§ Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many income support claimants there were in each Jobcentre Plus district in England in the latest month for which figures are available; and what funds are available in each district for(a)community care grants, (b)budgeting loans and (c)crisis loans. [176265]
§ Mr. PondThere are no separate budgets for budgeting loans and crisis loans, but a combined gross loans budget for both. The 2004–05 district budgets for community care grants and for gross loans (organised by Government Office Region) are available in the Library.
The income support information is in the table.
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Income support claimants in England by Jobcentre Plus district— November 2003 Jobcentre Plus District Income Support Claimants
England 1,829,800 Barnsley and Rotherham 21,400 Bedfordshire 16,400 Berkshire 17,100 Birmingham and Solihull 64,100 Bolton and Bury 19,200 Bradford 23.500 Bucks and Oxfordshire 26,000 Calderdale and Kirklees 22,500 Cambridgeshire 17,600 Cheshire 22,600 City of Sunderland 15,300 Cornwall 15,100 County Durham 23,200 Coventry and Warwickshire 25,300 Cumbria 14,900 Derbyshire 32,100 Devonshire 33,800 Doncaster 13,000 Dorset 17,900 Dudley and Sandwell 24,700 Essex 47,400 Gateshead and South Tyneside 19,000 Gloucestershire 13,400 Greater Nottingham 25,200 Hampshire 43,900 Herefordshire and Worcestershire 16,500 Hertfordshire 23,800 Hull and East Riding 23,800 Kent 49,000 Knowsley and Sefton 26,700 Lancashire East 25,000 Lancashire West 32,900 Leeds 26,400 Leicestershire 26,200 Lincolnshire 18,400 Liverpool 42,000 London Central North East 54,100 London Central North West 45,700 London Central South 47,800 London East 38,500 London North 43,400 London North West 30,100 London South 38,100 London South East 34,700 London West 33,000 Manchester 38,500 Newcastle and North Tyneside 24,600 Norfolk 22,600 North Nottinghamshire 15,600 North Yorkshire 15,900
Income support claimants in England by Jobcentre Plus district— November 2003 Jobcentre Plus District Income Support Claimants
Northamptonshire 16,200 Northumberland 10,200 Oldham and Rochdale 21,500 Salford and Trafford 20,700 Sheffield 22,800 Shropshire 11,900 Somerset 12,700 South Humberside 11,000 St. Helens and Halton 16,600 Staffordshire 34,100 Stockport and Tameside 18,100 Suffolk 16,800 Surrey 17,700 Sussex 42,300 Tees Valley 34,300 Wakefield 13,100 West of England 34,300 Wigan 11,600 Wiltshire 13,200 Wirral 17,700 Wolverhampton and Walsall 23,700 Notes: 1.Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. 2.Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and therefore subject to sampling variation. 3.November 2003 figures exclude income support MIG claimants who transferred to pension credit with effect from October 2003. 4.November 2003 figures are slightly higher than the publication due to the addition of clerical cases which were not available at the time of publication. 5.Totals may not sum due to rounding. 6. Jobcentre Plus is reorganising from 90 districts in Great Britain to 74 between April 2004 and April 2006. Since the figures in the table are at November 2003, the districts shown are prior to reorganisation, when there were 71 Jobcentre Plus districts in England. Source: DWP Information Centre, 5 per cent. sample