Grant Shapps:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much has been allocated for (a) year-end and (b) in-year bonuses for (i) her Department's and (ii) its agencies' staff in 2009-10. [307026]
Jim Knight:
The Department operates two pay-related employee reward schemes. They comprise end of year non-consolidated performance pay and in-year special awards.
End of Year Non-consolidated Performance Pay
DWP employees below the Senior Civil Service are eligible for an annual individual non-consolidated performance payment if they attain a "top", "higher" or "majority" rating under the annual performance and development system. The actual payment awarded is determined by the employee's pay band and the performance level achieved.
For the Senior Civil Service, end of year non-consolidated performance pay is determined by the relevant Departmental Pay Committee, in line with recommendations by the independent Senior Salaries Review Body.
Performance awards are payable in July and are attributable to performance in the previous financial year. In the 2009-10 financial year £21.81 million was paid in July 2009 for performance in the previous year. Of this £4.66 million was paid to employees in DWP 27 Jan 2010 : Column 923W
Corporate and Shared Services, £13.98 million to those in Jobcentre Plus, and £3.17 million to those in the Pension, Disability and Carers Service. The average payment received was £199.48.
Special Awards
Individuals may be awarded a special award either as cash or in the form of retail vouchers. These are one-off recognition awards, payable at any time during the performance year, to recognise exceptional achievements beyond what would normally be expected.
Up to 0.25 per cent of the overall departmental staff budget is available to fund Special Awards and in 2009-10 this equates to £7.28 million of which £5.97 million is available to the Department's agencies and £1.31 million to the rest of the Department.
For the period April to August 2009, the number of Special Awards made was 22,997, at a cost of £1.86 million. Departmental headcount at August 2009 was 118,356.
The average payment received was £80.88.
Departmental Trade Unions
Mr. Maude:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what office facilities her Department provides for the exclusive use of each trade union recognised by it; and what the notional value of such provision was in the latest period for which information is available. [312367]
Jonathan Shaw:
I refer the right hon. Member to the written answer I gave to his question on 29 April 2009, Official Report, column 125W.
The information provided within the answer is still the current position. We are unable to provide a notional value of the facilities used because the information is not available.
Disability Living Allowance: West Yorkshire
John Battle:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in the West Yorkshire area were claiming disability living allowance in each of the last five years. [306998]
Jonathan Shaw:
The available information is in the table.
Disability living allowance-cases in payment for the Government office region of Yorkshire and the Humber by parliamentary constituency
May each year
Yorkshire and the Humber
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Barnsley Central
6,430
6,590
6,730
6,840
7,080
Barnsley East and Mexborough
8,450
8,490
8,590
8,670
8,880
Barnsley West and Penistone
5,260
5,340
5,440
5,540
5,770
Batley and Spen
4,410
4,530
4,640
4,690
4,820
Beverley and Holderness
4,400
4,520
4,660
4,840
4,940
Bradford North
5,510
5,560
5,680
5,820
5,940
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Bradford South
5,600
5,790
5,920
6,030
6,190
Bradford West
6,390
6,450
6,570
6,700
6,980
Brigg and Goole
3,680
3,770
3,850
4,020
4,100
Calder Valley
3,860
3,980
4,090
4,210
4,400
City of York
3,330
3,430
3,540
3,600
3,720
Cleethorpes
4,070
4,180
4,290
4,400
4,580
Colne Valley
4,250
4,340
4,480
4,640
4,770
Dewsbury
4,880
5,030
5,150
5,280
5,440
Doncaster Central
5,400
5,470
5,580
5,730
5,910
Doncaster North
6,050
6,120
6,280
6,360
6,570
Don Valley
5,810
5,890
6,040
6,190
6,280
East Yorkshire
5,220
5,300
5,440
5,560
5,670
Elmet
3,770
3,800
3,940
4,040
4,160
Great Grimsby
4,390
4,500
4,610
4,770
4,990
Halifax
4,850
5,000
5,050
5,140
5,290
Haltemprice and Howden
2,500
2,560
2,670
2,780
2,850
Harrogate and Knaresborough
2,800
2,840
2,880
2,960
3,050
Hemsworth
7,960
8,070
8,190
8,260
8,400
Huddersfield
5,380
5,490
5,610
5,740
5,910
Keighley
3,680
3,770
3,870
3,970
4,130
Kingston upon Hull East
5,530
5,660
5,830
5,900
5,990
Kingston upon Hull North
5,470
5,540
5,650
5,730
5,880
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
5,120
5,220
5,360
5,410
5,700
Leeds Central
5,900
5,960
6,050
6,160
6,330
Leeds East
4,690
4,760
4,820
4,830
4,980
Leeds North East
3,630
3,660
3,740
3,790
3,910
Leeds North West
2,720
2,750
2,820
2,920
3,000
Leeds West
4,200
4,340
4,450
4,580
4,790
Morley and Rothwell
4,750
4,820
4,950
5,120
5,330
Normanton
4,270
4,360
4,470
4,570
4,710
Pontefract and Castleford
6,420
6,520
6,600
6,700
6,910
Pudsey
3,050
3,140
3,290
3,350
3,490
Richmond Yorks
2,760
2,860
2,980
3,120
3,180
Rother Valley
5,840
5,930
6,050
6,190
6,390
Rotherham
6,040
6,150
6,320
6,460
6,580
Ryedale
3,050
3,110
3,220
3,290
3,370
Scarborough and Whitby
5,210
5,360
5,560
5,680
5,880
Scunthorpe
4,370
4,500
4,620
4,740
4,800
Selby
2,900
2,960
3,090
3,240
3,380
Sheffield Attercliffe
5,480
5,490
5,600
5,680
5,930
Sheffield Brightside
6,230
6,380
6,550
6,630
6,860
Sheffield Central
5,710
5,760
5,870
5,980
6,190
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Sheffield Hallam
1,750
1,800
1,840
1,890
1,930
Sheffield Heeley
5,000
5,130
5,250
5,410
5,550
Sheffield Hillsborough
4,690
4,770
4,880
5,020
5,160
Shipley
3,540
3,620
3,690
3,770
3,860
Skipton and Ripon
2,840
2,900
3,000
3,110
3,200
Vale of York
2,500
2,540
2,630
2,720
2,850
Wakefield
5,260
5,380
5,530
5,580
5,750
Wentworth
6,530
6,640
6,790
6,820
6,980
Total
263,790
268,840
275,310
281,170
289,690
Notes:
1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10, totals may not sum due to rounding.
2. Totals 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. Source:
DWP Information Directorate; Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study
