§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many pensioners in the Tooting parliamentary constituency(a) qualified for the Winter Fuel Payment in 2000 and (b) qualified for the Minimum Income Guarantee; and if he will make a statement. [144578]
§ Mr. RookerAround 11 million Winter Fuel Payments have already been made this winter and the latest information shows that around 11,300 payments were made in Tooting to those entitled.
There are around 2 million pensioners, as singles and couples, who benefit from the minimum income guarantee, of whom around 2,700 live in the Tooting parliamentary constituency.
Notes:
- 1. Figures for minimum income guarantee are based on a 5 per cent. sample and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling error.
- 2. Pensioners are define1 as where the claimant, and/or partner are aged 60 or over.
- 3. Figures for Minimum Income Guarantee are rounded to the nearest hundred.
- 4. Minimum Income Guarantee cases are allocated to each parliamentary constituency by matching the postcode against the 2000 version 1 ONS Postcode Directory.
- 5. Constituency information represents constituency boundaries as at May 1997.
Source:
Income Support Quarterly Statistical Enquiry, August 2000