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Ms Buck: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average housing benefit payment was in each London local authority area in respect of (a) private and (b) social rented accommodation in 2007-08. [284715]
Helen Goodman: The available information is in the following table.
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of jobseeker's allowance claimants started a work trial in each of the last six months. [282443]
Jim Knight: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the acting chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, Mel Groves. I have asked him to provide the hon. Member with the information requested.
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question asking what proportion of Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) claimants started a Work Trial in each of the last six months. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
Please find attached at Annex 1 the number of JSA customers who started Work Trials compared to the number of customers claiming JSA in each of the last six months.
Work Trials and other successful policy interventions have contributed to an average of 269,000 people leaving JSA each month in the past 6 months.
Annex 1-proportion of JSA customers who started a work trial | |||
Month | Number of JSA customers starting work trial | Number of customers claiming JSA | Proportion of JSA work trial starts (percentage) |
Source: BOXI management information, NOMIS |
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point were in relative poverty in each of the last five years. [275487]
Angela Eagle: The data source does not allow us to provide robust numbers for estimates below the level of Government office region.
PSA17 includes a range of indicators related to low income for pensioners. These are relative low income (below 50 and 60 per cent. contemporary median household income), and absolute low income (below 60 per cent. of 1998-99 median income uprated in line with prices), all measured after housing costs have been taken into account.
Latest information for east of England, Government office region, is based on three year averages. There were around 0.2 million pensioners in the east of England below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income threshold between 2001-04 and 2005-07. During the same period, around 0.1 million pensioners in the east of England were below 50 per cent. of contemporary median income threshold.
However, between 2001-04 and 2005-07, the percentage of pensioners in the east of England being below the 60 per cent. of contemporary median income, after housing costs, has fallen from 25 per cent. to 16 per cent. The number of pensioners in relative poverty has remained unchanged due to the increase in the pensioner population in the east of England.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the monetary value of all benefit payments made to residents of (a) the Vale of York and (b) England was in (i) 1980, (ii) 1997, (iii) 2001, (iv) 2005 and (v) 2008. [287416]
Helen Goodman: The requested information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Heald:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the average annual sum lost as a result of benefit fraud in
Alicante; what the objectives of her Department's campaign against benefit fraud in Alicante are; and if she will make a statement. [277049]
Helen Goodman: Information relating to the annual sum lost as a result of benefit fraud in Alicante is not available.
There are estimated to be over a million British people living in Spain, and while the vast majority are law abiding citizens, there will unfortunately be a small minority committing benefit fraud. The objectives of our campaign in Spain are:
To raise awareness of fraud abroad; and,
to track down benefit thieves abroad.
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when she plans to answer question 274721, tabled on 12 May 2009, on maintenance payments. [278038]
Helen Goodman [holding answer 4 June 2009]: I replied to the hon. Member's question on 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 52W.
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when she plans to provide a substantive answer to Question 274721, tabled on 7 May 2009, on child maintenance. [283746]
Helen Goodman [holding answer 2 July 2009]: I replied to the hon. Member's question on 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 52W.
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the objectives were of the Minister for Immigration's recent visit to Calais; and if he will make a statement. [285930]
Mr. Woolas: The UK continues to face significant pressure from illegal migrants attempting to reach our shores from the Channel and North sea coast of France. This continuous pressure calls for determined, mutual effort to tackle illegal immigration by the UK and France.
At the UK-France summit in Evian on 6 July, the UK agreed to invest a further £15 million to strengthen United Kingdom border controls at Calais, and other juxtaposed controls in France. The French and British Governments declared a joint commitment to effect a significant increase in enforced return of illegal migrants through their national programmes and through joint returns activity as appropriate.
A copy of the Franco-British declaration on Immigration has been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which services his Department has outsourced in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [274446]
Mr. Woolas: The Home Office has not outsourced any of its services within the last five years.
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