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Estimated fraud and customer error overpayments i n 2003-04
£ million
Estimated overpayments (reason)	Income support working age	Jobseeker’s allowance	Pension credit and minimum income guarantee
Full-time earnings	52	39	6
Part-time earnings	16	4	7
Partner earnings	10	2	2
Capital	37	15	40
Dependants	43	8	1
Income	20	9	35
Partner	138	15	4
Identification	0	1	0
Address	26	18	8
Housing costs	0	0	0
Other benefits	16	5	18
College	5	1	0
Hospitalisation	0	0	3
Maintenance payments	13	3	0
Non-dependants	0	1	2
Prison stay	4	0	0
Other	37	15	38

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Estimated fraud and customer error overpayments i n 2004-05
£ million
Estimated overpayments (reason)	Income support working age	Jobseeker’s allowance	Pension credit
Full-time earnings	34	16	2
Part-time earnings	12	3	2
Partner earnings	10	4	6
Capital	42	8	34
Dependants	37	6	2
Income	33	11	33
Partner	92	9	5
Identification	0	0	0
Address	19	11	11
Housing costs	2	0	1
Other benefits	17	2	23
College	3	1	0
Hospitalisation	1	0	1
Maintenance payments	15	1	1
Non-dependants	0	0	1
Prison stay	6	1	0
Other	23	7	31

Estimated fraud and customer error overpayments i n 2005-06
£ million
Estimated overpayments (reason)	Income support working age	Jobseeker’s allowance	Pension credit
Earnings	36	18	8
Partner earnings	10	5	3
Capital	50	8	33
Dependants	27	1	0
Income	24	3	36
Partner	66	5	4
Identification	0	0	0
Address	12	1	3
Housing costs	0	0	0
Other benefits	38	1	19
College	0	1	0
Hospitalisation	2	0	0
Maintenance payments	17	0	0
Non-dependants	0	0	0
Prison stay	3	0	0
Other	46	15	32
Notes: 1. All the figures are estimates, derived from a random sample of benefit claims and are subject to sampling and other uncertainties. 2. All estimates have been rounded to the nearest £1 million. 3. Estimates are not available in this form for 1997-98 and 1999-2000. 4. Pension credit was introduced in October 2003 as a replacement for the minimum income guarantee (MIG). Estimates for 2003-04 are for MIG and pension credit combined. 5. All income support pensioners estimates have been presented separately from income support working age, for comparison with the minimum income guarantee and pension credit. 6. Prior to 2002-03, separate estimates for hospitalisation, maintenance payments, non-dependants and prison stays have been included in the ‘other’ category, as was ‘college’ for 1998-99. 7. The estimates presented for 2005-06 do not distinguish between full-time and part-time earnings.

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people received (a) housing benefit, (b) incapacity benefit, (c) jobseeker's allowance, (d) carer's allowance and (e) disability living allowance in each of the last 10 years, broken down by region. [150064]

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Mr. Plaskitt: The information has been placed in the Library.

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of those in receipt of (a) income support, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) jobseeker’s allowance in each year since 1997 had been on benefit for more than 12 months; and what proportion of claimants those figures represent in each year. [152041]

Mr. Plaskitt: The available information is in the following tables.

Income support (IS) claimants with duration of more than 12 months
Quarter ending November	Number	Percentage
1997	1,701,600	74.6
1998	1,678,400	75.4
1999	1,688,240	74.9
2000	1,732,340	76.7
2001	1,767,800	78.3
2002	1,763,670	78.6
2003	1,754,780	79.1
2004	1,740,100	80.3
2005	1,712,620	80.5
2006	1,702,540	79.9
Notes: 1. November 1997 and November 1998 figures are produced from 5 per cent. data, uprated to WPLS totals and rounded to the nearest 100. 2. Figures after November 1999 are produced from WPLS and rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Percentages are rounded to 1 decimal place. Source: DWP Information Directorate 100 per cent. WPLS and 5 per cent. sample.

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Incapacity benefit (IB)/Severe disablement allowance (SDA) claimants with claim durations of more than 12 months
Quarter ending November	Number	Percentage
1997	2,264,200	79.8
1998	2,279,500	82.4
1999	2,229,340	81.4
2000	2,269,640	82.1
2001	2,312,960	83.0
2002	2,327,100	82.6
2003	2,362,260	83.7
2004	2,367,820	84.1
2005	2,352,650	85.5
2006	2,314,110	85.2
Notes: 1. November 1997 and November 1998 figures are produced from 5 per cent. data, uprated to WPLS totals and rounded to the nearest 100. 2. Figures after November 1999 are produced from WPLS and rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Percentages are rounded to 1 decimal place. Source: DWP Information Directorate 100 per cent WPLS and 5 per cent sample.

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