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The number of national insurance numbers issued to adult non-UK nationals in each quarter since 1 January 2004 has been placed in the Library.
The majority of UK nationals are registered with national insurance numbers (NINOs) as part of the juvenile registration process just prior to the age of 16. A small number of UK nationals apply for a NINO as adults and would go through the adult NINO allocation process. The data are not held in a format which allows us to extract a figure for UK nationals registered for a NINO under the adult NINO allocation process.
Figures for the juvenile registration process are as follows:
| Period | Juvenile registration volumes (thousand) | Percentage change |
| Notes: 1. Reporting period for juvenile registration is 1 April to 31 March. 2. For the majority of juveniles the registration process takes place just prior to the 16(th) birthday. However, some juveniles may initially miss out on this process, but can be recorded as part of this process until the age of 19. 3. There may be a small number of young foreign nationals who obtain a national insurance number through the juvenile registration process. These will not appear in the foreign nationals total for adult national insurance number registrations. However, the majority of juvenile registrations are for UK nationals. Source: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs National Insurance Recording System (NIRS2) Management Information | ||
The fall in registrations during 2007-08 was due to delays in the administrative allocation process following the loss of HMRC child benefit data. The backlog of registrations was completed on 8 May 2008
Figures for the juvenile registration process by quarter since 1 January 2004 are as follows:
Pension Credit: Enfield
Joan Ryan: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in Enfield, North constituency received pension credits in each year since 2003. [235416]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is in the following table.
| Number of household recipients and individual beneficiaries of pension credit in Enfield, North , 2003-08 | ||
| Household recipients | Individual beneficiaries | |
| Notes: 1. Case loads are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Household recipients are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household. 3. Individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners. Source: DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data | ||
Pension Credit: South Yorkshire
Jeff Ennis: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in (a) Doncaster, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire received pension credit in each year since its inception. [236302]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is in the following tables.
| N umber of household recipients and individual beneficiaries of pension credit in Doncaster, Barnsley and South Yorkshire , 2003-08 | ||||||
| Doncaster | Barnsley | South Yorkshire | ||||
| Household recipients | Individual beneficiaries | Household recipients | Individual beneficiaries | Household recipients | Individual beneficiaries | |
| Notes: 1. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Household recipients are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of a household. 3. Individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners. Source: DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent data. | ||||||
Post Office Card Account
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the cost of compensation to be paid to unsuccessful bidders for the Post Office Card Account contract. [236998]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 18 November 2008]: The other bidders who were still in the competition at the point we halted it will be reimbursed for their reasonable bid costs.
Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost to his Department was of the tendering and bidding process for the Post Office Card Account. [236999]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 18 November 2008]: It is not possible to give a precise figure as many of the staff involved were undertaking work on the procurement process alongside other duties, or work which would have been necessary in any event to put in place a new contract with the Post Office.
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his latest estimate is of the costs of the Post Office Card Account tender process over the last three years; and how much compensation will be paid to participants in the tendering process. [237403]
Ms Rosie Winterton: It is not possible to give a precise figure for the costs of the tendering process as many of the staff involved were undertaking work on the procurement process alongside other duties, or work which would have been necessary in any event to put in place a new contract with the Post Office.
The other bidders who were still in the competition at the point we halted it will be reimbursed for their reasonable bid costs. The precise amount is still to be agreed.
Post Office Card Account: Romsey
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents of Romsey constituency (a) have a Post Office card account and (b) had a Post Office card account in each of the last five years. [235950]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Information is not available in the precise format requested.
The following table shows the number of benefit and pension accounts paid into a Post Office card account in Romsey constituency in each of the last five years.
| Post Office Card Accounts | |
| As at April each year | Number |
| Note s : 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Figures refer to payment accounts live and in payment on the specified date. Claimants with more than one account will be counted for each account. Source: DWP, Information Directorate. | |
Poverty: Children
John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of children in child poverty in (a) Glasgow North West constituency, (b) Glasgow and (c) Scotland. [234848]
Kitty Ussher: Our public service agreement “Halve the number of children in poverty by 2010-11, on the way to eradicating child poverty by 2020” includes a range of indicators related to low income for children. Our preferred measure of relative low income poverty for children is defined as being in a household with a household income of less than 60 per cent. of the contemporary median income on a before housing cost basis.
Latest information for Scotland shows that 210,000 children in Scotland were in households with household incomes below 60 per cent. of median income on a before housing cost basis. The data source does not allow us to provide robust numbers for estimates below this level.
Notes:
1. The source of this information is the 2006-07 Scottish Households Below Average Income publication.
2. The income measures used to derive the estimates shown employ the same methodology as the Department for Work and Pensions publication “Households Below Average Income” series, which uses disposable household income, adjusted (or ‘equivalised’) for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living.
3. The figures are based on OECD equivalisation factors.
4. Figures are based on survey data and as such are subject to a degree of sampling and non-sampling error.
5. Number of children in low-income households have been rounded to the nearest 10,000 children.
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children in Crosby constituency were living in absolute poverty in (a) 1997 and (b) the latest date for which figures are available; and what percentage of all children living in absolute poverty this represented in each year. [236679]
Kitty Ussher: The information requested is not available.
Our child poverty statistics, published in the Households Below Average Income series, only allow a breakdown of the number of children in absolute poverty at Government office region level. Information is therefore not available at parliamentary constituency level.
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