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The following table details how much has been recovered by benefit. These data are only available from June 2005.
| Value of recoveries of payments made after death | |||
| £ | |||
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| Note: Data for 2005-06 are for the period June 2005 to March 2006 only. | |||
The following table provides the number of cases where a recovery has been made.
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007/08 | |
State Retirement Pensions
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what account is taken in calculating pensions of working years additional to those required for a full state pension if they occurred prior to an individual reaching retirement age. [253734]
Ms Rosie Winterton: People attaining state pension age after 5 April 2010 will only need 30 qualifying years of national insurance contributions to gain a full basic state pension. People will continue to build up entitlement to the additional state pension on class 1 contributions paid beyond those years required for entitlement to a full basic pension.
In addition, as now, national insurance contributions will provide entitlement not just to state pension but to a range of contributory benefits. Contributions will continue to pay for benefits when people are sick or unemployed and bereavement benefits.
Winter Fuel Payments
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his most recent estimate is of the number of households in (a) Eastbourne, (b) East Sussex and (c) the UK in which more than one individual receives the winter fuel allowance. [248817]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The following table shows the total number of individuals who received a winter fuel payment and those who received a shared payment. Figures are for winter 2006-07, the latest year for which figures are available.
| Total number of payments | Shared payments | |
| Notes: 1. A shared payment is made if there is more than one person entitled in a household. If however, an entitled person is receiving pension credit, income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income support then their payment is not shared. In these cases that person receives a full payment. 2. Figures are rounded to the nearest ten. 3. Parliamentary constituencies and counties are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory. Source: Information directorate 100 per cent data. | ||
We expect that similar numbers of individuals will receive shared winter fuel payments in 2008-09.
Winter Fuel Payments: Hertfordshire
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his most recent estimate is of the number of households in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in which more than one individual receives the winter fuel allowance. [249037]
Ms Rosie Winterton: This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The following table shows the total number of individuals who received a winter fuel payment and those who received a shared payment. Figures are for winter 2006-07, the latest year for which figures are available.
| Total number of payments | Shared payments | |
| Notes: 1. A shared payment is made if there is more than one person entitled in a household. If however, an entitled person is receiving pension credit, income-based jobseeker’s allowance or income support then their payment is not shared. In these cases that person receives a full payment. 2. Figures rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Parliamentary constituencies and local authorities are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory. Source: Information directorate 100 per cent. data. | ||
We expect that similar numbers of households will receive winter fuel payments in 2008-09.
Home Department
Alcoholic Drinks: Young People
James Brokenshire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people (a) were prosecuted, (b) were cautioned and (c) received a penalty notice for disorder for (i) purchasing and (ii) selling alcohol under age in 2007. [248644]
Mr. Alan Campbell: The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts, issued with a caution, or penalty notice for disorder for selected alcohol offences, in England and Wales for 2007 are given in tables 1 and 2.
| Table 1: N umber of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts, and issued with a caution or a Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) for purchasing, or attempting to purchase, alcohol by a person under 18( 1) , England and Wales, 2007( 2) | |
| Number | |
| (1) Data includes the following offence descriptions and corresponding statutes: Person under 18 buying or attempting to buy or consuming intoxicating liquor in Licensed premises—Licensing Act 1964 SS. 169C(1) and El as added by Licensing (Young Persons) Act 2000 S.1, Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 S.3 Sch. Para. 4(2) Purchase of alcohol by an individual under 18—Licensing Act 2003 S.149 (l)&(7)(a) Buy or attempting to buy alcohol by person under 18—Licensing Act 2003 S.149(1) (2) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. (3) The ‘Total proceeded against’ statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. (4) From 1 June 2000 the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 came into force nationally and removed the use of cautions for persons under 18 and replaced them with reprimands and final warnings. These figures have been included in the totals. Cautions statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been cautioned for two or more offences at the same time the principal offence is the more serious offence. Source: Office for Criminal Justice Reform—Evidence and Analysis Unit | |
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