§ Mr. Fieldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the numbers and percentages of (a) pensioner households and (b) pensioners drawing a national insurance pension who were also in receipt of national assistance or supplementary benefit for each year since 1948.
§ Mrs, Chalker[pursuant to her reply, 14 May 1980, c. 519]: It is not possible to answer the hon. Member's question by reference to pensioner households since statistics relating to all pensioners do not cover their household situation. Nor, without disproportionate effort, could information prior to 1954 be made available. Information on the proportion of
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