§ Mr. GroganTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people in the constituency of Selby have been in receipt of(a) Income Support, (b) Disability Living Allowance, (c) Incapacity Benefit, (d) Unemployment Benefit and (e) Housing Benefit in each of the last 10 years. [140243]
§ Angela EagleThe administration of benefits is a matter for Alexis Cleveland, the Chief Executive of the Benefits Agency. She will write to my hon. Friend.
Letter from Alexis Cleveland to Mr. John Grogan, dated 28 November 2000:
The Secretary of State for Social Security has asked Alexis Cleveland to respond to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people in the constituency of Selby have been in receipt of (a) income support, (b) disability living allowance. (c) incapacity benefit, (d) unemployment benefit and (e) housing benefit in each of the last 10 years. Due to annual leave I ani replying on her behalf.
The data is not available in the requested format however the information that is available is supplied in the attached tables. Data has also been provided for the Local Authority of Selby, as figures at Constituency level are only available from 1998.
I hope this is helpful.
(a) Income Support Year Selby local authority Selby constituency May 1992 3,200 — 1993 3,100 — 1994 3,400 — 1995 3,500 — 1996 3,000 — 1997 2,800 — 1998 2,700 3,200 1999 2,700 3,200 2000 3,000 3,400 Notes:
1. Constituency information represents constituency boundaries as at May 1997.
2. Parliamentary constituency data are only available from 1998 onwards.
3. The numbers are based on a 5 per cent. sample data and are rounded to the nearest hundred.
4. Jobseeker's Allowance replaced Unemployment Benefit and Income Support for the unemployed from October 1996.
5. There were changes in the boundaries covering Selby local authority during May 1995.
6. Local authority figures are unavailable before 1992.
Source:
Income Support Statistics Quarterly Enquiries, May 1992—May 2000 (5 per cent. samples)
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(b) Disability Living Allowance Year Selby local authority Selby constituency May 1993 1,400 — 1994 1,200 — 1995 1,500 — 1996 1,600 — 1997 1,700 — 1998 1,770 2,054 1999 1,845 2,145 2000 1,916 2,219 Notes:
1. Constituency information represents constituency boundaries as at May 1997.
2. Parliamentary constituency data are only available from 1998 onwards.
3. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample apart from 1998, 1999 and 2000, which are based on 100 per cent. data and are not rounded.
4. There were changes in the boundaries covering Selby local authority during May 1995
Sources:
Information Centre sample data (DLA) May 1993-May 1997 (5 per cent. samples)
Information Centre sample data (DLA) May 1998-May 2000 (100 per cent. data)
(c) Incapacity Benefit Year Selby local authority Selby constituency May 1995 2,100 — 1996 2,100 — 1997 2,100 — 1998 2,200 2,400 1999 2,000 2,200 2000 2,000 2,200 Notes:
1. Constituency information represents constituency boundaries as at May 1997.
2. Parliamentary constituency data are only available from 1998 onwards.
3. Incapacity Benefit figures exclude a small number of cases held clerically.
4. The numbers are based on 5 per cent. sample data and are rounded to the nearest hundred.
5. There were changes in the boundaries covering Selby local authority during May 1995.
Source:
Incapacity Benefit: Figures are taken from 5 per cent. samples of the benefit computer system.
(d) Unemployment Benefit/Jobseeker's Allowance Year Selby local authority Selby constituency November 1996 1,900 — May 1997 1,700 — May 1998 1,500 1,700 May 1999 1,100 1,300 May 2000 900 1,000 Notes:
1. Constituency information represents constituency boundaries as at May 1997.
2. Parliamentary constituency data are only available from 1998 onwards.
3. Jobseeker's Allowance replaced Unemployment Benefit and Income Support for the unemployed from October 1996.
4. Jobseeker's Allowance numbers include claimants receiving either Income-based and/or contribution-based JSA and claimants receiving no benefit, but sign for National Insurance credits only.
5. Estimates for local authority areas or parliamentary constituency are not available for Unemployment Benefit.
6. The figures are based on 5 per cent. sample data and are rounded to the nearest hundred.
703W7. There were changes in the boundaries covering Selby local authority during May 1995.
8. Care should be taken when using the figure for November 1996 due to the seasonal nature of unemployment. This is the first available data for JSA, which was introduced in October 1996.
Source:
Jobseeker's Allowance Statistics Quarterly Enquiries, November 1966-May 2000 (5 per cent. samples)
(e) Housing Benefit Year Selby local authority May 1992 3,560 1993 2,660 1994 2,790 1995 3,640 1996 3,400 1997 3,390 1998 3,200 1999 3,360 2000 3,060 Notes:
1. Parliamentary constituency data are unavailable for Housing Benefit.
2. Housing Benefit figures are rounded to the nearest ten.
3. Housing Benefit figures are based on 100 per cent data.
4. Housing Benefit data refers to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple.
5. Housing Benefit figures exclude Extended Payment cases, which were only available from May 1997.
6. There were changes in the boundaries covering Selby local authority during May 1995.
Source:
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit quarterly 100 per cent. caseload counts.