Annual Report by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund 2014/15
Presented to Parliament pursuant to section 167(6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992
June 2015	

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Contents
Section 1	Introduction	
Source of data for this report
Section 2	The Regulated Social Fund	
Sure Start Maternity Grants
Funeral Expenses Payments
Cold Weather Payments
Winter Fuel Payments
Section 3	The Discretionary Social Fund
Budgeting Loans
Section 4	General administration
Reviews
Performance management and improvement
Clearance standards
Section 5	Financial management
Background
The 2014-15 Discretionary Social Fund budget recoveries 
The 2014-15 Regulated Social Fund budget recoveries 	
Section 6	Summary of financial performance	
The 2014-15 Budgeting Loans budget 	
Section 7	Annexes

Preface
I am pleased to present my report on the Social Fund for 2014-15.
The Social Fund continues to provide valuable support to those who need it most at times of exceptional need, balancing security with personal financial responsibility.
This year, it provided over £500 million of support through Budgeting Loans, Sure Start Maternity Grants, Funeral Expenses Payments and Cold Weather Payments. It also provided an estimated extra £2 billion in the form of Winter Fuel Payments.
My teams in Jobcentre Plus offices have continued to provide an excellent service, while also achieving great success in streamlining the process in order to improve the service provided.
The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith 
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

1.	Introduction
1.1	This is the twenty seventh annual report to Parliament on the operation of the Social Fund for Great Britain required to be laid by sections 167(5) and (6) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.
1.2	The Social Fund scheme includes a regulated scheme made up of Maternity Grants and Funeral Expenses Payments, Cold Weather and Winter Fuel Payments, and a discretionary scheme comprised of Budgeting Loans. 
Source of data for this report 
1.3	The figures in this report, unless stated otherwise, are taken from the DWP Policy, Budget and Management Information System and from scans of the Social Fund Computer System. Together these data sources record details of every individual application, subsequent payment decision and any outstanding repayment record. They also provide useful comparative data such as average awards, what needs are covered and how various client groups are using the fund. These comparisons are shown in the annexes to this report. 

2.	The Regulated Social Fund
Sure Start Maternity Grants 
2.1	The Sure Start Maternity Grant is a payment of £500 to provide important help for families with the costs of a new baby (or babies in the event of a multiple birth) if there are no other children under 16 in the claimant’s family. The grant is available to recipients, and partners of recipients, of a qualifying benefit or tax credit. For claims in 2014-15 these were: Income Support, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Child Tax Credit (at a rate higher than the family element), or Working Tax Credit (which includes a disability or a severe disability element).
2.2	The Sure Start Maternity Grant is also available for the additional children of subsequent multiple births, even though there may already be a child under 16 in the family. This recognises that help is needed with the costs for all but one of the additional children of a subsequent multiple birth. For example, where the birth of twins follows a previous single birth, a Sure Start Maternity Grant can now be paid to help with costs of the additional child.
2.3	Improvements are being introduced in 2015-16 that should reduce customer waiting time by a day. Sure Start Maternity Grant applications will be scanned at DWP mail opening units and sent to Benefit Processing Centres electronically. 
2.4	In 2014-15 over 66,000 Sure Start Maternity Grant awards were made worth £33.5 million. Sure Start Maternity Grant statistics are in Annexes 1 and 2.
Funeral Expenses Payments
2.5	The Funeral Expenses Payment scheme continues to provide help towards the cost of a funeral. Payments are made to the person responsible for funeral costs who is in receipt of (or whose partner is in receipt of) a qualifying benefit or tax credit. In 2014-15 the qualifying benefits and tax credits were the same as those listed above for the Sure Start Maternity Grant, but with the addition of Housing Benefit. Any payments made towards the funeral costs are recoverable from the estate of the deceased, if there are sufficient funds. 
2.6	In 2014-15, over 32,000 Funeral Expenses Payment awards were made worth £44.2 million. Funeral Expenses Payments statistics are in Annexes 1 and 2.
2.7	The DWP’s Bereavement Service continues to take telephone applications for Funeral Expenses Payments as part of a wider service to people reporting a death to the DWP. Funeral Expenses Payment claims can also be made by post, or by using a claim form that can be downloaded from the GOV.UK website. 
2.8	We have seen a steady improvement in the processing times for Funeral Expenses Payments throughout 2014-15. This was mainly due to improvements in training for staff and to the end to end process: 
•	All claims were previewed within 24 hours of the initial date of claim, 
•	There was a review of the outstanding issues process which led to efficiencies in processing, and
•	There was an increased emphasis on telephony and SMS text messaging when seeking addition information. 
Cold Weather Payments 
2.9	Cold Weather Payments provide help with additional costs of heating during periods of severely cold weather. Every residential postcode in Great Britain is linked to one of the weather stations used in the scheme. A payment is made to someone when the average temperature has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, 0ºC or below over seven consecutive days at the weather station linked to their postcode. 
2.10 	In 2014-15 eligible recipients of a Cold Weather Payment are: 
Benefit in payment	Qualifying conditions for a Cold Weather Payment	
Pension Credit	Entitled to Cold Weather Payment (CWP).	
Income Support (IS)	Entitled to a CWP if they receive a disability premium, a severe disability premium, any one of the pensioner premiums, a child disability premium within IS or Child Tax Credit (CTC) or they have a child under 5 years.	
Income based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA(IB))	Entitled to a CWP if they receive a disability premium, a severe disability premium, any one of the pensioner premiums, a child disability premium within JSA(IB) or CTC or they have child under 5 years.	
Income-related Employment Support Allowance 	Entitled to a CWP if they receive the support component, the work-related activity component, a severe or enhanced disability premium, pensioner premium, or have a child who is disabled for whom they receive a disability premium within CTC or have a child under 5 years.	
Universal Credit	Entitled to a CWP under Universal Credit if they are:
• 	not employed or self-employed; AND
•	they, or their partner, receive a limited capability for work element (with or without a work-related activity element); or
•	they receive the disabled child element within their assessment; or 
•	have a child under 5 years.
Universal Credit recipients who are employed or self-employed will only be eligible for CWPs if they have a disabled child or eligible young person in the family.	

2.11	A Cold Weather Payment award of £25 is made for each qualifying period of cold weather. In 2014-15 DWP made 422,000 awards worth £10.6 million. 
2.12	The annual review of the Cold Weather Payments scheme took place in the summer of 2014. The review included: an assessment of the continuing availability of the weather stations used to provide temperature data for the scheme; whether any new stations were more suitable or should be introduced in addition to those that were currently being used; and the impact on weather station linkages of changes to the postcode system by the Royal Mail, as well as the general suitability of the existing linkages. 
2.13	As a result of the review, the number of weather stations used in the scheme increased from 92 to 93 in 2014-15, with the following changes made to the network: 
•	The Church Fenton weather station was closed. It was not a primary weather station, but was a substitute weather station for Linton-on-Ouse. The station at Bramham approximately five miles north west of Church Fenton was used in the Cold Weather Payment scheme.
•	The Solent weather station, which was a substitute station for both Thorney Island and Hurn (Bournemouth Airport), closed in September 2014. No new stations or postcode linkages were required to be added to the service for this change.
•	The Morpeth, Cockle Park weather station was adopted as a more suitable station for the main populated areas currently served by the primary station at Boulmer on the north east coast. 
•	The Rochdale weather station was adopted as an additional primary station for the service. This will give better representation of winter temperatures for the urban centres of Bolton, Rochdale and Oldham which were linked to either Rostherne to the south of Manchester, or Bingley near Bradford. 
2.14	Stations where issues had been identified or were considered to carry a significant risk of disruption or uncertainty over the 2014-15 year were replaced. These were: 
•	The primary station at Manston which was replaced with Langdon Bay, located approximately 30 km to the south. The winter mean temperature at both sites is 5.0oC. As they are both on the Kent coast, no changes were proposed to the postcode linkages or list of alternate stations. 
•	The primary station at Lyneham which was replaced with Westonbirt, approximately 20 km to the north west. The winter climates at both locations are similar with mean temperature of 4.3oC at Lyneham and 4.2oC at Westonbirt so, again, no changes to postcode linkages were proposed.
2.15	Representations from Members of Parliament about the suitability of individual weather stations or their links with particular postcode districts were also carefully considered. These were taken into account for the 2014-15 Cold Weather Payment season. 
2.16	Cold Weather Payment statistics are in Annexes 1 and 3.
Winter Fuel Payments 
2.17	Winter Fuel Payments help older people to meet heating costs. They are tax free and do not affect entitlement to Social Security benefits. 
2.18	In 2014-15, Winter Fuel Payments were made to just over 12.5 million older people in just under 9 million households at an estimated cost in excess of £2billion. 
2.19	Households with someone who had reached State Pension age for women received £200 and households with someone aged 80 or over received £300. 
2.20	Most people who had reached the State Pension age for women in 2014-15 and who were normally living in Great Britain were eligible and qualified for the Winter Fuel Payment. Those that are eligible but don’t qualify are those who:
•	are in prison
•	are in hospital receiving free treatment for more than 52 weeks
•	need permission to enter the UK and don’t qualify for help from DWP
•	have been living in a care home for the previous twelve weeks or more and receive Pension Credit, income-related Jobseeker’s Allowance or income-related Employment and Support Allowance.
2.21 	The qualifying age for Winter Fuel Payments for men and women is increasing in line with the increase in women’s State Pension age.
2.22	Winter Fuel Payments are paid to people residing in another European Economic Area country or Switzerland as long as they have a genuine and sufficient link with the UK. The qualifying week for winter 2014-15 payments was the week beginning 15 September 2014. 
2.23	Legislation was introduced which means that, from winter 2015-16, Winter Fuel Payments will no longer be payable in European Economic Area countries (and associated territories) where the average winter temperature is higher than the warmest region of the UK (South West England). This temperature is 5.6oC. The countries where Winter Fuel Payments will no longer be payable are Cyprus, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain.
2.24	Over 95 per cent of payments were made automatically before Christmas 2014 without the need to claim. However, newly eligible people needed to make a claim if they were not receiving a Social Security benefit (or receiving only Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction; Child Benefit; or Universal Credit as a member of a couple) during the qualifying week.

3. 	The Discretionary Social Fund
Budgeting Loans
3.1 	Budgeting Loans are interest-free loans which are repayable from benefit awards. They are designed to help people, who have been in receipt of a qualifying benefit for at least six months, with intermittent expenses that are considered difficult to budget for. The qualifying benefits are: Income Support, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-related Jobseeker’s Allowance, and Pension Credit. 
3.2	In 2014-15 over 996,000 awards were made to applicants in the form of Budgeting Loans, worth £415.2 million. 
3.3 	There is a single, nationally managed loans budget. This budget is controlled and managed at a national level to ensure that all Budgeting Loan applicants in the same circumstances are treated in a similar way with no regional variations. Since April 2013, this budget has been funded solely from recoveries without any additional Annually Managed Expenditure allocations. 
3.4 	In 2014-15 improvements to the SF500 (Budgeting Loans application form) and GOV.UK site were made, to make the information easier for customers to understand. 
3.5	Additional improvements are planned to be introduced in 2015-16, which should reduce customer waiting times by over 10 days. These include Budgeting Loan applications being scanned at DWP mail opening units and sent to Benefit Centres electronically. The GOV.UK portal will be updated to include an on-line Budgeting Loan application facility. Both measures will deliver environmental benefits. 
3.6	The Budgeting Loans scheme will remain in place for applicants in receipt of existing income related benefits until they migrate to Universal Credit (at which point they may be eligible for a Budgeting Advance. A Budgeting Advance is not an award from the Social Fund). 
3.7 	Budgeting Loan statistics are in Annexes 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

4. 	General administration
4.1	DWP has made considerable improvements to communications with Social Fund applicants, reducing the need for them to call us to check on progress of their applications. A range of measures have been put in place, such as use of SMS messaging to alert customers when documents have been received and payments made. DWP has sent 880,000 SMS messages to Social Fund customers during 2014-15, this has helped to deliver a 20% reduction in customer calls to the Social Fund Service Line from the previous year and 95% of callers have had their query answered. As a result, 30% fewer customers are being referred for an out-bound call to answer their query. Direct dial telephone numbers are provided whenever a customer needs to contact us.
4.2	The normal method of applying for Funeral Expenses Payments, Sure Start Maternity Grants, and Budgeting Loans is in writing. However, Funeral Expenses Payments claims can be taken over the telephone. 
Reviews
4.3	A discretionary Social Fund applicant who is dissatisfied with the initial decision on their application may apply to have the decision reviewed. Consideration is given to whether the law (including the Secretary of State’s Directions and Guidance) has been applied correctly, and the case handled fairly and reasonably.
4.4	A reviewing officer within Jobcentre Plus carries out the first review and the outcome is notified to the applicant. In 2014-15, Jobcentre Plus dealt with over 11,500 applications for first review. 
4.5	In 2014-15 applicants who remained dissatisfied were able to ask for a further review by the office of the Independent Case Examiner (ICE). In 2014-15 ICE reviewed 585 reviewing officer decisions. 
4.6	A review was carried out in September 2014 into the ICE function and it was determined that the process should continue in its current form.
4.7	A regulated Social Fund applicant who is dissatisfied with the initial decision on their application may also apply to have the decision reviewed under a mandatory reconsideration within 14 days of the original decision. 
4.8	The mandatory reconsideration is carried out by a Jobcentre Plus reviewing officer and the outcome is notified to the applicant. Consideration is given to whether the law (including the Secretary of State’s Directions and Guidance) has been applied correctly, and the case handled fairly and reasonably. 
4.9	In 2014-15 applicants who remained dissatisfied were able to appeal the decision to the Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). This data is reported in Annex 9.
Performance management and improvement 
4.10	The Social Fund Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) is an internal management tool for improving Social Fund decision making standards. It was designed and developed in conjunction with the Independent Review Service (IRS) when it was still in existence and managed the third tier reviews of discretionary Social Fund applications (the IRS was abolished as part of the Welfare Reform Act 2012). It provides a robust methodology to check the quality of decisions and is a mechanism for providing feedback and identifying individual training needs for operational staff. The Framework has been assured by the Department’s Internal Audit. 
4.11	The focus of the check has continued to concentrate on areas with complex decision making. Checks were applied to 2.3% of all Social Fund decisions. Overall QAF performance in 2014-15 has improved to 87.2% from 85.4% in 2013-14. Budgeting Loan and Sure Start Maternity Grant accuracy has remained high and Funeral Expenses Payment QAF results have improved to 78.7% from 70.6% in 2013-14. This is a reflection of the robust checking regime, within this relatively complex area of work, which has underpinned this improvement since the centralisation of Funeral Expenses Payment processing at Balham Benefit Centre.
4.12 	Centralisation brought many quality and error problems to the fore that were reflected in last year’s audit. The procedures have been analysed, amended where necessary and are being adhered to. This has resulted in improved quality and has contributed to the improved National Audit Office regularity results for 2014-15 in relation to Funeral Expenses Payments. 
Clearance standards
4.13	Clearance standards for the operational delivery sites for Social Fund, and overall national performance, is monitored against a comprehensive set of clearance standards (see table). The table shows clearance against: the Average Actual Clearance Times (AACT) standard (column 3); the AACT standard plus two days (column 5); and the AACT standard plus 5 days (column 6). 
(1) Average Actual Clearance Times (AACT) (working days)	(2) AACT Standard	(3) Achieved in 2014/15	(4) % Cleared within AACT Standard	(5) % Cleared within AACT Standard plus 2 days	(6) % Cleared within AACT Standard plus 5 days	
Budgeting Loans	5 days	6.82	39.91	70.63	94.16	
Funeral Expenses Payments	16 days	17.05	55.50	61.64	69.43	
Sure Start Maternity Grants	4 days	4.57	48.57	94.75	97.63	
Data sourced from DWP Management Information System Programme (MISP) and DWP Social Fund Computer System (SFCS)	

	Management Information System Programme (MISP) and Social Fund Computer System (SFCS) are Departmental performance management, data capture and reporting tools. In accordance with the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice, this type of internal management information does not form part of the official statistics outputs that are released by the Department.

5.	Financial issues
Background
5.1	Payments from the regulated Social Fund are based on eligibility. Regulations prescribe the circumstances and amounts that are payable. 
5.2	National cash-limited budgets are allocated for Budgeting Loans, Funeral Expenses Payments and Sure Start Maternity Grants. 
The 2014-15 Discretionary Social Fund budget recoveries 
5.3	£540.5 million (£461.8 million from Budgeting Loans, £78.7 million from Crisis Loans) was recovered through the repayment of loans. 
The 2014-15 Regulated Social Fund budget recoveries 
5.4	£0.2 million of Funeral Expenses Payments was recovered from estates.

6.	Summary of financial performance 
6.1	In 2014-15 the Social Fund provided payments of just over £503 million, with an additional amount, estimated to be in excess of £2 billion, for Winter Fuel Payments paid in Great Britain to an estimated 9 million households (Winter Fuel Payment data will not be available until September 2015). 
6.2	Compared to 2013-14 the 2014-15 figures show: 
•	Awards granted for Budgeting Loans decreased by 2.35% from 1.02 million in 2013-14 to 996,000 in 2014-15. 
•	The proportion of Budgeting Loan decisions resulting in an initial award increased from 73.6% in 2013-14 to 77.7% in 2014-15.
6.3	Gross expenditure on Budgeting Loans for 2014-15 was £415.2 million.
6.4	Loan recoveries during the year were £540.5 million against a forecast recovery of £516 million at the beginning of 2014-15. Recoveries provided 100% of the funds needed to meet gross loans expenditure.
The 2014-15 Budgeting Loans budget 
6.5	In April 2014, a single national Budgeting Loans budget of £377 million was allocated, comprised entirely of loan recoveries. Budgeting Loan payments were able to increase beyond the initial budget due to the availability of increased loan recoveries achieved during the year to finance them. 

Index to annexes
General
1.	National Social Fund Summary Statistics 2014-15 
The Regulated Social Fund
2.	Sure Start Maternity Grants and Funeral Expenses Payments 2014-15
3.	Cold Weather Payment statistics by Met Office Weather Station 2014-15 
The Discretionary Social Fund
4.	Budgeting Loans Statistics by Jobcentre Plus Social Fund Budget Area 2014-15
5.	Budgeting Loans: expenditure by Claimant Group 2014-15
6.	Budgeting Loans: Initial Awards by Family Composition 2014-15 (including comparison with 2013-14)
7.	Budgeting Loans: Reasons for initial refusal by Applicant Group 2014-15 
8.	Summary of Budgeting Loan Review Applications
Social Fund Appeals
9.	Social Fund Appeals Data	
Client Groups and Applicant Groups
10.	Client Groups

 

Annex 1 
National Social Fund Summary Statistics 2014-15 
 	Regulated Social 
Fund	Discretionary Social Fund	
	SSMG	CWP	FEP	BL	CL	
Applications received (000)	133	n/a	51	1,266	n/a	
Initial decisions (000)	133	n/a	55	1,283	n/a	
Awards (000)	66	422	32	996	n/a	
Awards as % of initial decisions	49.9	n/a	58.7	77.7	n/a	
Initial refusals (000)	73	n/a	24	243	n/a	
Gross expenditure £m	33.5	10.6	44.2	415.2	n/a	
Recoveries £m	n/a	n/a	0.2	461.8	78.7	
Net expenditure £m	33.5	10.6	44.0	-47.0	n/a	
Average award £	506	25	1,375	413	n/a	

SMG, FEP and BL data sourced from the DWP Policy, Budget and Management Information System.
Cold Weather Payment figures are estimates taken from Departmental records.
Key
SSMG = Sure Start Maternity Grant	
FEP = Funeral Expenses Payment 
BL = Budgeting Loan	
CWP = Cold Weather Payment		
CL = Crisis Loan
Notes
1. 	The average Sure Start Maternity Grant award is higher than the award value of £500 to reflect the additional award made for multiple births.
2.	There is no requirement to claim Cold Weather Payments.
3.	The Budgeting Loan award figures do not include awards made after review, reconsideration or appeal. However, the gross expenditure figure does include such awards.
4.	For Sure Start Maternity Grants and Funeral Expense Payments, the average award value is calculated by dividing gross expenditure by the number of awards (including awards made on review, reconsideration or appeal).
5.	The average Cold Weather Payment award is the amount paid to each qualifying individual every time an award is made. Qualifying individuals may receive more than one payment during each CWP season.
6.	For Budgeting Loans, the average award value is calculated by dividing initial expenditure (which excludes the value of awards made on review, reconsideration or appeal) by the number of initial awards. The initial expenditure figure is not shown.
7.	Differences between applications received, initial decisions, awards and initial refusals are due to applications being withdrawn; applicants rejecting or not responding to loan offers; and decisions outstanding at the time of the count.
8.	The net expenditure for Budgeting Loans is negative as total recoveries have exceeded gross expenditure in 2014-15.
9.	The Crisis Loan scheme ended in March 2013; the recoveries shown are in respect of outstanding loans made prior to this date.
10.	Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Annex 2
Sure Start Maternity Grants and Funeral Expenses Payments 2014-15 
Awards by Claimant Group
Claimant Group 	Sure Start Maternity Grants 	Funeral Expenses Payments	
 	Awards (000)	% of Total Awards	Awards (000)	% of Total Awards	
Pensioners	~	~	12.2	37.9	
Unemployed 	5.1	7.70	3.2	10.0	
Disabled 	3.3	4.90	2.8	8.8	
Lone parents 	2.4	3.60	1.0	3.0	
Employed	23.2	35.00	0.1	0.4	
Others	32.3	48.70	12.8	39.8	
Total	66.3	100.00	32.1	100.0	

Notes
1.	Claimant group definitions are given in Annex 10.				
2.	These tables include awards made after review, reconsideration or appeal
3.	If an award is made to a claimant who received more than one qualifying benefit or tax credit, then the award is recorded under the qualifying benefit or tax credit which appears first in the table.				
4.	Figures may not sum due to rounding.					
5.	~ represents volumes less than 50 or percentages less than 0.5%.		
6.	Awards are rounded to the nearest 100, percentages to the nearest 0.1%.
Awards by Qualifying Benefit
Qualifying benefit 	Sure Start Maternity Grants	Funeral Expenses 
Payment	
	Awards (000)	Percentage of total awards	Awards (000)	Percentage of total awards	
Income Support, Employment and Support Allowance (income-related), Jobseekers Allowance (income-based), Universal Credit and Pension Credit	43.1	65.0	24.8	77.3	
Child Tax Credit (at a rate higher than the family element)/Working Tax Credit (which includes a disability or a severe disability element)	23.2	35.0	2.9	9.1	
Housing Benefit & Council Tax Benefit	-	-	4.3	13.5	
Total	66.3	100.0	32.1	100.0	
Notes
1. 	Claimant group definitions are given in Annex 10.
2.	These tables include awards made after review, reconsideration or appeal.
3.	If an award is made to a claimant who received more than one qualifying benefit or tax credit, then the award is recorded under the qualifying benefit or tax credit which appears first in the table.		
4.	Figures may not sum due to rounding.			
5.	~ represents volumes less than 50 or percentages less than 0.5%.	
6.	Awards are rounded to the nearest 100, percentages to the nearest 0.1%.
Annex 3
Cold Weather Payment statistics by Met Office Weather Station 2014-15 
Weather station	Parliamentary constituencies covered by each weather station	Number eligible for a payment	Triggers	Number of payments	Expenditure £m	Number of payments to those in receipt of Pension Credit	Expenditure to those in receipt of Pension Credit £m	
Aberporth	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr; Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire; Ceredigion; Preseli Pembrokeshire	4,200	-	-	-	-	-	
Aboyne	Aberdeen North; Aberdeen South; Angus; Banff and Buchan; Gordon; Moray; West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	6,500	2	13,000	0.33	8,400	0.21	
Albemarle	Berwick-upon-Tweed; Bishop Auckland; Blaydon; Blyth Valley; City of Durham; Easington; Gateshead; Hexham; Houghton and Sunderland South; Jarrow; Newcastle upon Tyne Central; Newcastle upon Tyne East; Newcastle upon Tyne North; North Durham; North Tyneside; North West Durham; Sedgefield; South Shields; Stockton North; Stockton South; Sunderland Central; Tynemouth; Washington and Sunderland West	133,100	-	-	-	-	-	
Andrewsfield	Basildon and Billericay; Braintree; Brentwood and Ongar; Cambridge; Chelmsford; Epping Forest; Harlow; Hertford and Stortford; Hornchurch and Upminster; Huntingdon; Maldon; North East Bedfordshire; North East Cambridgeshire; North East Hertfordshire; Romford; Saffron Walden; South Basildon and East Thurrock; South Cambridgeshire; South East Cambridgeshire; West Suffolk; Witham	39,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Auchincruive	Argyll and Bute; Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock; Central Ayrshire; Dumfries and Galloway; Kilmarnock and Loudoun; North Ayrshire and Arran	33,700	-	-	-	-	-	
Aultbea Saws	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	200	-	-	-	-	-	
Aviemore	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey; Moray	700	4	2,800	0.07	2,000	0.05	
Bainbridge	Bishop Auckland; Darlington; North West Durham; Pendle; Penrith and The Border; Ribble Valley; Richmond (Yorks); Skipton and Ripon	3,900	1	3,900	0.10	2,800	0.07	
Bedford Saws	Banbury; Bedford; Buckingham; Corby; Daventry; Harborough; Hitchin and Harpenden; Huntingdon; Kenilworth and Southam; Kettering; Mid Bedfordshire; Milton Keynes North; Milton Keynes South; North East Bedfordshire; North East Hertfordshire; Northampton North; Northampton South; South Cambridgeshire; South Northamptonshire; South West Bedfordshire; Stevenage; Wellingborough	61,700	-	-	-	-	-	
Bingley	Batley and Spen; Bradford East; Bradford South; Bradford West; Burnley; Calder Valley; Colne Valley; Dewsbury; Halifax; Huddersfield; Hyndburn; Keighley; Leeds North East; Leeds North West; Morley and Outwood; Pendle; Penistone and Stocksbridge; Pudsey; Ribble Valley; Rochdale; Rossendale and Darwen; Sheffield, Hallam; Shipley; Skipton and Ripon	78,000	1	78,000	1.95	42,200	1.06	
Bishopton	Airdrie and Shotts; Argyll and Bute; Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill; Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East; East Dunbartonshire; East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow; East Renfrewshire; Glasgow Central; Glasgow East; Glasgow North; Glasgow North East; Glasgow North West; Glasgow South; Glasgow South West; Inverclyde; Kilmarnock and Loudoun; Lanark and Hamilton East; Motherwell and Wishaw; North Ayrshire and Arran; Paisley and Renfrewshire North; Paisley and Renfrewshire South; Rutherglen and Hamilton West; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire	140,400	1	140,400	3.51	75,700	1.89	
Boscombe Down	Devizes; East Hampshire; Eastleigh; Meon Valley; New Forest East; New Forest West; North Dorset; North West Hampshire; Romsey and Southampton North; Salisbury; Somerton and Frome; South West Wiltshire; Winchester	12,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Braemar	Angus; Perth and North Perthshire; West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	1,100	4	4,400	0.11	2,800	0.07	
Brize Norton	Banbury; Buckingham; Henley; Newbury; Oxford East; Oxford West and Abingdon; South Northamptonshire; The Cotswolds; Wantage; Witney; Wycombe	17,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Capel Curig	Aberconwy; Clwyd West; Dwyfor Meirionnydd	600	-	-	-	-	-	
Cardinham (Bodmin)	North Cornwall; South East Cornwall; St Austell and Newquay; Torridge and West Devon; Truro and Falmouth	13,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Carlisle	Carlisle; Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale; Hexham; Penrith and The Border; Workington	9,100	-	-	-	-	-	
Cassley	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	300	4	1,200	0.03	800	0.02	
Charlwood	Arundel and South Downs; Ashford; Bexhill and Battle; Brighton, Kemptown; Chatham and Aylesford; Chichester; Crawley; Dartford; East Surrey; East Worthing and Shoreham; Faversham and Mid Kent; Gravesham; Guildford; Horsham; Lewes; Maidstone and The Weald; Mid Sussex; Mole Valley; Orpington; Reigate; Sevenoaks; South West Surrey; Tonbridge and Malling; Tunbridge Wells; Wealden	42,200	-	-	-	-	-	
Charterhall	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk; Berwick-upon-Tweed; Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale; East Lothian	5,500	-	-	-	-	-	
Chivenor	North Cornwall; North Devon; Torridge and West Devon	8,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Coleshill	Aldridge-Brownhills; Birmingham, Edgbaston; Birmingham, Erdington; Birmingham, Hall Green; Birmingham, Hodge Hill; Birmingham, Ladywood; Birmingham, Northfield; Birmingham, Perry Barr; Birmingham, Selly Oak; Birmingham, Yardley; Bosworth; Bromsgrove; Cannock Chase; Coventry North East; Coventry North West; Coventry South; Daventry; Dudley North; Dudley South; Halesowen and Rowley Regis; Kenilworth and Southam; Lichfield; Ludlow; Meriden; Mid Worcestershire; North Warwickshire; North West Leicestershire; Nuneaton; Redditch; Rugby; Solihull; South Leicestershire; South Staffordshire; Stafford; Stourbridge; Stratford-on-Avon; Sutton Coldfield; Tamworth; The Wrekin; Walsall North; Walsall South; Warley; Warwick and Leamington; West Bromwich East; West Bromwich West; West Worcestershire; Wolverhampton North East; Wolverhampton South East; Wolverhampton South West; Wyre Forest	283,200	-	-	-	-	-	
Crosby	Birkenhead; Blackburn; Blackpool North and Cleveleys; Blackpool South; Bootle; Chorley; City of Chester; Ellesmere Port and Neston; Fylde; Garston and Halewood; Halton; Knowsley; Lancaster and Fleetwood; Liverpool, Riverside; Liverpool, Walton; Liverpool, Wavertree; Liverpool, West Derby; Preston; Ribble Valley; Sefton Central; Selby and Ainsty; South Ribble; Southport; St Helens South and Whiston; Wallasey; West Lancashire; Wirral South; Wirral West; Wyre and Preston North	172,100	-	-	-	-	-	
Culdrose	Camborne and Redruth; North Cornwall; St Austell and Newquay; St Ives; Truro and Falmouth	20,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Dunkeswell	Central Devon; East Devon; Exeter; Taunton Deane; Tiverton and Honiton; West Dorset; Yeovil	16,800	-	-	-	-	-	
Dunstaffnage	Argyll and Bute; Na h-Eileanan an Iar; Ross, Skye and Lochaber	1,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Dyce	Aberdeen North; Aberdeen South; Banff and Buchan; Gordon; West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	15,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Edinburgh Gogarbank	Airdrie and Shotts; Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk; Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East; Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale; Dunfermline and West Fife; East Lothian; Edinburgh East; Edinburgh North and Leith; Edinburgh South; Edinburgh South West; Edinburgh West; Falkirk; Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath; Lanark and Hamilton East; Linlithgow and East Falkirk; Livingston; Midlothian; Ochil and South Perthshire; Stirling	69,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Eskdalemuir	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk; Dumfries and Galloway; Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale; Penrith and The Border	4,500	2	9,000	0.23	5,800	0.15	
Filton	Bristol East; Bristol North West; Bristol South; Bristol West; Filton and Bradley Stoke; Forest of Dean; Kingswood; Ludlow; Monmouth; Newport East; North East Somerset; North Somerset; Stroud; The Cotswolds; Thornbury and Yate; Wells; Weston-Super-Mare	53,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Fylingdales	Richmond (Yorks); Scarborough and Whitby; Thirsk and Malton; York Central	3,000	1	3,000	0.08	2,200	0.06	
Gravesend	Barking; Basildon and Billericay; Beckenham; Bexleyheath and Crayford; Brentwood and Ongar; Bromley and Chislehurst; Castle Point; Chatham and Aylesford; Dagenham and Rainham; Dartford; Eltham; Erith and Thamesmead; Faversham and Mid Kent; Gillingham and Rainham; Gravesham; Hornchurch and Upminster; Ilford North; Ilford South; Maldon; No Parlc as Postcode no longer exists; Old Bexley and Sidcup; Orpington; Rayleigh and Wickford; Rochester and Strood; Rochford and Southend East; Romford; Sevenoaks; Sittingbourne and Sheppey; South Basildon and East Thurrock; Southend West; Thurrock	106,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Hawarden A/P	Alyn and Deeside; City of Chester; Clwyd South; Clwyd West; Delyn; Eddisbury; Ellesmere Port and Neston; North Shropshire; Vale of Clwyd; Wrexham	25,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Heathrow Airport	Barking; Battersea; Beaconsfield; Beckenham; Bermondsey and Old Southwark; Bethnal Green and Bow; Brent Central; Brent North; Brentford and Isleworth; Brentwood and Ongar; Bromley and Chislehurst; Broxbourne; Camberwell and Peckham; Carshalton and Wallington; Chelsea and Fulham; Chingford and Woodford Green; Chipping Barnet; Cities of London and Westminster; Croydon Central; Croydon North; Croydon South; Dulwich and West Norwood; Ealing Central and Acton; Ealing North; Ealing, Southall; East Ham; East Surrey; Edmonton; Eltham; Enfield North; Enfield, Southgate; Epping Forest; Epsom and Ewell; Erith and Thamesmead; Esher and Walton; Feltham and Heston; Finchley and Golders Green; Greenwich and Woolwich; Hackney North and Stoke Newington; Hackney South and Shoreditch; Hammersmith; Hampstead and Kilburn; Harlow; Harrow East; Harrow West; Hayes and Harlington; Hendon; Hertford and Stortford; Hertsmere; Holborn andSt Pancras; Hornsey and Wood Green; Ilford North; Ilford South; Islington North; Islington South and Finsbury; Kensington; Kingston and Surbiton; Lewisham East; Lewisham West and Penge; Lewisham, Deptford; Leyton and Wanstead; Mitcham and Morden; Mole Valley; Newbury; Old Bexley and Sidcup; Orpington; Poplar and Limehouse; Putney; Reigate; Richmond Park; Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner; Runnymede and Weybridge; Slough; South West Hertfordshire; Spelthorne; St Albans; Streatham; Sutton and Cheam; Tooting; Tottenham; Twickenham; Uxbridge and South Ruislip; Vauxhall; Walthamstow; Watford; West Ham; Westminster North; Wimbledon; Windsor; Woking	468,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Hereford-Credenhill	Brecon and Radnorshire; Cheltenham; Forest of Dean; Gloucester; Hereford and South Herefordshire; Ludlow; Mid Worcestershire; Monmouth; North Herefordshire; Redditch; Stratford-on-Avon; Stroud; Tewkesbury; The Cotswolds; West Worcestershire; Worcester; Wyre Forest	51,500	-	-	-	-	-	
Herstmonceux	Bexhill and Battle; Brighton, Kemptown; East Worthing and Shoreham; Eastbourne; Folkestone and Hythe; Hastings and Rye; Lewes; Mid Sussex; Wealden	25,800	-	-	-	-	-	
High Wycombe	Aylesbury; Banbury; Beaconsfield; Buckingham; Chesham and Amersham; Henley; Maidenhead; South West Hertfordshire; Wycombe	14,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Hurn	Bournemouth East; Bournemouth West; Christchurch; Mid Dorset and North Poole; New Forest East; New Forest West; North Dorset; Poole; Salisbury; South Dorset; West Dorset	35,500	-	-	-	-	-	
Isle Of Portland	South Dorset; West Dorset	5,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Keele	Burton; Congleton; Crewe and Nantwich; Derbyshire Dales; Eddisbury; Lichfield; Macclesfield; Newcastle-under-Lyme; North Shropshire; South Staffordshire; Stafford; Staffordshire Moorlands; Stoke-on-Trent Central; Stoke-on-Trent North; Stoke-on-Trent South; Stone; The Wrekin	43,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Kinloss	Banff and Buchan; Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey; Moray; Ross, Skye and Lochaber	12,500	-	-	-	-	-	
Kirkwall	Orkney and Shetland	1,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Lake Vyrnwy	Clwyd South; Clwyd West; Dwyfor Meirionnydd; Ludlow; Montgomeryshire; North Shropshire; Shrewsbury and Atcham	5,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Langdon Bay	Ashford; Canterbury; Dover; Faversham and Mid Kent; Folkestone and Hythe; Gillingham and Rainham; North Thanet; Sittingbourne and Sheppey; South Thanet	48,800	-	-	-	-	-	
Leconfield	Beverley and Holderness; Brigg and Goole; Doncaster North; East Yorkshire; Haltemprice and Howden; Kingston upon Hull East; Kingston upon Hull North; Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle; Scarborough and Whitby; Selby and Ainsty; Thirsk and Malton	48,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Leek	Burton; Derbyshire Dales; Hazel Grove; High Peak; Macclesfield; North East Derbyshire; Staffordshire Moorlands; Stalybridge and Hyde; Stockport; Stoke-on-Trent Central; Stoke-on-Trent North; Stone	10,100	1	10,100	0.25	6,300	0.16	
Lerwick	Orkney and Shetland	900	-	-	-	-	-	
Leuchars	Angus; Dundee East; Dundee West; Glenrothes; Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath; North East Fife; Ochil and South Perthshire; Perth and North Perthshire; West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	32,400	1	32,400	0.81	17,300	0.43	
Linton On Ouse	Beverley and Holderness; Bishop Auckland; Bradford East; Darlington; East Yorkshire; Elmet and Rothwell; Haltemprice and Howden; Harrogate and Knaresborough; Keighley; Leeds Central; Leeds East; Leeds North East; Leeds North West; Leeds West; Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland; Morley and Outwood; Pudsey; Richmond (Yorks); Sedgefield; Selby and Ainsty; Shipley; Skipton and Ripon; Stockton North; Stockton South; Thirsk and Malton; York Central; York Outer	77,100	-	-	-	-	-	
Liscombe	Bridgwater and West Somerset; Central Devon; North Devon; Tiverton and Honiton	3,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Little Rissington	Banbury; Cheltenham; Henley; Kenilworth and Southam; Mid Worcestershire; Oxford West and Abingdon; South Northamptonshire; Stratford-on-Avon; Tewkesbury; The Cotswolds; West Worcestershire; Witney	6,500	-	-	-	-	-	
Loch Glascarnoch	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey; Ross, Skye and Lochaber	900	4	3,600	0.09	2,400	0.06	
Loftus	Easington; Hartlepool; Middlesbrough; Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland; Redcar; Richmond (Yorks); Scarborough and Whitby; Sedgefield; Stockton North; Stockton South	51,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Lusa	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	1,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Machrihanish	Argyll and Bute; North Ayrshire and Arran	1,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Marham	Boston and Skegness; Broadland; Bury St Edmunds; Mid Norfolk; North East Cambridgeshire; North West Norfolk; Peterborough; Saffron Walden; South Cambridgeshire; South East Cambridgeshire; South Holland and The Deepings; South West Norfolk; West Suffolk	23,800	1	23,800	0.60	15,100	0.38	
Mona	Aberconwy; Arfon; Dwyfor Meirionnydd; Ynys Mon	12,200	-	-	-	-	-	
Morpeth, Cockle Park	Berwick-upon-Tweed; Blyth Valley; Hexham; Wansbeck	12,300	-	-	-	-	-	
North Wyke	Central Devon; Exeter; Newton Abbot; North Cornwall; North Devon; South West Devon; Torbay; Torridge and West Devon; Totnes	27,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Norwich Airport	Broadland; Great Yarmouth; Mid Norfolk; North Norfolk; North West Norfolk; Norwich North; Norwich South; South Norfolk; South West Norfolk; Suffolk Coastal; Waveney	46,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Nottingham	Amber Valley; Ashfield; Bassetlaw; Bolsover; Bosworth; Broxtowe; Burton; Charnwood; Corby; Daventry; Derby North; Derby South; Derbyshire Dales; Erewash; Gedling; Grantham and Stamford; Harborough; Kettering; Leicester East; Leicester South; Leicester West; Lichfield; Loughborough; Mansfield; Mid Derbyshire; Newark; North East Derbyshire; North West Leicestershire; Nottingham East; Nottingham North; Nottingham South; Nuneaton; Rugby; Rushcliffe; Rutland and Melton; Sherwood; Sleaford and North Hykeham; South Derbyshire; South Leicestershire; Staffordshire Moorlands	162,800	-	-	-	-	-	
Pembrey Sands	Aberavon; Carmarthen East and Dinefwr; Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire; Gower; Llanelli; Neath; Preseli Pembrokeshire; Swansea East; Swansea West	39,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Plymouth	Plymouth, Moor View; Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport; South East Cornwall; South West Devon; Torridge and West Devon; Totnes	21,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Redesdale	Berwick-upon-Tweed; Carlisle; City of Durham; Hexham; North West Durham; Penrith and The Border	4,100	2	8,200	0.21	5,200	0.13	
Rhyl	Aberconwy; Clwyd West; Delyn; Vale of Clwyd	16,100	-	-	-	-	-	
Rochdale	Ashton-under-Lyne; Blackley and Broughton; Bolton North East; Bolton South East; Bolton West; Bury North; Bury South; Calder Valley; Chorley; Denton and Reddish; Heywood and Middleton; Manchester Central; Oldham East and Saddleworth; Oldham West and Royton; Rochdale; Rossendale and Darwen; Stalybridge and Hyde; Worsley and Eccles South	71,200	-	-	-	-	-	
Rostherne	Altrincham and Sale West; Ashton-under-Lyne; Blackley and Broughton; Bolton South East; Bolton West; Bury North; Bury South; Cheadle; Chorley; Congleton; Crewe and Nantwich; Denton and Reddish; Eddisbury; Ellesmere Port and Neston; Garston and Halewood; Halton; Hazel Grove; Heywood and Middleton; High Peak; Knowsley; Leigh; Macclesfield; Makerfield; Manchester Central; Manchester, Gorton; Manchester, Withington; Oldham West and Royton; Salford and Eccles; South Ribble; St Helens North; St Helens South and Whiston; Staffordshire Moorlands; Stalybridge and Hyde; Stockport; Stretford and Urmston; Tatton; Warrington North; Warrington South; Weaver Vale; West Lancashire; Wigan; Worsley and Eccles South; Wythenshawe and Sale East	191,700	-	-	-	-	-	
Rothamsted	Broxbourne; Buckingham; Chesham and Amersham; Chipping Barnet; Enfield North; Enfield, Southgate; Harrow East; Hemel Hempstead; Hertford and Stortford; Hertsmere; Hitchin and Harpenden; Luton North; Luton South; Mid Bedfordshire; North East Hertfordshire; Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner; South West Bedfordshire; South West Hertfordshire; St Albans; Stevenage; Watford; Welwyn Hatfield	51,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Salsburgh	Airdrie and Shotts; Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk; Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill; Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East; Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale; East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow; Falkirk; Lanark and Hamilton East; Linlithgow and East Falkirk; Midlothian; Motherwell and Wishaw; Rutherglen and Hamilton West	23,500	2	50,600	1.27	22,800	0.57	
Scilly St Marys	St Ives	100	-	-	-	-	-	
Sennybridge	Brecon and Radnorshire; Carmarthen East and Dinefwr; Ludlow; Montgomeryshire; North Herefordshire	4,400	2	8,800	0.22	6,000	0.15	
Shap	Copeland; Penrith and The Border; Richmond (Yorks); Westmorland and Lonsdale; Workington	4,500	2	9,000	0.23	6,000	0.15	
Shawbury	Clwyd South; Eddisbury; Ludlow; Montgomeryshire; North Shropshire; Shrewsbury and Atcham; Stafford; Stone; Telford; The Wrekin	23,500	-	-	-	-	-	
Sheffield	Barnsley Central; Barnsley East; Bassetlaw; Batley and Spen; Bolsover; Brigg and Goole; Calder Valley; Chesterfield; Colne Valley; Derbyshire Dales; Dewsbury; Don Valley; Doncaster Central; Doncaster North; Elmet and Rothwell; Hemsworth; Huddersfield; Morley and Outwood; Newark; Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford; North East Derbyshire; Penistone and Stocksbridge; Rother Valley; Rotherham; Selby and Ainsty; Sheffield Central; Sheffield South East; Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough; Sheffield, Hallam; Sheffield, Heeley; Wakefield; Wentworth and Dearne	165,600	-	-	-	-	-	
South Farnborough	Aldershot; Arundel and South Downs; Basingstoke; Beaconsfield; Bracknell; Chichester; East Hampshire; Guildford; Henley; Maidenhead; Meon Valley; Mole Valley; Newbury; North East Hampshire; North West Hampshire; Reading East; Reading West; Runnymede and Weybridge; Slough; South West Surrey; Surrey Heath; Wantage; Winchester; Windsor; Woking; Wokingham	59,300	-	-	-	-	-	
St Athan	Aberavon; Brecon and Radnorshire; Bridgend; Caerphilly; Cardiff Central; Cardiff North; Cardiff South and Penarth; Cardiff West; Cynon Valley; Islwyn; Monmouth; Neath; Newport East; Newport West; Ogmore; Pontypridd; Swansea West; Vale of Glamorgan	66,900	-	-	-	-	-	
St.Bees Head	Copeland; Workington	8,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Stonyhurst	Blackburn; Chorley; Hyndburn; Lancaster and Fleetwood; Morecambe and Lunesdale; Pendle; Ribble Valley; Rossendale and Darwen; Skipton and Ripon; Westmorland and Lonsdale	23,400	-	-	-	-	-	
Stornoway	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	2,200	-	-	-	-	-	
Strathallan	Argyll and Bute; Dunfermline and West Fife; Glenrothes; Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath; North East Fife; Ochil and South Perthshire; Perth and North Perthshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire	13,100	1	13,100	0.33	7,300	0.18	
Thorney Island	Arundel and South Downs; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton; Brighton, Kemptown; Brighton, Pavilion; Chichester; East Hampshire; East Worthing and Shoreham; Eastleigh; Fareham; Gosport; Havant; Hove; Isle of Wight; Lewes; Meon Valley; New Forest East; New Forest West; North West Hampshire; Portsmouth North; Portsmouth South; Romsey and Southampton North; Salisbury; Southampton, Itchen; Southampton, Test; Wealden; Winchester; Worthing West	109,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Threave	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock; Dumfries and Galloway; Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	5,900	-	-	-	-	-	
Tiree	Argyll and Bute; Ross, Skye and Lochaber	100	-	-	-	-	-	
Trawsgoed	Brecon and Radnorshire; Ceredigion; Dwyfor Meirionnydd; Montgomeryshire	3,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Tredegar	Blaenau Gwent; Brecon and Radnorshire; Caerphilly; Cardiff North; Carmarthen East and Dinefwr; Cynon Valley; Islwyn; Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney; Monmouth; Neath; Ogmore; Pontypridd; Rhondda; Torfaen	56,200	-	-	-	-	-	
Tulloch Bridge	Argyll and Bute; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey; Perth and North Perthshire; Ross, Skye and Lochaber; Stirling	1,700	4	6,800	0.17	4,800	0.12	
Waddington	Bassetlaw; Boston and Skegness; Brigg and Goole; Cleethorpes; Don Valley; Doncaster Central; Gainsborough; Grantham and Stamford; Great Grimsby; Lincoln; Louth and Horncastle; Newark; Scunthorpe; Selby and Ainsty; Sleaford and North Hykeham; South Holland and The Deepings	64,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Walney Island	Barrow and Furness; Copeland; Lancaster and Fleetwood; Morecambe and Lunesdale; Westmorland and Lonsdale	16,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Wattisham	Braintree; Bury St Edmunds; Central Suffolk and North Ipswich; Clacton; Colchester; Harwich and North Essex; Ipswich; South East Cambridgeshire; South Norfolk; South Suffolk; South West Norfolk; Suffolk Coastal; Waveney; West Suffolk; Witham	51,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Westonbirt	Bath; Chippenham; Devizes; Kingswood; Newbury; North East Somerset; North Swindon; North Wiltshire; Somerton and Frome; South Swindon; South West Wiltshire; Stroud; The Cotswolds; Thornbury and Yate; Wantage; Wells; Witney	34,700	-	-	-	-	-	
Wick	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	2,300	-	-	-	-	-	
Wittering	Boston and Skegness; Corby; Grantham and Stamford; Huntingdon; Kettering; North East Bedfordshire; North East Cambridgeshire; North West Cambridgeshire; Peterborough; Rutland and Melton; South East Cambridgeshire; South Holland and The Deepings	28,000	-	-	-	-	-	
Yeovilton	Bridgwater and West Somerset; North Dorset; Somerton and Frome; Taunton Deane; Tiverton and Honiton; Wells; West Dorset; Weston-Super-Mare; Yeovil	26,100	-	-	-	-	-	
Great Britain	-	3,807,500	40	422,100	10.6	235,900	5.89	

Notes
1. 	Cold Weather Payments are paid automatically – eligible recipients do not make a claim to receive a payment.
2. 	A Cold Weather Payment is made to an eligible customer when the average temperature has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, 0°C or below over seven consecutive days at the weather station linked to the customer’s postcode (When the temperature criterion is met, the weather station is said to trigger).
3. 	Cold Weather Payments are made to benefit units. A benefit unit can be a single person or a couple and can include children.
4. 	Cold Weather Payment figures are taken from Departmental records.
5. 	The number of eligible benefit units linked to each weather station is an estimate.
6. 	The number of payments and expenditure are estimates and do not include payments made clerically.
7. 	The number of eligible benefit units and payments made are rounded to the nearest 100.
8. 	The weather stations are mapped to Parliamentary Constituency by postcode.
9. 	Each weather station will cover areas outside of the Parliamentary Constituency.
10. 	Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Annex 4
Budgeting Loans Statistics by Jobcentre Plus Social Fund Budget Area 2014-15
Jobcentre Plus Social Fund budget area by region	Budgeting Loans	
	Applications Received	Awards	Gross Expenditure £m	
East of England				
Essex	27,500	21,900	9.5	
Norwich BDC	50,600	40,100	17.5	
East Midlands				
East Midlands North	42,400	33,800	14.0	
South East Midlands	47,900	37,600	15.9	
London				
Central and East London	29,000	23,200	10.0	
London South	49,400	39,400	17.6	
North and North East London	30,800	23,800	10.6	
West London	18,700	14,800	6.7	
North East				
Northumbria	37,100	29,300	11.4	
South Tyne and Wear Valley	34,600	27,900	11.0	
Tees Valley	29,800	24,500	9.8	
North West				
Chorlton BDC	119,600	94,600	38.9	
Greater Liverpool and Cheshire	77,300	62,600	24.9	
Scotland				
Inverness BDC	39,400	30,500	12.1	
Springburn BDC	103,500	79,600	31.7	
South East				
South East – Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey	23,000	18,100	8.5	
South East – Hampshire, Kent and Sussex	71,100	56,500	25.0	
South West				
South West Central	66,200	50,900	22.0	
Wales				
Llanelli BDC	24,300	18,700	7.8	
South East Wales	60,200	47,900	20.0	
West Midlands				
West Midlands SF	139,000	107,800	44.9	
Yorkshire and the Humber				
Y & H Bradford	42,000	32,500	13.3	
Y & H Sheffield	102,400	80,500	32.3	
 
Notes
1. 	The award figures do not include awards made after review, reconsideration or appeal. However, the gross expenditure figure does include such awards.
2. 	Applications and awards are rounded to the nearest 100; expenditure is rounded to the nearest £100,000.
3. 	Figures may not sum to the national totals shown elsewhere due to rounding.

Annex 5
Budgeting Loans: expenditure by Claimant Group 2014-15
Claimant Group	Budgeting Loans	
	Expenditure £m	% of Total Amount	
Pensioners	30.1	7.3	
Unemployed	78.6	18.9	
Disabled	126.9	30.6	
Lone parents	151.0	36.4	
Others	28.6	6.9	
Total	415.2	100.0	

Notes
1. 	Claimant group definitions are given in Annex 10.		
2. 	Expenditure includes awards made on review, reconsideration or appeal.	
3. 	Expenditure figures are rounded to the nearest £100,000; percentages to the nearest 0.1%.
4. 	Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Annex 6
Budgeting Loans: Initial Awards by Family Composition 2014-15 (including comparison with 2013-14)
Family type	Number of awards (000)	Gross expenditure (£m)	Average award (£)	% of total number of awards	% of total gross expenditure	
				2013-14	2014-15	2013-14	2014-15	
Single person, no children	430	122.4	285	42.1	43.2	29.4	29.8	
Couple, no children	59	21.7	366	6.0	6.0	5.4	5.3	
Single person or couple with children	505	266.6	528	51.9	50.8	65.2	64.9	

Notes
1. 	This table does not include awards or expenditure made on review, reconsideration or appeal.				
2.	There were 2,500 records where the information used to determine family type was not recorded. These figures are not included in the above table, and account for 0.3% of the total number of awards.				
3.	Award volumes are rounded to the nearest 1,000; expenditure to the nearest £100,000; average award values to the nearest £1 and percentages to the nearest 0.1%.
4.	These figures were obtained from scans of the Social Fund Computer System. This is a different data source to that used for Budgeting Loan figures provided elsewhere in this report. As a result, the totals may differ.

Annex 7
Budgeting Loans: Reasons for initial refusal by Applicant Group 2014-15 
Number of refusals
 	Pensioners	Disabled	Lone parents	Unemployed	Others	Total	
Outstanding debt	2,600	41,700	11,600	35,600	9,500	101,100	
Not in receipt of a qualifying benefit	300	12,000	1,200	13,200	24,100	50,900	
Not in receipt of a qualifying benefit for 26 weeks	600	20,800	13,100	41,000	11,200	86,600	
Other	300	1,700	700	1,300	400	4,400	
Total	3,900	76,100	26,700	91,200	45,100	242,900	

Percentages
 	Pensioners	Disabled	Lone parents	Unemployed	Others	Total	
Outstanding debt	68.3	54.8	43.6	39.0	21.0	41.6	
Not in receipt of a qualifying benefit	8.5	15.8	4.7	14.5	53.4	20.9	
Not in receipt of a qualifying benefit for 26 weeks	14.3	27.3	49.0	45.0	24.8	35.6	
Other	8.9	2.2	2.7	1.5	0.8	1.8	
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	
Notes
1. 	Claimant group definitions are given in Annex 10.
2.	The qualifying benefits are Income Support, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance and Pension Credit.
3.	The number of refusals are rounded to the nearest 100; percentages to the nearest 0.1%
4.	Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Annex 8
Summary of Budgeting Loan Review Applications
First Reviews	Budgeting	
Loans	11,500	
Number of decisions revised at first review	1,900	
Percentage revised	16.6	
Notes
1. 	The numbers of applications and decisions are rounded to the nearest 100; the percentage to the nearest 0.1%.

Annex 9
Social Fund Appeals Data
Social Fund appeals dealt with at the first-tier tribunal 2014-15	Number of appeals 	Number heard and decided at hearing	Number decided in appellant’s favour	Percentage decided in appellant’s favour	
Social Fund (Funeral Expenses Payments)	340	490	380	77%	
Social Fund (Sure Start Maternity Grant) 	190	210	190	90%	
Total	520	700	560	81%	
		
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.
Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

Annex 10
Client Groups 
Client Groups		
Social Fund payments are wide ranging from payments to help with intermittent unexpected expenses (mainly to those in receipt of qualifying benefits), to payments aimed at certain groups to help with particular events. The fund does not therefore fall exclusively into any one of the Departmental client groups of Children, Working Age and Older People, although Social Fund payments are either paid to, or benefit, all of these groups. Some statistics in this report are shown by applicant or claimant groups that fall into one or more of the wider client groups.  
Applicant or Claimant Group definitions
Pensioners	Includes:
	•	applicant or partner at minimum State Pension age or over with Pension Credit
	•	applicant or partner at minimum State Pension age or over in receipt of state retirement pension
	Includes also where applicant is under minimum state pension age and partner is:
	•	minimum state pension age or over with Income Support (IS) pensioner premium
	•	80 or over with IS higher pensioner premium
	•	minimum state pension age to 79, disabled with IS higher pensioner premium.
Unemployed	Includes:
	• 	unemployed or with training allowance.
Disabled	Includes:
	• 	in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance
	• 	applicant or partner aged under minimum state pension age with IS disability premium;
	• 	lone parent with IS disability premium;
	• 	family with IS disability premium;
	• 	others with IS disability premium;
	• 	in receipt of other benefit for incapacity or disablement.
Lone parent		Includes:
	• 	person who has no partner and is receiving Income Support because they are responsible for a child.
Others	Includes:
	• 	others; 
	• 	involved in a trade dispute;
	• 	in paid employment; 
	• 	not known or unallocated.
Note: It is possible that an applicant who is unemployed may receive a disability or pensioner premium. Such an applicant would be counted as unemployed.  	 

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