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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the budget allocation for (a) crisis loans, (b) community care grants and (c) budgeting loans was for each Jobcentre Plus office administering such schemes in each year since April 2003; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the budget allocation for (a) crisis loans, (b) community care grants and (c) budgeting loans was for each Jobcentre Plus office administering such schemes in each year since April 2003; and if he will make a statement.
| Loans Budgets for Jobcentre Plus budget areas | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2006-07¹ | 2007-08¹ | |
| East of England | ||
| Essex | £14,923,029 | £13,412,523 |
| Norwich Benefit Delivery Centre | £28,069,475 | £25,753,252 |
| East Midlands | ||
| East Midlands North | £19,342,193 | £18,277,376 |
| South East Midlands | £22,621,886 | £20,739,261 |
| London | ||
| Central and East London | £25,269,947 | £21,708,685 |
| London South | £38,383,269 | £32,853,209 |
| North and North East London | £22,857,023 | £21,206,623 |
| West London | £15,709,849 | £13,354,462 |
| North East | ||
| Northumbria | £16,929,699 | £15,815,463 |
| South Tyneside and Wear Valley | £16,925,575 | £17,125,954 |
| Tees Valley | £14,440,674 | £13,813,267 |
| North West | ||
| Chorlton Benefit Delivery Centre | £66,904,699 | £62,929,808 |
| Greater Liverpool and Cheshire | £47,375,823 | £42,824,560 |
| Scotland | ||
| Inverness Benefit Delivery Centre | £25,681,880 | £23,338,906 |
| Springburn Benefit Delivery Centre | £59,164,971 | £55,274,217 |
| South East | ||
| Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey | £15,231,730 | £15,426,221 |
| Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent and Sussex | £38,335,562 | £38,065,260 |
| South West | ||
| South West Central | £37,929,724 | £33,884,729 |
| Wales | ||
| Llanelli Benefit Delivery Centre | £11,439,723 | £11,672,162 |
| South East Wales | £30,522,165 | £27,304,760 |
| West Midlands | ||
| West Midlands Social Fund | £66,336,387 | £59,234,565 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | ||
| Bradford | £18,025,465 | £16,285,137 |
| Sheffield | £47,579,252 | £41,699,600 |
| ¹ Loans budgets for Jobcentre Plus districts (now budget areas) are therefore given only for the final reallocation or in year allocation in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 financial years. These figures do not include some end of year adjustments to ensure no budgets were overspent. These adjustments were made possible because of underspends elsewhere. |
| Community care grant budgets for Jobcentre Plus budget areas for 2007-08 | |
|---|---|
| £ | |
| East of England | |
| Essex | 2,347,144 |
| Norwich Benefit Delivery Centre | 6,083,490 |
| East Midlands | |
| East Midlands North | 3,690,502 |
| South East Midlands | 5,027,738 |
| London | |
| Central and East London | 7,177,466 |
| London South | 8,985,071 |
| North and North East London | 4,314,406 |
| West London | 3,660,504 |
| North East | |
| Northumbria | 2,627,314 |
| South Tyneside and Wear Valley | 2,622,220 |
| Tees Valley | 2,456,473 |
| North West | |
| Chorlton Benefit Delivery Centre | 12,402,721 |
| Greater Liverpool and Cheshire | 8,141,316 |
| Scotland | |
| Inverness Benefit Delivery Centre | 5,743,635 |
| Springburn Benefit Delivery Centre | 15,605,303 |
| South East | |
| Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey | 2,630,592 |
| Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent and Sussex | 5,865,720 |
| South West | |
| South West Central | 8,060,436 |
| Wales | |
| Llanelli Benefit Delivery Centre | 2,555,656 |
| South East Wales | 5,616,541 |
| West Midlands | |
| West Midlands Social Fund | 13,207,411 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | |
| Bradford | 3,200,914 |
| Sheffield | 8,977,427 |
| Notes: | |
| 1. There are not separate budgets for crisis loans and budgeting loans, but rather a combined loans budget for both. The loans budget is managed centrally and re-allocations are made to Jobcentre Plus budget areas quarterly and towards the end of the year. Funds are taken from some of those budget areas with a projected end of year underspend and given to other budget areas. | |
| 2. To provide comparable data, budgets are presented on the basis of the current budget area structure. In recent years, there have been many changes to the boundaries of Jobcentre Plus districts, which have led to adjustment of the budgets for the districts involved. In some cases, a district has been split and the parts merged with other districts. For the districts involved in such a situation it is not possible to give comparable budgets from April 2003. The last split took place in August 2006. | |
| 3. Community Care Grants for 2006-07 were set before the boundary change in August 2006 involving a split district, and so are not given here. Community Care Grants budgets are not reallocated during the year. However, some allocations were made from the Contingency Reserve in 2007-08. These have not been included. The budgets for 2008-09 are the same as for 2007-08. | |
| Source: | |
| Departmental records of budgets. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment has been made of the financial effects on parents without care facing debt recovery action for outstanding child maintenance payments by the Child Support Agency of the sanction of (a) 40 per cent. deductions on net income and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment has been made of the financial effects on parents without care facing debt recovery action for outstanding child maintenance payments by the Child Support Agency of the sanction of (a) 40 per cent. deductions on net income and...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will require mothers who name the wrong father to the Child Support Agency to pay the full costs of DNA paternity testing involved.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will require mothers who name the wrong father to the Child Support Agency to pay the full costs of DNA paternity testing involved.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance is issued by the Child Support Agency on absent fathers who pay larger than average contributions into their pension scheme thereby reducing the sum payable in child maintenance; and if he will amend this guidance to combat this...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance is issued by the Child Support Agency on absent fathers who pay larger than average contributions into their pension scheme thereby reducing the sum payable in child maintenance; and if he will amend this guidance to combat this...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many new scheme cases were cleared by the Child Support Agency within six months in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many new scheme cases were cleared by the Child Support Agency within six months in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
| Child Support Agency—Current scheme case clearances under six months old | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clearances under six months old | ||||
| Month | Great Britain | North East | South Tyneside | Jarrow |
| 2003-04 | 113,100 | 4,200 | 300 | 200 |
| 2004-05 | 137,200 | 4,400 | 300 | 200 |
| 2005-06 | 190,900 | 5,900 | 400 | 200 |
| 2006-07 | 219,000 | 6,100 | 400 | 200 |
| 2007-08 | 260,000 | 9,100 | 600 | 300 |
| Notes: 1. Figures include all current scheme application clearances under six months old. 2. As the current scheme came into existence in 2003, figures only go back to this date. 3. Cases have been allocated to the North East region, Jarrow parliamentary constituency and South Tyneside local authority by matching the postcode of the parent with care against the Office for National Statistics postcode directory. 4. Applications may be classed as cleared when the application is rejected or withdrawn. These applications can be rejected or withdrawn without the full address details of the non-resident parent or parent with care being recorded on the CS2 or CSCS computer systems and so can not be allocated to a geographical area. Such clearances are included in the Great Britain total but excluded from the regional breakdowns. Over 35 per cent. of clearances of applications under six months old fall into this category. 5. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100. 6. '-' indicates a figure less than 50. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases relating to residents of (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK the Child Support Agency has dealt with in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many cases relating to residents of (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK the Child Support Agency has dealt with in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Child Support Agency case closures there were in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Child Support Agency case closures there were in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Child Support Agency new scheme cases have been uncleared within six months in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many Child Support Agency new scheme cases have been uncleared within six months in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997.
| Current scheme uncleared applications over six months old | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncleared applications over six months old | ||||
| Month | Great Britain | North East | South Tyneside | Jarrow |
| June 2003 | 2,800 | 100 | — | — |
| June 2004 | 79,500 | 3,900 | 300 | 100 |
| June 2005 | 142,100 | 7,600 | 600 | 300 |
| June 2006 | 135,000 | 7,600 | 500 | 200 |
| June 2007 | 88,900 | 6,100 | 400 | 200 |
| June 2008 | 62,700 | 4,800 | 300 | 100 |
| '—' Indicates a figure less than 50. | ||||
| Notes: | ||||
| 1. Figures include all uncleared applications over six months old. | ||||
| 2. As the current scheme came into existence in 2003, figures only go back to this date. | ||||
| 3. Cases have been allocated to the North East region, Jarrow Parliamentary Constituency and South Tyneside Local Authority by matching the postcode of the parent with care against the Office for National Statistics postcode directory. | ||||
| 4. Many uncleared applications will not have reached the point where the address details of the non-resident parent or parent with care have been recorded on the CS2 or CSCS computer systems and so can not be allocated to a geographical area. Such applications have been included under the Great Britain figure but are excluded from the regional breakdowns. Approximately 5,600 applications (9 per cent. of all uncleared applications) over six months old fall into this category. | ||||
| 5. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 100. |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in how many cases of child support administration the computer system has been incapable of producing a result and the case transferred to manual management in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in how many cases of child support administration the computer system has been incapable of producing a result and the case transferred to manual management in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many home owners in proceedings relating to repossession have applied for income support for mortgage interest in the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many home owners in proceedings relating to repossession have applied for income support for mortgage interest in the last two years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent (a) discussions and (b) joint working there has been with (i) the Department for Communities and Local Government and (ii) HM Treasury on income support for mortgage interest in relation to changes in the economic performance of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent (a) discussions and (b) joint working there has been with (i) the Department for Communities and Local Government and (ii) HM Treasury on income support for mortgage interest in relation to changes in the economic performance of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people whose national insurance contributions have been paid through the benefits system for more than 20 years of their working lives; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people whose national insurance contributions have been paid through the benefits system for more than 20 years of their working lives; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether any children under the age of 16 years received jobseeker's allowance payments in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether any children under the age of 16 years received jobseeker's allowance payments in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much each UK trade union, its subsidiary, received from the European Social Fund in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much each UK trade union, its subsidiary, received from the European Social Fund in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what specific provisions are provided by his Department for (a) the families of service personnel and (b) the families of service personnel on operations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what specific provisions are provided by his Department for (a) the families of service personnel and (b) the families of service personnel on operations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether a person who has a bank account is permitted to open a Post Office card account; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether a person who has a bank account is permitted to open a Post Office card account; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children lived in households that had been in receipt of (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) income support for more than two years at the latest date for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children lived in households that had been in receipt of (a) jobseeker's allowance, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) income support for more than two years at the latest date for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individuals' postal addresses have been disclosed by the Child Support Agency to their former partners; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many individuals' postal addresses have been disclosed by the Child Support Agency to their former partners; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what steps are taken when child support payments are wrongly awarded because of faults in computer systems; and if he will make a statement;
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what steps are taken when child support payments are wrongly awarded because of faults in computer systems; and if he will make a statement;
(3) what account is taken of the financial situation of the families involved when Child Support Agency overpayments are collected.
(3) what account is taken of the financial situation of the families involved when Child Support Agency overpayments are collected.