Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) new national insurance numbers registered and (b) new workers in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (ii) Suffolk and (iii) England and Wales in the latest period for which figures are available.
Answered by Esther McVey
Information on the number of National Insurance Numbers registered to individuals including new workers, via constituency, county and country, can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on housing benefit in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Answered by Steve Webb
The information is in the table below. Housing Benefit expenditure by Parliamentary Constituency is not available prior to 2011/12.
Table: Housing Benefit spending between 2008/09 and 2012/13 | |||||
£ million, nominal | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 |
Bury St Edmunds constituency | N/A | N/A | N/A | 23.5 | 25.5 |
Suffolk | 145.5 | 169.1 | 183.3 | 192.9 | 204.0 |
England & Wales | 15,711.7 | 18,433.4 | 19,766.4 | 21,092.5 | 22,104.2 |
Source: Mid-year statistical data and Local authority subsidy returns.
The figure for England and Wales in 2012/13 is slightly different from that previously published due to inclusion of updated information from some local authorities.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many temporary national insurance numbers were issued in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk (c) the East of England and (d) England and Wales by HM Revenue and Customs in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such numbers were issued for tax credit purposes.
Answered by Esther McVey
The Government does not issue temporary National Insurance numbers. DWP on behalf of HMRC follows a secure and validated allocation process which results in an individual receiving a permanent National Insurance number.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of (a) incapacity benefit and employment support allowance, (b) disability living allowance and (c) severe disablement allowance claiming for each type of disability there were in (i) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (ii) Suffolk, (iii) the East of England and (iv) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how much was spent in each such category in each such year.
Answered by Mike Penning
Due to changes in medical condition definitions breakdown data is only available from 2011/12 for Disability Living Allowance, this can be found in the attached Excel document: Expenditure and Caseloads by medical condition.
Breakdowns prior to 2010/11 are not available for Employment and Support Allowance.