HC Deb 22 July 2002 vol 389 cc814-5W
Annabelle Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many recipients of Disability Living Allowance there are aged under 16 years broken down by local authority in Scotland; [69540]

(2) how many recipients of awards of Disability Living Allowance are also in receipt of Child Benefit, broken down by local authority in Scotland. [69541]

Maria Eagle

The available information, which refers to 30 November 2001, is in the table. Figures for the numbers of people in Scotland who receive both Disability Living Allowance and Child Benefit exclude cases where different members of a family receive the Disability Living Allowance and Child Benefit.

Number of people in Scotland who receive both Disability Living Allowance and Child Benefit Number of Disability Living Allowance recipients aged under 16 in Scotland
All Scotland 16,400 21,300
Aberdeen City 400 800
Aberdeenshire 600 1,000
Angus 200 300
Argyll and Bute 200 300
The Scottish Borders 300 400
Clackmannanshire 200 100
West Dunbartonshire 300 400
Dumfries and Galloway 400 500
Dundee City 500 700
East Ayrshire 400 500
East Dunbartonshire 100 300
East Lothian 300 300
East Renfrewshire 200 300
City of Edinburgh 1,200 1,500
Falkirk 400 700
Fife 900 1,600

Number of people in Scotland who receive both Disability Living Allowance and Child Benefit Number of Disability Living Allowance recipients aged under 16 in Scotland
Glasgow City 3,000 3,100
Highland 500 900
Inverclyde 300 400
Midlothian 200 500
Moray 200 400
North Ayrshire 500 500
North Lanarkshire 1,500 1,700
Orkney Islands
Perth and Kinross 200 400
Renfrewshire 400 800
Shetland Islands 100
South Ayrshire 200 300
South Lanarkshire 1,400 1,200
Stirling 300 300
West Lothian 800 900
Cornhairle nan Eilean Siar 100

Note

Figures under 500 are subject to a high degree of sampling variation, and '—' denotes nil or negligible.

Source

ASD Information Centre, figures taken from a 5 per cent. sample and rounded to the nearest 100.