credit | ||||
| Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | |
| Overpayment of benefits to prisoners | ||||||
| £ million | ||||||
| Income support | Jobseeker’s allowance | Pension credit | ||||
| Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | |
| Overpayment of benefit due to living together | ||||||
| £ million | ||||||
| Income support | Jobseeker’s allowance | Pension credit | ||||
| Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | |
| Overpayment of benefit due to identity discrepancies | ||||||
| £ million | ||||||
| Income support | Jobseeker’s allowance | Pension credit | ||||
| Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | Fraud | Customer error | |
| Notes: 1. All estimates are rounded to the nearest £1 million. 2. All estimates are based on sampling exercises, and are subject to a degree of statistical uncertainty. 3. Estimates for 2003-04 were not published as National Statistics due to concerns about data quality. 4. Not all of the overpayments will necessarily relate to customers who were ineligible for benefit. In some cases they will have been eligible, but to less benefit than they were being paid. 5. Estimates of overpayments of benefit due to hospitalisation, and overpayments to prisoners are not available for 2001-02. 6. Estimates of official error for the above categories are not available. | ||||||
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