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	Directgov Carers	Directgov Disability	Directgov over 50s	Directgov Jobs and Skills Search
March 2008	307,581	1,300,776	438,118	15,812,733
April 2008	327,393	1,434,791	434,884	23,791,855
May 2008	279,429	1,164,606	294,965	19,269,288
June 2008	315,728	1,243,904	321,516	22,951,946
July 2008	321,083	1,291,101	336,221	25,937,505
August 2008	298,200	1,206,271	349,620	21,188,100
September 2008	331,579	1,321,886	389,937	23,803,716
October 2008	357,209	1,390,235	400,452	24,721,075
November 2008	357,971	1,300,776	416,613	22,366,816
December 2008	265,159	1,434,791	304,269	n/a
January 2009	472,298	1,300,776	678,359	21,320,809
February 2009	—	1,434,791	565,034	60,402,038

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	Age Positive	Office for Disability Issues	European Social Fund	Health and Safety Executive
March 2008	53,692	46,370	57,495	10,152,266
April 2008	64,450	52,021	35,240	8,676,657
May 2008	77,281	57,474	58,541	7,727,433
June 2008	85,586	53,154	63,781	8,040,120
July 2008	67,995	58,098	48,604	7,447,961!
August 2008	49,610	48,873	51,520	6,349,379
September 2008	47,653	n/a	57,699	8,300,273
October 2008	35,517	51,951	54,395	9,440,699
November 2008	33,739	49,760	62,070	8,543,091
December 2008	28,350	57,367	44,399	6,165,509
January 2009	35,569	57,772	53,056	8,199,968
February 2009	35,529	—	50,377	8,174,915

	Now Let’s Talk Money
March 2008	8,942
April 2008	54,134
May 2008	57,875
June 2008	70,747
July 2008	72,566
August 2008	74,288
September 2008	50,868
October 2008	53,651
November 2008	47,490
December 2008	42,658
January 2009	39,042
February 2009	37,122
n/a = Not available

Table B: Websites operated by the Department for Work and Pensions where the Department is not responsible for the content
	Independent Case Examiner	Industrial injuries Advisory Council	Social Security Advisory Council
March 2008	22,636	18,915	17,399
April 2008	24,112	18,911	18,403
May 2008	24,328	19,293	20,187
June 2008	24,046	18,202	18,561
July 2008	25,047	18,395	18,166
August 2008	26,334	18,488	18,631
September 2008	20,945	16,534	17,356
October 2008	20,229	16,764	17,036
November 2008	23,312	18,587	45,590
December 2008	29,862	17,903	18,453
January 2009	29,862	19,055	19,755
February 2009	23,345	17,811	17,807

Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) staff of and (b) contractors for his Department based in London are paid less than the London living wage. [263561]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 13 March 2009]: The information is as follows.

(a) Full-time London based DWP employees have a 36 hour working week whereas the London Living Wage is calculated on the basis of a 38.5 hour working week. DWP employees based in London are paid on the relevant DWP inner or outer London payscale according to their grade and location. All of our directly employed London based employees are paid at a level above that of the London Living Wage when calculated on the basis of either a 36 or a 38.5 hour working week.

(b) DWP does not contractually require its suppliers to pay their employees at levels above the London Living Wage. It may be that within individual supply chains some employees are paid below the London Living Wage. However, it would be at a disproportionate cost to collect and collate the information requested.

Departmental Recruitment

Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 24 February 2009, Official Report, column 626W, on departmental recruitment, what estimate he has made of the annual salary cost of the new (a) permanent, (b) temporary and (c) agency staff recruited in each year since 2005-06. [264242]

Jonathan Shaw: The overall pay bill cost for permanent and temporary staff employed by the Department in each year from 2005-06 to 2007-08 is published in the departmental report 2008. We are unable to identify the costs of newly recruited staff or agency staff without incurring disproportionate cost.

Departmental Training

Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his Department’s policy is on the practice of holding departmental away days outside the Department’s buildings. [268536]

Jonathan Shaw: The Department’s policy on away days, management conferences and seminars is that they should take place in venues which provide value for money taking account of the nature of the event.

Where the hire of rooms or the use of hotel facilities is considered appropriate, this should be judged against
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the availability of reasonable alternatives, the location of the facilities in relation to the home location of the majority of attendees, and the associated travel costs.

Any expenditure is incurred in accordance with the principles of managing public money and the Treasury Handbook on Regularity and Propriety.

Disability Living Allowance

Joan Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of applications for disability living allowance were returned because the applicant was aged over 65 in the last 12 months. [268200]

Jonathan Shaw: Applications for disability living allowance from people aged over 65 years are not returned to the customer but are treated as a claim for attendance allowance.

Drugs: Rehabilitation

Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many claimants in receipt of jobseeker's allowance have entered voluntary drug rehabilitation programmes in each of the last five years. [264368]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 18 March 2009]: We do not collect information on the medical conditions of jobseeker's allowance claimants.

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