HC Deb 16 July 2003 vol 409 cc428-9W
John Barrett

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much money was claimed in disability living allowance in Scotland in 2002–03, broken down by local authority. [125555]

Maria Eagle

The information is in the table.

Disability living allowance: estimated expenditure in Scotland in the financial year, April 2002 to March 2003, by local authority area
£ million
Local authority Expenditure
Aberdeen City 25
Aberdeenshire 25
Angus 12
Argyll and Bute 10
The Scottish Borders 11
Clackmannanshire 9
West Dumbartonshire 19
Dumfries and Galloway 22
[Dundee City 24
East Ayrshire 21
East Dumbartonshire 12
East Lothian 13
East Renfrewshire 8
City of Edinburgh 53
Falkirk 23
Fife 54
Glasgow City 140
Highland 24
Inverclyde 16
Midlothian 14
Moray 8
North Ayrshire 23
North Lanarkshire 70
Orkney Islands 2
Perth and Kinross 13
Renfrewshire 31
Shetland Isles 2
South Ayrshire 17
South Lanarkshire 54
Stirling 13
West Lothian 27
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 3
Total Scotland 800

Notes:

  1. 1. Expenditure has been assigned to local authority areas by matching postcodes against the relevant Office of National Statistics postcode directory.
  2. 2. Figures are based on a 5 per cent. sample and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
  3. 3. Because of relatively small sample sizes at local authority level, the figures are subject to a greater margin of error than would be associated with national level expenditure estimates; all results are rounded to the nearest £1 million, but may not be accurate to this level.
  4. 4. Totals may not sum due to rounding.

Source:

Information and Analysis Directorate, GB estimated outturn expenditure for 2002–03 apportioned using local authority data from the DLA Quarterly Statistical Enquiry.