§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what has been the cost of(a) unemployment benefit and (b) pensions as a percentage of the total services budget, in each year since 1997. [63171]
§ Mr. Nicholas BrownInformation is not held in the precise form requested. The Department accounts for its administrative and programme expenditure in accordance with its key objectives, which are published in the Department's Public Service Agreement (PSA), and the individual Requests for Resources (RfRs), which are published in the Main Estimate. Details of the total consumption of resources from 1998–99 onwards by areas now included within the Department for Work and Pensions, and of the amounts specific to people of working age and pensioners, are published in Table 1 of the DWP Departmental Report 2002–03 to 2003–04 (Cm 5424) which is available in the Library. Directly comparable figures for 1997–98 are not available.