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Social Security

Volume 478: debated on Tuesday 8 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what account the calculation of the amount allocated to each Jobcentre Plus district for the payment of discretionary housing payments takes of average private rental prices (a) nationally and (b) in each Jobcentre Plus district; and if he will make a statement; (216058)

(2) how much was allocated to each Jobcentre Plus district in the UK for expenditure on (a) exceptional hardship payments and (b) exceptional circumstances payments in each year between 1991 and 2001; and if he will make a statement;

(3) how the amount allocated to Jobcentre Plus districts to pay (a) exceptional hardship payments and (b) exceptional circumstances payments was calculated; and if he will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave her on 1 July 2008, Official Report, column 821W.