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Social Security Benefits: West Chelmsford

Volume 454: debated on Tuesday 12 December 2006

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Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many households in West Chelmsford constituency were in receipt of (a) housing benefit and (b) council tax benefit in each year since 1996; and how many of the recipients were (i) pensioners and (ii) non-pensioner households. (108105)

Mr. Plaskitt

The information is not available, as these figures are not produced below local authority area.

Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in West Chelmsford constituency were in receipt of incapacity benefit in each year since 1996. (108106)

Mrs. McGuire

The information is in the following table.

Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance claimants in the West Chelmsford constituency

Number

May

1996

2,200

1997

2,400

1998

2,100

1999

2,000

2000

2,040

2001

2,120

2002

2,240

2003

2,260

2004

2,360

2005

2,470

2006

2,430

Notes: 1. The parliamentary constituency figures for the years 1996 to 1999 have been produced using the 5 per cent. data and have been rated up proportionally using the Great Britain WPLS 100 per cent. IB/SDA totals. 2. From 1996 to 1999, figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. From 2000 onwards figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 3. “Claimant” figures include all IB and SDA (including IB credits only cases). Source: DWP Information Directorate, 5 per cent. Samples from 1996 to 1999 and Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data thereafter.