§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 30 March 2000,Official Report, column 269W, what is the reason for the difference between the cited average saving of £13,000 per year per local authority from the non-redirection of benefit post, and the figures given by his Department in the supplementary memorandum submitted to the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 1998–99, HC643-i, Appendix 2. [118322]
§ Angela EagleThe figures quoted in the supplementary memorandum to the Committee for Public Accounts was based on a pilot of the Royal Mail "do not redirect" scheme which was carried out over a four week period in 1997 in two local authorities. Benefit savings directly attributable to "do not redirect" for around £200,000 were recorded during the pilot. However, our latest estimate which is based on a telephone survey of a much larger sample of local authorities and involving a number of assumptions is that the average local authority will achieve savings of around £13,000 per year by operating this initiative.
The difference in savings can be attributed to a number of factors including:
publicity about the scheme having a deterrent effect on potential fraudsters;306Wthe introduction of a number of other anti-fraud initiatives between the pilot and full introduction of the scheme in February 1999 identifying, preventing and deterring fraud which would otherwise have been identified by "do not redirect"; andthe possibility that the pilot which was carried out over a short period of time and involved only two local authorities may have identified an unrepresentative number of fraudulent cases which has not been reflected in live running by a much larger group of authorities.We would expect the number of fraudulent cases identified and therefore the amount of savings achieved as a direct result of this initiative to continue to reduce as publicity increases and its deterrent effect becomes stronger.
§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the local authorities that are not using the Royal Mail 'do not redirect' service to counter housing benefit fraud. [118392]
§ Angela EagleThe Royal Mail have advised that as at 3 April, the 272 local authorities listed had implemented in full the Royal Mail 'do not redirect' service. Of the remaining 137 authorities, a number are preparing to implement the service and some are operating their own local arrangements. It would be inaccurate therefore to describe such authorities as not operation 'do not redirect'.
- Aberdeen
- Aberdeenshire
- Adur
- Allerdale
- Alnwick
- Amber Valley
- Angus
- Ashfield
- Ashford
- Aylesbury Vale
- Babergh
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Basildon
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bassetlaw
- Bath and North East Somerset
307W - Berwick Upon Tweed
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blaby
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blyth Valley
- Bolton
- Boston
- Bournemouth
- Bracknell Forest
- Bradford
- Braintree
- Brent
- Brentwood
- Bridgend
- Bridgnorth
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- Bromsgrove
- Broxtowe
- Caerphilly
- Calderdale
- Cambridge
- Camden
- Cannock Chase
- Canterbury
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Castle Morpeth
- Cheltenham
- Cherwell
- Chester
- Chesterfield
- Chichester
- Chiltern
- Chorley
- Christchurch
- City of London
- Clackmannanshire
- Western Isles
- Congleton
- Conwy
- Corby
- Cotswold
- Craven
- Crawley
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Croydon
- Dacorum
- Daventry
- Denbighshire
- Derby
- Derbyshire Dales
- Doncaster
- Dover
- Dundee
- Durham
- East Cambridgeshire
308W - East Hampshire
- East Lindsey
- East Lothian
- East Northamptonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Eastbourne
- Edinburgh
- Epping Forest
- Fareham
- Fenland
- Fife
- Forest Heath
- Forest of Dean
- Fylde
- Gedling
- Glasgow
- Gloucester
- Gosport
- Greenwich
- Guildford
- Hackney
- Halton
- Hambleton
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harlow
- Harrogate
- Harrow
- Hart
- Hartlepool
- Hastings
- Havant
- Herefordshire
- Hertsmere
- High Peak
- Hillingdon
- Horsham
- Hounslow
- Ipswich
- Islington
- Kennet
- Kerrier
- Kingston upon Hull
- Kirklees
- Lancaster
- Lewes
- Lewisham
- Lichfield
- Lincoln
- Liverpool
- Luton
- Macclesfield
- Maldon
- Manchester
- Melton
- Mendip
- Merton
- Mid Bedfordshire
309W - Mid Suffolk
- Mid Sussex
- Middlesbrough
- Midlothian
- Monmouth
- Neath Port Talbot
- New Forest
- Newark and Sherwood
- Newcastle Under Lyme
- Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Newham
- North Ayrshire
- North Cornwall
- North Devon
- North Dorset
- North East Derbyshire
- North Kesteven
- North Lanarkshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Wiltshire
- Northampton
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Oldham
- Orkney Islands
- Oswestry
- Oxford
- Pembrokeshire
- Poole
- Portsmouth
- Preston
- Purbeck
- Reading
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Redditch
- Reigate and Banstead
- Renfrewshire
- Restormel
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Ribble Valley
- Richmond Upon Thames
- Richmondshire
- Rochdale
- Rochford
- Rossendale
- Rother
- Rotherham
- Runnymede
- Rushcliffe
- Rushmoor
- Rutland
- Ryedale
- Salisbury
- Scarborough
- Scottish Borders
- Sedgefield
- Sedgemoor
- Selby
- Sevenoaks
- Shepway
- Shetland Islands
310W - Shrewsbury and Atcham
- Slough
- Solihull
- South Buckinghamshire
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Hams
- South Holland
- South Lanarkshire
- South Norfolk
- South Oxfordshire
- South Ribble
- South Somerset
- South Staffs
- South Tyneside
- Southampton
- Southend on Sea
- Spelthorne
- St. Albans
- St. Helens
- Stafford
- Staffordshire
- Stevenage
- Stirling
- Stockport
- Stoke on Trent
- Stratford Upon Avon
- Stroud
- Sunderland
- Surrey Heath
- Swansea
- Tameside
- Tamworth
- Tandridge
- Taunton Deane
- Teesdale
- Telford and Wrekin
- Tendring
- Test Valley
- Tewkesbury
- Thanet
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Tonbridge and Mailing
- Torbay
- Torridge
- Trafford
- Tynedale
- Uttlesford
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Vale of the White Horse
- Vale Royal
- Wakefield
- Waltham Forest
- Warrington
- Warwick
- Waveney
- Waverley
- Wealden
- Wear Valley
- Welwyn Hatfield
311W - West Berkshire
- West Lancashire
- West Lothian
- West Oxfordshire
- West Wiltshire
- Wigan
- Winchester
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wirral
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Worthing
- Wrexham
- Wychavon
- Wyre
- Wyre Forest
- York.
Scheme Contract start and end date Contract price (£) Centrica 1 December 1998 to 30 September 1999 142,000 Disability Matters 1 February 1999 to 31 January 2000 559,066 Status Employment 1 January 1999 to 31 December 1999 132,306 WECIL 1 December 1998 to 31 January 2000 190,970 Manchester TEC 1 November 1998 to 31 March 2000 192,905 Thurso 1 September 1998 to 31 March 2000 30,500 Grimsby 1 December 1998 to 31 March 2000 112,000 RNIB I December 1998 to 31 March 2000 308,351 Leonard Cheshire 1 August 1998 to 30 June 2000 256,900 Libra Health 1 October 1998 to 31 May 2000 306,270 Edinburgh University 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000 145,980 Shaw Trust 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000 239,406 Scout Enterprises 19 July 1999 to 18 July 2000 182,370 Dundee City Council 1 August 1999 to 31 July 2000 119,500 NSF 1 August 1999 to 31 July 2000 169,374 RNID 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2000 212,070 Rehab UK I September 1999 to 31 August 2000 299,900 Mental Health Matters 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2000 212,633 Mencap 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2000 204,919 St. Loye's 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2000 231,930 Bradford 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2000 164,000 Wigan and Leigh 1 September 1999 to 31 August 2000 132,749 Prince's Trust 1 December 1999 to 31 January 2000 162,661 Solotec 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2000 144,000
§ Mr. PicklesTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many innovative schemes established as part of the New Deal for the Disabled there are in(a) each constituency, (b) each local authority and (c) each county. [118598]
Scheme Area Thurso North Scotland (Highland) WECIL Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset Leonard Cheshire Foundation-National Centrica North West England Status Employment Croydon/South London Disability Matters Hampshire Manchester TEC Manchester Libra Health East and West Midlands Grimsby College Grimsby and North East Lincolnshire RNIB Avon/Wiltshire, West Midlands and Wales Edinburgh University Lothians and Fife (within daily travelling distance) Support Shop Ltd. Thames Valley R.N.I.D. Bristol, Derby, Doncaster, Cardiff, North Wales, Glasgow, Manchester and London Rehab U.K. London, Birmingham and Glasgow Mencap Gateshead, Leeds and Scotland Dundee City Council Dundee, Perth and Arbroath