§ Mrs. GoldingTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many households are currently in receipt of(a) the disabled, (b) the child, (c) the carer's and (d) the enhanced pensioner premium.
§ Mr. ScottInformation as to the numbers of recipients of the disability, disabled child, carer and enhanced pensioner premiums is shown in the table below. The disabled child and carer premiums can be awarded in addition to other premiums. There is some overlap between housing benefit and community charge benefit recipients.
Recipients (thousands) Premium Income Support1 Housing Benefit2 Community Charge Benefit2 Disability Premium 375 163 217 Disabled Child Premium 22 2 4 Carer Premium 28 6 10 Enhanced Pensioner Premium 243 226 402 1Source: Income Support Statistics Annual Enquiry May 1991. 2Source: Housing Benefit and Community Charge Management Information System annual 1 per cent. sample for May 1991.
§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the total number of people claiming and dependent on income-related benefits in 1979 and 1991, broken down into the relevant benefits.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe available information is in the tables. The figures cannot be added together as a claimant could be receiving more than one benefit. Comparisons between 1979 and 1991 are difficult; the basis of assessment changed substantially during the period.
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(a) Number of claimants, partners and dependents receiving income-related benefits Thousands 1979 1991 Income support 14,371 7,747 Family credit 2301 1,267
(b) Housing benefit/Community charge benefit (1991–92 only) Benefit Average number of cases3 Housing benefit 4,120 Community charge benefit 6,340 1 Supplementary benefit. 2 Family income supplement. 3 1991–92 only. Notes:
1. All figures in thousands, rounded to the nearest thousand.
2. Figures quoted in table (b) (Housing benefit and Community charge benefit) are for recipients only, information is not available for totals dependent on these benefits.
3. No information is available for Housing benefit/Community charge benefit in 1979 as the current Housing benefit scheme did not commence until 1988 and Community charge benefit was not introduced until 1990 (1989 in Scotland).
Sources:
Table (a) Supplementary benefit/Income support; Annual Statistical Enquiries, 1979 and 1991; Social Security Statistics, 1980 and 1991.
Table (b) Averages of four quarters caseload information for 1991–92, including estimates for non-responding local authorities.
§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the proportion of people claiming and dependent on supplementary benefit or income support in 1979 and 1991 in(a) Scotland and (b) the United Kingdom.
§ 1. Mr. BurtThe available information is in the table. Comparison between income support and supplementary benefit are difficult since the conditions of entitlement and the basis of the assessments.
(A) Percentage of population in Scotland receiving supplementary benefit/income support (B) Percentage of population in Great Britain receiving supplementary benefit/income support 1979 8.67 7.99 1991 15.78 13.82 Notes:
Source: Supplementary Benefit/Income Support Statistics Annual Enquiries 1979 and 1991; Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 1979 and 1991.
2. The figures in column (b) of the table relate to Great Britain, not the United Kingdom. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is responsible for statistics relating to the province.
§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what were the numbers and proportion of children in families on supplementary benefit in 1979 and income support in 1991 broken down into England, Scotland and Wales.
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§ Mr. BurtThe information requested is in the table:
Country Number of Children Proportion of Population (per cent.) 1979 England 757 6.62 (Supplementary Benefit) Scotland 109 8.09 Wales 57 8.21 1991 England 1,998 19.42 (Income Support) Scotland 239 21.97 Wales 131 20.89 Notes
1. Figures are thousands rounded to the nearest thousand.
2. Sources:
Supplementary Benefit statistics annual enquiry May 1979.
Income Support statistics annual enquiry May 1991.
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 1979 and 1991.
§ Ms. EagleTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the numbers of claimants on(a) income support and (b) housing benefit as a proportion of the population in each local authority in England, Wales and Scotland.
§ Mr. Burt[holding answer 11 December 1992]: Income support information is not available in the form requested. The available information relating to housing benefit is in the tables:
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Proportion of households in receipt Housing Benefit (HB) by Local Authority in Great Britain1 per cent. Adur 11 Allerdale 17 Alnwick 17 Amber Valley 12 Arun 10 Ashfield 16 Ashford 13 Aylesbury Vale 9 Babergh 12 Barking 25 Barnet 11 Barnsley 25 Barrow in Furness 15 Basildon 18 Basingstoke 9 Bassetlaw 16 Bath 18 Benvick-upon-Tweed 17 Beverley 7 Bexley 10 Birmingham 25 Blaby 5 Blackburn 19 Blackpool 18 Blyth Valley 23 Bolsover 20 Bolton 19 Boothferry 13 Boston 17 Bournemouth 21 Bracknell 11 Bradford 18 Braintree 13 Breckland 12 Brent 18 Brentwood 9 Bridgnorth 11 Brighton 24 Bristol 20 Broadland 7 Bromley 10 676W
per cent. Bromsgrove 8 Broxbourne 10 Broxtowe 12 Burnley 17 Bury 13 Calderdale 16 Cambridge 17 Camden 29 Cannock Chase 17 Canterbury 13 Caradon 11 Carlisle 17 Carrick 13 Castle Morpeth 13 Castle Point 6 Charnwood 11 Chelmsford 11 Cheltenham 16 Cherwell 10 Chester 16 Chester le Street 20 Chesterfield 21 Chichester 14 Chiltern 7 Chorley 11 Christchurch 10 City of London 26 Cleethorpes 12 Colchester 11 Congleton 8 Copeland 17 Corby 22 Cotswold 10 Coventry 19 Craven 9 Crawley 15 Crewc and Nantwich 13 Croydon 13 Dacorum 12 Darlington 17 Dartford 13 Daventry 10 Derby 18 Derbyshire Dales 9 Derwentside 27 Doncaster 20 Dover 14 Dudley 18 Durham 20 Ealing 16 Easington 32 East Cambridgeshire 12 East Devon 10 East Dorset 7 East Hampshire 8 East Hertfordshire 9 East Lindsey 12 East Northampton 11 East Staffordshire 11 East Yorkshire 13 Eastbourne 16 Eastleigh 10 Eden 8 Ellesmere Port 15 Elmbridge 9 Enfield 14 Epping Forest 13 Epsom and Ewell 7 Erewash 14 Exeter 16 Fareham 6 Fenland 14 Forest Heath 10 Forest of Dean 10 Fylde 9 Gateshead 31 Gedling 10 Gillingham 10 677W
per cent. Glanford 9 Gloucester 16 Gosport 14 Gravesham 15 Great Yarmouth 18 Greenwich 22 Grimsby 23 Guildford 10 Hackney 33 Halton 23 Hambleton 10 Hammersmith 25 Harborough 7 Haringey 39 Harlow 23 Harrogate 9 Harrow 9 Hart 6 Hartlepool 29 Hastings 18 Havant 6 Havering 11 Hereford 18 Hertsmere 12 High Peak 13 Hillingdon 11 Hinckley and Bosworth 8 Holderness 10 Horsham 9 Hounslow 11 Hove 16 Huntingdon 9 Hyndburn 13 Ipswich 18 Isles of Scilly 9 Islington 31 Kennet 12 Kensington and Chelsea 19 Kerrier 13 Kettering 13 Kingston-upon-Hull 34 Kingston-upon-Thames 10 Kingswood 8 Kirklees 16 Knowsley 36 Lambeth 30 Lancaster 15 Langbaurgh 22 Leeds 22 Leicester 23 Leominster 10 Lewes 9 Lewisham 34 Lichfield 9 Lincoln 26 Liverpool 39 Luton 14 Macclesfield 9 Maidstone 10 Maldon 9 Malvern Hills 10 Manchester 46 Mansfield 20 Medina 19 Melton 9 Mendip 12 Merton 14 Mid Bedfordshire 9 Mid Devon 12 Mid Suffolk 10 Mid Sussex 9 Middlesbrough 32 Milton Keynes 13 Mole Valley 9 New Forest 9 Newark 13 Newbury 8 Newcastle under Lyme 14 678W
per cent. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 34 Newham 35 North Bedfordshire 11 North Cornwall 12 North Devon 16 North Dorset 10 North East Derby 16 North Hertfordshire 14 North Kesteven 9 North Norfolk 11 North Shropshire 11 North Tyneside 27 North Warwickshire 13 North West Leicester 12 North Wiltshire 10 Northampton 15 Northavon 8 Norwich 31 Nottingham 32 Nuneaton 14 Oadby and Wigston 6 Oldham 21 Oswestry 14 Oxford 25 Pendle 13 Penwith 15 Peterborough 19 Plymouth 21 Poole 10 Portsmouth 24 Preston 20 Purbeck 9 Reading 15 Redbridge 11 Redditch 16 Reigate and Banstead 9 Restormel 13 Ribble Valley 6 Richmondshire 10 Richmond-upon-Thames 11 Rochdale 19 Rochester on Medway 13 Rochford 8 Rossendale 17 Rother 9 Rotherham 22 Rugby 11 Runnymede 10 Rushcliffe 9 Rushmoor 12 Rutland 8 Ryedale 7 Salford 32 Salisbury 13 Sandwell 28 Scarborough 15 Scunthorpe 21 Sedgefield 27 Sedgemoor 13 Sefton 17 Selby 9 Sevenoaks 10 Sheffield 29 Shepway 14 Shrewsbury and Atcham 12 Slough 16 Solihull 13 South Bedfordshire 11 South Buckinghamshire 9 South Cambridgeshire 9 South Derbyshire 10 South Hams 10 South Herefordshire 9 South Holland 11 South Kesteven 14 South Lakeland 9 South Norfolk 10 South Northants 9 679W
per cent. South Oxfordshire 9 South Ribble 9 South Shropshire 12 South Somerset 16 South Staffordshire 10 South Tyneside 33 South Wight 11 Southampton 19 Southend on Sea 14 Southwark 28 Spelthorne 8 St. Albans 9 St. Edmundsbury 12 St. Helens 21 Stafford 11 Staffordshire Moorlands 7 Stevenage 19 Stockport 13 Stockton on Tees 21 Stoke on Trent 19 Stratford-on-Avon 10 Stroud 10 Suffolk Coastal 9 Sunderland 30 Surrey Heath 6 Sutton 12 Swale 12 Tameside 19 Tamworth 18 Tandridge 8 Taunton Deane 14 Teesdale 12 Teignbridge 11 Tendring 9 Test Valley 10 Tewkesbury 9 Thamesdown 13 Thanet 14 The Wrekin 20 Three Rivers 11 Thurrock 17 Tonbridge and Mailing 11 Torbay 14 Torridge 11 Tower Hamlets 40 Trafford 11 Tunbridge Wells 10 Tynedale 12 Uttlesford 8 Vale of White Horse 8 Vale Royal 12 Wakefield 23 Walsall 25 Waltham Forest 18 Wandsworth 24 Wansbeck 27 Wansdyke 10 Warrington 16 Warwick 13 Watford 13 Waveney 17 Waverley 10 Wealden 6 Wear Valley 25 Wellingborough 16 Welwyn Hatfield 16 West Devon 11 West Dorset 11 West Lancashire 20 West Lindsey 13 West Norfolk 13 West Oxfordshire 9 West Somerset 14 West Wiltshire 11 Westminster 21 Weymouth and Portland 15 Wigan 19 Winchester 12 680W
per cent. Windsor and Maidenhead 11 Wirral 19 Woking 9 Wokingham 5 Wolverhampton 28 Woodspring 10 Worcester 15 Worthing 10 Wychavon 10 Wycombe 9 Wyre 8 Wyre Forest 13 York 19 Aberconwy 14 Alyn and Deeside 13 Arfon 23 Blaenau Gwent 27 Brecknock 12 Cardiff 22 Carmarthen 13 Ceredigion 13 Colwyn 16 Cynon Valley 21 Delyn 16 Dinefwr 14 Dwyfor 15 Glyndwr 14 Islwyn 18 Llanelli 20 Lliw Valley 17 Meirionnydd 14 Merthyr Tydfil 29 Monmouth 11 Montgomery 11 Neath 20 Newport 24 Ogwr 17 Port Talbot 23 Preseli 17 Radnor 12 Rhondda 19 Rhuddlan 17 Rhymney Valley 24 South Pembrokeshire 17 Swansea 23 Taff-Ely 17 Torfaen 24 Vale of Glamorgan 15 Wrexham Maelor 21 Ynys Mon 18 Aberdeen 19 Angus 17 Annandale and Eskdale 16 Argyll-Bute 19 Badenoch 16 Banff and Buchan 16 Bearsden and Milngavie 6 Berwickshire 16 Caithness 18 Clackmannan 37 Clydebank 36 Clydesdale 20 Cumbernauld 26 Cumnock and Doon 30 Cunninghame 26 Dumbarton 23 Dundee 32 Dunfermline 21 East Kilbride 19 East Lothian 21 Eastwood 5 Edinburgh 22 Ettrick and Lauderdale 14 Falkirk 25 Glasgow 42 Gordon 9 Hamilton 28 Inverclyde 31
per cent. Inverness 24 Kilmarnock 28 Kincardine and Deeside 7 Kirkcaldy 26 Kyle and Carrick 21 Lochaber 19 Midlothian 16 Monklands 38 Moray 16 Motherwell 33 Nairn 16 Nithsdale 17 North East Fife 25 Orkney 11 Perth and Kinross 15 Renfrew 25 Ross and Cromarty 19 Roxburgh 18 Shetland 12 Skye and Lochalsh 15 Stewartry 14 Stirling 21 Strathkelvin 14 Sutherland 17 Tweeddale 14 West Lothian 23 Western Isles 11 Wigtown 25 1 Percentages for England and Wales refer to 1990; Scottish figures refer to 1991. Sources:
Caseload figures from Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit Management Information System caseload counts for 1990 and 1991, including estimates for non responding authorities.
Number of Households from the Building Research Establishment and the Scottish Office.