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Disability Living Allowance: Bexley

Volume 508: debated on Wednesday 7 April 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what proportion of people were in receipt of the (a) care and (b) mobility component of the disability living allowance in (i) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (ii) the London borough of Bexley in the latest period for which figures are available. (325773)

The available information is in the table.

Disability living allowance: Cases in payment and percentage of population by award type, as at August 2009 for Bexleyheath and Crayford parliamentary constituency and the London borough of Bexley

Disability living allowance—Care

Disability living allowance—Mobility

Total

Higher rate

Middle rate

Lower rate

Nil rate

Higher rate

Lower rate

Nil rate

Bexleyheath and Crayford parliamentary constituency

3,620

840

1,370

850

560

1,980

1,220

420

Bexleyheath and Crayford—percentage of population

4.3

1.0

1.6

1.0

0.7

2.3

1.4

0.5

London borough of Bexley

9,150

2,070

3,390

2,280

1,410

4,960

3,080

1,110

London borough of Bexley—percentage of population

4.1

0.9

1.5

1.0

0.6

2.2

1.4

0.5

Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 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. 3. Office for National Statistics' population estimate mid 2007 for Bexleyheath and Crayford parliamentary constituency is 84,826; and for the London borough of Bexley, the population estimate 2008 is 223,300. Source: Department for Work and Pensions Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.