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Disability Living Allowance: Yorkshire and the Humber

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) Barnsley and (b) Doncaster were in receipt of disability living allowance in each year since 1997. (264552)

The information is in the following table.

Disability living allowance cases in payment in Barnsley and Doncaster local authority areas

Barnsley

Doncaster

August 1997

13,700

15,200

August 1998

14,200

15,700

August 1999

14,200

16,200

August 2000

14,900

17,000

August 2001

16,400

17,200

August 2002

16,660

18,140

August 2003

17,290

18,910

August 2004

17,730

19,320

August 2005

17,930

19,560

August 2006

18,230

19,860

August 2007

18,590

20,310

August 2008

18,910

20,700

Notes:

1. August 2002-08 figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Pre-August 2002 figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

3. There are no data available for disability living allowance in the WPLS before May 2002.

4. 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.

Sources:

1. August 2002-08: 100 per cent. work and pensions longitudinal study.

2. Pre-August 2002: 5 per cent. sample data adjusted to be consistent with 100 per cent. WPLS totals.