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Health and Safety Executive: Buildings

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the office space is of the new Health and Safety Executive headquarters in Bootle; [180140]

(2) what the original office space of the new Health and Safety Executive headquarters in Bootle was planned to be. [180141]

Mrs. McGuire: The design capacity of the building allows for a maximum occupancy of 1,650 staff on any working day. The building represents a 30 year commitment and was designed to be flexible to take care of present and future needs.

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The building specification required a building with a net internal area (i.e. usable office space excluding stairwells, plant room etc.) of 24,000 m⁽²⁾ +/- 5 per cent. The building that was delivered has a net internal area of 23,575 m⁽²⁾.

Incapacity Benefit: East of England

Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individuals under 35 years of age were in receipt of incapacity benefit in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) each constituency in the Eastern Region in each year since 2001; and if he will make a statement. [178092]

Mrs. McGuire: The information requested is in the following table.

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Incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance: claimants under 35 by par liamentary constituency in the e astern government office region
As at May each year
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Peterborough	1,060	1,130	1,100	1,050	1,090	1,080	1,100
Basildon	880	930	970	1,000	930	870	890
Bedford	870	860	860	890	980	890	880
Billericay	730	720	810	810	750	720	740
Braintree	710	730	700	670	670	670	670
Brentwood and Ongar	340	340	380	380	360	350	410
Broxbourne	560	580	560	590	600	540	540
Bury St. Edmunds	550	550	540	530	550	530	510
Cambridge	720	710	720	760	780	720	720
Castle Point	450	490	510	520	500	490	500
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	450	430	440	440	430	430	430
Colchester	990	990	960	950	910	930	940
Epping Forest	540	520	520	560	530	490	490
Great Yarmouth	990	1,000	1,010	990	920	920	920
Harlow	630	650	700	710	670	640	650
Harwich	850	860	870	870	860	860	910
Hemel Hempstead	560	560	600	610	580	570	570
Hertford and Stortford	430	410	410	430	470	470	460
Hertsmere	500	500	510	490	520	470	470
Hitchin and Harpenden	330	330	330	340	360	330	330
Huntingdon	530	570	540	560	590	560	540
Ipswich	920	880	840	870	890	910	910
Luton North	730	720	710	720	760	670	710
Luton South	860	830	870	910	950	900	900
Maldon and East	510	510	500	550	500	470	490
Chelmsford
Mid Bedfordshire	350	340	340	370	360	320	310
Mid Norfolk	570	590	570	590	570	560	550
North East Bedfordshire	390	390	410	440	440	410	400
North East Cambridgeshire	690	730	750	790	830	870	870
North East Hertfordshire	420	430	440	450	440	430	410
North Essex	480	470	510	530	500	470	490
North Norfolk	680	710	700	700	690	650	650
North West Cambridgeshire	600	590	620	630	660	680	720
North West Norfolk	890	920	970	960	910	930	910
Norwich North	980	980	910	910	890	900	860
Norwich South	1,170	1,190	1,180	1,250	1,230	1,200	1,240
Rayleigh	370	420	380	420	390	380	380
Rochford and Southend East	1,030	1,080	1,110	1,090	1,070	990	1,020
Saffron Walden	380	350	380	360	320	350	370
St. Albans	510	490	490	510	520	530	500
South Cambridgeshire	420	440	420	440	460	430	410
South East Cambridgeshire	420	410	440	470	470	470	440
South Norfolk	590	630	610	590	600	540	570
South Suffolk	460	440	460	450	450	410	410
South West Bedfordshire	520	520	540	550	560	520	530
South West Hertfordshire	340	360	350	350	360	370	370
South West Norfolk	710	680	680	710	760	680	700
Southend West	560	560	560	560	560	570	560
Stevenage	580	610	660	670	650	640	650
Suffolk Coastal	440	430	420	430	420	450	450
Thurrock	880	870	890	930	890	880	880
Watford	540	540	600	610	600	600	610
Waveney	940	930	900	900	840	800	790
Welwyn Hatfield	600	600	600	690	690	640	640
West Chelmsford	450	470	510	520	550	530	540
West Suffolk	490	510	540	540	500	490	520
Total	35,180	35,460	35,900	36,550	36,340	35,150	35,390
Notes: 1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Totals may not sum due to rounding. Source: DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study

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