§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will set out the weekly benefit savings thresholds allocated to each local authority in(a) 1998–99, (b) 1999–2000 and (c) 2000–01. [141007]
§ Angela EagleThe information has been placed in the Library.
§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the local authorities that were allocated weekly benefit savings thresholds below £60,000 in(a) 1998–99, (b) 1999–2000 and (c) 2000–01. [141009]
§ Angela EagleThe information is in the table.
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Local authorities with weekly benefit savings thresholds below £60,000 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Alnwick yes yes yes Berwick-upon-Tweed yes yes yes Blaby yes yes yes Bridgnorth yes yes yes Bromsgrove no yes yes Castle Morpeth yes yes yes City of London yes yes yes Comhairle nan Eilean Siar yes yes yes Daventry yes no yes Derbyshire Dales yes yes yes Forest Heath yes yes yes Harborough yes yes yes Isles of Scilly yes yes yes Melton yes yes yes Oadby and Wigston yes yes yes Orkney yes yes yes Oswestry no yes yes Ribble Valley yes yes yes Richmondshire yes yes no Rutland yes yes yes
Local authorities with weekly benefit savings thresholds below £60,000 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Shetland yes yes yes South Bucks yes no no South Holland no no yes South Northants yes yes yes Teesdale yes yes yes Tynedale yes no no
§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will(a) list the local authorities that failed to meet at least 75 per cent. of their weekly benefit savings thresholds and (b) detail the penalties incurred by each of those local authorities in (i) 1998–99 and (ii) 1999–2000. [141008]
§ Angela EagleThe information is in the table.
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Local authorities that failed to meet at least 75 per cent. of their weekly benefit savings thresholds £ Authority name Penalties 1998–99 Penalties 1999–20001 Allerdale — 5,958 Aylesbury Vale — 1,648 Barnet 3,795 79,247 Basingstoke 4,589 — Breckland — 9,306 Brighton and Hove — 54,819 Bromley — 12,382 Canterbury 69,002 69,317 Ceredigion 84,200 40,941 Charnwood 44,384 16,847 Clackmannanshire 2,962 — Colchester — 47,927 Copeland — 37,998 Croydon — 48,854 Darlington — 8,673 Dundee — 33,634 East Devon — 39,882 East Hampshire — 3,678 Glasgow — 10,678 Greenwich — 12,388 Hackney 418,365 500,998 Hambleton — 6,195 Harrow 6,494 176,712 Hart — 16,459 Knowsley — 87,318 Leicester — 99,747 Mansfield 24,270 — Neath Port Talbot — 38,125 Newham — 335,293 North Ayrshire 100,060 — North Norfolk 16,854 — North Wiltshire — 9,461 Norwich 21,050 47,601 Plymouth — 53,196 Reading 105,580 — Renfrewshire 10,497 — Salisbury 69,644 13,357 Sandwell — 21,011 Scottish Homes 197,639 67,846 Sevenoaks — 23,356 Solihull — 7,912 South Ayrshire 39,905 — South Buckinghamshire — 168 South Gloucestershire — 11,468 South Norfolk 15,599 — Southend on Sea — 4,653 Southwark — 140,929
Local authorities that failed to meet at least 75 per cent. of their weekly benefit savings thresholds £ Authority name Penalties 1998–99 Penalties 1999–20001 Stevenage — 24,256 Suffolk Coastal — 2,520 Swansea 26,009 — Taunton Deane — 9,490 Tendring — 126,116 Waltham Forest — 13,075 Wandsworth 108,809 — Wealden 56,078 14,789 West Dunbartonshire 37,305 — West Lothian — 28,948 West Somerset — 2,339 Westminster — 120,211 Windsor and Maidenhead — 34,459 Wirral 421,401 142,853 1Figures for 1999/2000 are unaudited and are subject to change.