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Dept for Work and Pensions

Answer

Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much his Department spent on pensioners in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. [219664] Malcolm Wicks: The information is in the table. Expenditure Rounded to nearest £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Jarrow Constituency South Tyneside North East Great Britain 1997-98 70 132 2,149 41,414 1998-99 69 131 2,165 43,597 1999-2000 71 135 2,223 46,823 2000-01 76 142 2,347 49,403 2001-02 84 156 2,521 53,229 2002-03 89 163 2,635 55,963 2003-04 95 174 2,777 58,995 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. The information in the table provides benefit expenditure for pensioners in Great Britain. 2. Benefit expenditure in Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Office and is not included in the above table. 3. Table consists of the expenditure on the main pensioner benefits: pension credit, winter fuel payments to all those 60 and over, retirement pension, disability living allowance and attendance allowance to people over state pension age, the over- 80s payment. 4. Housing benefit and council tax benefit has been excluded from the table as the local authority level data cannot be broken down between pensioners and other recipients, and no information is available at constituency level. 5. Expenditure has been apportioned to pensioner groups using Quarterly Statistical Enquiry data for the relevant benefits, which is based on a 5 per cent. sample and therefore subject to a degree of sampling variation. Benefit expenditure forecast information is published on the Internet at: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd4/ expenditure.asp

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c102W;432 c100W; 219664

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Expenditure Pensioners North East Social security benefits State retirement pensions South Tyneside Jarrow

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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