§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow), on 14 January 2002,Official Report, column 43W on hospital stays, if he will provide corresponding estimates for 2000–01 for other benefits affected by the rules; and if he will provide a breakdown in each case between pensioners and non-pensioners. [28676]
§ Mr. McCartneyThe information requested is in the table:
Million Working age Pension age Total reduction Total reduction in benefit due to 6–52 weeks hospital downrating Incapacity benefit 6 n/a 6 Severe disablement allowance 3 0 4 Total reduction in benefit due to 52 weeks hospital downrating Incapacity benefit 8 n/a 8 Severe disablement allowance 19 *2 21 Total reduction in benefit due to benefit being withdrawn after 4 weeks in hospital Disability living allowance 10 22 32 Attendance allowance n/a 80 80 Invalid care allowance 3 0 3 Notes:
1. The information has been obtained from a number of administrative sources and a number of assumptions have been made, ie numbers marked * are taken from a small number of sample cases and are subject to a relatively high sampling error and should only be used as an indication of the current situation and it has been assumed that figures in a given quarter remain constant throughout the year.
2. Figures are rounded to the nearest million so total may not sum.
3. It is not possible to provide accurate total reductions for income support, housing benefit, or council tax benefit.