§ Mr. GillTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the age-related demographic factors used in setting SSAs. [123296]
§ Ms Beverley HughesA wide range of indicators is used in working out Standard Spending Assessments. The following age-related demographic factors were used in calculations for the 2000–01 settlement:
- Resident population aged 0–4; 5–10; 11–15 11+; 16–24; 0–17; 18–64; 65+; 75–84; 85+
- Household residents aged 65+; 75–84; 85+
- Pupils aged 4; 5–10; 11–15; 16+
- Resident pupils aged 5–10; 11–15
- Children of lone parents
- Children of Income Support/income-based Jobseeker's Allowance claimants
- Country of birth indicator; proportion of household residents under 16 years of age who were born outside the UK and whose head of household was born outside the UK, the Irish Republic, USA or the Old Commonwealth
- Children in one adult households
- Children living in flats
- Children with limiting long-term illness
- Elderly in receipt of Income Support/income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Elderly in receipt of Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance
- Pensioners living in rented accommodation
- Pensioners not in a couple and not head of household
- Pensioners living alone
- >Elderly household residents with limiting long-term illness
- Elderly residents with limiting long-term illness
- Young male unemployment-related benefit claimants
- Income Support/income-based Jobseeker's Allowance claimants aged 18 to 64
- Standardised morbidity ratio 18 to 64
- Standardised mortality ratio (constructed using age banded data)
- The proportion of household residents living in a lone parent family with at least one dependent child.