§ 37. Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many pensioners in Rotherham are eligible for(a) the winter fuel allowance, (b) a free television licence for over-75-year-olds and (c) the minimum income guarantee; and if he will make a statement. [136145]
§ Mr. RookerThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table.
Statistics on pensioners in Rotherham at May 2000 Thousand Number Minimum Income Guarantee recipients1 2.8 Pensioners over 752,3 5.2 Winter Fuel Payments recipients in winter 1999–20004 13.4 1 Source: Income Support Statistics Quarterly Enquiry, May 2000 2 Source: Statistical samples held by ASD Information Centre —May 2000 3 Number of pensioner households who will receive free TV licences is not directly known, but from the Statistical Samples it is possible to produce data on the number of pensioners receiving one or a combination of RP, IS, AA, DLA, IB or SDA by parliamentary constituency and are aged 75 or over. 4 Source: Matching Intelligence Data Analysis Service Winter Fuels Payment 1999–2000 exercise. Notes:
- 1. All except Winter Fuels Payment data are based on 5 per cent. samples, therefore subject to sampling error.
- 2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
- 3. Cases are allocated to each parliamentary constituency by matching the postcode against the 2000 version 1 of the Postcode Directory supplied by ONS.