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Departmental Conferences

Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which conferences held overseas have been attended by civil servants based in her Department in the last three years; and what the cost to the public purse was of such attendance at each conference. [305859]

Angela Eagle: As part of their duties, DWP officials may attend international conferences held overseas in pursuance of their departmental work and to represent the UK's interests. No central records are held on attendance by officials at conferences held overseas.

Disability Living Allowance

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people resident in (a) Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency, (b) the Highlands and (c) Scotland received the (i) mobility component, (ii) care component and (iii) both the mobility and the care components of the disability living allowance in each of the last five years. [304670] [Official Report, 9 February 2010, Vol. 505, c. 5-8MC.]

Jonathan Shaw: The available information is in the following tables.

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Disability living allowance cases in payment for the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey parliamentary constituency for each of the last five years, as at May of each year
May each year
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	4,300	4,460	4,540	4,710	4,960
Higher care and higher mobility	720	750	790	830	840
Higher care and lower mobility	360	380	380	400	420
Higher care only	60	60	70	80	80
Middle care and higher mobility	600	620	650	670	700
Middle care and lower mobility	770	820	850	880	960
Middle care only	150	160	150	150	170
Lower care and higher mobility	430	430	430	450	480
Lower care and lower mobility	370	380	400	420	430
Lower care only	250	280	270	290	320
Higher mobility only	480	480	460	450	460
Lower mobility only	100	100	90	100	100
Notes: 1 Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 2. Figures show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital. 3. The postcode of a claimant is used to assign the parliamentary constituency, local authority and government office region. Local authorities are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant postcode directory. Source: NOMIS

Disability living allowance cases in payment for the highland local authority for each of the last five years, as at May of each year
May each year
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	10,270	10,590	10,830	11,250	11,740
Higher care and higher mobility	1,790	1,880	1,980	2,050	2,100
Higher care and lower mobility	680	710	740	770	810
Higher care only	160	160	170	190	180
Middle care and higher mobility	1,570	1,620	1,680	1,730	1,830
Middle care and lower mobility	1,640	1,710	1,800	1,890	2,010
Middle care only	400	410	380	390	410
Lower care and higher mobility	1,140	1,140	1,150	1,230	1,300
Lower care and lower mobility	710	750	800	830	870
Lower care only	660	690	680	710	780
Higher mobility only	1,320	1,300	1,250	1,260	1,250
Lower mobility only	210	210	200	200	210
Notes: 1 Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 2. Figures show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital. 3. The Highlands region is defined as the local authority of the claimant. The postcode of a claimant is used to assign the parliamentary constituency, local authority and government office region. Local authorities are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant postcode directory. Source: NOMIS

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Disability living allowance cases in payment in Scotland for each of the last five years, as at May of each year
May each year
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	303,990	311,000	318,090	327,310	337,270
Higher care and higher mobility	52,140	53,810	56,560	58,890	60,410
Higher care and lower mobility	17,440	18,160	19,130	20,230	21,360
Higher care only	3,730	3,740	3,610	3,760	3,800
Middle care and higher mobility	49,570	50,680	52,310	53,890	55,260
Middle care and lower mobility	41,670	44,320	46,670	48,910	51,740
Middle care only	10,440	10,510	10,170	10,110	10,270
Lower care and higher mobility	37,270	37,550	37,880	38,550	39,600
Lower care and lower mobility	17,840	19,230	20,490	22,330	24,230
Lower care only	20,040	20,560	20,810	21,580	22,680
Higher mobility only	46,760	45,240	43,140	41,520	40,060
Lower mobility only	7,060	7,220	7,320	7,540	7,870
Notes: 1 Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 2. Figures show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital. 3. The postcode of a claimant is used to assign the parliamentary constituency, local authority and government office region. Local authorities are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant postcode directory. Source: NOMIS

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