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| Number and percentage of housing benefit recipients by working/pension age: Great Britain May 2004-May 2007 | ||||
| Percentage of recipients aged | ||||
| Aged 60 and over | Aged under 60 | 60 and over | Under 60 | |
| Number and percentage of housing benefit recipients by working/pension age: Great Britain November 2008-May 2009 | ||||
| Percentage of recipients aged | ||||
| Aged 60 and over | Aged under 60 | 60 and over | Under 60 | |
| Number and proportion of council tax benefit recipients by working/pension age: Great Britain May 1997-May 2003 | ||||
| Percentage of recipients aged | ||||
| Aged 60 and over | Aged under 60 | 60 and over | Under 60 | |
| Number and proportion of council tax benefit recipients by working/pension age: Great Britain May 2004-May 2007 | ||||
| Percentage of recipients aged | ||||
| Aged 60 and over | Aged under 60 | 60 and over | Under 60 | |
| Number and proportion of council tax benefit recipients by working/pension age: Great Britain November 2008-May 2009 | ||||
| Percentage of recipients aged | ||||
| Aged 60 and over | Aged under 60 | 60 and over | Under 60 | |
| Notes: 1. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 2. Information for 1997-2003 is based on a 1 per cent. sample and is therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation. 3. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 4. Figures for 1997-2003 have been rounded to the nearest thousand. Figures for 2004-2009 have been rounded to the nearest ten. 5. Figures for any non-responding authorities have been estimated. 6. Housing benefit figures exclude any extended payment cases. 7. Council tax benefit figures exclude any single adult rebate cases. Sources: Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System, Annual 1 per cent. sample, taken from May 1997-May 2003: Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System Quarterly 100 per cent. taken in May 2004-May 2007: and Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) for May 2009 taken from table 8 and table 14 of publication at http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/HBCTB19082009.xls | ||||
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Local Housing Allowance
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people are in receipt of local housing allowance in each local authority area. [298412]
Helen Goodman: The available information has been placed in the Library.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many responses she has received to the consultation document Changes to the local housing allowance: consultation on draft regulations. [298648]
Helen Goodman: The Department for Work and Pensions consulted over the summer on proposals to remove the up to £15 weekly excess that customers can receive over and above their contractual rent under the local housing allowance arrangements. In addition, the Social Security Advisory Committee also carried out a consultation. The overall number of responses to both consultations amounted to 38 of which 24 were specific to the Department for Work and Pensions.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many local housing allowance claimants receive the maximum excess payment of £15. [298650]
Helen Goodman: This information is not available.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the cost to local authorities of administering the proposed withdrawal of excess payments to local housing allowance claimants. [298651]
Helen Goodman: The Department has not undertaken a specific exercise to identify the costs of implementing this proposal to local authorities. However, local authorities are normally expected to absorb the cost of such amendments.
Members: Pensions
Dr. Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether the Pension Protection Fund Levy has received contributions from the Parliamentary Pension Scheme since 2004. [294226]
Angela Eagle: The Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund is not an eligible occupational pension scheme for the purposes of qualification for the Pension Protection Fund and therefore does not pay the pension protection levy.
New Deal for Lone Parents
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether any financial penalty applies to claimants in respect of the New Deal for Lone Parents if the interviewer does not consider the interview was satisfactory. [296764]
Helen Goodman: If a lone parent agrees to take advantage of the support available via the new deal for lone parents they will be invited to a series of non-mandatory meetings with their personal adviser to discuss what they will need to do and the support available to them, to help them into work. Non-attendance or non-participation at these meetings, or non-compliance with the actions agreed, does not result in a financial sanction to benefit.
Pension Credit
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in (a) the UK, (b) Derbyshire and (c) West Derbyshire received pension credit in each year since its inception. [297977]
Angela Eagle: The information requested is in the following table.
Social Security Benefits
John Mason: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people claimed each type of benefit in (a) each parliamentary constituency in Scotland and (b) the UK in the most recent period for which figures are available. [288940]
Jim Knight: The requested information has been placed in the Library.
Social Security Benefits: Bexley
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford and (b) the London Borough of Bexley are in receipt of (i) housing benefit and (ii) council tax benefit. [298115]
Helen Goodman: The available information is in the table.
| Recipients of housing benefit and council tax benefit in the London borough of Bexley, May 2009 | |
| Number | |
| Notes: 1. The data refer to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple. 2. The figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. 3. Housing benefit figures exclude any extended payment cases. 4. Council tax benefit figures exclude second adult rebates. Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) for May 2009 taken from Table 1 of publication at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/HBCTB19082009.xls | |
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