§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will list the number of claimants and the number of new claims of(a) disability living allowance care, (b) disability living allowance mobility, (c) attendance allowance and (d) long-term incapacity benefit in each year since 1992 in the Newcastle Benefits Agency District; and if she will estimate the age-distribution of claimants of these benefits in this district in the age bands (i) up to 30, (ii) 31 to 40, (iii) 41 to 50, (iv) 51 to 60 and (v) over 60 years. [22985]
§ Mr. DenhamThe administration of Social Security benefits is a matter for Peter Mathison, Chief Executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to my hon. Friend. In addition, some tables have been placed in the Library.
Letter from Peter Mathison to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 30 January 1998:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking for the number of claimants and the number of new claims of (a) Disability Living Allowance (DLA) care, (b) DLA mobility, (c) Attendance Allowance (AA) and (d) long term Incapacity Benefit (IB) in each year since 1992 in the Newcastle Benefits Agency District; and an estimation of the age distribution of claimants of these benefits in this district in the age bands (i) up to 30, (ii) 31 to 40, (iii) 40 to 50, (iv) 51 to 60 and (v) over 60 years.498WThe information is not available in the format requested. The new claim statistics for IB are bot available broken down into age bands. Statistics for AA are not available prior to February 1996.Such information as is available is shown in the attached tables.I hope you find this reply helpful.