HC Deb 22 January 1993 vol 217 cc426-30W
Mr. Illsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the local authorities which operate(a) a total disregard, (b) a partial disregard and (c) no disregard, other than the statutory minimum of war pensions for housing and community charge benefit.

Miss Widdecombe

The information requested, as reported by local authorities in the financial year 1990–91, is in the following tables.

Local authorities operating a total disregard scheme for both war disablement and war widows' pensions
Aberconwy Aberdeen1
Allerdale Amber Valley3
Angus1 Annandale1
Arfon Argyll-Bute1
Arun Ashfield
Ashford Badenoch1
Banff and Buchan1 Basingstoke
Bassetlaw Bearsden and Milngavie1
Berwickshire1 Birmingham
Blackpool Blaenau Gwent
Borders2 Boston
Bracknell Bradford
Braintree Brent
Brentwood Brighton
Broxbourne Broxtowe
Burnley Caithness1
Calderdale Cardiff
Carlisle Carrick
Castle Point Central2
Ceredigion Charnwood
Chelmsford Cheltenham
Cherwell Chesterfield
Chiltern Christchurch
Clackmannan1 Clydebank1
Clydesdale1 Colwyn
Congleton Copeland
Cotswold Coventry
Craven Crewe and Nantwich
Cumbernauld (D.C.)1 Cumbernauld (Kils.)1
Cumnock and Doon1 Cunninghame1
Dacorum Dartford
Daventry Delyn
Dumbarton1 Dumfries and Galloway2
Dundee1 Dunfermline1
Ealing East Cambridgeshire
East Devon East Dorset (Wimb.)
East Hertfordshire East Kilbride1
East Kilbride (D.C.)1 Eastleigh
East Lothian1 Eastwood1
East Yorkshire Eden
Edinburgh1 Ellesmere Port
Elmbridge Epping Forest
Epsom and Ewell Erewash
Ettrick and Lauderdale1 Falkirk1
Fife2 Forest Heath
Forest of Dean Gedling
Gillingham Glanford
Glasgow1 Glenrothes1
Gloucester Glyndwr
Gordon1 Gosport
Grampian2 Great Yarmouth
Guildford Hackney
Halton Hamilton1
Hammersmith Harborough
Harlow Harrow3
Hartlepool Hereford
Hertsmere Highland2
Hinchley and Bosworth Horsham
Hounslow Hove
Huntingdon Hyndburn
Inverclyde1 Inverness1
Ipswich Irvine (D.C.)1
Isle of Scilly Islington
Islwyn Kennet
Kensington and Chelsea Kilmarnock1
Kincardine and Deeside1 Kingswood
Kirklees Kyle and Carrick1
Lambeth Lancaster
Langbaurgh Leicester
Lewes Lewisham3
Lichfield Liverpool
Livingston (D.C.)1 Llanelli
Lochaber1 Lothian2
Luton Macclesfield
Maidstone Maldon
Mansfield Medina
Melton Mendip
Merton Mid Bedfordshire
Midlothian1 Mid Suffolk
Mid Sussex Milton Keynes
Mole Valley Monklands1
Montgomery Moray1
Motherwell1 Nairn1
Neath Newark
Newbury Newcastle-under-Lyme
Nithsdale1 Northampton
Northavon North Bedfordshire
North Cornwall North East Derby
North East Fife1 North Hertfordshire
North Kesteven North Shropshire3
North Tyneside North Warwickshire
North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire
Nottingham Nuneaton
Ogwr Orkney
Perth and Kinross1 Peterborough
Purbeck Radnor
Redbridge Redditch
Reigate and Banstead Renfrew1
Rhuddlan Richmondshire
Richmond-upon-Thames Rochester on Medway
Rochford Ross and Cromarty1
Rossendale3 Rother
Roxburgh1 Rugby
Rushcliffe Rushmoor
Rutland Salford
Sandwell Scottish Homes1
Scunthorpe Sedgefield
Sefton Selby
Sevenoaks Shetland
Skye and Lochalsh1 Slough
Solihull South Bedfordshire
South Bucks South Cambridgeshire
South Derbyshire Southend on Sea
South Holland South Kesteven4
South Lakeland South Northants
South Oxfordshire South Ribble
South Shropshire South Staffordshire
South Tyneside Southwark
South Wight Spelthorne
Staffs. Moorlands St. Albans
Stewartry1 St. Helens
Stirling1 Stockport
Stoke on Trent Stratford on Avon
Strathkelvin1 Stroud
Suffolk Coastal Sutherland1
Sutton Swale
Tameside Tamworth
Tandridge Tayside2
Tendring Test Valley
Tewesbury Thanet
The Wrekin Three Rivers
Tower Hamlets Trafford
Tweeddale1 Vale of White Horse
Wakefield Walsall
Waltham Forest Wandsworth
Wansbeck Wansdyke
Watford Waverley
Wellingborough4 Western Isles
West Lothian1 Westminster
West Oxfordshire West Wiltshire
Wigtown1 Winchester
Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral
Wokingham Wolverhampton
Woodspring Worthing
Wycombe

Local authorities operating a total disregard scheme for war disablement pensions only
Bath Blaby
Blackburn5 Bolton
Bromley Bury
Cambridge Corby
Doncaster Dudley5

East Staffordshire Exeter
Grimsby Hambleton
Havering Middlesbrough
Newport Oldham
Ribble Valley5 Southampton5
South Somerset5 Stevenage
Stockton on Tees Torbay
Torfaen Tunbridge Wells
Vale Royal5 York

Local authorities operating a total disregard scheme for war widows' pensions only
Castle Morpeth Chester
Kirkaldy1 6 Monmouth6
Thurrock6

Local authorities operating a partial disregard scheme for war pensions
Adur Aylesbury Vale
Barking8 Barnet
Beverley Bournemouth
Breckland Bromsgrove
Camden Canterbury
Chichester Chorley
Crawley Darlington7
Derby7 Derbyshire Dales
Dover East Hampshire
Fareham Fenland
Hastings10 Havant
Holderness Kingston upon Thames
Knowsley Lincoln
Lliw Valley Malvern Hills
Meirrionnydd New Forest
North Dorset Penwith9
Poole Portsmouth
Preseli Preston
Reading Rochdale
Rhondda Salisbury
Scarborough South Norfolk
South Pembrokeshire Swansea
Teignbridge Thamesdown7
Tonbridge and Malling7 Vale of Glamorgan
Wealden West Norfolk
Wigan Worcester

Local authorities not operating a local scheme for war disablement and war widows' pensions
Alnwick Alyn and Deeside
Babergh Barnsley
Barrow-in-Furness Basildon
Basildon (D.C.)1 Berwick-upon-Tweed
Bexley Blythe Valley
Bolsover Boothferry
Brecknock Bridgnorth
Bristol Broadland
Cannock Chase Caradon
Carmarthen Chester-le-Street
City of London Cleethorpes
Colchester Corby New Town1
Croydon Cynon Valley
Derwentside Dinefwr
Durham Dwfor
Easington Eastbourne
East Lindsey East Northampton
Enfield Fylde
Gateshead Gravesham
Greenwich Haringey
Harrogate Hart
High Peak Hillingdon
Kerrier Kettering
Kingston-upon-Hull Leeds
Leominster Manchester
Merthyr Tydfil Mid Devon
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newham
North Devon North Norfolk
Norwich Oadby and Wigston
Oswestry Oxford
Pendle Plymouth
Port Talbot Restormel
Rhymney Valley Rotherham
Runnymede Rural Wales1
Ryedale Sedgemoor
Sheffield Shepway
Shrewsbury and Atcham South Hams
South Herefordshire Stafford
St. Edmundsbury Strathclyde2
Sunderland Surrey Heath
Taff-Ely Taunton Deane
Teesdale Telford1
Torridge Tynedale
Uttlesford Warrington
Warrington (D.C.)1 Warwick
Waveney Wear Valley
Welwyn Hatfield West Devon
West Dorset West Lancashire
West Lindsey West Somerset
Weymouth and Portland Woking
Wrexham Maelor Wychavon
Wyre Wyre Forrest
Ynys Môn
1 Denotes those authorities responsible for Housing Benefit only.
2 Denotes those authorities responsible for Community Charge Benefit only.
3 Denotes those authorities responsible for both benefits but who operate a scheme for Housing Benefit only.
4 Denotes those authorities responsible for both benefits but who operate a scheme for Community Charge Benefit only.
5 Denotes those authorities who operate a scheme to fully disregard war disablement pension and part of war widows' pension.
6 Denotes those authorities who operate a scheme to fully disregard war widows' pension and part of war disablement pension.
7 Denotes those authorities who operate a scheme to partially disregard war disablement pension only.
8 Denotes an authority which operates a scheme to partially disregard war pensions for Housing Benefit only.
9 Denotes an authority which operates a scheme to fully disregard war pensions for Housing Benefit rent rebates and partially disregard war pensions for Community Charge Benefit.
10 Denotes an authority which operates a scheme to fully disregard war pensions for Community Charge Benefit and partially disregard war pensions in Housing Benefit.