HC Deb 30 November 2000 vol 357 cc861-3W
Mr. Webb

To 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 Eagle

The information has been placed in the Library.

Mr. Webb

To 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 Eagle

The information is in the table.

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. Webb

To 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 Eagle

The information is in the table.

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.