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Attendance Allowance

Volume 496: debated on Monday 20 July 2009

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Miss McIntosh

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of total expenditure on benefits payments attendance allowance accounted for in (a) 1980, (b) 1997, (c) 2001, (d) 2005 and (e) 2008. (287417)

Jonathan Shaw

The information is in the following table.

Percentage of DWP total benefit expenditure accounted for by attendance allowance

Percentage

1980-81

1.3

1997-98

3.0

2001-02

3.1

2005-06

3.3

2008-09 estimated out-turn

3.4

Note:

DWP total benefit expenditure excludes benefits that are no longer within the remit of DWP. Child benefit and war pensions have been excluded.

Source:

DWP accounting data