HC Deb 17 June 1992 vol 209 c547W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many people living in Wales who suffer disabilities receive disablement benefits.

Mr. David Hunt

The latest available information on the numbers of recipients in Wales of social security disablement benefits and state compensation for disablement—war pensions—is shown in the table. The total of the numbers of recipients of the different benefits may be greater than the number of people receiving benefit as people may receive more than one benefit.

Benefit Latest date for which estimated number of recipients is available Number in receipt
Attendance Allowance 31 March 1991 63,000
Mobility Allowance 2 April 1992 59,000
Industrial Injury Disablement Benefit 30 March 1991 19,000
War Pension 31 December 1991 12,000
Severe Disablement Allowance 31 March 1990 22,000

Source: Department of Social Security.

Notes:

  1. 1. The above figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand (000).
  2. 2. Attendance allowance is an estimate based on a 1 per cent sample.
  3. 3. Industrial injury disablement benefit numbers are current assessments but do not include reduced earning allowance or other industrial injury benefits and are based on a 10 per cent. sample.
  4. 4. War pension figures are based on a 10 per cent. sample.
  5. 5. Severe disablement allowance is based on a 1 per cent. sample.
  6. 6. The above refer to Wales as a statistical region with the exception of war pensions which is based on post office locality.