HC Deb 22 February 1980 vol 979 c591W
Mr. Brotherton

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report showing, for each year since 1966, the total sum that has been paid in supplementary benefit (a) to strikers and (b) to strikers' dependants.

Mrs. Chalker

The information is as follows:—

Single Strikers Strikers' dependants
£ £
1966 1,500 126,000
1967 1,800 375,000
1968 700 334,000
1969 1,400 747,000
1970 2,200 1,446,000
1971 5,400 4,309,000
1972 181,400 8,380,000
1973 3,000 729,000
1974 47,000 4,994,000
1975 2,100 776,000
1976 2,100 363,000
1977 6,600 2,497,000
1978 5,800 3,325,000
1979 6,100 2,526,000