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Incapacity Benefit
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of incapacity benefit claimants had been in receipt of incapacity benefit for five years or more in each year since 1997. [150848]
Mrs. McGuire: The available information is in the following table.
| Incapacity benefit (IB)/severe disablement allowance (SDA) claimants with duration of five years or over; Great Britain | ||
| As at November each year: | IB/SDA claimants with duration of five years or over | Percentage of IB/SDA claimants with duration of five years or over |
| Notes: 1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Some additional disclosure control has also been applied. 2. ‘Claimant’ figures include credits only cases. 3. Figures for claimants with a duration of claim of five years or over are not available prior to 2000 as IB was not introduced until April 1995. Source: DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data | ||
Incapacity Benefit: Mentally Ill
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of people claiming incapacity benefit did so due to mental and behavioural disorders in each year since 1997. [150052]
Mrs. McGuire: The available information is in the following table.
| Percentage of incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance (IB/SDA) claimants with a mental and behavioural disorder, Great Britain | |
| As at November: | Percentage |
| Notes: 1. Caseload figures from 1999 onwards are rounded to the nearest 10. Some additional disclosure control has also been applied. 2. Caseload figures for 1997 and 1998 are rounded to the nearest 100. 3. Caseloads for 1997 and 1998 have been produced using 5 per cent. data and have been rated up in accordance with the Great Britain WPLS 100 per cent. IB/SDA totals. 4. 1997 and 1998 figures are from a 5 per cent. sample and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation. 5. From 6 April 2001, no new claims to SDA were accepted. 6. Figures include credits only cases. Source: 1. DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study, 1999 onwards. 2. Department for Work and Pensions, Information Directorate, 5 per cent sample, 1997 and 1998. | |
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have received jobseeker’s allowance in the last 12 months. [150054]
Mr. Plaskitt: The information is in the following table.
| Jobseeker’s allowance claimants, Great Britain June 2006 to May 2007 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. 2. Figures are taken from the second Thursday of each month. Source: Count of unemployment-benefits, Jobcentre Plus computer systems (including clerically held cases). | |
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of those claiming jobseeker's allowance in each year since 1997 had partners. [150060]
Mr. Plaskitt: The information is in the following table.
| Percentage of jobseeker's allowance claimants with partners( 1) , Great Britain | |
| As at November at year: | Percentage |
| (1) The figures for jobseeker's allowance with partners are based on cases where there is payment of additional benefit for a partner. Notes: 1. There are a number of cases where partner status is unknown. 2. Figures for 1997 and 1998 are based on a five per cent sample, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation. Source: Department of Work and Pensions, Information Directorate, 5 per cent. sample, 1997 and 1998, Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study, 1999 onwards. | |
Members: Correspondence
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he will reply to the letter to his predecessor dated 29 May from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. Muzzamal Hussain. [149156]
Mr. Plaskitt: The Secretary of State replied on 16 July 2007.
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he will answer the letter to his predecessor of 31 May from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. Stephen Chetwyn. [150466]
Mr. Plaskitt: The Secretary of State replied on 19 July 2007.
National Insurance: Fraud
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff in his Department and its agencies work on national insurance number fraud. [149973]
Mr. Plaskitt: We do not employ a specific number of staff to investigate national insurance number fraud. Benefit fraud investigators in the Department for Work and Pensions deal with allegations of benefit fraud relating to all aspects of benefits and services administered by this Department.
Pensions
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in (a) Eastbourne, (b) East Sussex, (c) England and (d) the UK are (i) eligible for and (ii) receive pension credits. [151411]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Estimates of pension credit eligibility are not available below the level of Great Britain. Latest estimates of the number of pensioners eligible for pension credit in Great Britain can be found in ‘Pension Credit Estimates of Take-Up in 2005-06’. A copy of the report is available in the Library.
The following table shows the number of households in Eastbourne, the local authorities that make up East Sussex, England and Great Britain receiving pension credit at February 2007.
In Northern Ireland pension credit administration is a matter for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
| Region | Pension credit household recipients |
| Notes: 1. The figures provided are early estimates. The preferred data source for figures supplied by DWP is the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS). However, the figures provided are the latest available figures, which are taken from the GMS scan at 2 March 2007. These are adjusted using the historical relationship between WPLS and GMS data to give an estimate of the final WPLS figure. 2. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Households are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household. 4. Parliamentary constituencies are based on the 2005 parliamentary boundaries. 5. Figures at county level are not available from the early estimates, so we have provided the local authority figures that make up East Sussex county. Source: DWP 100 per cent. data from the Generalised Matching Service (GMS) pension credit scan taken as at 2nd March 2007. | |
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the rates of basic state pension payable to (a) single pensioners and (b) couples were in (i) 1996-97 and (ii) 2006-07; and what the rates would have been in 2006-07 if they had been uprated in line with prices between 1996-97 and 2006-07. [151623]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information requested is as follows:
| £ | ||
| Single | Couple | |
| Notes: 1. All figures in cash terms. 2. Uprating calculations employ historic RPI series. 3. There is no such thing as a ‘singles rate’ though the maximum rate of the Category A pension is commonly referred to as the ‘singles rate’. Similarly the sum of the Category A and Category B(L) pension is often referred to as the ‘couples rate’. 3. Category B(L) pension is about 60 per cent. of the full-rate basic Category A pension. It is payable by virtue of a spouse's qualifying years or earnings. | ||
Pensions: York
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average value of state pensions, benefits and other payments was to (a) single pensioners and (b) pensioner couples in York in 1996-97 and each year since then. [151530]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people (a) in the City of York local authority area and (b) City of York constituency receive (i) basic state pension and (ii) pension credit; and what the average weekly value of pension credit received is in each case. [151629]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The answer is in the following tables.
| Basic state pension recipients at September 2006 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. Data is taken from 5 per cent. extract of the Pensions Strategy Computer System (PSCS), therefore figures are subject to a degree of sampling variation. They are also adjusted to be consistent with the overall caseload from the WPLS. 2. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Source: Five per cent sample, DWP Information Directorate | |
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