Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 7 February 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children will be affected by the proposed cap on benefits affecting their parent or carer in each (a) local authority area and (b) parliamentary constituency in Scotland; and what the average weekly reduction in payments will be in each case.
The information is not available by parliamentary constituency.
The following table shows the estimated number of children in households affected, and the median reduction in weekly household benefit, after the household cap is applied, for each Scottish local authority area.
The figures relate to the financial year 2013-14 when the cap is implemented, and are on the same basis as the impact assessment which was published on
The impact assessment takes no account of any steps that households affected might take to either work enough hours to qualify for working tax credit, renegotiate their rent in situ, or find alternative accommodation. In all cases, the Department will work to support households through this transition and use existing provision through Jobcentre Plus and the Work programme to move as many into work as possible.
Local authority area | Estimated number of children in capped households | Median reduction in benefits (£ per week) |
Aberdeen | 200 | 46 |
Aberdeenshire | — | — |
Angus | — | — |
Argyll and Bute | — | — |
Scottish Borders | — | — |
Clackmannanshire | — | — |
West Dunbartonshire | 100 | 101 |
Dumfries and Galloway | — | — |
Dundee | 400 | 39 |
East Ayrshire | — | — |
East Dunbartonshire | — | — |
East Lothian | — | — |
East Renfrewshire | — | — |
Edinburgh | 1,100 | 82 |
Falkirk | — | — |
Fife | 600 | 53 |
Glasgow | 1,400 | 47 |
Highland | — | — |
Inverclyde | — | — |
Midlothian | — | — |
Moray | — | — |
North Ayrshire | 300 | 24 |
North Lanarkshire | — | — |
Orkney Islands | — | — |
Perth and Kinross | — | — |
Renfrewshire | — | — |
Shetland Islands | — | — |
South Ayrshire | — | — |
South Lanarkshire | 300 | 35 |
Stirling | — | — |
West Lothian | — | — |
Eilean Siar | — | — |
Note: Child numbers are rounded to the nearest 100. The median £ per week reduction in benefit is rounded to the nearest whole pound, and both figures are presented for areas with more than 100 households affected. Areas with fewer than 100 children affected are denoted by “—”, as additional disclosure control has been applied to these areas. For this reason, figures will not sum to the Scottish total number of households affected in the January 2012 impact assessment for the household benefit cap. |
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