(holding answer 9 September 2009): The available information is shown in the following table.
Yorkshire and the Humber England Community care grant number of initial awards 1997-98 n/a 180,500 1998-99 n/a 173,300 1999-2000 n/a 168,500 2000-01 n/a 173,500 2001-02 n/a 179,700 2002-03 n/a 190,300 2003-04 n/a 198,200 2004-05 22,800 200,700 2005-06 23,500 215,800 2006-07 22,700 215,900 2007-08 22,300 196,800 2008-09 23,400 200,000 Loan (budgeting and crisis) number of initial awards 1997-98 n/a 1,354,000 1998-99 n/a 1,397,000 1999-2000 n/a n/a 2000-01 n/a 1,596,100 2001-02 n/a 1,708,400 2002-03 n/a 1,781,800 2003-04 n/a 1,777,200 2004-05 194,400 1,702,000 2005-06 197,200 1,720,600 2006-07 210,700 1,858,900 2007-08 214,400 2,040,400 2008-09 237,000 2,479,300 n/a = Not available. Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. 2. The information provided is Management Information; our preference is to answer all Parliamentary Questions using Official/National Statistics but in this case we only have Management Information available. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official/National Statistics and there are some issues with the data, for example, it does not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System. 3. Awards shown are initial awards and do not include awards made on review. 4. Information cannot be supplied for York and North Yorkshire as the smallest geographical area we can provide figures for is Social Fund Budget Area. 5. Figures are for initial awards made, not the number of people who received an initial award. (Some people received more than one initial award.). Source: DWP Social Fund Policy, Budget and Management Information System