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Disability Living Allowance: West Yorkshire

Volume 504: debated on Wednesday 27 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in the West Yorkshire area were claiming disability living allowance in each of the last five years. (306998)

The available information is in the table.

Disability living allowance—cases in payment for the Government office region of Yorkshire and the Humber by parliamentary constituency

May each year

Yorkshire and the Humber

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

Barnsley Central

6,430

6,590

6,730

6,840

7,080

Barnsley East and Mexborough

8,450

8,490

8,590

8,670

8,880

Barnsley West and Penistone

5,260

5,340

5,440

5,540

5,770

Batley and Spen

4,410

4,530

4,640

4,690

4,820

Beverley and Holderness

4,400

4,520

4,660

4,840

4,940

Bradford North

5,510

5,560

5,680

5,820

5,940

Bradford South

5,600

5,790

5,920

6,030

6,190

Bradford West

6,390

6,450

6,570

6,700

6,980

Brigg and Goole

3,680

3,770

3,850

4,020

4,100

Calder Valley

3,860

3,980

4,090

4,210

4,400

City of York

3,330

3,430

3,540

3,600

3,720

Cleethorpes

4,070

4,180

4,290

4,400

4,580

Colne Valley

4,250

4,340

4,480

4,640

4,770

Dewsbury

4,880

5,030

5,150

5,280

5,440

Doncaster Central

5,400

5,470

5,580

5,730

5,910

Doncaster North

6,050

6,120

6,280

6,360

6,570

Don Valley

5,810

5,890

6,040

6,190

6,280

East Yorkshire

5,220

5,300

5,440

5,560

5,670

Elmet

3,770

3,800

3,940

4,040

4,160

Great Grimsby

4,390

4,500

4,610

4,770

4,990

Halifax

4,850

5,000

5,050

5,140

5,290

Haltemprice and Howden

2,500

2,560

2,670

2,780

2,850

Harrogate and Knaresborough

2,800

2,840

2,880

2,960

3,050

Hemsworth

7,960

8,070

8,190

8,260

8,400

Huddersfield

5,380

5,490

5,610

5,740

5,910

Keighley

3,680

3,770

3,870

3,970

4,130

Kingston upon Hull East

5,530

5,660

5,830

5,900

5,990

Kingston upon Hull North

5,470

5,540

5,650

5,730

5,880

Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle

5,120

5,220

5,360

5,410

5,700

Leeds Central

5,900

5,960

6,050

6,160

6,330

Leeds East

4,690

4,760

4,820

4,830

4,980

Leeds North East

3,630

3,660

3,740

3,790

3,910

Leeds North West

2,720

2,750

2,820

2,920

3,000

Leeds West

4,200

4,340

4,450

4,580

4,790

Morley and Rothwell

4,750

4,820

4,950

5,120

5,330

Normanton

4,270

4,360

4,470

4,570

4,710

Pontefract and Castleford

6,420

6,520

6,600

6,700

6,910

Pudsey

3,050

3,140

3,290

3,350

3,490

Richmond Yorks

2,760

2,860

2,980

3,120

3,180

Rother Valley

5,840

5,930

6,050

6,190

6,390

Rotherham

6,040

6,150

6,320

6,460

6,580

Ryedale

3,050

3,110

3,220

3,290

3,370

Scarborough and Whitby

5,210

5,360

5,560

5,680

5,880

Scunthorpe

4,370

4,500

4,620

4,740

4,800

Selby

2,900

2,960

3,090

3,240

3,380

Sheffield Attercliffe

5,480

5,490

5,600

5,680

5,930

Sheffield Brightside

6,230

6,380

6,550

6,630

6,860

Sheffield Central

5,710

5,760

5,870

5,980

6,190

Sheffield Hallam

1,750

1,800

1,840

1,890

1,930

Sheffield Heeley

5,000

5,130

5,250

5,410

5,550

Sheffield Hillsborough

4,690

4,770

4,880

5,020

5,160

Shipley

3,540

3,620

3,690

3,770

3,860

Skipton and Ripon

2,840

2,900

3,000

3,110

3,200

Vale of York

2,500

2,540

2,630

2,720

2,850

Wakefield

5,260

5,380

5,530

5,580

5,750

Wentworth

6,530

6,640

6,790

6,820

6,980

Total

263,790

268,840

275,310

281,170

289,690

Notes:

1. Caseload figures are rounded to the nearest 10, totals may not sum due to rounding.

2. 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.

Source:

DWP Information Directorate; Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study