Mr. Bob Brownasked the Minister of Social Security if she will state the number of retirement pensioners per 1,000 of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Northern Region in receipt of supplementary benefits, with comparisons for South-East England, the rest of England, England and Wales, England Wales and Scotland, and the whole country, respectively.
§ Mr. PentlandStatistics are not available in a form which would enable these comparisons to be made. The available information is as follows:
Number per thousand of retirement pensioner households (a) receiving Supplementary Pensions (b) England 287 Wales 364 England and Wales 291 Scotland 304 Wales and Scotland 325 England, Wales and Scotland 292 (a) as at December 1966. (b) as at November 1967.
Mr. Bob Brownasked the Minister of Social Security if she will state the total number of retirement pensioners in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and in the urban district of Newburn who are in receipt of supplementary allowances.
§ Mr. PentlandIn the Ministry's offices serving the county borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the urban district of New-burn (which also serve an extensive territory outside these areas) there were, at 21st November 1967, about 22,400 retirement pensioner households receiving Supplementary Pension. In some cases the Supplementary Pension covered the requirements of a man and his retirement pensioner wife.