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Social Fund: Greater London

Volume 459: debated on Tuesday 17 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total current unrecovered Social Fund debt is; and what the figure is for (a) London and (b) each office in London. (131211)

The information is in the following table:

Social fund debt balances

£000

Budgeting loan

Crisis loan

Funeral payment

Total

National

601,339

205,910

99,081

906,329

Total London

86,872

28,882

19,131

134,885

London offices

Canning Town

12,380

3,831

3,015

19,226

Bexley

2

0

0

2

Acton

7,768

4,942

1,715

14,426

Highgate

7,931

3,557

1,606

13,095

SE London

19,749

5,747

3,304

28,799

Ilford

9,038

1,653

1,607

12,298

Harrow

7,904

2,976

3,280

14,161

Balham

12,414

4,781

2,555

19,750

Wood Green

1

1

0

1

Barnet Hill

9,685

1 ,395

2,048

13,127

Notes:

1. Balances have been taken as at 28 February 2007.

2. London has been defined as all offices within the London Government office region.

3. Totals may not appear as sum of the individual lines due to rounding.

Source:

Social Fund Computer System.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much Social Fund debt was written off in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the figure was for London in each year. (131213)

The information is in the following table.

Social fund debts written off 2001-02 to 2005-06, nationally and for London

£000

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

National

Budgeting loans

1,486

1,463

1,234

1,315

2,060

Crisis loans

448

463

120

551

922

Funeral payments

32,035

31,081

25,587

37,991

41,867

Total

33,970

33,007

26,940

39,857

44,850

London

Budgeting loans

155

96

123

41

320

Crisis loans

62

44

28

16

130

Funeral payments

2,949

3,406

1,365

2,541

2,511

Total

3,165

3,546

1,516

2,598

2,961

Notes:

1. London has been defined as all offices within the London Government office region as at 30 March 2007.

2. Totals may not appear as sum of the individual lines due to rounding.

Source:

Programme Accounting Computer System.