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2. Some people had more than one payment authorised, so the number of payments authorised is greater than the number of people for whom payment was authorised.
Source:
DWP records of triggers to weather stations notified in December 2009 and estimates of potential qualifiers by weather station.
Departmental Consultants
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what expenditure her Department has incurred on each management consultant engaged in connection with the Pensions Transformation programme in the last 12 months. [315598]
Angela Eagle: The Department for Work and Pensions spent £5.007 million on consultants engaged in connection with the Pension Transformation programme for 2008-09. The spend for 2009-10 to date is nil.
We are unable to provide expenditure by individual supplier as this information is commercial in confidence.
Housing and Council Tax Benefit
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many people received housing benefit in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area; [313976]
(2) how many households received council tax benefit in each of the last 10 years, broken down by local authority area. [313977]
Helen Goodman [holding answers 28 January 2010]: The available information has been placed in the Library.
Members: Correspondence
Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) when she plans to reply to the letter of 14 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. J Duncan; [315018]
(2) when she plans to reply to the letter of 21· December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. P Harris; [315020]
(3) when she plans to reply to the letter of 22 December 2009 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr. M. Naseem. [315021]
Helen Goodman: Replies were sent to my right hon. Friend on 2 February 2010.
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when she plans to answer the letter of 11 November 2009, ref. SJW/SJW, from the hon. Member for Northavon on the state pension of a constituent. [315953]
Angela Eagle: I replied to the hon. Member on 4 February 2010 and I apologise again for the delay in doing so.
Nuclear Submarines: Safety
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 9 November 2009, Official Report, column 46W, on nuclear submarines, what methodology the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate used to determine the radius of the emergency pre-planning zone around a berthed nuclear-powered submarine. [314712]
Mr. Kidney: I have been asked to reply.
As required under the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2001, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) identified the potential radiation hazards from berthed nuclear-powered submarines and furnished this information to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Having assessed the hazards so identified, HSE formed the judgment that a Detailed Emergency Planning Zone (DEPZ) set at a radius of 1.5 km from the submarines would provide a valid area in which the arrangements of local authorities should be applied to protect the public and society in the event of a reasonably foreseeable radiation emergency involving one of the submarines. The decision to reduce the DEPZ from 2 km to 1.5 km took account of an improved analysis of the potential radiation hazards by MOD.
Pension Credit
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioner households were paid (a) pension guarantee credit, (b) pension savings credit and (c) pension guarantee and pension savings credit in 2009. [314667]
Angela Eagle: The information requested is in the following table.
| Households in receipt and individual beneficiaries of pension credit as at May 2009 | ||
| Household recipients | Individual beneficiaries | |
| Notes: 1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Household recipients are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of themselves and a partner. 3. The number of individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners. Source: DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal! Study 100 per cent. data | ||
Pension Credit: Derbyshire
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what her latest estimate is of the number of pensioners in each constituency in Derbyshire who are eligible for but do not claim pension credit. [314665]
Angela Eagle: Estimates of eligibility and therefore those who are entitled to pension credit but have not claimed it are not available below the level of Great Britain.
The latest estimates of the take-up rates and the number of those entitled but not receiving pension credit are published in the report 'Income Related Benefits Estimates of Take-Up in 2007-08'.
Pension Credit: Yorkshire and the Humber
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people resident in (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) North East Lincolnshire local authority area and (c) North Lincolnshire local authority area are in receipt of pension credit; and what the average award was for such people in the most recent period for which figures are available. [315234]
Angela Eagle: The information requested is in the following table.
| As at May 2009 | Households in receipt of pension credit | Average award (£) |
| Notes: 1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Household recipients are those people who claim pension credit either for themselves only or on behalf of themselves and a partner. Source: DWP Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent data. | ||
Poverty: Children
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children were living in poverty in each local authority area in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in (i) 1997 and (ii) the most recent period for which figures are available. [314269]
Helen Goodman: Estimates of poverty for children are published in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. These figures only allow a breakdown of the overall numbers in poverty at Government Office Region level. Therefore, information is not available for the local authority areas.
However, a local child poverty indicator-including constituency level information-has been developed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to try and replicate
this national measure as closely as possible. It captures the number and proportion of children in families in receipt of out of work benefits, or in receipt of tax credits where their reported income is less than 60 per cent of median income. Details can be found via the HMRC website:
The Public Service Agreement to halve child poverty by 2010-11 as a step towards eradicating it by 2020 uses a headline indicator of the proportion of children in households with an income below 60 per cent of contemporary household median income before housing costs.
The following table shows the three-year average volumes of children with incomes below 60 per cent. of contemporary median (before housing costs) between 1997-2000 and 2005-08.
| Numbers of children living in households with less than 60 per cent of contemporary median income, by Government Office Region and Country, Before Housing Costs, 1997-98 to 1999-2000 - 200506 to 2007-08 | ||
| Government Office Regio n/ Country | 1997-98 to 1999-2000 | 2005-06 to 2007-08 |
| n/a = Indicates figures are not available. Data for Northern Ireland are only available on the Family Resources Survey from 2002-03. 1. These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income, sourced from the Family Resources Survey, both of which are available in the Library. 2. Small changes should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. 3. The reference period for Households Below Average Income figures are single financial years. Three sample years have been combined as regional single year estimates are subject to volatility. 4. The income measures used to derive the estimates shown employ the same methodology as the Department for Work and Pensions publication 'Households Below Average Income' series, which uses disposable household income, adjusted (or 'equivalised') for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living. 5. For the Households Below Average Income series, incomes have been equivalised using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) equivalisation factors. 6. Information for adults includes those above state pension age. 7. Numbers of children in low-income households have been rounded to the nearest 100,000 children. Source: Households Below Average Income, DWP | ||
Winter Fuel Payments: Torbay
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate she has made of the number of households in Torbay constituency who will receive the (a) £250 and (b) £400 winter fuel payment in 2009-10; [314619]
(2) how many pensioners in Torbay constituency are in receipt of winter fuel allowance; and how much her Department paid to such pensioners in winter fuel allowance in 2009. [314620]
Angela Eagle: For winter 2008-09 (the last year for which information is available) 13,980 households received £250 and 5280 households received £400 in Torbay. We expect to have made a similar number of payments for winter 2009-10.
For winter 2008-09, 29,950 individuals received the Winter Fuel Payment in Torbay at a cost of £6 million.
Notes:
1. Payment figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Expenditure figures are rounded to the nearest £0.1 million
3. Parliamentary constituencies are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory.
Source:
Information Directorate
Winter Fuel Payments: Yorkshire and the Humber
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioners aged over (a) 80 and (b) 60 years have received winter fuel payments in (i) Cleethorpes constituency, (ii) North East Lincolnshire local authority area and (iii) North Lincolnshire local authority area in each year since 2007-08. [315236]
Angela Eagle: Information on winters 2007-08 and 2008-09 (the last year for which information is available) is in the following table.
| Individual winter fuel payments | ||||
| Winter 2007-08 | Winter 2008-09 | |||
| Aged 60-79 | Aged 80 and over | Aged 60-79 | Aged 80 and over | |
| Notes: 1. Payment figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Parliamentary constituencies are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory. Source: Information Directorate | ||||
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