To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether claimants with a disability who are receiving assistance with mortgage interest payments will retain that assistance if upon taking up a job they qualify for disability working allowance; and if he will make a statement.
Disability working allowance (DWA) will not include help with mortgage payments. However, no one will be obliged to claim and of those who choose to do so only a small number will be worse off than if they remained on income support. We estimate that about 10,000 DWA recipients will have mortgages and will be better off on DWA.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether employed status ET or YT trainees, or self-employed people, with a disability are eligible to claim disability working allowance; and if he will make a statement.
People with a disability who are self-employed or working for an employer, including those on employment training and youth training schemes with employed status, are eligible to claim disability working allowance if they work for 16 or more hours a week.
| Regions | Unemployed | Others | Part time work | Total |
| 1990 | 82,000 | 210,000 | 18,000 | 310,000 |
| North Eastern | 14,000 | 28,000 | 3,000 | 45,000 |
| London North | 14,000 | 35,000 | 2,000 | 51,000 |
| South Western | 6,000 | 17,000 | 2,000 | 25,000 |
| Wales | 4,000 | 19,000 | 2,000 | 26,000 |
| Midlands | 14,000 | 35,000 | 3,000 | 52,000 |
| North Western | 14,000 | 33,000 | 2,000 | 50,000 |
| Scotland | 5,000 | 9,000 | 1,000 | 14,000 |
| London South | 10,000 | 34,000 | 3,000 | 47,000 |
| 1989 | 84,000 | 179,000 | 17,000 | 281,000 |
| North Eastern | 16,000 | 26,000 | 2,000 | 45,000 |
| London North | 14,000 | 28,000 | 2,000 | 44,000 |
| South Western | 5,000 | 16,000 | 3,000 | 23,000 |
| Wales | 6,000 | 15,000 | 1,000 | 22,000 |
| Midlands | 12,000 | 29,000 | 2,000 | 44,000 |
| North Western | 16,000 | 32,000 | 4,000 | 52,000 |
| Scotland | 5,000 | 9,000 | 1,000 | 15,000 |
| London South | 9,000 | 24,000 | 2,000 | 35,000 |
Notes:
1. All figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.
2. Due to rounding the sum of individual entries may not equal the totals given.
3. The figures for part time work include relevant cases from both the unemployed and other groups.
Source: Annual Statistical Enquiries 1989 and 1990.
Figures for 1991 are not yet available.