§ Mr. Liddell-GraingerTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of(a) households and (b) people in receipt of means-tested benefits [186545]
§ Mr. PondThe information is in the table.
Income related benefit recipients, Great Britain: May 2002 Income-related benefit recipients
Claimants 6,250,000 Total adult beneficiaries 7,440,000 Total beneficiaries 10,330,000 Notes:
- 1. The figures are based en 1 per cent. and 5 per cent. samples and are therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation.
- 2. Due to the procedure used to remove overlaps between the figures, the figures are rounded to the nearest ten thousand.
- 3. Council tax benefit data excludes any Second Adult Rebate cases.
1741W - 4. Housing benefit data excludes any Extended Payments.
- 5. Income related benefits are classed as income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit.
- 6. "Claimants" are benefit units in which the customer and/or partner are in receipt of income related benefits.
- 7. "Total adult beneficiaries" refers to the sum of all customers and partners in receipt of income related benefits.
- 8. "Total beneficiaries" refers to the sum of all customers, partners and dependants in receipt of income related benefits.
- 9. Benefit units may be a single person, couple or family.
- 10. Overlaps between benefits have been removed.
Source:
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Management Information System, Annual 1 per cent. sample, taken in May 2002. DWP Information Centre, per cent., sample (IS/JSA).