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Eyesight: Testing
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners aged 60 and over have claimed a free eye test in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since the scheme's inception. [186672]
Ann Keen: I have been asked to reply.
Information broken down by patient eligibility type is currently only available at country level, and not strategic health authority (SHA), primary care trust (PCT) or constituency level. The Information Centre for health and social care (IC) only has information for England and Wales, not the United Kingdom. The information is shown in the following table.
Information on persons aged 60 and over receiving sight tests paid for by the national health service will be available in the publication “General Ophthalmic Services: Activity Statistics for England and Wales, April to September 2007”. Information will be available at PCT and SHA level. This report will be published by the IC in late March 2008.
Patients aged 60 and over became eligible for free NHS sight tests from 1 April 1999.
| Total number of NHS sight tests paid for by the NHS in England and Wales for persons aged 60 and over in the specified years ending 31 March | ||
| England | Wales | |
| Note: All figures are the total number of sight tests and do not take into account individuals who may have had more than one sight test in the same area within the same time period. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care. | ||
Pensioners: Nottinghamshire
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many pensioners in Nottingham North constituency were aged over 75 years in the most recent period for which figures are available; [187297]
(2) how many pensioners there were in Nottingham North constituency in the most recent period for which figures are available. [187299]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: As at May 2007 there were 14,890 recipients of state pension in the Nottingham, North parliamentary constituency of whom 6,250 were aged 75 or over.
Notes:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.
Sexual Harassment
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many complaints of (a) sexual harassment and (b) sexual discrimination have been made by staff in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies in the most recent year for which figures are available. [184681]
Mrs. McGuire: Statistics are kept on the number of cases reported to managers under the combined heading “harassment, discrimination and bullying” but complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination cannot be separately identified from these statistics.
However, it is possible to identify the number of complaints referred for investigation to the central investigations team on grounds of sexual harassment. These figures are shown as follows and represent the cases referred from January 2007 to December 2007. For confidentiality reasons they cannot be broken down by agency, as the numbers would be below five.
Based on Cabinet Office guidance the number of sexual discrimination complaints has been withheld for confidentiality reasons because of low numbers. Sexual harassment
Total number of complaints: 9
Social Security Benefits
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assumptions he has made of the level of take up of (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) incapacity benefit, (c) income support for lone parents and (d) pension credit in determining planned benefit spending for the next spending period. [180137]
Mr. Plaskitt: Of those entitled, we assume that the proportion who will receive benefit remains broadly constant.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people below the age of (a) 35 years and (b) 24 years were claiming (i) incapacity benefit, (ii) jobseeker’s allowance and (iii) income support or predecessor benefits in each year since 1984; and if he will make a statement. [187148]
Mr. Plaskitt: Information is not available in the format requested. Information is not available from 1984. Different historical information is available for each of the benefits; the available information is in the following tables.
| Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance claimants by age in Great Britain, as at May each year | |||
| All under 35 | Under 25 | 25-34 | |
| Notes: 1. May 1995 - May 1999 (inclusive) numbers are uprated to WPLS totals and rounded to the nearest hundred. May 2000 - May 2007 (inclusive) numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. 2. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 3. May 1995 - May 1999 (inclusive) numbers are based on a five per cent sample, and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation. These figures should be used as a guide to the current situation only. Source: DWP Information Directorate five per cent. sample and 100 per WPLS | |||
| Unemployment benefit and jobseekers allowance claimants by age in Great Britain, as at May each year | |||
| All under 35 | Under 25 | 25-34 | |
| Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest five. 2. Jobseekers allowance replaced unemployment benefit in October 1996. Source: Count of unemployment-related benefits, Jobcentre Plus computer systems (computer held cases only). | |||
| Income support claimants by age in Great Britain, as at May each year | |||
| All under 35 | Under 25 | 25-34 | |
| Source: DWP Information Directorate five per cent sample and 100 per cent WPLS | |||
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