Departmental Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of recipients of the Christmas bonus will get the additional £60 between (a) 1 and 15 January, (b) 16 and 31 January, (c) 1 and 15 February, (d) 16 and 28 February, (e) 1 and 15 March and (f) 16 and 31 March 2009; and if he will make a statement. (247209)

The answer is in the following table:

*Actual and forecast volumes for additional £60 payment*
2009	Volume payments to be made	Percentage of forecasted total
1 to 15 January	12,175,120	81.94
16 to 31 January	41,630	00.28
1 to 15 February	49,390	00.33
16 to 28 February	1,302,100	08.76
1 to 15 March	1,289,700	08.69
16 to 31 March	¹0	0
¹ Exceptionally some payments may be issued clerically after 15 March 2009. Notes: 1. All payment figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. As of 9 February 2009 DWP have issued 12,231,904 payments. 3. The total volume of payments forecast to be made is 14,857,929. Source:Special Payment Programme weekly review document 11 February 2009.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of recipients of the Christmas bonus received their additional £60 by the end of January; how many of the remaining payments he estimates will have been paid by (a) the end of February and (b) the end of March; and if he will make a statement. (259118)

[holding answer 26 February 2009]: The answer is in the following table.

*Actual and forecast volumes for additional £60 payment*
	Volume payments to be made	Percentage of forecasted total
1 January 2009 to 31 January 2009	12,216,750	79.63
1 February 2009 to 28 February 2009	1,433,420	9.34
1 March 2009 to 31 March 2009	¹1,692,590	11.03
¹ Some additional payments may be issued clerically during March 2009. Notes: 1. All payment figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. The total volume of payments to be made is 15,342,751. Source: Special Payment Programme Weekly Review document 4 March 2009.

Volume 491: debated on Monday 20 April 2009