HC Deb 11 April 2000 vol 348 cc142-3W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many workers in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne are receiving benefits under the Earnings Top-Up pilot; what is the value of these benefits; what numbers of(a) women and (b) men are receiving the top-up; how many of these women and men are working part-time and do not have the care of children; and when the benefit will cease. [117877]

Angela Eagle

The information is in the table.

The three-year Earnings Top-Up pilot began in October 1996 and finished as planned at the end of September this year. No new claims for Earnings Top-Up have been accepted since 28 September 1999. However, people in

Earnings top-up (ETU) cases in Newcastle upon Tyne by sex and weekly hours worked as at 31 March 2000
Weekly hours worked
All cases Under 30 hours 30 hours or more
Cases Average ETU (£) Cases Average ETU (£) Cases Average ETU (£)
All cases 1,781 26.98 1,176 25.36 605 30.13
All women 911 23.44 699 23.35 212 23.76
All men 870 30.68 477 28.30 393 33.57

Notes:

  1. 1. As Earnings Top-Up was a pilot of an in-work benefit for people without dependent children no one with the care of children would have been eligible for it. Such families would have been able to claim Working Families Tax Credit.
  2. 2. Based on 100 per cent. caseload figures.
  3. 3. Figures are unrounded.

Source:

Earnings Top-Up Statistical Enquiry, March 2000.