HC Deb 14 April 1980 vol 982 cc548-52W
Mr. Field

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will update tables 34.36, 34.37, 34.38 and 34.89 in "Social Security Statistics" 1976.

Mr. Prentice

Corresponding information for 1977 is published in "Social Security Statistics" 1977 a copy of which is in the Library. Information for 1979 is not yet available. Information for 1978 is provided in the following tables 34.38 (which includes 1978 information for tables 34.36 and 34.37) and 34.89.

Table 34.38
Amounts Paid Thousands
Supplementary Pensions Unemployed Supplementary Allowances Sick and Disabled
Amounts All supple mentary benefits All Pensions Retirement pensioners and NI widows aged 60 and over Others All allowances With contributory benefit Without contributory benefit With contributory benefit Without contributory benefit NI widows under Age 60 One parent families not included in the other groups Others
£
All amounts 2,932 1,738 1,631 107 1,195 93 505 67 156 22 322 30
Up to 2.00 88 71 70 1 17 5 — 6 — 1 1 —
2.01–4.00 262 230 228 2 31 11 1 9 6 3 1 1
4.01–6.00 361 311 310 1 51 11 2 11 21 3 2 1
6.00–8.00 430 379 378 1 51 15 8 13 9 3 3 —
8.01–10.00. 382 335 334 1 48 14 12 10 3 4 4 1
10.01–12.00 264 169 168 1 94 10 59 6 9 3 6 1
12.01–14.00 233 67 65 2 166 7 129 3 11 2 11 3
14.01–16.00 71 30 28 1 41 6 10 2 5 1 17 1
16.01–18.00 107 33 17 16 74 4 15 1 35 1 13 5
18.01–20.00 88 31 14 17 57 3 18 1 15 — 18 1
20.01–22.00 64 16 7 9 48 2 26 — 5 — 13 2
22.01–24.00 72 11 3 8 60 1 29 1 7 — 20 2
24.01–26.00 67 12 3 10 55 1 21 — 7 — 23 2
26.01–28.00 70 16 3 13 55 1 17 1 6 — 30 1
28.01–30.00 66 14 2 13 52 1 13 — 5 — 31 2
30.01–35.00 133 8 1 8 125 1 44 1 5 — 71 3
35.01–40.00 89 2 — 2 87 — 45 — 3 — 35 3
40.01–45.00 51 1 — 1 49 — 32 — 2 — 14 1
45.01–50.00 21 — — — 21 — 14 — 1 — 5 1
50–01- 13 — — — 13 — 9 — 1 — 2 1
Average Amount £ 13.56 8.33 7.40 22.55 21.17 9.40 22.95 8.37 17.01 8.70 27.03 24.12

Estimates based on a sample of 1 in 200 Supplementary Pension Cases and 1 in 50 Supplementary Allowance Cases

Table 34.89
Duration of regular weekly payments on 29 November 1978
Duration of benefit (a) up to that date
Supplementary Pensions Unemployed Supplementary Allowances Sick and Disabled
Duration and Units All Supplementary benefits All Pensions Retirement pensioners and NI widows aged 60 and over Others All allowances With contributory benefit Without contributory benefit With contributory benefit Without contributory benefit NI widows under Age 60 One Parent Families not included in the other groups others
All durations
Thousands 2,932 1,738 1,631 107 1,195 93 505 67 156 22 322 30
per cent. 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Under 3 months
Thousands 311 43 40 3 267 51 153 14 12 2 32 3
per cent. 10.6 2.5 2.5 2.9 22.4 55.3 30.3 20.5 7.7 9.2 9.8 10.7
3 months but less than 6
Thousands 182 39 35 3 144 23 78 7 8 1 25 1
per cent. 6.2 2.2 2.2 2.7 12.0 24.7 15.4 10.6 5.3 5.4 7.8 3.1
6 months but less than 1 year
Thousands 225 87 84 3 138 16 61 6 10 2 40 2
per cent. 7.7 5.0 5.1 3.1 11.5 17.5 12.0 8.6 6.3 10.1 12.5 5.4
1 year but less than 2
Thousands 349 171 164 7 178 2 86 8 14 3 60 4
per cent. 11.9 9.8 10.1 6.2 14.9 2.0 17.1 12.7 9.1 14.1 18.6 13.5
2 years but less than 3
Thousands 255 141 136 4 115 — 49 5 10 2 45 4
per cent. 8.7 8.1 8.4 4.2 9.6 0.3 9.6 7.6 6.5 8.1 13.8 12.3
3 years but less than 4
Thousands 168 92 87 5 77 — 31 3 8 1 30 2
per cent. 5.7 5.3 5.3 4.5 6.4 0.2 6.2 4.5 5.4 6.8 9.3 7.9
4 years but less than 5
Thousands 140 90 84 6 50 — 16 2 8 1 22 2
per cent. 4.8 5.2 5.1 5.3 4.2 — 3.1 3.4 5.1 4.5 6.8 5.0
5 years but less than 10
Thousands 585 453 433 20 132 — 23 12 32 6 51 7
per cent. 20.0 26.1 26.6 19.0 11.0 — 4.7 18.0 20.5 25.6 15.9 24.0
10 years or over
Thousands 718 622 566 56 96 — 8 9 53 4 18 4
per cent. 24.5 35.8 34.7 52.0 8.0 — 1.5 14.2 33.9 16.0 5.5 13.7

Source: Estimates based on sample of 1 in 200 supplementary pension cases and 1 in 50 supplementary allowance cases

Note: (a) Breaks in payment of less than 1 week are ignored