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Social Security Benefits: Wrexham

Answer

The available information is in the following table.

Children living in families claiming workless benefits and disability benefits in each ward in Wrexham
	Percentage of children in families on workless benefits aged 0-15¹	Percentage of children in families on disability benefits aged 0-15²
Ward name	April 2004	April 2005	April 2006	April 2006
Acton	25.9	23.2	23.4	7.7
Borras Park	4.4	4.8	3.4	2.5
Bronington	5.0	4.1	3.3	2.6
Brymbo	23.6	26.5	25.1	6.5
Brynyffynnon	17.7	16.1	16.9	3.1
Bryn Cefn	22.1	22.9	20.7	4.1
Cartrefle	41.3	41.4	36.3	8.3
Cefn	21.5	20.8	21.4	5.6
Dyffryn	10.2	11.7	11.2	4.2
Ceiriog/Ceiriog Valley
Chirk North	18.7	17.1	14.7	3.6
Chirk South	15.6	19.8	14.6	3.9
Coedpoeth	21.7	20.8	17.9	3.1
Erddig	11.2	9.1	9.4	5.6
Esclusham	15.5	14.9	14.0	3.7
Garden Village	6.7	3.0	2.5	1.3
Gresford East and West	7.6	7.6	5.5	3.1
Grosvenor	15.8	13.6	14.7	8.2
Gwenfro	34.6	30.0	29.7	6.9
Gwersyllt East and South	18.9	18.8	18.5	5.0
Gwersyllt North	31.1	29.1	30.0	7.2
Gwersyllt West	20.4	21.0	17.4	4.9
Hermitage	30.9	30.2	30.6	3.8
Holt	10.0	7.9	9.0	3.0
Johnstown	18.6	17.4	16.8	2.9
Little Acton	6.7	7.0	7.3	5.4
Llangollen Rural	16.1	16.7	11.3	3.9
Llay	19.2	20.3	20.8	3.9
Maesydre	20.4	13.4	12.5	6.4
Marchwiel	12.0	11.3	9.5	1.9
Marford and Hoseley	1.4	1.6	3.2	1.4
Minera	11.3	11.7	7.1	2.6
New Broughton	20.1	19.8	16.7	3.5
Offa	18.9	17.0	10.7	2.5
Overton	8.4	9.5	11.0	1.7
Pant	32.1	35.0	32.3	3.4
Penycae	37.2	37.7	32.2	4.9
Penycae and Ruabon South	15.8	15.5	15.2	3.7
Plas Madoc	54.8	51.6	49.4	7.9
Ponciau	17.8	16.6	15.0	4.3
Queensway	54.4	53.1	50.6	3.8
Rhosnesni	6.7	9.2	8.5	4.8
Rossett	6.4	6.0	4.2	1.5
Ruabon	21.5	22.5	21.4	6.2
Smithfield	22.8	22.3	22.6	2.8
Stansty	16.7	16.4	13.1	5.0
Whitegate	30.4	25.7	21.8	4.3
Wynnstay	54.9	53.4	52.9	7.2
¹
¹ Workless benefits' data represent children dependent on a parent/guardian who is claiming one or more of incapacity benefit (IB), severe disablement allowance (SDA), jobseeker's allowance (JSA), income support (IS) or pension credit (PC).
² 'Disability benefits' data represent children dependent on a parent/guardian who is claiming disability living allowance or attendance allowance. Information on these benefits is not available from this source prior to April 2006 as they were not required in the original specifications.
Notes:
1. All data represents a single snapshot in time of claimants on the computer system, and will therefore exclude a very small number of cases that are held clerically. The data are produced once a year.
2. Geo-referencing tools, obtained from the Office of National Statistics, have been used to assign claimants to geographies.
3. Due to the introduction of child tax credits in April 2003, information on child dependents are not reliably completed on the benefit computer system, therefore data from child benefit records has been merged onto IS/JSA/IB/SDA/PC claims with the permission of HMRC. The total numbers of children on child benefit has been used as the denominator for the percentages given.
4. The data on workless benefits are only available from April 2004, and from April 2006 for disability benefits.
5. It is possible that there will be some overlap of the figures as children could be in families that are in receipt of both workless and disability benefits.
Source:
Information Directorate

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

468 c1176-8W; 168138

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Social security benefits Wrexham

Link

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