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| Disability living allowance: cases in payment-mobility award type by south-west Government office region | ||||
| Higher rate | Lower rate | Nil rate | Total | |
| Attendance allowance: cases in payment-care award type in south-west Government office region | |||
| Higher rate | Lower rate | Total | |
| Notes: 1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest ten. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 2. " -" = Nil or negligible, n/a = Not applicable. 2. Cases in payment 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. Recipients of disability living allowance can be in receipt of both the care and mobility component. Source: DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study | |||
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of the population in St. Ives constituency are in receipt of each level of (a) attendance allowance and (b) the (i) care and (ii) mobility component of disability living allowance. [325470]
Jonathan Shaw: The information is in the tables.
| Disability living allowance: cases in payment by care award-August 2009 | |||||
| Care award type | Higher rate | Middle rate | Lower rate | Nil rate | Total |
| Disability living allowance : cases in payment by mobility award - August 2009 | ||||
| Mobility award type | Higher rate | Lower rate | Nil rate | Total |
| Attendance allowance: cases in payment by attendance allowance award type -August 2009 | |||
| Attendance allowance award type | Higher Rate | Lower Rate | Total |
| Notes: 1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Cases in payment 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. Recipients of disability living allowance can be in receipt of both the care and mobility component. Source: DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study | |||
State Retirement Pensions
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate she has made of the number of recipients of the state second pension whose entitlement includes years past 2002 when they were in receipt of incapacity benefit; how much extra state second pension is paid per week per recipient in respect of such years; and what estimate she has made of the expenditure on such accrued rights in 2009-10. [324417]
Angela Eagle [holding answer 25 March 2010]: State second pension expenditure in 2009-10 due to the accrual of rights via receipt of incapacity benefit is estimated at around £300 million in 2009-10 price terms.
We are unable to provide information relating to the number of people to whom this expenditure relates or the average amounts in payment as modelling of state second pension expenditure is performed on an aggregate basis and does not take account of individual entitlements.
In 2007-08, the latest period for which data are available, 900,000 women and 1,300,000 men of working age accrued rights to state second pension through receipt of incapacity benefit.
Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10 million.
2. Forecasts of state second pension/state earnings related pension scheme are based on the Budget Report 2010 forecasts. Published expenditure tables can found at the following link:
3. Figures for 2007-08 are provisional as they will be subject to change as further information about national insurance contributions becomes available.
Sources:
Strategy Directorate modelling and Lifetime Labour Market Database, 2007-08.
Unemployment
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2010, Official Report, column 605, if she will estimate the savings in unemployment benefits and other benefits from unemployment being 650,000 lower in 2010 than the average predicted by independent forecasts; and if she will make a statement. [323436]
Jim Knight [holding answer 22 March 2010]: Between the Budget 2009 and the Budget 2010, the expected level of UK unemployment was reduced. By the end of 2009, the actual UK unemployment claimant count was already nearly 500,000 less than expected at the Budget 2009.
Unemployment is now expected to be 700,000 lower in 2010 than in the Budget 2009. The savings in benefits across 2010-11 to 2014-15 compared with what was assumed at Budget 2009 is around £14 billion. This includes spend relating to housing benefit and council tax benefit as well as jobseeker's allowance.
Winter Fuel Payments
Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to Budget 2010, HC 451, if she will estimate the saving to the Exchequer in each of the next five years of increasing the age of entitlement to winter fuel payments to 65 years. [325346]
Angela Eagle: Following a European Court of Justice Judgment in December 1999, the winter fuel payment scheme was extended to all those aged 60 and over.
The requested information is in the following table:
| Savings (2009-10 price terms) | |
| £ million | |
| Notes: 1. Expenditure for GB only, rounded to the nearest £10 million. 2. The European Court of Justice ruled that, by not paying winter fuel payments to men aged 60 to 64, but paying eligible women from age 60, the scheme was discriminatory. The ruling was applied from the beginning of the scheme, the winter of 1997-98. 3. Savings are modelled using current policy of increasing age of entitlement to winter fuel payments to 65 by 2020, against a scenario if age entitlement to winter fuel payments was increased to 65 immediately in each of the next five financial years. Modelling assumes anyone 60-64 currently receiving winter fuel payment would no longer receive it. 4. A winter fuel payment of £250 per household is modelled for 2010-11. For subsequent years a winter fuel payment of £200 per household is modelled. 5. Savings are for each financial year and become smaller as the age of entitlement increases with current policy. The drop in savings from 2010-11 to 2011-12 is also due to the decrease in winter fuel payment amounts assumed. | |
Defence
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which items of equipment procured since 2001 and made available to operations in Afghanistan were procured as part of his Department's core equipment programme. [322846]
Mr. Quentin Davies: The following table, which is based on centrally held records, lists the majority of equipment projects with a cost of £20 million or over that were procured from the core equipment programme since 2004 and made available to operations in Afghanistan. A number of equipment projects have not been included as their disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the armed forces.
Details of equipment projects procured prior to 2004, and projects costing less than £20 million for the entire period covered by the question, are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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