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Pensioners: Per Capita Costs

Volume 506: debated on Wednesday 24 February 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much her Department has spent on pensioners per capita in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. (313339)

Complete information is not available. Such information as is available is in the tables.

Pensioner spending per capita (£, cash)

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

Jarrow

5,060

5,480

5,870

6,190

6,290

6,630

6,910

South Tyneside

5,080

5,530

5,890

6,210

6,330

6,660

7,010

North East

4,960

5,350

5,700

6,000

6,110

6,430

6,770

Great Britain

4,680

5,020

5,320

5,610

5,700

6,000

6,320

Pensioner spending per capita (£, 2009-10 prices)

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

Jarrow

6,030

6,360

6,620

6,850

6,770

6,930

7,050

South Tyneside

6,060

6,410

6,650

6,880

6,810

6,970

7,150

North East

5,910

6,200

6,430

6,650

6,570

6,720

6,910

Great Britain

5,580

5,820

6,010

6,220

6,140

6,280

6,450

Notes:

1. The Department for Work and Pensions is responsible for expenditure in Great Britain only. Expenditure in Northern Ireland is a matter for the Northern Ireland Office.

2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest £10.

3. Figures include spending on: state pension; attendance allowance; winter fuel payment; bereavement benefits; widow's benefit; minimum income guarantee; pension credit, over-65s payment and over-70s payment. figures for other benefits, and for these benefits before 2002-03, are not available.

4. Figures are estimated by dividing expenditure on the above benefits by the number of state pensioners in the relevant area.

5. Great Britain benefit expenditure data for all benefits, and local authority and parliamentary constituency benefit expenditure data for some benefits, can be found here:

http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/expenditure.asp

6. The DWP Tabulation Tool, which gives caseload and expenditure data for some benefits split by local authority, parliamentary constituency and Government office

region, among others, can be found here:

http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/tabtool.asp