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Ministerial Correction

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Work and Pensions

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, 15 December 2009, Vol. 502, c. 1012-14W.]

Letter of correction from Mr. Jonathan Shaw:

Errors have been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Danny Alexander) on 15 December 2009.

The correct answer should have been:

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
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	4,250	4,410	4,480	4,670	4,900
Higher care and higher mobility	670	690	730	760	790
Higher care and lower mobility	300	320	320	340	360
Higher care only	60	60	70	80	80
Middle care and higher mobility	570	590	610	640	670
Middle care and lower mobility	690	740	770	800	870
Middle care only	150	150	140	140	160
Lower care and higher mobility	420	430	420	450	480
Lower care and lower mobility	340	360	380	400	410
Lower care only	250	270	260	290	320
Higher mobility only	550	550	530	540	540
Lower mobility only	250	260	240	240	240
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. If a disability living allowance customer goes into hospital or a local authority funded care home then the care component of disability living allowance will stop after 28 days although the mobility component is not affected. This means that, for example, someone with an underlying entitlement to higher rate care and higher rate mobility may only be getting paid higher rate mobility. This means that the number of people being paid the disability living allowance mobility component only may be more than the number entitled to the disability living allowance mobility component due to the non-payment of an underlying entitlement to the care component. 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: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

Disability living allowance cases in payment for the highland local authority for each of the last five years, as at May of each year
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	10,190	10,500	10,730	11,160	11,640
Higher care and higher mobility	1,680	1,770	1,850	1,920	1,980
Higher care and lower mobility	580	620	650	680	720
Higher care only	160	170	170	190	180
Middle care and higher mobility	1,520	1,570	1,620	1,680	1,780
Middle care and lower mobility	1,500	1,570	1,670	1,750	1,870
Middle care only	400	400	380	380	400
Lower care and higher mobility	1,130	1,130	1,140	1,220	1,290
Lower care and lower mobility	670	720	770	800	830
Lower care only	650	680	670	700	770
Higher mobility only	1,440	1,420	1,390	1,410	1,400
Lower mobility only	440	450	430	430	430
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. If a disability living allowance customer goes into hospital or a local authority funded care home then the care component of disability living allowance will stop after 28 days although the mobility component is not affected. This means that, for example, someone with an underlying entitlement to higher rate care and higher rate mobility may only be getting paid higher rate mobility. This means that the number of people being paid the disability living allowance mobility component only may be more than the number entitled to the disability living allowance mobility component due to the non-payment of an underlying entitlement to the care component. 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: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

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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
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	301,630	308,590	315,580	324,810	334,670
Higher care and higher mobility	49,510	51,170	53,840	56,130	57,590
Higher care and lower mobility	16,020	16,770	17,710	18,800	19,900
Higher care only	3,680	3,690	3,550	3,700	3,730
Middle care and higher mobility	48,400	49,460	51,090	52,640	53,970
Middle care and lower mobility	39,250	41,940	44,320	46,570	49,390
Middle care only	10,350	10,400	10,070	10,010	10,160
Lower care and higher mobility	37,080	37,350	37,650	38,310	39,340
Lower care and lower mobility	17,460	18,870	20,130	21,980	23,860
Lower care only	19,940	20,450	20,690	21,470	22,550
Higher mobility only	49,560	48,100	46,120	44,650	43,320
Lower mobility only	10,380	10,390	10,410	10,550	10,850
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. If a disability living allowance customer goes into hospital or a local authority funded care home then the care component of disability living allowance will stop after 28 days although the mobility component is not affected. This means that, for example, someone with an underlying entitlement to higher rate care and higher rate mobility may only be getting paid higher rate mobility. This means that the number of people being paid the disability living allowance mobility component only may be more than the number entitled to the disability living allowance mobility component due to the non-payment of an underlying entitlement to the care component. 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: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

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