§ Miss Geraldine SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many pensioners in Morecambe and Lunesdale benefit from the minimum income guarantee; and what estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in the Morecambe and Lunesdale constituency who fail to claim the minimum income guarantee. [149132]
§ Mr. RookerThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is as follows:
There are around 2,800 recipients of the minimum income guarantee in the parliamentary constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale.
Notes:
1.Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling error.
2.Pensioners are defined as where the claimant, and/or partner are aged 60 or over.
3.Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
4.Cases are allocated to each parliamentary constituency by matching the postcode against the 2000 version 1 ONS Postcode Directory.
5.It is not possible to produce reliable estimates of numbers not claiming their entitlement at constituency level.
Source:
Income Support Quarterly Statistical Enquiry, August 2000.
§ Mrs. Curtis-ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people living in Crosby have benefited from the minimum income guarantee. [148333]
§ Mr. RookerThere are around 2,600 recipients of the minimum income guarantee in the parliamentary constituency of Crosby.
Notes:
1.Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling error.
2. Pensioners are defined as where the claimant, and/or partner are aged 60 or over.
3. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
365W4. Cases are allocated to each parliamentary constituency by matching the postcode against the 2000 version 1 ONS Postcode Directory.
Source:
Income Support Quarterly Statistical Enquiry, August 2000.