§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the proportion of parents with care in receipt of income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance and corresponding benefits in earlier years, who were in receipt of child maintenance in(a) 1979, (b) 1993, (c) 1997 and (d) the latest year for which figures are available. [71036]
§ Malcolm WicksThe available information is set out in the table below. No reliable estimates for parents with care, on a comparable basis to those for 1997 and 2002, are available for 1979 and 1993. Figures for 1997 and 2002 are for parents with are with a full maintenance assessment.
Year Caseload1 ('000) %receiving maintenance (income-related benefits2/tax credits) 19971 345 40 20021 654 40 Notes:
1Information based on the Child Support Quarterly Summary of Statistics, for February in each of the years, which is a 5 per cent. sample of all "live and assessed" cases on the Child Support Computer System.
2Income-related benefits covered are Income Support and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, for both years, and Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance for 1997 only.
§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of benefit claimants receive their benefits by automated credit transfer, broken down by parliamentary constituency, at the latest date for which figures are available. [74720]
§ Malcolm WicksThe information is not available in the format requested. Statistical information that is readily available, can only be provided by individual benefit for each parliamentary constituency. This information has been placed in the library.