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Disability Living Allowance: Bexley

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 4 November 2008

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Mr. Evennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents of Bexleyheath and Crayford receive the (a) lower and (b) higher rate of the mobility component of the disability living allowance. (232285)

Jonathan Shaw

The available information is in the following table:

Disability living allowance: Cases in payment by mobility component type, Bexleyheath and Crayford parliamentary constituency, February 2008

Number

Highest rate

1,880

Lowest rate

1,050

Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Some additional disclosure control has been applied. 3. Totals show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and exclude people with entitlement where the payment has been suspended, for example if they are in hospital. 4. Figures are published on the DWP website at:

www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/tabtool.asp

Source: DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.