Attendance Allowance

(asked on 1st July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department are working on claims for attendance allowance for older people; and how many staff were employed in each of the last 16 quarters.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 7th July 2014

Please see the data in the table below which shows the number of staff processing all claims to Attendance Allowance over the periods requested.

10-11 Q1

10-11 Q2

10-11 Q3

10-11 Q4

769.19

773.64

733.37

709.85

11-12 Q1

11-12 Q2

11-12 Q3

11-12 Q4

701.01

665.40

641.66

619.08

12-13 Q1

12-13 Q2

12-13 Q3

12-13 Q4

598.92

588.56

578.18

564.17

13-14 Q1

13-14 Q2

13-14 Q3

13-14 Q4

548.67

536.25

528.19

508.31

The headcount figures are in Full Time Equivalent form whereby part time staff are counted as a proportion of one Full time staff member depending on the number of hours they work.

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