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Incapacity Benefit

Volume 454: debated on Monday 4 December 2006

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Mr. David Hamilton

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Midlothian were claiming incapacity benefit at November 2006. (104537)

Mrs. McGuire

May 2006 is the latest available data. The number of incapacity benefit (IB) and severe disablement allowance (SDA) claimants at 31 May 2006 in the Midlothian parliamentary constituency was 4,220.

Notes:

1. IB figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Claimant figures include all IB and SDA (including IB credits only cases).

3. Parliamentary constituencies are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant postcode directory.

Source:

DWP Information Directorate, Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. Data.

Harry Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Redbridge and (b) Waltham Forest are in receipt of incapacity benefit; and how many of these people have been in receipt of incapacity benefit for (i) up to one year, (ii) one to two years, (iii) two to five years and (iv) over five years. (103577)

Mrs. McGuire

The information is in the following table.

Number of incapacity benefit/severe disablement allowance claimants in local authorities of Waltham Forest and Redbridge (up to May 2006)

Local authority

All

Up to one year

One year and up to two years

Two years and up to five years

Five years and over

Waltham Forest

10,110

1,580

940

2,300

5,290

Redbridge

9,280

1,450

960

2,150

4,730

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Totals may not sum due to rounding.

Source:

DWP Information Directorate